Posted: 02 Oct 2014 09:10 AM PDT
If the weather is too
hot or too cold, if there is a natural disaster, if a plane crashes, if crime
increases, if crime decreases, if the Ebola virus rampages across of Africa
or stays home to read a good book instead, if the price of coffee goes up or
if a war breaks out… it will eventually be connected to Global Warming.
Even the rise of ISIS has been blamed not on the Koran, but on Global
Warming.
Meanwhile
a Muslim terrorist can blow himself up at Ground Zero on September 11 while
screaming, “I am doing this because I am a Muslim and I hate you all” and
those same experts will tell us that it had nothing to do with Islam, but it
was caused by the impact of Global Warming on the molecules of his brain.
It’s all a matter of how you connect the dots.
Democrats think that Global Warming is a bigger threat to America than Al
Qaeda. That’s the profitable notion that Al Gore has been selling for some
time. When ISIS began making headlines, lefty publications scurried to
explain how ISIS had been caused by Global Warming. If you can’t get rid of
ISIS, you can always promise to make it go away with another few billion for
Bay Area Green Tech liberal donors.
That’s why Homeland Security is focusing on Global Warming. Why bother with
Islam when the root cause of Islamic terrorism turns out to be neither Islam
nor terrorism, but your failure to buy recycled toilet paper and pay much
higher prices for energy. Instead of droning ISIS, we will drone on about
sustainable sustainability and how eagles would rather be killed by wind
turbines than by oil spills.
Ideas are roads to conclusion and conclusions lead to policies. If you want
to control the policy, you have to control where the roads go. The media
narratives are roads. If you take them, you can never reach the right
conclusions because they just don’t go there. The media’s map of America has
highways going from climate change to marriage equality to death panels. The
policies we end up with are based on that map and the policies determine
where all the money and the power end up.
If Islamic terrorism is a major threat then the money will go to defense
contractors and security consultants, to building more drones and bombs. That
means guys named Earl and Amos who wear sunglasses and have a background in
the Agency and the Mossad are suddenly in demand. Transguys named Meaghan and
Tad who wear retro eyeglasses ironically and did their thesis on using
non-linear histrionic narratives to educate inner city children about climate
change suddenly have to get real jobs.
But if Global Warming is a major threat, then money goes to environmental
consultancies and non-profits, to propaganda for education and the arts, to
Green Tech companies and Wall Street. And the consultants, bureaucrats and
regulators gain a vast suite of expanded domestic and international powers.
Meaghan and Tad are back and running every aspect of your life through their
gigs at some non-profit you never heard of funded by a family foundation with
Ford or Rockefeller in its name.
The War on Terror expanded the powers of domestic law
enforcement, but it’s nothing compared to what the War for the Environment
has done to the power of every bureaucrat large and small to raise your
heating bill, outlaw your washing machine, eliminate your water supply and
root through your trash. If you thought the TSA was bad, the carbon regime
puts a carbon footprint value on everything you do from driving to the
grocery store to buying a beer to viewing this website.
And then it decides which of your behaviors have to be changed and how.
Global Warming and the War on Terror empower different parts of the
government and the assorted consultants and contractors who plug into them.
Those people not only have political differences, but also major cultural
differences. It’s no wonder that the media, whose writers, producers and
talent are culturally a lot closer to Meaghan and Tad than to Earl and Amos,
favors their narrative.
The Warmist side of government is also the more liberal side. The side that
bombs ISIS doesn’t even understand why anyone would stand on line for two
hours to buy fair trade artisanal pancakes.
A shift to the terror side of the dial means restrictions on immigration,
more strong male role models and more domestic oil drilling. Tilt to the
Warmist side and the emphasis is on letting Meaghan and Tad decide what you
can buy, where you can live and whether you can live.
However only one of these crises is real and it isn’t the one that involves
the planet burning up, the polar bears riding surfboards to San Francisco and
Al Gore revealing that he was sent as a messenger from a distant alien
civilization to convince us to change our ways. But that has never mattered
before.
The left has a long history of diverting attention from real problems by
inventing urgent crises. Liberals rarely go two decades without declaring a
major crisis in education. They were doing it throughout the twentieth century
with invariably disastrous results. Common Core is only their latest effort
at imposing a reviled educational reform plan funded by corporate giants and
opposed by parents and teachers.
Liberals did their best to divert attention from the Cold War with a poverty
crisis. The Cold War was won, while the War on Poverty made a lot of
sociologists very rich and enabled the transformation of the country without
actually ever being won. That war has morphed into the obesity crisis, the
equality crisis and a dozen other smaller crises which all add up to power
and wealth tilting to the left.
Then
there was the crisis of the uninsured which couldn’t wait to be solved until
someone in Congress actually read the bill meant to solve the problem or
until anyone at HHS learned how to write code. It still isn’t solved, but
ObamaCare has driven a lot of money and power to all the right parts of
Maryland.
The Global Warming crisis is only the latest incarnation of a range of
environmental alarmism about everything from a coming ice age to worldwide
famines. Eventually another term and another threat will replace Climate
Change, but schoolchildren will still be coloring in posters crying out,
“Save the Planet.”
These crises divert attention from a real crisis that would weaken the power
base of the left while inflating an imaginary crisis that will put cash and
power in their pockets. The left accused the right of inventing foreign
enemies to justify wars of profit. But Communism and Islam were and are real
threats. It’s the left that invents phony threats and fights phony wars for
money and power.
We aren’t being allowed to recognize the threat of Islamic terrorism because
the left wouldn’t profit from it. At least not until someone finally proves
that the Koran was caused by Global Warming.
Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and blogger
and a Shillman Journalism Fellow of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
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