The Auron MacIntyre Show - July 26, 2023


Linguistic Technology： How the Left Captured Climate Change ｜ 7⧸26⧸23


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96

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A stifling heat wave has impacted large portions of the U.S. this summer, which can only mean one thing: endless stories from the media about the apocalyptic threat of climate change. But the problem with climate change is not the idea that we should honor the land on which we live and preserve it. It s the notion that the planet is too complex to understand and is outside of human control.

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00:00:30.240 A stifling heat wave has impacted large portions of the United States this summer,
00:00:35.240 which can only mean one thing.
00:00:37.060 Endless stories from regime media about the apocalyptic threat of climate change.
00:00:42.220 Leftists' nearly hegemonic control of the consensus manufacturing apparatus in America
00:00:47.180 grants them the ability to construct the default narrative framework
00:00:50.660 in which any discussion about current events takes place.
00:00:55.120 Every news cycle is a new opportunity to capture power.
00:00:58.660 No crisis goes to waste.
00:01:02.060 The problem with climate change is not the idea that we should honor the land on which
00:01:06.720 we live and preserve it.
00:01:08.980 The Chamber of Commerce GOP approach of who cares about tomorrow, burn it all down if it
00:01:14.480 gets in the way of GDP, has always been ugly.
00:01:17.420 As hunters, farmers, fishermen, and hikers, many conservatives have a natural affinity for
00:01:25.380 nature, and this should be reflected in the approach of the Republican Party.
00:01:29.520 But GOP voters are right to doubt the motives of the modern environmentalist movement.
00:01:34.200 The phrase climate change itself is an obvious piece of newspeak.
00:01:40.720 When I was growing up, environmentalists would talk about greenhouse gas emissions and the
00:01:45.300 possible dangers of global warming.
00:01:48.360 Whether one believes that the current levels of industrial pollution were having a significant
00:01:53.680 impact on the climate or not, at least there was a rational discussion to be had.
00:01:58.680 Global warming predicted a specific chain of events that could be observed, and the assertion
00:02:05.640 could be proven true or false through reason and evidence.
00:02:09.440 But as dramatic predictions of peak oil, global famine, and submerged cities failed to materialize,
00:02:16.760 environmentalists realized they needed to rebrand.
00:02:20.620 Every time there was a cold snap or a blizzard, the public's faith in global warming was called
00:02:26.280 into question, so a more durable term was chosen.
00:02:30.660 Climate change is impossible to argue with because the climate is always changing.
00:02:36.580 That is the nature of life on Earth.
00:02:39.100 It is factually unassailable.
00:02:42.000 Even if man had never existed, the planet's climate would shift dramatically over time.
00:02:49.260 Global warming implied a consistent pattern with identifiable results, so it could be proven false.
00:02:56.280 But climate change is bulletproof.
00:02:59.660 The right rarely thinks very much about the language it uses, stepping into whatever frame
00:03:05.100 is set for it, but the left is not so foolish.
00:03:09.340 Progressives carefully select the terminology they advance, intentionally forcing their opponents
00:03:15.220 onto unfavorable narrative ground.
00:03:18.300 Climate change is an amazing piece of rhetorical technology, allowing the left to take something
00:03:23.740 that is undeniably true in the strictest sense and charge it with infinite political energy.
00:03:30.120 By taking ownership of the phrase and proactively defining its public use, the left managed to
00:03:35.680 construct a political monopoly around a piece of reality.
00:03:38.800 To be clear, leftists don't care about protecting the natural order.
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00:03:46.920 What progressives care about is rationalizing the consolidation and centralization of power
00:03:52.480 through social engineering.
00:03:54.820 The progressive revolution relies on the notion that man can become God, defining and controlling
00:04:00.340 reality as he sees fit.
00:04:02.740 Progressives deny human nature and seek the power to bring about utopia.
00:04:07.120 The mass graves left by communist regimes give them no pause.
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00:04:42.640 The notion that the planet's climate is too complex to understand and is outside of
00:04:47.740 human control is unacceptable.
00:04:50.220 Just like the notion that men are born men and stay men even if you surgically mutilate
00:04:54.960 them to look more like women. 1.00
00:04:56.300 Every new frontier in social engineering is a new opportunity to raise funds, build infrastructure,
00:05:03.560 reward clients, and gain power.
00:05:06.400 Climate change is what the video blogger Dave Greeney refers to as a magical word, a term
00:05:12.460 that has been hollowed out of any real meaning and filled with political energy.
00:05:16.760 Other magical words include racism, sexism, democracy, and social justice.
00:05:23.700 These words have been lifted from any actual context and are used as a shibboleth to embody
00:05:28.760 a particular movement or agenda.
00:05:31.540 No one can argue against climate change.
00:05:34.600 The climate is changing.
00:05:36.280 That is a basic fact.
00:05:37.560 But behind the term's use lies the entire leftist project, the entire leviathan of social engineering
00:05:44.740 and inevitable civilizational decline.
00:05:48.940 Leftist elites don't care about the environment.
00:05:51.960 They care about controlling the population through the infinite number of regulations that
00:05:56.760 climate change justifies.
00:05:59.560 Progressives care about funneling money and power to their coalition through those mechanisms
00:06:04.780 of regulation and nothing else.
00:06:08.460 The same pattern can be seen with the crusade against racism.
00:06:12.660 Not only do leftists not reject racial bias, they actively fight to institutionalize it against
00:06:18.980 Asian and white Americans through programs like affirmative action.
00:06:23.760 What progressives really care about is controlling the population through the infinite number of
00:06:28.800 regulations that eliminating racism justifies, rewarding friends and punishing enemies all the
00:06:35.360 way down.
00:06:35.740 This is why the left would choose rolling blackouts in the third worldization of America's power
00:06:42.260 grid over the building of more environmentally friendly nuclear power plants.
00:06:47.940 Solutions that don't funnel money and power to the leftist coalition are forbidden.
00:06:53.220 Control is the only real goal.
00:06:55.260 Climate change is also a very useful narrative for a political coalition that can offer Americans
00:07:01.960 nothing but civilizational decline.
00:07:04.880 The left is choosing party loyalty over competency, removing those who are capable and replacing them
00:07:11.200 with those that are loyal to the revolution.
00:07:13.300 The United States relies on a vast network of complex systems and it can't hope to maintain those systems
00:07:20.720 on its current trajectory.
00:07:23.200 Modern leftists have coasted on material prosperity provided by previous generations, but the surplus
00:07:29.640 is running low and they're too incompetent to operate the machine.
00:07:33.180 Climate change provides a rationale for demanding that the plebs eat the bugs, live in the pod, and turn out the lights. 1.00
00:07:41.640 Air conditioning was a luxury of the past.
00:07:44.260 You must swelter in the heat.
00:07:46.060 Not because the ruling class is too incompetent to maintain a power grid, but because the planet is at stake.
00:07:51.700 You don't want to be responsible for the destruction of the planet.
00:07:54.320 Do you, comrade?
00:07:56.980 Unfortunately, because so many on the right exist only as a reaction to the left,
00:08:01.820 the knee-jerk response is to simply reject all responsibility for caring about the land we call home.
00:08:07.640 But that is itself unconscionable.
00:08:10.480 Luckily, there are a growing number on the right who understand that conservation should be a core value of conservatism
00:08:17.560 and that abandoning the issue to the left is a mistake.
00:08:20.540 But conservatives are right to reject the left's call to buy into their program.
00:08:27.080 It's corrupt, top to bottom, deeply political in nature,
00:08:31.080 and in many ways unlikely to have a significant impact on the climate itself.
00:08:35.980 Political solutions become increasingly difficult because on every issue,
00:08:40.140 even the ones that should easily cross all partisan divides,
00:08:43.160 the language and institutional apparatus through which solutions should be administered
00:08:48.360 have been seized as political weapons.
00:08:51.700 There is no easy answer.
00:08:53.960 Our political issues will likely need to be resolved before any real action can be taken on the environment.
00:09:00.260 The problem is one of trade-offs, something that both sides are loath to admit,
00:09:04.800 and compromise of that magnitude requires a shared set of values and priorities
00:09:09.700 that simply does not exist in the country today.
00:09:13.460 For now, it's important to recognize the rhetorical trap set by the linguistic technology present in a phrase like climate change,
00:09:21.340 and the danger of allowing the left to set the framework for discussion around critical issues.
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