It’s impossible to have a discussion about climate change when disagreeing with progressive dogma is forbidden, says Brendan O’Neill in “A Heretic’s Manifesto.”
Free speech is great, insist many on the left — unless you happen to believe X, Y or Z — in which case, you should probably be punished for voicing that opinion.A Heretic’s Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable
For what they say is not only “morally repugnant,” but potentially criminal, too: “[We] cannot allow fraudulent or deceptive speech to paralyze the public debate on a subject no less important than the survival of the human species and the future of the Earth itself.” Who are the “those” in that chilling sentence? Climate-change deniers, of course, who will “one day have to answer for their crimes,” according to Lynas.
As clear a confirmation as one could ask for that the discussion of climate change has been hyper-moralized, turned from a practical matter of how to improve our environment into a crusade against the malevolent forces whose deceitful tongues and activities allegedly wreak havoc upon the weather. A Guardian account of the IPCC’s sixth and most recent assessment report said we now finally have the “verdict on [the] climate crimes of humanity” — we are “guilty as hell.”
James VI, who believed witches were induced by “all the devils in hell” to commit their storm-raising and other offenses. This idea that weather has a punishing intent, that it is violent payback for the “affronts” of mankind, also echoes the more hysterical moments of the Little Ice Age.
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