by PAUL COLLITS – IT IS a great joy for a climate realist to live in a coal town. One of the few joys available to those of us with the climate smarts these days.
The once mighty industrial city of Lithgow is a monument to fossil fuels. Walking the dog, we pass by a sign which says “Private Property – Coalex Pty Ltd”.
- As every socialist knows, the climate cause is permanent revolution.
- A whole generation of voters are being strangled by the overwhelming urge to “do their bit”.
- They seem to be immovable. But reality will prevail.
Behind the sign is pristine bushland where kangaroos peacefully graze and where shrubs and trees do very well atop a rehabilitated coal mine, right on the edge of town.
You wouldn’t know what had been there before, except for the sign.
Then there is the miniature coal train replica celebrating the Ivanhoe Colliery, whose mine life came to an end in 1955. There were coal mines all over town. We dig up pieces of coal in our backyard on a pretty regular basis.
Back in the innocent 80s, I worked for a Senator who had been in a previous life a coal mining executive with Utah Mining, before BHP took it over.
We did a trip around the Queensland coal fields and visited underground mines around Moranbah and Dysart. We also saw rehabilitated mines. Again, you wouldn’t know what had been there.
Not so with wind turbines and solar farms, in these times of net-zero intelligence and climate sense.
Renewables are a blight on the landscapes they colonise, far from the residences in the cities of those who wish to signal their climate virtue.
They are low information lunatics, these people. Or otherwise they are on the take, harvesting their climate hoax for financial rewards.
And, barring a few brave, heroic souls like Ian Plimer, a whole generation of voters being slowly strangled by the overwhelming urge to “do their bit” to reduce global temperatures by a fraction of a fraction of a single degree.
If you accept this is even possible, you are willing to go along with the charade. And not even put up a fight for climate truth.
It is beyond time to rehabilitate coal. Which is, alas, a much harder task than simply rehabilitating a mine.
Now, the climate-awake, the twenty per cent, are fighting not only the patently effective tactics of the twenty per cent at the other end of the climate continuum, but also the climate ignorance of the middle 60 per cent.
We know the size of the task – and the fact that the 60 per cent are stuck within a lie. They seem to be immovable.
They are so used to the “fact” of climate change – following two generations of brilliant propaganda and wall-to-wall disaster messaging from malevolent actors, hoax shysters, ideologues and useful climate idiots – that they’re not remotely open to counter-messaging by realists.
Or so it seems.
The task, for those of us up for it, is to prise open the door to the minds and hearts of the 60 per cent. In any case, who are the “we”?
We are a mixed bag:
- Real scientists like Ian Plimer who still go for the rational argument approach;
- Those who know that climate change is bullshit and have higher protest priorities, like anti-Semitism, mass immigration, digital fascism and COVID justice – and, given the state of the world and the geopolitical disasters that abound, who can blame them?
- The Liberal Party is a lost cause, climate-wise – they can barely bring themselves to conclude that net-zero is a clusterfuck. They cling onto Paris and half of them believe in climate catastrophism;
- Those who are on board but have given up the fight – like James Delingpole, who once was a climate trooper but now finds himself using his time to prosecute the case that the moon landing never happened;
- Donald Trump is a key figure on the international stage, but the Ursula types who run the globalist institutions are prepared to ride out the Trump interregnum and take up where Biden left off come 2029; in any case, the USA, for all its power, doesn’t run the world anymore.
So, there isn’t a unified, focused, interconnected, networked cadre of strategists who are up for the challenge. Or, if there is, there are awfully quiet.
They have mostly left the public square. Meantime, the climateers continue their lifetime task. They never, ever give up. Even while they are winning. Especially while they are winning.
As every Trot knows, the climate cause is permanent revolution.PC
