Apocalypse Averted With Collective Juddering
The vast majority of people worldwide, as well as millions in the UK, do not have their needs met – let alone live lives of luxury from which air travel and weekly shopping sprees could be painlessly stripped out and replaced for example with dance lessons.
Why, yes, I am reading the Guardian. How could you tell?
The paper’s leader writer, Susanna Rustin, is very much troubled by thoughts of impending catastrophe and is keen for your routine shopping – for groceries and maybe a pair of shoes – to be replaced, “painlessly,” with forms of “artistic expression and creativity.” Like dance lessons. It would, of course, be “a reordering of society.”
When so many of the pleasures that we take for granted in the west, and that are desired by billions of people who do not yet have them, are so carbon-intensive, it is surely incumbent upon us to think very hard about the things in which we take joy and meaning that are less demanding of energy and resources.
Because “dancing and singing could be part of the solution to the climate emergency.” It says so here.
If capitalists, politicians and scientists have so far not found the answers – and the global mass movement of people called for by Greta Thunberg and others is, despite recent progress, still proving elusive – could the creative arts possibly provide one means to break the impasse? If the climate emergency is seen as the consequence of a failure of imagination, then this would seem to make sense.
We will save the planet with our expertise in jive, quickstep and Viennese waltz.
this would seem to make sense.
Though presumably we may have to gyrate without shoes.
Also not originally British creations, but brought over from this side of the pond jazz and…
Why, oh why did I click? I knew better, yet…
And, implicitly, nothing to protect.
Award winning “diversity” …
Incoming!
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/358039/
Incoming!
We need more coasters, stat.
Pelican: “By force of arms, ultimately. Eventually our self-ordained betters will run out of ways talking around that fact, at which point they’ll have to confront some tough choices.”
Not least of which is the basic self-contradiction: Any military apparatus capable of enforcing a low-carbon lifestyle on the rest of the world would in and of itself be so carbon-intensive as to render the endeavour pointless in the first place.
We need more coasters, stat.
And covers for the sofa. You never know where they’ve sat…
Dancing is traditionally associated with increases in the population. Which increases the overall carbon footprint.
That Salon piece that Lady CK linked to is just so perfectly Marcotte. My favorite was her squeeing over Liz Warren:
Truth is, if Warren were a man, Marcotte would absolutely loathe him. The rock star aura and adoring crowds would be evidence of just another Trumpian demagogue, and the “next-level analysis” would be the worst kind of mansplaining. She’d tear him to pieces for repeating “I have a plan for that!” every time a policy question was put to him.
It’s amazing to me that her hatred of the male sex has so completely blinded her, to the point where she cannot see just how facile her political analysis comes across. Okay, maybe not amazing, but a perfect encapsulation of La Marcotte.
I can’t wait for her next 2,000-word essay explaining how Klobuchar getting twice as many votes as Warren is further proof of the systemic sexism keeping Warren down…
Obama White House Mean Girls
Note that all gynocentric complaints and issues will include gratuitous references to lady’s stinky bits and clothes. It always boils down to who’s wearing what. Always.
H/T Instapundit, completing the circle.
Truth is, if Warren were a man, Marcotte would absolutely loathe him.
That.
My wife – a primary school teacher – happened to stumble into politics while chatting with a co-worker who told her unironically and earnestly that she wasn’t political, per se, but rather she automatically voted for the women candidate because “they are underrepresented”. The conversation unfortunately ended there without the opportunity to explore this lady’s thoughts on Sarah Palin, or a hypothetical genocide-supporting female candidate, or a choice between two women, etc, and robbing my wife of the thrill of shorting out an NPC.
if Warren were a man
Sorry, best segue I could come up with. Chicago in winter is simply not safe, even for wypipo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV_0u2l4k6Q
Atempdog:
” fresh off of the San Francisco sidewalk ”
Stolen!
Also needs to go viral.
I can’t wait for her next 2,000-word essay explaining how Klobuchar getting twice as many votes as Warren is further proof of the systemic sexism keeping Warren down…
Don’t hold your breath. Years of Mandy being wrong doesn’t mean she ever takes a moment of self-reflection. Her hands are on the wheel and there are more people to run over in front of her. No rearview mirrors.
Darleen, so what you’re saying is …
Uma,
Ah! You got my reference 😀
Darleen; saw the movie when I was a spratling. That line never left me.
And covers for the sofa. You never know where they’ve sat…
David, you might be interested in a recent news item about a robot that disinfects hospital rooms. That might be enough to handle all those Instapundit riff-raff.
He’s not wrong, you know.
Re Obama White House Mean Girls … Sam, I confess to being gobsmacked. I had no idea the Obamas were enforcing some kind of sumptuary laws — I thought all that went with the wind come the rise of the middle class. Silly me.
robbing my wife of the thrill of shorting out an NPC.
Well, if a person’s political noises are determined largely by wishing to seem a certain way and signal in-group status, then internal consistency won’t be a priority. And can’t be a priority. The result tends to be a patchwork of poses with little, if anything, holding them up. Their pronouncements are borrowed wholesale, subject to changing fashion, and are rarely load-bearing. Which may explain the anxiety and prickliness that so often greets any hint of demurral, especially when it becomes apparent that someone else isn’t playing the same game and may not care to be dishonest in order to fit in.
I see our good friend “Slowthai”, of severed head and mindless oikophobia fame, is in the news again. This time for attacking a member of the audience while accepting his NME “Hero of the Year” award.
I see our good friend “Slowthai”, of severed head and mindless oikophobia fame, is in the news again.
In news that will doubtless shock, I’m not overly familiar with the world of low-forehead chav rap. But yes, based on what I’ve seen, my expectations of the type were not confounded.
But yes, based on what I’ve seen, my expectations of the type were not confounded.
Seeing the name is enough. They seem to be generally quite effective signals.
Don’t jive, me, bro!
An interesting article on what intersectional politics has in store for us. The best parts are near the end.
Pelican: “By force of arms, ultimately. Eventually our self-ordained betters will run out of ways talking around that fact, at which point they’ll have to confront some tough choices.”
Perhaps the climatista crowd haven’t considered whether it might take an actual warfighting coalition to impose their will globally? I’ll bet very few of them are ready to volunteer to invade China and India. And I doubt there are many sailors, soldiers and airmen out there anywhere prepared to put their lives on the line just to keep the global temperature down a notch.
Stephen J.: “Any military apparatus capable of enforcing a low-carbon lifestyle on the rest of the world would in and of itself be so carbon-intensive as to render the endeavour pointless in the first place.”
Yes. “We had to destroy Gaea to save her”, as it were.
“dancing and singing could be part of the solution to the climate emergency”
I thing we’ve already gotten more than enough song and dance from the left.