Why do so many people criticise the messenger?

Why do so many people criticise the messenger?

Have you noticed like me, that there is quite a lot of vitriol towards the climate activists, Extinction Rebellion and especially Greta Thunberg? 

Ok, so I’m one of those activists, so maybe that is why I don’t understand, I’m also busy doing things to get the conversation started and hopefully influence others to take the science seriously. I felt sure that once the science was released onto the open forums of discussion that everyone would feel equally anxious and keen to find ways to help stop the impending chaos and climate crisis going any further. That we might all collectively get projects underway to avoid if not mitigate the worst case scenarios billions of Earths inhabitants must surely face if the science predictions prove true. But what I’m seeing is very little in the way of action from ANY of the governments of the world despite it being a United Nations report that has brought the up to date discoveries to the fore. I mean, FFS am I living in some kind of parallel universe?

Even if the IPCC report was inconclusive (which it is not) why have the discussions failed to manifest on the world stage at the highest levels amidst the same teams of professionals normally called upon to deal with other crisis’? There is a complete failure to take seriously the evidenced report that is reminding us of the other reports that have been published over the past decades going back a very long way. It’s as if there are reasons why the governments do not want anyone to hear about the fallout that will occur if the science is correct and the environment brings about that foretold catastrophe. Is it just a few of us that have joined the dots and worked out the climate migration that will occur, the huge death tolls and the related food and water shortages? 

There have been numerous films produced over the past decades that have illustrated the occurrences that would come to pass if a global predicament suddenly expressed itself. Films about alien invasion and environmental factors, solar flares and asteroids coming towards earth and in each of these film the world leaders all come together in the end to save mankind, and everyone lives happily ever after…Da da da… Well at least they seem to work together in a way that expresses a desire to help the continuation of life on earth and find success in collaborative endeavours rather than give in to the hopelessness the would spell an end to the world. Is that naive of me to think that none of this same sincerity and passion to avoid catastrophe exists in the ‘real world’ in anyone other than the afore mentioned activists? It beggars belief to consider what the evidence of misdirection and denial are going to produce. So many honest and ordinary people scoff at the idea that a global crisis is imminent when all the science that has been documented in this report would and DOES suggest it is imminent. 

No-one more than I would wish this report was wrong and that the future was not going to be precarious, one in which billions of human beings and creatures arrive at extinction or disaster and suffering at the very least. I have my own ideas as to why the governments are doing nothing. Actually they are doing worse than nothing, they are denying it is happening in favour of continuing with a business as usual mentality. And whom has anything to gain from that I wonder? People need to wake up and join the dots if they are to see ways to continue for any more than a few generations to come. I like others could lay the blame squarely at the feet of the erroneous Neo Liberal/Capitalist world view that pervades society and all facets of human endeavour until the cows come home, but that will not get action in the right direction at all. We need to bring the discussion to people at any level we can and incite actions on behalf of the whole world. We need to get on with it too, not keep on having more world forums where very few ordinary people have a voice. Actually we need to eradicate the system that has allowed for this environmental suicide to continue, rebel for life and get equipped for the very real and imminent danger we all face. Its no time for sitting on fences, deck chairs or backsides watching the tides rise and the storms decimate lives of the most vulnerable. 

And what seems worse than all of this ignorance and dilly dallying is the full frontal vilification of the messengers of the climate crisis. People in positions of large influence and regard are some of the worst at giving mixed responses to the science. World leaders continue to take bribes from industries that are the worst offenders and criminals rather than make plans to implement the changes suggested by the well informed. Corruption at the very highest levels by individuals and companies is rife and the masses feel powerless in the face of the task whilst those feeding them the actual truth are being condemned as lunatics and fear mongers. It is the height of disgusting behaviour by the governments to allow this inaction and denial of the facts being presented, preferring efforts being pursued to sully the good name of people like Greta and XR who ask for nothing personally from their actions. Even the president of the USA who is by some considered to be the most powerful man on the planet is a climate denier. He actually has made it a personal mission to hate and vilify Greta Thunberg which is quite appalling, not even a measured and reasonable response to anything. No wonder that the ill informed and ignorant support him if they think he speaks for them. For the same reason he is in denial. He doesn’t want fairness and equality for anyone other than those in that club he thinks he is a part of. He’s so dumb that he hasn’t even figured out that he is not included in that club at the level he thinks he is… Seriously there are groups of wealthy people that will never let us know the truth for fear of losing the control they have over each and every one of us. Or that they think they have!

The fear of loss is what has motivated everyone throughout history, but few have ever realised that loss is part of the way life goes. If only everyone was prepared to share what the planet gave each of us for free, who’d have to suffer?

How Dare You. (Song)

Don’t let others tell you that a 16 year old Swedish girl is your enemy. That’s plain stupid and so are those that do not see the climate science for what it is. Look with your own eyes, do your own research, don’t simply trust Google or Facebook, the Broadcasting Media or even the Government to tell you the real truth. They have vested interests in you remaining uninformed and ignorant. Please do not be ignorant and get out and find the truth. Read some old books and talk with experts who can show their impartiality before that is also denied to you.

But most of all learn to trust your on intuitions, they are there for that very purpose. If you can’t, see who has something to gain from their arguments because that will do something similar. 

Gretas' Speech to the UN 2019.

What do I have to gain?

A world where love peace and harmony rule the decision making process. One governed by need not greed and parity between all people, creatures and life forms…

Rebel for life - Extinction Rebellion .

Peaceful Warrior.

Severn Cullis Suzuki

IPCC Report. https://www.ipcc.ch/2018/10/08/summary-for-policymakers-of-ipcc-special-report-on-global-warming-of-1-5c-approved-by-governments/

Extinction Rebellion Website. https://rebellion.earth

Films referred to :-

Armageddon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_(1998_film)

2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_(film)

The day after tomorrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow

Independence Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(1996_film)

Knowing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowing_(film)