Action, not cynicism
Re: "Pricey policies to curb climate change 'dead'", (Opinion, Nov 28).
It is controversial and disheartening for Bjorn Lomborg to assert that COP29 "has been as hypocritical and dysfunctional as every one before". In reality, this conference held in Baku concluded with several agreements addressing climate finance, carbon markets, transparency, and adaptation.
Significant gaps indeed remain, but we should wait and see how states will implement this conference's recommendations and properly prepare the work for next year's COP30 in Brazil. This should not be a sanctimonious event but a genuine turning point in the global efforts to protect life on our planet.
Climate rules ahead
Re: "Making public investment work", (Opinion, Nov 21).
Those unelected elites who presume to be our masters have decided that this is the time to implement a strategy presented several years ago by Mariana Mazzucato of the World Economic Forum. The first thing one sees upon visiting the International Monetary Fund (IMF) online is, "The world is sitting on a razor's edge, and the potential deciding factor between future prosperity and potential runaway climate disaster is a single number -- 1.5."
The IMF and other globalist organisations suggest we must achieve a net zero carbon goal by 2030 to avoid the "climate cliff". The theory is that once the Earth hits warming of more than 1.5C there will be an irreversible environmental disaster of inconceivable proportions. Of course, this is complete nonsense, but fortunately, they haven't been able to get monkeypox and bird flu up to snuff, so this is Plan B.
To achieve our collective salvation, these globalists have decided to roll out climate lockdowns, draconian measures under which "governments would limit private vehicle use, ban consumption of red meat and impose extreme energy-saving measures, while fossil-fuel companies would have to stop drilling". – Zero Hedge.
Climate lockdowns would include steep carbon taxes, which act like interest rate increases commonly used by central banks to slow economic activity during inflation. An indirect economic shutdown of this magnitude would be devastating for Western nations, resulting in crippling energy shortages, food shortages, job losses and eventually total collapse, decimating populations worldwide.
Despite paid fact-checks to the contrary, this is what they want to occur, what the pandemic was about, and what our future holds in store unless we collectively do something to stop them.
Who's deranged?
Re: "Derangement tag", (PostBag, Nov 29).
Much as he may yearn for the day, if ever there was one, when political discourse was more gentlemanly, Songdej Praditsmanont certainly overreacted to Michael Setter's cutesy right-wing barb that he suffers from Trump derangement syndrome. An old saying goes, "If you can't handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen".
It's certainly not true that letters-to-the-editor columns in other major papers are more restrained than the Post. I'd bet a dime to a ducat that one could call the UK prime minister stark, staring bonkers in the London Times with not a whisper of possible legal action.
It is, however, colossally ironic that Michael Setter, of all people, should brand someone as irrationally negative. This is a correspondent who persistently portrays the world as being run by shadowy cabals and elites, corrupt and incompetent governments, crooked central bankers, a venal medical establishment, lying media, deceitful climate scientists, and deluded geo-engineers. It's well-nigh impossible to find a single breath of positivity in any of his letters.
If we're going to talk about derangement syndrome, Khun Michael's obsession with multiple conspiracy theories fits the description perfectly.