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Herr Schellnhuber has a master plan
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Pierre Goselin is discussing a remarkable interview with the top German climate ideologue in Spiegel:
We Are Looting the Past and Future to Feed the Present (English)
Joachim Schellnhuber, a doomsday crackpot who calls himself a physicist (the inflation in using this term has been significant), starts with the assertion that nuclear power plants should be ready for infinitely strong earthquakes and economics and economy shouldn’t play any role because they’re “crazy logics”.
But of course, it’s nothing compared to the segment of the interview that focuses on carbon dioxide:
SPIEGEL: Are you worried that the government’s new anti-nuclear course will lead to higher CO2 emissions because more coal will be burned once again?
Schellnhuber: Actually, I’m convinced that this is precisely what Chancellor Angela Merkel will not allow. Now everyone is starting to realize that society’s entire fossil-nuclear operating system has no future and that massive investments have to be made in renewable sources of energy.
Well, in the Universe where I live, just the opposite development has occurred: after the recent years that have proved the economic irrationality of the biofuels; photovoltaic power plants; windmills, and a few others, every sane person in the world has, on the contrary, realized that the bulk of our energy in coming decades has to come from a combination of fossil and nuclear fuels – exactly from the set that the German man claims to have “no future”.
I don’t claim that there are no people who disagree but I do find it important to emphasize that they’re profoundly deluded individuals who should only be listened to by their psychiatrists.
SPIEGEL: Do you feel that the government’s abrupt change of course in relation to its energy policy is adequate?
Schellnhuber: No. It can only be the beginning of a deep-seated shift. The German Advisory Council on Global Change, [of which I am the Führer], will soon unveil a master plan for a transformation of society. Precisely because of Fukushima, we believe that a new basis of our coexistence is needed.
Wow, what a modest choice of words. Those maniacs will soon “unveil a master plan” for a transformation of society. It may be a good idea for the German – or other – intelligence services to physically deal with Herr Schellnhuber and his thugs before it’s too late. I assure you, Mr Schellnhuber, that if you will try to apply just a fraction of this insane megalomania on the territory of the Czech Republic, we will give you the same treatment as we offered to the Herr who was a de facto leader of the Czech lands until 1942.
This Schellnhuber’s lookalike, soulmate, and countrymate was serving in the years 1941-1942. Because it turned out that he was trying to help the set of people who would live in the 1000-year empire in the future, rather than the living generations of the Czech lands, our democratically elected government in London (representing the living generations of the Czech lands, rather than hypothetical future generations of the Third Reich) fired this blonde beast in May 1942 – by fireguns. Goodbye, Mr Heydrich.
SPIEGEL: What does that mean?
Schellnhuber: We need a social contract for the 21st century that seals the common desire to create a sustainable industrial metabolism. We must resolve, once and for all, to leave our descendants more than a legacy of nuclear hazards and climate change. This requires empathy across space and time. To promote this, the rights of future generations should be enshrined in the German constitution.
A transformation of society apparently wasn’t enough for him. He also needs a new social contract, to replace the contracts with God and Jesus known to the Christians.
The notion of empathy across spacetime is a truly crackpot invention. One may have “empathy” – ability to feel in a similar way – with anyone because it is a purely subjective process. To “empathize” means to feel in a particular way………………………………………Read the rest here:
Contrails And Con-Science – In The Service Of Masterplans
By P Gosselin on 30. März 2011
Contrails or con-science? (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Sometimes timing is everything. Yesterday we looked at how a climate scientist is busy making “masterplans” for transforming our society instead of studying the climate.
Some people were not happy about my reminder of where this sort of dubious activity can lead. After all, planning societies and claiming absolute truth is not the job of scientists, especially those as dogmatised as Schellnhuber and those at his Potsdam Institute For Climate Impact Research.
Organising society is best left to democracy, where everyone’s vote is equal, and must be so – no matter how ignorant Schellnhuber thinks the population is. It’s not perfect, but it’s the best system we’ve got. “Masterplanners” in history have invariably led to disasters. And, as much as people do not want to be reminded of it, a not so little concentration camp in Poland is an example in the worst extreme.
Today, the worst part is that all these “masterplans” are based on flaky, often times fraudulent and alarmist science – all designed to promote panic rather than reason. This has already led to disastrous results (biofuel induced global hunger or landscape desecration by windmills to name two) and will surely lead to even greater disasters.
Another example of a so-called masterplan that has just come to our attention is the latest European proposal to ban all fossil-fuel-powered cars from cities by 2050 – again all this with little or no thought about the potential conseqeunces this junk-science-based regulatory hyper-zealousness could have. The UK Telegraph herewrites:
Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under adraconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the next 40 years.
These masterplans are designed to regulate and control our lives, and have nothing to do with saving the planet – all confirmed by Siim Kallas, the EU transport commission, who said of the masterplan:
Action will follow, legislation, real action to change behaviour.”.……………………………………. Read the rest of the story here:
Here is the post from yesterday which began this thread:
Another German “Will Soon Unveil A Master Plan For A Transformation Of Society”
By P Gosselin on 29. März 2011
We’ve seen that kind of thinking before. Authoritarianism.
Forget democracy, human freedom and free markets. These concepts, which have made today’s human prosperity and long lifespans a reality for humans, wherever and whenever they are given the chance to work, are upsetting a small but very elitist group of individuals who view these concepts as a disruption and a threat to their world view.
German Hans Joachim Schellnhuber has a “Master Plan” for society. Source: http://nachhaltigkeit2009.commerzbank.de/reports/commerzbank/annual/2009/nb/German/3010/_innovations-chancen-nutzen_.html
The English edition of Der Spiegel has a recent interview with Prof Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. In this interview Schellnhuber announced that he would unveil his “Master Plan” for transforming society – one no doubt that suits his world view. In Schellhuber’s view, human society needs to be scaled back and managed by an elite group of “wise men” who know what is best for the rest………………………………………………………..
The Big Green Lie 