The Anti-human Agenda Angle is the Latest Cynical Strategy from Deniers of the Climate Catastrophe, but Developing the Tools to See What is Actually Happening is Incredibly Pro-human!

Someone sent me a link to Neil Oliver on GB News a few weeks ago, I was more than a little surprised to see the archaeologist, historian and former Coast presenter on the same channel as Farage, and the same channel that an embarrassed Andrew O’Neil bid a hasty exit from. Still, “give it a chance”, I thought…

Oliver’s opening statement was “since when did we, the people, become the problem? Blah blah blah”. I write blah blah blah because I immediately switch off with absolutists. Humanity is rich with complexity and diversity, and as soon as anyone lumps “the people” together into a single entity, my Spidey Sense begins to send me the warning jingle jangles. Much the same way as when Johnson, one of the worst prime minister’s in UK history, begins to drone on about “the will of the people”, as though we are all of one mind.

Oliver continued, and it quickly became apparent that he was spinning the “anti-human” yarn.

We’ve seen this latest tactic gain momentum in recent years, not least from the terribly transparent Koch funded, global warming denying website Spiked!

Even the website name is bizarre when you stop to think about it. When a drink is spiked someone is planning to do something rather nasty to their victim without that person realising it, or being able to stop it. Which neatly sums up the insidious nature of most of their output.

Incidentally, there is strong evidence to suggest that the Koch family (pronounced ‘Coke’ by their fans, although in actuality it is of course pronounced Cock) had connections with the Nazi party. And before that, Stalin.

Who cares if its true or not, given how much disinformation they have force fed the world over the years, let’s give them a taste of their own malignant, malicious medicine. And in our new world of cancel where anything that has the slightest suggestion of a Russian connection, a business built using Nazi money must surely be cancelled with a capital C.

In case you missed it, we are now perpetuated with the absurd but unsurprisingly effective message that arguing for the climate catastrophe is now being “anti-human”. Its effectivity is unsurprising because any message that goes against the climate catastrophe is really attractive for a lot of people. For the wealthy elite minority it means another weapon in their sinister climate change denial arsenal, and for many ordinary people trying to live their lives in often difficult conditions, it’s another reason to avoid accepting the awful reality of what is happening, and what that reality will eventually mean for them, their friends and their families.

The anti human angle is also another stick with which to beat those nasty, intelligent, honest, caring scientists and their supporters who are trying to help save the world by showing us what is actually happening.

By twisting their messages into some sort of anti-humanity attack is just the latest in a long line of delay, deny, discredit tactics from the wealthy, greedy and powerful people who are seeing their facades crumble before their eyes. They haven’t crumbled anywhere near quickly enough, but soon their positions will become untenable. Sadly by then a lot of people, and species, will be dead.

In reality, of course, like so much of the climate denialists (yes, it’s a word, I looked it up!) rhetoric, a little scratch beneath the surface shows us how absurd it really is.

Firstly, humanity in its entirety is not to blame for the climate catastrophe.

Without going in to too much detail, most (cough) democracies have a system where a small number of people are entrusted with the power to make decisions that will look after the rest of us. That hasn’t gone terribly well, but that’s the general idea. These people have been given lots of information over the last forty years that show, increasingly unequivocally, that global warming has been worsened by certain types of human activity. Those in power have had a number of chances to change the situation and have failed. There can be no doubt about this.

Also, the very fact that some humans have developed the tools to show and help us to better understand the negative effects is amazing, what can be more Pro-human than the advance of science?

Yes, science is only the best understanding of something at any given time, and it is vitally that there is healthy caution and scepticism, but it is now undeniable that science and scientists have achieved, and continue to achieve, incredible things. And they were right all along about global warming being accelerated by some forms of human activity.

And the data, combined with what is actually happening in front of our very eyes right now, can leave us in no doubt that global warming is getting worse, that this is happening because of some human activity, and that this is really bad for the planet and all those that inhabit it.

To bravely accept the mistakes of the past, and to try to find ways to stop it worsening is the most wonderfully Pro-human thing that we could do. To deny it all is anti-human, and anti-sanity.

The anti-human angle is cunning. There is a lot of unfair guilt being pushed on people in relation to the climate catastrophe. But let’s be clear, it’s not your fault. It is the fault of a few powerful people that are in a position to do something about it and have, so far, failed the environment and humanity spectacularly.