https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959378016300450
Who remembers Proff Michael E Mann? “Another new front in the new climate war is what you call “doomism”. What do you mean by that?
Doom-mongering has overtaken denial as a threat and as a tactic. Inactivists know that if people believe there is nothing you can do, they are led down a path of disengagement. They unwittingly do the bidding of fossil fuel interests by giving up.
What is so pernicious about this is that it seeks to weaponize environmental progressives who would otherwise be on the frontline demanding change. These are folk of good intentions and good will, but they become disillusioned or depressed, and they fall into despair. But “too late” narratives are invariably based on a misunderstanding of science. Many of the prominent doomist narratives – [Jonathan] Franzen, David Wallace-Wells, the Deep Adaptation movement – can be traced back to a false notion that an Arctic methane bomb will cause runaway warming and extinguish all life on Earth within 10 years. This is completely wrong. There is no science to support that.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/27/climatologist-michael-e-mann-doomism-climate-crisis-interview
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Alaina M Wood, Saccarine Good Climate News
“Doomism equals inaction” was her mantra, parroting Proff Michael Mann. She publicly condemned disruptive actions, NVDA, Tire Extinguishers, JSO, and Extinction Rebellion. She called her output “lessons” and treats it like evangelizing. Then she called criticism “hate” and went on a rant about climate anxiety.
It’s a lot of work to debunk these idiot hopium grifters.
Some of her “Good Climate News” is utter BS and has been debunked by the physicist YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@Thunderf00t. Some of those companies are selling BS Science. His main target is Musk & his fawning fans.
You can make money from hope. This is why the sincerity of those not making money from hope is more trustworthy. I could write volumes about Proff Michael E Mann’s unscientific assumptions about doomers’ inaction. I don’t need to. We only have to look at his fawning fans. As for New Age colonialism against indigenous people? It’s all about theft and money—nothing radical or new in reinforcing old capitalist structures of exploitation.
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