February 10th 2009
Time To Shove The Green Pendulum Back
I
firmly believe every social trend – no matter how wayward or right – will only go so far before the societal pendulum slows, stops and swings back the other way, but I have to admit I’m getting pretty impatient with the whole left wing whacko, statist, greenie, warmie pendulum paradigm. And now impatience has swung into deep fear and overwhelming consternation.
I give you the Boston Globe:
Last year, an anxious, depressed 17-year-old boy was admitted to the psychiatric unit at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. He was refusing to drink water. Worried about drought related to climate change, the young man was convinced that if he drank, millions of people would die. The Australian doctors wrote the case up as the first known instance of “climate change delusion.”
Robert Salo, the psychiatrist who runs the inpatient unit where the boy was treated, has now seen several more patients with psychosis or anxiety disorders focused on climate change, as well as children who are having nightmares about global-warming-related natural disasters.
This was not a five year old waking up from a nightmare; it was a near-grownup reacting somewhat as could be expected from spending most of his life under the tutelage of hysterical teachers, hysterical reporters and, most importantly, hysterical former vice presidents.
There’s just one problem with this whole pendulum-swinging thing: For all it’s glory, Warmie paranoia is just the latest installment in leftist-inspired hysteria. Yes, it overwhelmed the short-lived Bush Derangement Syndrome, which had earlier replaced liberal-fired AIDS hysteria, which picked up from nuclear holocaust hysteria, which took over from the great leftist fear of capitalist nightmare greed hysteria.
Nervously, I get the sence we’re on a continuum, not a pendulum.
Posted in Environmentalism, Global warming, Leftism, Uncategorized | No Comments yet » | |
Leave a Reply
[The "Comment Box" is WYSIWYG except that you have to double space between paragraphs!
Type it the way you want it to look -- Just remember to double up those line spaces.]
You must be logged in to post a comment.
