By: Jože Biščak
When we were frightened as children, our parents would soothe us with the words: “Fear is hollow, and there is nothing around it.” That is why fear rarely shaped the ordinary rhythms of peacetime life, it etched itself into people’s consciousness only when it became tangible: the great wars of the last century rooted fear of destruction and loss deep within us.
This archaic memory is being revived in the postmodern era by globalists. Fear has become the architect of life, a hidden force and moral arbiter that dictates what is right and wrong, good and evil. We are, of course, talking about a new cult: climate change. Cloaked in science, it is no longer just a media narrative or even an ideological framework, it has evolved into a modern religion with its own institutions and churches: from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC at the United Nations) to the World Economic Forum (WEF) and countless NGOs. And like any true religion, it holds councils where climate prophets and apostles gather to save the planet and debate the future of every individual.
This year, the high clergy of climate change will convene in Brazil, on the edge of the rainforest in the city of Belém. In less than a month, a 50,000-strong community of the chosen (driven not by spirituality but by fear) will once again threaten apocalypse, just around the corner, unless we obey their instructions and allow governments to strip people of everything they still have and hand it over to those who claim to be saving the Earth from damnation. They are counting on humanity’s fear of personal guilt for global warming to be strong enough to make people compliant.
As with any religion, the actions of most leaders are rooted in hypocrisy. They are called to lead, but not by example, certainly not by giving up fossil-fuelled travel, which they claim is the main culprit behind climate twilight. That is why Brazil, with its socialist president Lula da Silva, was chosen to host the climate summit (COP 30). Yet the country, which holds 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest, supposedly the lungs of the planet, has made it clear it will not give up oil. In fact, this year BP (formerly British Petroleum), the London-based oil and gas company, discovered the largest oil and gas deposit in Brazil in the past quarter-century. This signals a new boost for fossil energy, even as the entire climate summit clergy swears they have moved on from fossil fuels.
The summit participants, who will of course arrive in Belém by planes powered by fossil fuels and land at the city’s expanded airport (population 1.5 million), care little for the Amazon rainforest, despite their usual crocodile tears over every dead butterfly or felled tree. To ensure maximum comfort for their ride in luxury limousines from the airport to the conference venue, Lula gave the green light to an environmentally harmful infrastructure project, the construction of a four-lane highway through untouched rainforest. And yes, you guessed it: the highway is paved with asphalt, a substance derived from oil. The irony is glaring: a climate summit aimed at protecting the environment is actively accelerating deforestation. On one hand, the climate cult is full of talk about resource preservation, yet Brazil is destroying those very resources for COP 30. The consequences are dire: 15,600 trees destroyed, 1.95 million insects wiped out, 195 reptile species vanished, 78 mammal species displaced, 390 bird species affected, and 3.12 million litres of water lost daily due to reduced transpiration. No, in Belém, where even residents are being displaced for rental profits tied to the climate summit, there will be no climate (or any other) justice, despite the globalists’ loud proclamations.
When the suitcases are packed and the delegates move on to their next round of fearmongering, what will remain in the heart of the Amazon is a highway, the highway of hypocrisy. A reminder to the people not to fall for the prophets and priests of the climate cult.