There’s a report out from Australia about how everything’s going to pot, we’re all gonna die (Aieeee!) and shouldn’t we do something about it?

the answer, apparently, being to curb free speech and institute a really effective propaganda campaign.

No, I do not jest:

The 10 threats are climate change, environmental decline and extinction, nuclear weapons, resource scarcity (including water scarcity), food insecurity, dangerous new technologies, overpopulation, chemical pollution, pandemic disease, and denial and misinformation.

Their point being that if you deny that any of the first nine are existential threats then you are spreading misinformation. To which the answer is to stop your free speech to disagree with the enlightened.

The report is here:

There is a need to galvanise people

everywhere to come together to debate,

design and implement innovative

strategies to transition to a sustainable

world – and to avoid bequeathing an

environmental and societal catastrophe to

future generations.

The dominant global discourse,

economically, politically and academically,

has for several decades been captured by

excessive optimism – while voices calling

for fairness, equity or warning of limits to

growth and risks have been largely

ignored or suppressed. Part of the

problem is that there is significant (often

deliberate and well-funded)

misinformation that contradicts the

scientific consensus on catastrophic risk.

Delusions, carefully implanted, are

difficult to correct.

So, Bjorn Lomborg needs to be told to shut up then, right? Anything we might do over and above that?

We need to convince our fellow citizens of

Earth of the necessity to commit ourselves

and every belief system we hold, to

survive and thrive. We must recruit the

best and brightest young humans, not to

make arms, but to build the process for

surviving and thriving for the whole of

humanity.

Oooh, cool!

The Round Table considered that sound

education in living healthily and

sustainably, within the limits of our

planet, will be indispensable to humans

surviving and thriving in this, the Century

of our greatest risk. Every citizen of Earth

must understand their role and their

responsibility in making our future safe

and our wellbeing secure.

Even before school, preschools can

develop in their students a strong

emotional attachment to the planet, a

motivation to support its well-being and

the beginnings of a scientific

understanding about the place of humans

as part of an ecosystem. Teachers have

the potential to contribute to the future

of the planet by developing critical

thinking and articulate students, with a

deep understanding of the scientific and

social knowledge needed to sustain the

planet, and to be able to explain and

argue for the planet to a range of

audiences in different modes.

However, if humans are to survive and

thrive, these concepts and their

requirements must be built into all levels

of the education system, in all countries,

and integrated into all subjects studied

and taught. This does not call for a major

overhaul of the curricula, but rather

adjustment to its content so that it

educates students about the need for a

viable planet to support human life and

society, and how to achieve it. This theme

needs to run across all subjects taught

with the aim of raising a new general of

global citizens able to work together to

achieve it.

We brainwash all the kiddies and thereby create the New Ecological Xe that will inherit the Earth.

And don’t forget, anyone issuing the slightest little parp or peep questioning any of this is spreading disinformation and delusion and so can – should – be sent to the Gulag.

Overall it’s just that Birkenstock stamping on a human face, forever, again isn’t it?