The Sacrificial Acts Of The Climate Cultists

h/t Mark Hodgson for the link to the Guardian.

“The Science says . . . . . . ,” they say. The planet is dangerously overheating. “If we don’t act immediately to reduce global carbon emissions, then we’re gonna die from droughts, floods, and terrifying heatwaves. If they don’t get you, then catastrophic sea level rise from melting ice caps and glaciers will. Cos Science, innit.”

Yes, we are dying, wildlife is dying, farming is dying, farm animals are dying, traditional lifestyles are dying, wealth is dying, abundance, freedom and democracy are dying . . . . . . not because of an imaginary climate emergency, but to appease the weather gods, aka the Green Sustainability Gods of Climate Change. This is not science-based policy making, it is a sacrifice, plain and simple, but couched in unfamiliar terms, such that we do not recognise it. This is why it feels like a sacrifice, because it is a sacrifice:

Deep in the Mojave desert, about halfway between Los Angeles and Phoenix, a sparkling blue sea shimmers on the horizon. Visible from the I-10 highway, amid the parched plains and sun-baked mountains, it is an improbable sight: a deep blue slick stretching for miles across the Chuckwalla Valley, forming an endless glistening mirror.

But something’s not quite right. Closer up, the water’s edge appears blocky and pixelated, with the look of a low-res computer rendering, while its surface is sculpted in orderly geometric ridges, like frozen waves.

“We had a guy pull in the other day towing a big boat,” says Don Sneddon, a local resident. “He asked us how to get to the launch ramp to the lake. I don’t think he realised he was looking at a lake of solar panels.”

Over the last few years, this swathe of desert has been steadily carpeted with one of the world’s largest concentrations of solar power plants, forming a sprawling photovoltaic sea. On the ground, the scale is almost incomprehensible. The Riverside East Solar Energy Zone – the ground zero of California’s solar energy boom – stretches for 150,000 acres, making it 10 times the size of Manhattan.

It is a crucial component of the United States’ green energy revolution. Solar makes up about 3% of the US electricity supply, but the Biden administration hopes it will reach 45% by 2050, primarily by building more huge plants like this across the country’s flat, empty plains.

But there’s one thing that the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) – the agency tasked with facilitating these projects on public land – doesn’t seem to have fully taken into account: the desert isn’t quite as empty as it thought. It might look like a barren wilderness, but this stretch of the Mojave is a rich and fragile habitat for endangered species and home to thousand-year-old carbon-capturing woodlands, ancient Indigenous cultural sites – and hundreds of people’s homes.

Residents have watched ruefully for years as solar plants crept over the horizon, bringing noise and pollution that’s eroding a way of life in their desert refuge.

“We feel like we’ve been sacrificed,” says Mark Carrington, who, like Sneddon, lives in the Lake Tamarisk resort, a community for over-55s near Desert Center, which is increasingly surrounded by solar farms. “We’re a senior community, and half of us now have breathing difficulties because of all the dust churned up by the construction. I moved here for the clean air, but some days I have to go outside wearing goggles. What was an oasis has become a little island in a dead solar sea.”

It’s not just Mark Carrington. Ask any bat, any sea-bird, any eagle, any whale, seal, porpoise, crab, tree, forest, or productive farm field which has been sacrificed in order to appease the weather gods over the last few decades, via the construction of huge ‘renewables’ facilities, on land and at sea. The supposed justification for this industrialisation of pristine natural landscapes? A vain attempt to curb emissions of carbon, a natural element essential for all life on earth, which happens to be present in fossil fuels and is one of the chemical constituents of carbon dioxide, which the Science says is a potentially planet destroying Thermageddon molecule (aided and abetted by that other demonic naturally occurring and life-enhancing substance - water) when present in the atmosphere. If plants and fields could feel, they surely would feel like Mark Carrington. Whales, designated by NOAA as ‘authorised take via harassment levels A and B’, can surely feel, just like us, as can dolphins and other marine animals. If they knew about NOAA’s plans to authorise their ‘harassment’ in order to survey for, construct, and operate offshore wind turbines in order to prevent bad weather, they would surely feel like they were being lined up for a ritual sacrifice.

In the case of the Mojave in California, the desert itself is being sacrificed, along with its inhabitants, both human and non-human, in pursuit of Green Utopia. The life of the desert itself has been offered up in sacrifice to the Green gods of the Sustainability Religion, aka the climate change cult.

What’s happened here? Is this science-based policy making in action? NO! What’s really happened is that we just think we’ve become civilised, but we haven’t. We think we’ve become rational and guided by science, not religion, but we haven’t (or maybe we did, just for a short time following the Enlightenment). What we’re doing now is finding new ways, more complex ways, and more sophisticated justification for taking life in order to appease the old gods. We’re no different from the Aztecs or the Vikings, or any other superstitious peoples who sacrificed animals and human beings in order to bring favour and fortune to their tribe, their township or their nation. Same gods, same mentality. Nothing changed, except our inventiveness re. the methods of dispatch and the sheer scale of that dispatch. Surely now, with such mass sacrifices, we can save the whole world?