Narrative über alles

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Climate change: is there anything it can’t do?

No, not if you control the narrative. No matter the problem, climate change is the reason it exists.

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Christine Lagarde is the President of the European Central Bank, whose main job is to control inflation and ensure the stability of the Euro.

As you may have noticed, the Euro, Dollar, and other currencies haven’t been exactly stable of late. The horrendous fiscal and monetary policies implemented during the COVID pandemic upended the world economic order, creating bottlenecks, supply chain problems, unemployment, and general chaos.

Central banks printed money as if it were the same thing as creating wealth, pretending that vastly expanding the money supply while contracting economic activity would have no negative consequences.

Well, these policies did have bad consequences, inflation being among the worst. Real wages have been plummeting, and consequently, the mood of the electorate is sour.

No policymaker wants to admit that they are responsible for the pain, especially when the policies they are committed to will cause even more pain as far as the eye can see. After all, the policies pursued during COVID were precisely the policies these people wanted to follow all along, and they all agreed that the COVID pandemic was a wonderful excuse to “reset” the economy along lines more congenial to their goals.

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The Great Reset. That is exactly what it means. They even told us in so many words.

But, surprisingly, people don’t want their lives upended, so they have been making their unhappiness clear. So a new excuse must be found, and it turns out to be the very same excuse they were trying to use before to justify destroying our prosperity: climate change.

Now climate change was no more or less real in 2019 when inflation was not out of control, but we are being asked to believe that some magic took place between 2020, when inflation was under control, and 2021, when it took off like a rocket.

That was some pretty amazingly fast global warming–so fast that the climate statistics don’t even show it. The only measure by which it appears is…inflation.

But trust us, it is the global fever that is driving prices higher.

Not anti-energy regulations. Oh no.

Not closing down power plants. Nope.

None of it has to do with strangling agriculture, mining, oil exploration, or any of the other policies that most of us are unhappy about.

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And it certainly had nothing to do with printing trillions upon trillions in fiat money.

Nope.

It was carbon dioxide. Which somehow had a dramatic effect in just one year.

It is a coincidence that this effect was simultaneous with the implementation of these other policies. A mere coincidence. A fluke. One in a million.

It was CO2.

Trust us. We are the experts.

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David Strom 5:20 PM | May 01, 2024
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