"Elites Cheer Climate Narcissists" by Michael Shellenberger

"Biden & UN Secretary General Encourage Extremism"

It’s becoming more and more challenging to observe these narcissistic entitled acolytes of the climate cult act out their scripted pantomimes.

Please watch the embedded video below on Michael Shellenberger’s Substack which I am unfortunately not able to reproduce here.

Elites Cheer Climate Narcissists

Biden & UN Secretary General Encourage Extremism

By Michael Shellenberger • November 7, 2022

“I'm 24 years old and I'm here,” said a Just Stop Oil protester, who blocked a major highway into London this morning, “Because I don't have a future.”

In truth, carbon emissions in Britain have been declining for decades.

Human resilience to disasters is rising and there is no scientific scenario for greater deaths from disasters due to climate change in the future

The activists ignore these facts.

“They are betraying young people like me,” said the 24-year-old activist. “I wouldn’t have to be here if they did their lawful duty to their own citizens. Why did it take young people like me!?”

Notes psychologist Sam Vaknin, “There are narcissists whose grandiosity is being a victim.”

A young protester who is spray painting the side of a building says, “Here I am, an ordinary person having to do this!”

Vaknin: “I'm a victim, so I'm a saint. I'm morally superior to you.”

Protester: You think I like it? No. This is something I feel as a duty that I have to do.

Sam: Narcissism is about a lack of empathy.

BBC interviewer: Do you think you are taking enough people with you?

Activist: This isn't a popularity contest. This is the biggest crisis that humanity has ever faced.

Vaknin: Today most victimhood movements are about grandiosity. They don't have any meaningful agendas.

BBC: Isn't the risk that you lose support from Londoners?

Just Stop Oil spokesperson: We don't actually need support.

Vaknin: It's about entitlement and exploitation.

BBC: Do you regret that you are shifting police work?

Just Stop Oil spokesperson: The climate crisis is the biggest threat to law and order.

Vaknin: That's an exceedingly dangerous phenomenon. “I have a right because I have a grievance. I'm entitled. You have an obligation towards me.”

Just Stop Oil spokesperson: If we receive no response from ministers by the end of Friday the fourth, we'll escalate our legal disruption against this government.

Vaknin: Narcissists thus engage in temper tantrums similar to children.

Protester: I'm furious and I'm devastated.

Vaknin: They just want to be heard. They want to garner attention. They want to become celebrities and famous.

Protester 2: Nobody is listening to us.

Vaknin: They're power-oriented.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres: We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator,

Vaknin: They want to control, They want to have power.

President Joe Biden: No more drilling. There is no more drilling.

Biden Shouts "No More Drilling. There is no more drilling!" at New York Rally

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This Twitter thread which Michael posted yesterday begins with the complete clip of little miss “I don’t have a future”Louise crying without tears.

I wonder who enabled them to get up onto the gantries in the first place?

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

A 24 year-old woman shut down a major highway in UK just now. She says it’s for the climate but she’s obviously suffering from severe mental distress, narcissism, and grandiosity. “Why does it take young people like me?” she asks. Climate fanatics are weaponizing mental illness

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

The young woman is describing herself as a victim. The template for this was set by Greta Thunberg. It’s pathological. They are privileged elites financed by their some of the richest people in the world. They are throwing temper tantrums.

michaelshellenberger.substack.comNarcissism In Climate & Woke Victim MovementsWatch now (8 min) | Psychologist Sam Vaknin on why we need a politics of overcoming, not victimhood

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

Statements like “Why does it take young people like me?” and Thunberg’s “I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school …How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words” are grandiose, narcissistic, and manipulative.

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

“This is an exceedingly dangerous phenomenon because narcissism is about a lack of empathy. It's about entitlement. And it’s exploitative. ‘I'm a victim, so I'm a saint. I'm morally superior to you. I have a right because I have a grievance. You have an obligation towards me.’”

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

“They don't have any meaningful agendas. They just want to be heard. They want to garner attention. They want to become celebrities and famous. They want to control, They want to have power. They're power-oriented power. They are entitled and aggressive.”

michaelshellenberger.substack.comNarcissism In Climate & Woke Victim MovementsWatch now (8 min) | Psychologist Sam Vaknin on why we need a politics of overcoming, not victimhood

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

European authorities are actively encouraging these dangerously pathological behaviors by refusing to properly enforce laws and deter such crimes. The reason is because they support the cause. As such, they are, to some extent, working together.

michaelshellenberger.substack.comThe Quiet Desperation Of Woke FanaticsWhat’s driving them? And how can they be defeated?

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

The new PM of UK @RishiSunak encouraged these protests by re-instating a ban on fracking. The activists feel they are winning. They are emboldened. That’s why they are engaging in ever-more extreme behaviors. They must be shut down.

thehill.comRishi Sunak’s anti-fracking gift to Vladimir PutinNapoleon is credited with saying “never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself.” That line comes to mind after last week’s decision by British Prime Minister Rishi …

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

Let’s be clear about what’s occurring. Rich fanatics & the news media are weaponizing mental illness to advance a radical, anti-capitalist agenda. That’s textbook psychopathic behavior: lack of empathy, lack of control (panic), and anti-social behavior.

michaelshellenberger.substack.comMedia Must Take Responsibility For Greta Climate PanicTo get the word out, I’m temporarily taking 50% off the cost of an annual subscription

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

It was clear from the beginning of Thunberg’s stardom that she suffered from an anxiety disorder, and yet she, her handlers, and her parents all suggested that it stemmed from her profound concern over climate change. That turned out to be a lie.

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

Thunberg’s mother, a textbook narcissist, admitted as much in 2020 when she decided she needed to publish her own book. The media lapped it all up without ever asking: is this healthy psychologically for the Thunbergs and the rest of the society?

theguardian.comMalena Ernman on daughter Greta Thunberg: ‘She was slowly disappearing into some kind of darkness’A new book by Greta Thunberg’s mother reveals the reality of family life during her daughter’s transformation from bullied teenager to climate icon

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

Of course, it wasn’t. But the media egged her on and insisted that anybody who dared question whether it was ethical or healthy for the world’s most influential teenager to urge panic was a “climate denier” who was somehow threatened by a child. The gaslighting was grotesque.

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

And they’re not done. Thunberg Inc. and the media are now delivering her up as a savior from the mass psychopathology they created. You couldn’t make it up. This isn’t just cynical it’s also inhumane.

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

Any doubts that this is about psychopathology stemming from fanaticism & nihilism, not climate change, can be put to rest when you consider that the main demand of the narcissists is a ban on natural gas, which is the main reason UK emissions have been declining for decades.

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

The fanatical elites who are weaponizing mental illness are also waging class war. They are against cheap energy & industrial capitalism because they lift up ordinary people and close the gap with the elites, who want distance & inequality.

michaelshellenberger.substack.comWhy Elites Like Greta Thunberg Hate CapitalismFree markets have lifted millions out of poverty, liberated women, and protected the environment. Why, then, are so many progressives against them?

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

Naturally the elites need to claim the opposite, that they want an end to inequality and poverty, because everybody knows the quickest way to increase inequality and poverty is by making energy and food more expensive. Watch what they do, and demand.

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

“Part and parcel of our narcissistic culture is black-and-white dichotomous thinking” known as “splitting.” Wrote Thunberg, “Everyone says that there is no black-and-white issue, but I think this is. Either we go on as a civilization or we don’t.”

michaelshellenberger.substack.comInfantilization Of The ApocalypseWhy have climate activists made temper tantrums their primary tactic?

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

Adds @GingerCoy , “If a person laments that they are a victim, in this narcissistic age, it should be a red flag that they are likely a perpetrator.” Such is the case with climate activists.

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

They are some of the richest and most privileged people in the world, thanks to cheap and abundant fossil fuels. Some of them, like the heirs and heiresses to the Getty Oil and Rockefeller Oil fortunes, are more directly beneficiaries than others.

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

And yet they are actively seeking to deprive others, both their fellow citizens and Africans, of those very fuels, as well as non-fossil sources of productive energy, like hydroelectric dams and nuclear power.

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

The heirs to the Getty and Rockefeller say they are financing anti-fracking advocacy because fracking is bad for the climate, but it was always obvious that fracking, by creating cheap and abundant natural gas to replace coal, would reduce emissions and be great for the climate.

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

The real and often unconscious reason that the heirs to the Getty and Rockefeller fortunes finance anti-fracking is the same reason that Putin consciously did: fracking threatens their economic wealth, social status, and political power.

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

More oil and gas from fracking reduced the price, and thus the value, of existing oil and gas assets. It meant the old rich had to make way for the new rich in social circles. Think of how the country club snobs looked down on the Rodney Dangerfield character in “Caddyshack.”

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

Anti-capitalism thus became the ideology of the old rich, or what sociologist Thorstein Veblen called “the leisure class.” Veblen noted the importance of “conspicuous consumption,” the tendency of leisure class to flaunt their wealth through fancy dresses and jewelry.

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

Today, elites flaunt their wealth through “luxury beliefs, ideas and opinions that confer status in the upper class while inflicting costs on the lower class,” eg we must make energy more expensive & return to less efficient, feudal modes of production, to protect Nature.

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

The capitalist class, the people who built their wealth from scratch, tend to feel proud, not guilty, for what they built. They defend free markets as part of their legacy. Their children and grandchildren who inherit their wealth struggle with their purpose.

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

They tend toward neuroticism because they know, at some level, that they did nothing to deserve their good fortune. They compensate for their feelings of inferiority by devising various ways to put down the new rich and their workers, such as by financing activists to block roads

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

Why, in the end, are educated elites anti-capitalist? Because capitalism reduces their power. If climate change didn’t exist, elites like Thunberg would find some other reason to be anti-capitalist, to demand a “Great Reset,” and to demand higher costs for energy and food.

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

The victims are working people trying to pay their energy bills, get to work, and survive the worst energy crisis in modern history. They are also the young people whose anxiety disorders and narcissism are worsened by the fanatics.

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

We need to have compassion toward the people who are plainly in mental distress. They are in the grip of a fanatical ideology. But we also need to impose strict consequences for their dangerous and pathological behaviors in order to deter others from doing the same. /END

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

PS: It is good to see the police cracking down. More of that, please. The police make a good point: the more time they must spend dealing with the temper tantrums of climate narcissists, the less time they have to deal with other crimes. https://t.co/S8LNIc1aez

Metropolitan Police Events @MetPoliceEvents

"Operations like these come at a cost. "Since Oct used more than 10,000 officer shifts to police Just Stop Oil protests. "These are officers who would otherwise be dealing with issues that matter to local communities, such as knife crime and responding to burglaries."

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

PS: It is good to see the police cracking down. More of that, please. The police make a good point: the more time they must spend dealing with the temper tantrums of climate narcissists, the less time they have to deal with other crimes. https://t.co/S8LNIc1aez

Metropolitan Police Events @MetPoliceEvents

"Operations like these come at a cost. "Since Oct used more than 10,000 officer shifts to police Just Stop Oil protests. "These are officers who would otherwise be dealing with issues that matter to local communities, such as knife crime and responding to burglaries."

As I have expressed in another blog, I am against hydraulic fracturing due to the vast quantities, millions of gallons of fresh water required which can never be purified and would cause irreparable damage to aquifers and the environment. Fracking is also not geologically a viable option in Britain as set forth in this video.

The BBC published several reports about members of the astro turf Just Stop Oil’s irresponsible attention-seeking actions yesterday and included a transcript for actress activist Louise in this piece. They are of course going to make it much more difficult for truly organic grassroots groups to protest peacefully and lawfully which is another reason why they are being promoted.

Yesterday, 7 November 2022:

A High Court injunction has been granted to prevent Just Stop Oil protesters disrupting the M25.

It means anyone fixing themselves to any object or structure on the motorway - and anyone assisting - can be held in contempt of court.

Those in breach could face imprisonment, an unlimited fine and seizure of assets.

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said the injunction would tackle a "reckless minority of protesters".

"Protesting by blocking busy motorways or climbing overhead structures is extremely dangerous and disruptive, which is why I instructed National Highways to apply for this further injunction, which the courts have granted," he said.

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Enough is enough.

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