This Recession Brought To You By PMJT, WEF & ESG

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A simple proposition: Ask your family, your friends, your neighbours to tell you how they’re being directly affected by changes in the climate. Tell them you don’t want to hear media jeremiads about melting glaciers or promises of annihilation from Prince Charles. Or supply-chain headaches or other man-made  conditions. 

No. How can you feel, see, smell a difference in your physical world. Is your lake lower, your air harder to breath, your availability of food scarcer? Does it rain/ snow more? Are those around you suffering from respiratory problems unlike the past? Are storms worse, better or the same?

Likely you’ll see a greener world. Thank CO2 for that. Compared to London in the 1950s or Hamilton in the 1960s your air is cleaner. Atlantic hurricane levels are way down from the 1930s-50s. So are tornadoes. There are a lot more people and— thanks to aggressive immigration levels— a lot of different races in your city/ town. But you live happily with that. Even if enviro scolds don’t.

What’s changed is that Justin Trudeau now wants you to believe you are killing the earth with nitrogen. William Jennings Bryan said mankind wouldn’t be crucified on a cross of gold. But Trudeau believes his voters should be crucified on a World Bank cross of green. The answer to every question of his government ends like this from deputy Liberal leader Chrystia Freeland.“$200 (gas) fill-ups are why we have to work even harder and move even faster towards a green economy.”

That’s why they’re pricing carbon up to $170/ tonne by 2030 and making you pay. In the thrall of globalist technocrats and One World Marxists, Liberals are Jim-Jones deep in what Rob Henderson has coined the "luxury beliefs" of the elites. All to push Canada’s Energy Sustainability Governance (ESG) number into a level Klaus Schwab can appreciate. 

Forget that Canada’s impact on the world’s environment is miniscule. Trudeau and his purchased Media Party are bombarding the bewildered population with guilt. As Tom Nelson tweeted, “97% of climate scam propaganda involves dreaming up claims that sound kind of plausible to people like Bette Midler.” So Trudeau and his Fossil Fools can feel sanctimonious on their private jets. 

The latest from the laptop class is the lunacy of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fertilizers in Canada to 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030. This after his government’s target of reducing Canada’s greenhouse emissions to 40-45 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and to net zero by 2050. The levels are absurd. And they threaten to wreck the world’s food supply, a miracle that keeps 7 billion alive.

Why? Trudeau’s ESG fetish— and Bill Gates’ version of the food chain— come first. No wonder the PM has to sneak Into Calgary’s Stampede for photo ops with the Green mayor Gyoti Gondak. Liberal hacks must be pictured with him in remote parking lots. He’s surrounded by dense security, shaking hands only with approved stooges. It replicates his bunkered no-show performance during February’s Convoy— a crisis that he precipitated.

Most telling about Trudeau’s collapsed Man Of Science image was the use of Canadian flags as a rallying symbol for Dutch farmers faced with expropriation over… wait for it… fertilizer pollution. It comes as no surprise that Dutch PM Mark Rutte is a fellow chorister with Trudeau in the WEF One World Choir. Faced with people who get their hands dirty he’s replicated Trudeau’s pecksniff performance. from February, turning the police loose on lower-caste demonstrators.

It’s not going as planned for Rutte. His private jet was stolen from a government hangar by angry farmers. Newsweek reported, “Current polls indicate that the Farmers Political Party, formed just three years ago in response to the new regulations, would gain a whopping 11 seats in Parliament if elections were held today. Moreover, the Dutch Fishermen's Union has publicly joined the protests, blocking harbours with fishing crews holding signs that read Unity Creates Strength.”

Holland is the world's second-largest agricultural exporter after the United States. No matter. Its economy is now a lab experiment. It must be bent to the World Bank’s ESG regime. 

To see what happens when reality strikes, just look to Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel championed the WEF’s Green energy scheme that proposed a transfer to renewable technologies offered by the Euro Geniuses. Coal and nuclear were out. Smug German officials laughed heartily at U.S. president Donald Trump when he warned in 2018 that it would leave Germany’s outdated economy vulnerable to Vladimir Putin.

Guess who’s laughing now? The war in Ukraine has exposed Germany’s creaking industrial base dependency on Russia. “Most of Europe’s 100 largest companies were founded in the 1980s or before, which means that the old continent has entirely slept through the digital revolution of the 1990s and 2000s.”  With gas supplies dwindling and renewables unable to cope, Germany is scrambling to re-open coal-fuelled generators. 

Major cities like Hamburg are already preparing for rationing of gas and warm water supply. Robert Habeck, the Green minister of minister of economics and climate protection, has predicted that “the whole market is in danger of collapsing at some point.”  Oh, and Germany is also villainizing traditional fertilizers as a polluter.

So is hapless Sri Lanka— with disastrous results. Sri Lanka drank the WEF kool-aid in 2021, going full natural fertilizers. Bad idea. “The underlying reason for the fall of Sri Lanka is that its leaders fell under the spell of Western green elites peddling organic agriculture and ESG,” writers Michael Shellenberger.  Like the Dutch farmers, Sri Lankan farmers have rebelled against attempts to seize property, violently overturning the government and forcing its leaders to flee the country.

Ditto Ghana, another self-sufficient state in the early 2010s that signed on for WEF reductions in fertilizer for more macro biotic means. Now the country is on rolling blackouts, food is scarce and the economy is in a shambles.

These are the canaries in the coal mine. But WEF lapdogs like Justin Trudeau sleep happily, knowing they’ve pleased their real constituents.. The Davos jet set.  The rest can freeze in the dark, to quote Ralph Klein.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). The best-selling author was nominated for the BBN Business Book award of 2020 for Personal Account with Tony Comper. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, he’s also a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. His new book with his son Evan Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History is now available on http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx