The Scope of the Problem
There are very few writers who have so clearly and succinctly described our transition to global totalitarianism as Simon Elmer: The Politics of Environmental Fundamentalism in Tom Nelson Pod #116.
Among the multi-pronged attack on our freedoms …
Environmental Fundamentalists’ Carbon Net Zero goal offers a global suicide plan. They attack critical thinking in an digital age when everyone has access to more information than previously imaginable. Is this ironic, or is it simply an enormous success by wealthy and powerful stakeholders that few citizens of the world saw coming?
Simon Nelson, resident of London, Simon Elmer received his PhD in the History and Theory of Art from University College London. He has taught at the universities of London, Manchester, Reading and Michigan. His books include The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State (2022); Virtue and Terror: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 1 (2023); The New Normal: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 2 (2023); and, with Geraldine Dening, The Truth about Grenfell Tower (2017); Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration (2018); For a Socialist Architecture: Under Capitalism (2021); and Saving St. Raphael’s Estate: The Alternative to Demolition (2022).
This podcast reviews Simon’s “The Politics of Environmental Fundamentalism” article: https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-politics-of-environmental-fundamentalism. To set the appropriate mood for listening, here are a few George Orwell quotes from a quotes.com.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
