From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
JANUARY 16, 2023
By Paul Homewood
The downfall of capitalism is not going to come from the rebellion of an impoverished working class however from the sabotage of a bored higher class. This was the view of the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. Schumpeter believed that at some level sooner or later, an informed elite would don’t have anything left to wrestle for and can as an alternative begin to wrestle towards the very system that they themselves stay in.
Nothing makes me suppose Schumpeter was proper just like the up to date local weather motion and its acolytes. The Inexperienced motion just isn’t a mirrored image of planetary disaster as so many in media and tradition prefer to depict it, however fairly, a disaster of that means for the prosperous.
Take for instance a latest interview with Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich on CBS’s 60 Minutes. Ehrlich is most well-known for his profession as an expert doom monger. His first main ebook, The Inhabitants Bomb, gave us timelessly unsuitable predictions, together with that by the Nineteen Eighties, a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of individuals would starve to loss of life and it went downhill from there. Ehrlich assured us that England would not exist within the yr 2000, that even fashionable fertilizers wouldn’t allow us to feed the world, and that thermonuclear energy was simply across the nook.
“On the “Local weather Motion Summit” in 2018, two dozen billionaire-backed foundations pledged 4 billion {dollars} for climate-change lobbying. A few of them, just like the Hewlett Basis, are instantly funding journalists on the Related Press for “local weather reporting,” whereas foundations related to the Packard and Rockefeller households have been backing the journalistic endeavor “Overlaying Local weather Now,” which “collaborates with journalists and newsrooms to supply extra knowledgeable and pressing local weather tales” and is financing a whole bunch of media retailers.”
Ehrlich, who lately turned 90, is within the fortunate place to have witnessed the whole failure of all his predictions—solely to double down on them in his 60 Minutes interview Ehrlich has been unsuitable on each public coverage subject he pontificated on for nearly 60 years, but the mainstream media nonetheless deal with him like a contemporary oracle.
One of the best reply to this query comes courtesy of New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who in 2019 famously stated that, “I believe that there’s lots of people extra involved about being exactly, factually and semantically appropriate than about being morally proper.” In different phrases, it doesn’t matter what nonsense one spews, so long as it’s “morally proper,” it doesn’t matter what the information present.
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