Pondering the tendency of elites to the most extreme manifestations of gibbering climate hysteria, Australian columnist the Mocker has a theory: concentrating so many oxygen thieves in one room cripples their already diminished cognitive abilities.
Consequently, people at those forums become irrational, paranoid and prone to hysteria […] It is a phenomenon extending through all levels of hierarchy, whether it be dictators, prime ministers or tinpot popinjays.
Which naturally brings to mind Jacinda Ardern and the Pacific Island Forum.
For those unfamiliar with this, it is a get-together of Oceania’s smallest nations and biggest freeloaders, with the exception of Australia’s arts community and the Northern Territory government.
Like the conga-line of grandstanding town councils declaring asinine “climate emergencies”, the Pacific Island Forum provides an unwarranted forum for the incompetent, corrupt and greedy to put on silly shirts and attempt to outdo each other in fatuous grand-standing and hypocritical virtue-signalling.
Among their demands was that Australia end coal mining. That would present absolutely no problem for this country, aside from leaving a $67 billion hole in our exports, which would make it impossible to sustain the $1.4 billion in aid we give annually to Pacific nations.
That’s aid. Australia is giving these moochers money. Certain other nations are keeping the strings firmly attached.
Tonga owes about US$108 million to China’s Export-Import Bank, which equates to around 25 per cent of its gross domestic product.
But, hey, while we’re on the subject of virtue-signalling oxygen thieves…
Never one to miss an opportunity for grandstanding, New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern pronounced that “Australia has to answer to the Pacific.” Former foreign minister Alexander Downer rightly observed via Twitter she was virtue signalling at Australia’s expense. The Fijian prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, ever looking for an opportunity to wedge Australia, gleefully tweeted “it’s good to have an ally like New Zealand in your corner”.
He said, even as he trousered another hundred million or so of Australian money. Adages about biting hands that feed come to mind.
Notably, Chinese representatives were not pressed about how their country planned to reduce its 30 per cent of global emissions, a fact explained by New Zealand foreign minister Winston Peters’ observation that many Pacific nations are seeking loans from China.
Who wants to bet that in a few decades, China will be facing the same situation as the World Bank ended up in: a ledger full of red ink from mendicant banana republics with no hope of paying? In fact, just a few decades after the IMF, World Bank and G8 cancelled billions owed by developing nations, those same tinpot developing nations are once again billions in debt – to China.
Who also wants to bet that China won’t roll over on “debt forgiveness” so easily?
Meanwhile, what to do with hysterical oxygen thieves banging on about the end of the world?
Easy, my theory is the same way deep sea commercial divers avoid nitrogen narcosis. Instead of breathing normal air in a pressurised environment, those prone to climate histrionics would be made to inhale Trimix, a combination of oxygen, helium and nitrogen. One side effect though: after doing so they will talk like Donald Duck.
theaustralian.com.au/commentary/deep-dive-into-climate-change-hysteria
At least then they’ll actually sound like the fools that they are.