Trust Can Only Be Earned
OPINION: Yep, the stories just keep on coming. I haven’t noted any sign of them drying up yet, no let-up seems to be in sight! And with the rapid advances in AI, maybe the worst is still to come.
I noted a news headline recently that informed us it was now twenty years since the release of Al Gore's climate movie An Inconvenient Truth. People that watched it were told we had a small window of ten years to avoid reaching the "tipping point" of irreversible climate disaster. Apparently a catastrophic climate collapse was just up ahead for all of us; especially so if we didn't act and embrace AI's solutions!
It reminded me of a conversation I had with a young man in Auckland years ago. Nearing the end of his schooling years, he was looking closely at what was up ahead for him.
To my surprise, he told me was thoroughly fed-up with being made to watch Gore's movie over and over at school. Eight or nine times he had seen it, he informed me! So what did I think, he asked.
Now, I knew even back then, the movie had nothing to do with education, but rather it was all about instilling an ideology. So, I warmly assured him he would be fine and had a great future to look forward to!
Back in 2021, some 'research' that got termed a landmark global survey was published. It informed readers that 10,000 young people aged between 16 and 25 across 10 countries were questioned.
Fifty nine percent were said to be very worried or extremely worried about climate change. More than 45% said those feelings negatively affected their daily lives.
Three quarters of them said they believed the future to be frightening, with more than half feeling powerless, helpless, and for some, even feeling guilty about what they were facing.
How sad is that? Anyone of us could easily sum these findings up with just one word - fear.
I do recall myself in my younger years sweating a little too much with news of a coming big freeze!
Now for me, I will always have questions when fear is used to promote stuff, especially an ideology. And yes, it can even get terrifying when governments start ruling with fear.
Yep, some of us have been around long enough to see many of the climate predictions come and go without fulfilment. It is more than a little strange that the mainstream media avoids all comments on this.
Three very astute and wise words from decades ago provide great insight, for those willing to be instructed by them. Those three words? Follow Thee Money.
Who is being coerced and being taxed to finance this thing? Do they ever get any say on the matter?
Where is all that money going? Whose pockets does it quickly find its way into?
With China happily building new coal fired power stations, why hasn't 'Saint Greta' been in China saving the planet? Just a thought!
And while we hammer our own rural sector with climate regulations, we export coal to China & India - what hypocrisy!
We've got an election coming up shortly. For me, I'll be listening in carefully to see who is spinning what when it comes to this climate stuff.
Consider just one little fact with me for a quiet moment: our planet and its atmosphere rotate around the sun at 67,100 miles an hour. And we've been holding this speed for yonks. Truly, what amazing precision design!
For me and many others like me, the Designer of it all has got this! And He has got us. Yep, my days of sweating are done! Keep warm and God Bless.
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