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No, Zac, we think it is many things, possibly including 'wokery'.
It is categorically anti-democratic.
It is mystical and unscientific.
It is authoritarian.
And it is advanced by self-serving bullshit artists and chancers. https://twitter.com/ZacGoldsmith/status/1327950268676321281
It is categorically anti-democratic.
It is mystical and unscientific.
It is authoritarian.
And it is advanced by self-serving bullshit artists and chancers. https://twitter.com/ZacGoldsmith/status/1327950268676321281
No, indeed, Roosevelt was not woke. And neither was Rudolph Hess, who said, "National Socialism is nothing but applied biology". https://twitter.com/ZacGoldsmith/status/1327950403959451648
Neither Hitler, who created nature reserves:
"When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall."
"When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall."
So, you're right, there is nothing essentially "woke" about environmentalism, Zac.
But that's no defence of it, nor a counter to the fact that eco- and virtue-signalling are today converging phenomena.
But that's no defence of it, nor a counter to the fact that eco- and virtue-signalling are today converging phenomena.
Thatcher did indeed do these things. But she had been persuaded by Crispin Tickell, and by Gro Brundtland's Our Common Future, because the full failure of the 1970s prognostications, and the political nature of "sustainability" had not yet been exposed. https://twitter.com/ZacGoldsmith/status/1327950600135438337
We know now, after more than half a century of failed predictions that a political tendency makes alarmist projections in order to manufacture political capital.
We know now that they are anti-democratic, self-serving, authoritarian liars and zealots.
We know now that they are anti-democratic, self-serving, authoritarian liars and zealots.
The Clean Air Act was established by popular support, Zac.
No such support exists for your agenda and the weirdo politics it is based on.
That agenda *explicitly* makes humanity its enemy. https://twitter.com/ZacGoldsmith/status/1327950764862566402
No such support exists for your agenda and the weirdo politics it is based on.
That agenda *explicitly* makes humanity its enemy. https://twitter.com/ZacGoldsmith/status/1327950764862566402
What Zac is worried about is that Carrie is his link to Number 10, and that this is now the focus of attention.
He wants to nit-pick about the word "woke". https://twitter.com/ZacGoldsmith/status/1327951329667452930
He wants to nit-pick about the word "woke". https://twitter.com/ZacGoldsmith/status/1327951329667452930
