Tuesday, November 08, 2022
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE: THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS A CREATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION:
The theory of catastrophic human caused global warming holds that it was created by the Industrial Revolution which initiated the burning of fossil fuels in significant quantities and in a steeply rising trend.
What makes it a crisis is that climate science has determined that global warming will intensify harmful climate events such as droughts, floods, heat waves, and tropical cyclones, that global warming can and must be stopped by the climate action of eliminating global fossil fuel emissions, and that if the amount of warming since pre-industrial exceeds the critical threshold of 1.5C, the warming will no longer be controllable because at that temperature natural feedbacks will take over as the primary drivers of warming such that climate action in the form of cutting fossil fuel emissions will no longer serve as the control knob to attenuate the rate of warming.
Climate change is framed as a global issue such that the whole world must cooperate and participate in the essential matter of reducing GLOBAL fossil fuel emissions to zero before we get to the critical WSPI temperature of 1.5C. This end of global warming by way of global climate action against global fossil fuel emissions is the ultimate goal of the climate change movement against fossil fuels.
YET, THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IS A CREATION OF THE GLOBAL NORTH: The unresolved and confounding complexities of the failed global climate action movement is best understood in the context of the industrial revolution that created two very different worlds on earth as the Global North of the rich industrialized nations and the Global South of the poor third world countries, the former colonies of the Global North.THE CLIMATE CHANGE ALARM OF OUR TIME IS A CREATION OF THE GLOBAL NORTH AND THE GLOBAL NORTH AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH ARE TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS IN THE AGW CONTEXT.
THEREFORE, the global warming and climate change movement of our time is best understood as the Global North’s hindsight that their fossil fueled Industrial Revolution had been done all wrong because of the use of fossil fuels. Their only position on this issue may be stated as “We, the Global North, did the Industrial Revolution all wrong and so we must rewind and do it right“. THIS ARGUMENT AND ITS LOGICAL IMPLICATIONS HAVE NO RELEVANCE FOR THE GLOBAL SOUTH.
THEREFORE there is no context for the Global South in the foundational climate movement proposition that “we did the industrial revolution all wrong and we must set it right. The Global South did not do the Industrial Revolution. That climate evil that gave us the climate catastrophe of our time is a creation of the Global North and only of the Global North.
THE CLIMATE CRISIS and The climate change movement against fossil fuels are both creations of the Global North and they are relevant only to the Global North in terms of the context of rewind and do the Industrial Revolution correctly because the Industrial Revolution is a creation of the Global North and their love hate relationship with it can only be understood in that context. Therefore, although climate change is a global issue, its cause and the need for climate action as stated in AGW science can only be understood as a Global North issue.
If the Global North needs to cut emissions in the Global South it must do so at no cost or hardship to be borne by the Global South. In addition, if the Global North admits that they screwed up their Industrial Revolution and caused global harm, they must pay the appropriate compensation to the affected in the Third World that had no hand in creating this climate hazard.
The continued use by the Global North of the poverty and pitiful condition of the people in the Global South to sell their climate change agenda is a crime against humanity. A role for the global South that serves the needs of the Global North in the climate change era is that the Global North needs pitiful victims of climate change to sell their climate action agenda and here the they have called upon their former colonies to play that role. The racism of the global north against the global south has found new ground in the climate era as the Global North has determined that they can sell their climate change agenda by degrading the global south as some kind of a pitiful slum with the idea that this kind of pity will help them sell their climate agenda.
SO, AS IN COLONIAL TIMES, WHAT WE FIND HERE IS THAT THE GLOBAL SOUTH MUST ULTIMATELY SERVE THE NEEDS OF THEIR COLONIAL MASTERS IN THE GLOBAL NORTH. THE CLIMATE CHANGE MOVEMENT IS RACIST BASED ON RACISM AND COLONIALISM ASSUMPTIONS.
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