Stecki's Blog

Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung. Oder: Warum die ganze heiße Luft um die Klimakatastrophe weniger in den Fachbereich Physik als in die Psychologie gehört. Ein interessanter Artikel zu dieser sowohl für Laien als auch vorgebliche Experten zumindest sehr schwer belegbarer Hypothese findet sich im Wall Stree Journal: Global Warming as Mass Neurosis (via).

… The first is as a vehicle of ideological convenience. Socialism may have failed as an economic theory, but global warming alarmism, with its dire warnings about the consequences of industry and consumerism, is equally a rebuke to capitalism. Take just about any other discredited leftist nostrum of yore – population control, higher taxes, a vast new regulatory regime, global economic redistribution, an enhanced role for the United Nations – and global warming provides a justification. … In “The Varieties of Religious Experience,” William James distinguishes between healthy, life-affirming religion and the monastically inclined, “morbid-minded” religion of the sick-souled. Global warming is sick-souled religion.