{"id":1703961,"date":"2022-10-20T12:47:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703961"},"modified":"2022-10-20T12:48:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:48:49","slug":"climate-zealots-want-to-destroy-all-of-western-civilization-not-just-its-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-zealots-want-to-destroy-all-of-western-civilization-not-just-its-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Zealots Want To Destroy All Of Western Civilization, Not Just Its Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclimate-zealots-want-to-destroy-all-of-western-civilization-not-just-its-art%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703961&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The news that two young female \u201cclimate activists\u201d have been <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/14\/protesters-throw-soup-on-van-goghs-iconic-sunflowers-painting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrested for hurling a tin of Heinz tomato soup<\/a> at Vincent van Gogh\u2019s famous 1889 \u201cSunflowers\u201d painting in London\u2019s National Gallery should come as little surprise. For Just Stop Oil, the low-level green terror group apparently responsible, attempting to ruin an $85 million masterpiece is a blow against both Western capitalism and the wider cultural inheritance from which it sprang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.varsity.co.uk\/news\/21677\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">both of which these people openly despise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The philistines argued unconvincingly that today\u2019s \u201ccost of living crisis is driven by fossil fuels\u201d and that, as a result, \u201cmillions of cold, hungry families\u201d could not \u201ceven afford to heat a tin of soup.\u201d They did not explain what, precisely, the starving millions would be easily able to afford to heat their gruel with should these very same fossil fuels be taken away from them. Blazing piles of degenerate art torn down from gallery walls for firewood, perhaps?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs art worth more than life? More than food? More than justice?\u201d asked junior revolutionary Phoebe Plummer. But what, precisely, <em>is<\/em> justice for these people? It\u2019s a euphemism for imposing a form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/9deb730a-19ca-11dc-99c5-000b5df10621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apocalypse communism<\/a> upon humanity by making a spurious appeal to willfully misinterpreted \u201cscience\u201d instead of actually persuading people to their cause by rational democratic means \u2014 a path they eschew largely because their cause is neither rational nor democratic.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Green or Red?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Just Stop Oil is an offshoot of another millenarian organization, Extinction Rebellion (XR). To many members, Extinction Rebellion isn\u2019t about the climate at all. We know this as one of the group\u2019s British founders, Stuart Basden, helpfully wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/extinction-rebellion\/extinction-rebellion-isnt-about-the-climate-42a0a73d9d49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a 2019 essay<\/a> entitled \u201cExtinction Rebellion Isn\u2019t About the Climate.\u201d So what <em>is<\/em> XR about, then? Destroying the West in its entirety, sunflowers and all. For Basden, the worst toxic environmental pollutant is not CO\u2082, but white people:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The climate\u2019s breakdown is a <strong>symptom<\/strong> of a toxic system [capitalism] that has infected the ways we relate to each other as humans and to all life. This was exacerbated when European \u2018civilisation\u2019 was spread around the globe through cruelty and violence. \u2026 Their cultural myths [Christianity and science] justified horrors\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Basden himself is white, by the way \u2014 unlike many nations that have become today\u2019s worst environmental polluters, like China and India. But other races\u2019 contemporary sins are the fault of white people too, as European empire-builders cunningly imposed a false consciousness upon other races during colonial times, making them psychologically conditioned to accept \u201cdangerous delusions\u201d such as the idea that the vastly higher living standards and life expectancies cruelly unleashed upon humanity by the Britain-born Industrial Revolution were in some sense desirable.<\/p>\n<p>What has to be dismantled are thus not merely our power generators and factories but, more fundamentally, the moral obscenities which allowed Europe and America to develop these horrors in the first instance, namely white supremacy, patriarchy, Eurocentrism, class hierarchy, and hetero-sexism\/heteronormativity (which \u201cpropagate the idea that heterosexuality is \u2018normal,\u2019\u201d primarily because it is). Basden thinks these delusions produce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So-called \u2018environmental activism\u2019 has become an extremist front for imposing far-left nihilism under the ruse of a \u2018climate emergency.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1354,"featured_media":1703964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1703964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}