Global Warming versus Global wokening

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— Joseph ????️ (@CaudilloXIV) January 9, 2025

In the past three years, the United States has had its deadliest wildfire (Maui), its largest wildfire (Texas) and now its costliest wildfire (California).

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— Andrew Kimmel (@andrewkimmel) January 8, 2025

If you’re a 95IQ low status white male of the Zerohedgean variety, it’s obvious what caused this: The LA fire chief is a woke lesbian!

And of course the woke Democrats let all the water flush into the ocean to save a tiny fish!

The wind gusts are devastating. Truly a hurricane of fire.

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— Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran) January 9, 2025

And if you’re a liberal soyboy beta cuck, you will have noticed an extreme drought, combined with high winds that ignited these fires and made it difficult to extinguish them.

It’s global warming versus global wokening, two competing metanarratives that seek to explain all of the world’s problems. As I explained yesterday, as a subjective idealist I believe the universe is inclined to provide us with a picture of the world that fits all of our expectations.

It’s not very interesting to argue about this, because nobody will change their mind. When next year Seattle burns down, the libcucks will point out that we’re at 1.6 degree Celsius above pre-industrial.

Obese low IQ low status white males on the keto diet (aka patriotic alpha males) will point out that there are homeless people making fires and the mayor and the chief of the fire department are “woke”.

More interesting would be to ask a low IQ low status white male whether there is anything at all that could ever convince him global warming is a genuine problem and we’re not just dealing with lesbian fire chiefs and weather manipulation by the libs.

I don’t think you’ll get a meaningful answer to that question. When problems are sufficiently gradual, then people don’t really have to acknowledge them when they don’t want to.

I always thought that when a pandemic happens, we could at least all agree on that. But even this turns out to be more complex that I anticipated. Have a look at the number of deaths in the Netherlands:

Those black bars are the death toll. In 2020 there is a huge problem that requires everyone to be locked up at home. In 2021 an injection solves the problem. Then in 2022, 2023 and 2024, there is no longer a problem. That is at least, the conventional societal narrative.

I find this hard to swallow, simply by looking at the death toll. But again, we live in a world where even a global pandemic becomes a Rorschach painting: Everyone can see in it what they want to see in it. When you’re stuck with 10% more deaths than normal for a few years, normal people can just choose to continue living their lives as if nothing is happening, while the autists will beat each other on the head on the Internet with various attempts to explain it.

I had honestly expected a kind of catharsis by now, some sort of horrific event or alternatively a return to normal, that would reveal to the whole world who was right all along. That never happened. Rather, we’re still stuck with everything just gradually getting worse at a snail’s pace, everyone getting sick, but never getting any clear answer as to what’s causing it: Did COVID give everyone immune deficiency? Did the vaccines damage people’s immune systems? Did the lockdowns give people immune debt?

You already know what I think: We forced the SARS2 virus to become steadily more virulent over time through a bad vaccine. Right now, LP.8.1.1 with the improved Furin cleavage site is becoming dominant in Brazil. We’ll find out which direction the Rorschach painting takes in the coming months.

There’s a pretty clear consensus that the virus has been steadily growing more virulent since the first Omicron wave. But again, because the sickest people die and the survivors develop immunity and the medical sector invents new medicines like Paxlovid, society doesn’t have to grind to a halt as a result. When things slowly get worse it feels as if nothing is happening, because everyone just adjusts to what is happening.

One problem is hard to disguise however: You yourself may have been exposed to five different versions of the new SARS virus, but if you bring a baby into this world, the baby has experience with exactly zero of these versions. Saving grandma comes at a high cost. I have seen the studies, I don’t envy people bringing new babies into the world right now: Those babies will suffer brain damage and there is essentially nothing you can do to stop it.

When it comes to these fires in LA, what we witness is a case of evil people and dumb people being kept in sync with each other. The evil people are the celebrities with lazy jobs, “famous for being famous”, flying around the world and belittling their staff. They’re not even racist, as that would require them to care about something other than themselves.

To those people it’s obvious what happened: God or Nature finally punished their arrogance.

To the dumb people, it’s also obvious what happened: “Woke” rewards incompetence (aka black lesbians) at the cost of competence (aka low status white males), so the whole city eventually begins to burn down as a result.

But I think if you want to understand the future, it’s useful to consider what the two competing metanarratives do agree on: Things are going to get steadily worse. They have both resigned themselves to this idea.

The low IQ low status white males are not in the business of arguing that we won’t see entire towns burn down, they have figured out how to insulate their own metanarrative from the flames: If you have a lesbian fire chief who wants to make the department more diverse, you’re doomed. That’s all it takes in their eyes for your city to burn down.

For all practical purposes, the low IQ low status white males accept what the woke libs are predicting is going to happen to our world. They accept that we will get category six hurricanes, they accept we will get enormous forest fires, they accept we will get hundreds of millions of climate refugees.

The low IQ low status white males don’t seriously dispute any of that any more, the days of “global warming will green the world and save us from the coming ice age” are coming to an end. Rather, they now just reject the root cause proposed by the libs and focus on proposing a different root cause (weather manipulation to punish Trump voters and woke incompetence).

They’re no longer trying to destroy the competing metanarrative. No, they’re focused on defending their own castle. Instead of trying to lay siege to the other castle, they’re now boarding up their windows, and trying to ensure their own metanarrative can survive the changes our world is going to face.

And in all fairness, they’re not entirely wrong. It’s like an obese woman who walks on the pavement and breaks a bone because a tile on the pavement had come loose. The woke libs suggest she injured herself because she is in poor health. The freedom-loving patriots insist on blaming government incompetence and budget cuts that allowed the tile to come loose.

My intent, insofar as I have one, is to just puncture the bubbles and allow the competing metanarratives to adjust to each other’s insights.

Vaccines did not work and made things worse. But SARS-COV-2 itself also causes brain, lung and immune damage. You shouldn’t plant Australian eucalyptus trees in California that happen to look pretty but were adapted to a landscape with regular fires. But there’s also an extreme drought.

And it’s worth pointing out to the low status white male types: It’s true that plants tend to grow better with more CO2. Specifically, it allows plants to capture a CO2 molecule, while losing less water to evaporation. You know what that means? It means you get more small shrubs and grasses that manage to grow under dry conditions.

You know what that means? It means there’s more dry tinder. It means fire spreads more easily from tree to tree. With more CO2 in the atmosphere, droughts lead to a situation where you are stuck with a shortage of water, while the wild plants are better able to cope with the drought than you are.

Life has thrived under a wide variety of climatic circumstances. The world had giant beasts roaming around during the Pleistocene, at 241 parts per million of CO2. And at 2100 parts per million tens of millions of years ago, we had massive dinosaurs roam around the world, with every continent covered in enormous dense vegetation.

But here’s the important thing to remember: There was no civilization back then. What’s fragile is not life. What’s fragile, is the way of life that we take for granted. The grains that we eat, evolved to make use of low CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. Our cities were built for stable sea levels, our lungs last for ninety years because we don’t inhale the smoke from forest fires.

Rich people don’t want to live in downtown L. A. they want to live on the outskirts of the city, surrounded by nature. But if you wish to live near nature, you have to live at its mercy. And the rich people in L. A., did exactly nothing to make themselves deserving of its mercy. When you are not on good terms with nature, you should stay away from it.