Beyond Greenwashing: The IMF’s Exploitation of Climate Change

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This article will not be about whether or not climate change is ‘an actual thing.’ As far as I can tell, even those who are loathed by people in groups like Extinction Rebellion (think Bjorn Lomborg) say that the climate is warming and that CO2 emissions, etc., aren’t helping matters. I am quite frankly ill-equipped to speak beyond that.

Allah has made man the steward of His land, so I certainly hope all Muslims care and consider how they use Allah’s flora and fauna and how much of an impact they have on the land. May Allah aid us in this effort. Amin.

I do, however, have a bit more to say in relation to how this subject is being approached along with who is willing to take up the ‘cause’ and why.

Murky Everything​

Once again, the middle path seems lost. Leading up to writing this fairly brief article, I spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out where the line between truth and fiction lies. This is in part because the more that some scream for change without seeming to have any clear plan, the more that others deny there’s a problem at all. Some people decide to throw paint on art (not that I care about the art) or pour gallons of milk on grocery store floors, whereas others choose to just consume mindlessly.

The paint-throwers are freaking out so much that no one takes them that seriously. On top of this, while they may care deeply for the planet, they seem to have lost the more practical, pragmatic side which needs to be present when making serious decisions about the future of society and the planet.

I’m aware of the criticisms of Bjorn Lomborg, and I’m aware that he is not a scientist (and neither am I). Though I do suspect that he’s on to something with this point he made about the freaker-outers:

“One of the great ironies of climate change activism today it that many of the movement’s most vocal proponents are also horrified by global income inequality. They are blind, however, to the fact that the costs of the policies they demand will be borne disproportionately by the world’s poorest. This is because so much of climate change policy boils down to limiting access to cheap energy. When energy becomes more expensive, we all end up paying more to heat our houses. But because the poor use a larger share of their incomes on energy, a price increase burdens them the most.” 1

While the younger climate activists may simply be missing this unfortunate point, the climate fascists, those whose arrogance seems to know no bounds, sit in heated and air-conditioned homes with well-stocked larders, typing behind a screen made with parts possibly mined by children and poor people in Africa, telling the world that people ‘over there’ should have fewer kids because the planet simply cannot hold much more.

A’uthu billlah. I seek Allah’s refuge from such arrogance and myopia.

Then, along with these climate fascists, we’ve also got the climate colonialists. Rather than innovating and bringing solutions to energy problems, etc., they’re ready to just exploit the problems that already exist. They are the politicians and international bodies that utter the two magic words in order to get votes and control. They are…the IMF.

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Poorer Nations: Beware of the IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Fund​

(Sounds nice, doesn’t it?)

Rwanda and the IMF have recently agreed to a $319 million loan to ‘help’ the country deal with climate change:

“The RSF [Resilience and Sustainability Facility] program will include the facilitation of green public investment, creating further fiscal space, mitigating financial risks, and strengthening public debt dynamics and prospective balance-of-payments stability.”

As pointed out in this article, the IMF is now taking a more significant role in climate change:

“The RST, with its combination of macroeconomic programmes in the area of climate adaptation, energy transition and pandemic preparedness, will turn the IMF into a major actor in climate action. However, its limited expertise in the area, its unwillingness to move away from conditionality and austerity, and its unequal governance system make it ill-placed to play such a role. Climate action and climate finance should follow the principles of ‘polluters pay’ and ‘common but differentiated responsibilities’.”

Could we assume that this is going to be just as dangerous as any of the environmental threats we are facing? Given the IMF’s track record, I certainly think so.

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https://muslimskeptic.com/2023/02/18/beyond-greenwashing/

 

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Greta Thunberg and Ecologism: The Secular Religion of the 21st Century​

The media sanctification of Greta Thunberg had puzzled many. The entire fiasco was only made possible due to her being an apostle of a new religion: ecologism. If she had been placed into the spotlight at the same age (she was under 18 at the time) but adorning a Hijab instead, people would have yammered on about “religious indoctrination.”

So just how strong is this ecologism religion?

The BBC released a news report a while back. Within this article a global survey was quoted, one which was carried out across many countries, about how “young people” are “worried” about climate change. The following statistics were presented:

Nearly 60% of young people approached said they felt very worried or extremely worried.
More than 45% of those questioned said feelings about the climate affected their daily lives.
Three-quarters of them said they thought the future was frightening. Over half (56%) say they think humanity is doomed.
Two-thirds reported feeling sad, afraid and anxious. Many felt fear, anger, despair, grief and shame – as well as hope.
One 16-year-old said: “It’s different for young people – for us, the destruction of the planet is personal.”

The social engineering surrounding climate change has been so successful that, for these “youth,” it is not the degradation of religious values, social atomization, the dissolution of the family unit, the increasingly dropping birth rates to below replacement levels, the rising depression and suicide rates, etc., that are worrying for them.

Yet these are the very elements that make up civilization and even “humanity” itself.

But no, the real threat is an imminent annihilation of “our planet, mother Earth.” It almost seems as though the entire purpose of ecologism is to inject dubious fears into people⁠—fears about our planet⁠—as some form of devoted worship. These fears then consume them fully, leaving them incapable of combating the genuine evils that surround us.

Unsurprisingly, ecologism has actually always had a religious background. For instance, two of its most prominent German thinkers were openly neo-pagans:

1. Biologist, Ernst Haeckel, who actually coined the word from the Greek oikos, i.e., “house” and who, during 1870, was also instrumental in popularizing Darwin within the country; and
2. Philosopher, Ludwig Klages, who was sympathetic to the National-Socialist revolution.

Even in France the pioneer of ecologism, Robert Dun, was a notable neo-pagan (and incidentally also a White nationalist).

This makes perfect sense, as the famous saying goes: If you do not worship the Creator, you will inevitably end up worshiping the creation instead.

Ecologism also seems to serve as a way for Westerners to atone for Europe’s industrialization.

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More importantly perhaps, is the fact that it is manifestly also a (geo)political tool. Third World nations must pursue industrialization in order to reach higher living standards, and they are literally criminalized for doing so.

The BBC article continues:

Many of those questioned perceive that they have no future, that humanity is doomed, and that governments are failing to respond adequately.
Many feel betrayed, ignored and abandoned by politicians and adults.
The authors say the young are confused by governments’ failure to act. They say environmental fears are “profoundly affecting huge numbers of young people”.

Apart from its obvious secular religious aspects, another discernible angle is ecologism resulting in counter-culture, or even “revolution,” as it pits people against both their governments and their parents.

The West⁠—the foundations of which lie in critical rationalism and destructive individualism since Descartes and Locke inaugurated its modern “philosophy”⁠—has always sought devices to be “rebellious.” This rebelliousness of theirs was first directed against God. But then, following the initial transgression and its natural progression, it was also directed against every “patriarchal-oppressive” institution. And ecologism grants some youth the faint sense of being “green Che Guevara’s” by blaming parents and governments.

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Thanks to ecologism, the most widespread image of nature nowadays is also very New Age-ish, with Lovelock’s “Gaia hypothesis” of “mother Earth” being a cosmic, living entity. Ultimately this imbues young ecologists with a sort of messianic individualism, replete with apocalyptic imagery.

We can thus begin to understand the symbolic nature of Greta Thunberg, as well as her persona, hysteria and so on, all of which made her appear as some sort of religious cult-figure.

The BBC article concludes with the following:

The researchers said they were moved by the scale of distress. One young person said: “I don’t want to die, but I don’t want to live in a world that doesn’t care for children and animals.”

A clear sign of false religions is that they exploit apparently decent sentiments for their own nefarious designs. What better way is there to “care for children and animals” than following the religion of Allah⁠—the Creator and Fashioner of all that exists⁠—and establishing His commands and laws?

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https://muslimskeptic.com/2023/01/05/thunberg-ecologism/