Did alienating woke activism kill NZs Climate Crisis movement?
Ummmm.
What the hell just happened?
In 2019, the climate strikes brought 170,000 people to the streets.
What did they bring yesterday?
Thousands of students take part in school strike for climate: ‘We want a future on the planet’
…and…
Photos: Hundreds turn out for climate strikes across NZ
…hundreds AND thousands.
Not hundreds of thousands.
What the hell happened?
As the planet continues to melt in a heatwave that is crippling economies and triggering unprecedented catastrophic weather events, our climate crisis movement has gone backwards partly because of the trauma of Covid, but also partly because of the vicious idealogical knife fights that are now being waged privately inside the leadership movements of these protests where woke activists are cancelling protest movements for crimes against middle class dogma.
Last year, the School Strike 4 Climate Auckland Organization jaw droopingly cancelled themselves!
I honestly thought this was a parody but apparently it’s true. School Strike 4 Climate Auckland has disbanded because – wait for this – they are a racist organization???
The identity politics cult would eat their own young if they weren’t all vegan.
To disband a youth climate change organization because PoC suffer most from climate change ignores the fact that the planet will burn regardless of your fucking skin colour!!!
To whip themselves into such submission for an intersectionist cacophony of grievances competing for social hierarchy based upon woke dogma that all white people are intrinsically racist as a response to a burning planet is so intellectually bankrupt it’s terrifying.
Pure temple doctrine divides & alienates. Broadchurch universals build solidarity. This is self defeating identity politics madness.
Read it yourself, it’s just so unbelievable…
This level of extraordinary idealogical purity currently gutting protest movements as the Professional Management Class interests merge with middle class identitarians have muted and culled off real popular support for almost all protest.
There is of course a fundamental problem with relying on young people to solve the climate crisis on their own!
If we can’t as adults find ways to change things, how on earth can kids?
Additionally, if we as adults can’t force back woke identitarians from ruining the public debate, how on earth can the kids resist them?
We went from 170 000 on the streets to hundreds and thousands.
It’s reminiscent of the woke coup inside the Pride parade where that went from 30 000 participants to a couple of thousand, and the woke called that a success!
The Right look for recruits, the Left look for traitors and right now for middle class identitarians, everyone less mentally ill than them are privileged and everyone more mentally ill than them is toxic.
I’m not sure that dynamic wins many voters over.
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Political progress is generally non linear–one step up and two steps back is the classic format. I was going to say an exception was the 80s Nuke Free NZ movement which had a great result–but now we have pressure on NZ because of its 5 Eyes membership, to join AUKUS! So even wins have to be subject to vigilance and active defence.
At the time I thought WTF as did many other older activists when the School Climate Strike movement did this. The energy of youth is one thing, and political naivety is another, as is the tendency among middle classes to vacillate when the heat goes on.
Climate Disaster is not going away, so lets just reorganise Climate Strikes and other action with a more resolute ideological core rather than indulge in another anti woke flogfest?
Anyone who thinks the climate change issue is neutral regarding all other political issues is hopelessly naive. Yes, it affects everyone. But who sacrifices, and what is sacrificed and what are the circumstances underlying particular sacrifices.
This is utterly socioeconomic and is a huge class issue. These things have to be sorted out.
Pakistan is responsible for 1% of CO2 emissions but is being obliterated by Climate Chaos. Global fossil fuel industry gets subsidised by governments to the tune of trillions every year.
Fossil fuel industry then buys politicians, science, media to ensure CO2 emissions escalate and the human species goes extinct in a Hot House climate that existed only 10s of millions of years before our ancestors stood up and walked on two feet.
Pakistan is also a nuclear power, how much has this endangered the planet?
Good advice TM – we have to soldier on each of us fighting in their way for the same outcomes and I think that keeps the momentum going while groups form and make impact, but sometimes fall out with each other. Sometimes the paint will peel off, and you have to sand down to basics and apply more coats of the right sort in the right place and time. (I’m getting mixed up with my sadly deteriorating windows, but the analogy is similar.)
Woke is a cuckoo in the progressive nest, killing all kinds of activism and ordinary human relating.
This spoof is spot on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwOGMNrFBiM
According to the approving commentary from RNZNational, it was a great success. At least several hundred judgemental schoolgirls and schoolmarms turned out for it.
And thats why Climate Chaos protest movement is functionally extinct – it is a testosterone free zone.
I was listening to ZB and HDPA had Izzy on the head of the school climate protest for the Wellington area. It was quite funny but embarrassing for her. As she had HDPA is hesterics cause she had flown to Fiji .
It’s the modern world.
We no longer all listen to the one drum beat. We each seek different bass lines. Uniquely acquired lyrical content. We move to Rythm as free spirits. The algorithm demands it.
It’s the same with the way we get new information. We aren’t all tuned to RNZ or TvNZ anymore. Nor to TV3, Sky or Mediaworks or whoever it’s called these days. There’s way more options than that now. Some of them are quite insightful. Others not so. Some are dreadful. Some are Crap even.
Others are here just for the music and the rugby scores
And who are we to judge others at risk if being judged ourselves?
It’s over. We have diversity in so many areas now it’s not funny.
No amount of tinkering will change that nor will casting wads of taxpayers money into attracting the populace back to some shiny new coral of the mindset will do much anymore. The fences were down for some time. They have bolted. There are up on the hill and through to the bush block. They’re Down on the track. Out in the beach. And next door(and we know what he does with them).