A Slave to Science

When I watched David Suzuki on the Soloman Show compare his manufactured "climate crisis" to slavery, I was awestruck, even thunderstruck. I have been listening to Suzuki for years rail on the evils of capitalism and human consumption, and it seems that each year that I have aged, I disagree with Suzuki a little bit more (not unlike Don Martin). I Googled "Suzuki Population Bomb" and got 17,000 hits. Reading some of the articles he has published, he often asks the question of what is more evil; population growth or consumption? What will kill us first, people having babies, or parents buying their kids too many gifts on Christmas? Suzuki clearly advocates a sharp reduction in births and shopping.  Let's also not forget that Suzuki is incorporated and makes a lot of money selling the snake oil.


Having never lived under the horror of slavery, I can only imagine how offensive that would be to a slavery survivor. If you don't take public transit, you are holding the world hostage. Buy gifts for Christmas, and you are enslaving Robert Mugabe. I often talk about how to distinguish a true Marxist from a misguided Climate Clown, and the key word is consumption. That topic is the key point of departure between Capitalism and pure Marxism. The reason that people like Suzuki are fighting a losing battle is because they are trying to inhibit natural instincts that have been programmed into our brain through thousands of years of evolution. We are wired to acquire.

Then you have writers like Thomas Friedman who adopt "Cheney's 1% doctrine on terrorism" to imply that if there is even a 1% chance that Suzuki is right and we need to dramatically reduce the world's population and cap consumption, then we must transfer trillions of dollars to the undeveloped world. And yet the more time passes, the more mistakes appear in the data that launched the "Climate Crisis” and it turns out the forecast model was wrong. Suzuki believes strongly in the population bomb and the consumption bomb. Marx, though alive in the age before climate science, also strongly believed in restricting consumption, restricting growth, and restricting the freedom to choose to do what you want to do. I won't go so far as to say that Suzuki is a Marxist, but Karl Marx certainly would have been a Suzukist had he been alive today.

Slavery? If Suzuki is allowed to do what Suzuki wants to do, then humanity will be his slave. As you can imagine, many Liberal bloggers are rallying around David Suzuki.