It worked for a very, very long time.
Trillions were spent in pursuit of a cause that, in my view, never managed to provide the solid scientific foundation that was demanded of everyone else. We had theories. We had models. We had assumptions. We had projections and predictions by the dozen.
And again and again, reality refused to cooperate.
Hollywood did its part with almost industrial efficiency. Film after film turned climate catastrophe into entertainment, constructing apocalyptic futures designed to frighten people into accepting whatever policies were presented as necessary to prevent them.
Fear is an extraordinarily effective political instrument.
We will probably spend the next fifty years taking this entire edifice apart.
And one of the more remarkable aspects of that reckoning will be how many of the people who built it will never be required to account for what they did.
They are still feted.
They are still invited to conferences, placed on stages, surrounded by applause and treated as moral authorities. Their reputations remain largely intact. Nobody seems particularly interested in asking the most elementary question of all:
Where is the accountability?
They have become untouchable in the worst possible sense.
And while the intellectual and political machinery continues to defend itself, enormous sums of money continue to flow through the system every day.
The price has been paid elsewhere.
Western economies have deindustrialised on a scale that would have seemed unimaginable when I was a child. Productive capacity has been dismantled, energy has been made unnecessarily expensive, investment has been distorted and entire industrial ecosystems have been allowed to disappear.
The consequences are now becoming rather difficult to conceal.
Inflation.
Economic stagnation.
Mass joblessness.
A demographic crisis of historic proportions.
The erosion of the industrial foundations on which Western prosperity was built.
And, alongside all of this, the increasingly visible unravelling of what we once called the global order — including the economic system that supported it.
None of this was going to remain politically invisible forever.
Perhaps that was unavoidable.
Because voters can tolerate an astonishing amount of nonsense when the consequences remain abstract. They can tolerate predictions, targets, promises and grand moral narratives for years, particularly when somebody else appears to be paying the bill.
Eventually, however, consequences become tangible.
The electricity bill arrives.
The factory closes.
The job disappears.
The car becomes unaffordable.
The house remains out of reach.
The pension system begins to look rather less certain.
And eventually the voter wakes up.
Not elegantly. Not necessarily rationally. And certainly not all at once.
But eventually.
The first German state, Saxony-Anhalt, has already demonstrated just how far that process can go, with the climate-sceptic AfD coming within a whisker of an absolute majority.
That does not mean the game is over for the people who built and profited from this system.
Far from it.
Institutions do not surrender simply because the public begins to question them. The machinery is deeply embedded, and those who benefit from it have every reason to defend it.
But something has changed.
The unquestioned certainty is beginning to crack.
The old story no longer travels quite as easily.
And once voters discover that the promised catastrophe was accompanied by very real economic consequences, the political protection surrounding the story becomes considerably harder to maintain.
The game is not over for the scamsters.
But it gets harder.
Everywhere.
https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/hollywood-messaging-americans-climate-change-fears/