{"id":17379,"date":"2020-12-17T23:13:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T06:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=17379"},"modified":"2020-12-17T23:13:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T06:13:44","slug":"quick-takes-gaia-faith-cult-of-gaia-sacrifices-for-gaia-matricide-of-gaia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/12\/17\/quick-takes-gaia-faith-cult-of-gaia-sacrifices-for-gaia-matricide-of-gaia\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Gaia Faith: Cult of Gaia; Sacrifices for Gaia; Matricide of Gaia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Green cult.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G-T_HHcrj4o\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;So much for \u201cseparation of <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/timothymeads\/2019\/11\/12\/democrat-mazie-hirono-we-should-believe-in-climate-change-as-if-its-a-religion-not-a-science-n2556346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">church<\/a> and state\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018&#8230;These are times that call for us to do those things that we believe in, and to march, and not just to march, cause that&#8217;s important to show solidarity, but then to do those things such as voter registration, get people out to vote, so that we can have people here who are truly committed to human rights, environmental rights &#8212; climate change&#8230;believe in climate change as though it&#8217;s a religion, it&#8217;s not a science&#8211; and all the things that need to be done, and there is a lot,\u2019 Sen. Hirono told the crowd [at a \u201cDACA prayer breakfast]\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In service to this new state god, <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2020\/06\/21\/blood-batteries-climate-advocates-grappling-with-the-gruesome-extractive-price-of-renewable-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deaths left and right<\/a> are perfectly acceptable!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBut as economies in the West address the climate crisis\u2014albeit at a painstakingly slow pace\u2014another crisis is worsening elsewhere. Making all those vehicles, panels, and turbines requires resources such as copper, lithium, and cobalt\u2014which, like fossil fuels, are extracted from the ground. But unlike fossil fuels, many raw materials for green energy come disproportionately from developing countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn the last few years, cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has trickled into the public consciousness, beginning with a 2016 Amnesty International report that revealed child labor at the country\u2019s nonindustrial mine sites, which provide the cobalt that ends up in smart phones and other devices around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And of course the unbelievers <em>must<\/em> be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/thunberg-donates-100000-pounds-to-criminalize-ecocide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">punished<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cGreta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who has become the world\u2019s most famous anti\u2013global-warming campaigner, was just awarded a one million pound environmental prize. She has announced that 100,000 pounds of that money will be donated to the radical environmentalist organization Stop Ecocide. From the Ecologist story:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201c\u2018Thunberg said that her foundation will \u201cas quickly as possible donate all the prize money . . . to support organizations and projects that are fighting for a sustainable world, defending nature and supporting people already facing the worst impacts of the climate- and ecological crisis \u2014 particularly those living in the Global South.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201c\u2018The first two donations of \u20ac100,000 will go to the SOS Amazonia campaign led by Fridays For Future Brazil to tackle Covid-19 in the Amazon, and to the Stop Ecocide Foundation to support their work to make ecocide an international crime.\u201d\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cStop Ecocide seeks to make \u2018ecocide\u2019 the \u2018fifth international crime against peace\u2019 \u2013equivalent to profound evils of genocide, crimes of aggression, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, now punishable at the International Criminal Court in the Hague.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Quick Takes \u2013 Gaia Faith: Cult of Gaia; Sacrifices for Gaia; Matricide of Gaia\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"TThe focus this time:  Green cult.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Green cult. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;So much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/12\/17\/quick-takes-gaia-faith-cult-of-gaia-sacrifices-for-gaia-matricide-of-gaia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[15,9,26],"class_list":["post-17379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-democrats","tag-europe","tag-green"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17380,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17379\/revisions\/17380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}