The German Advisory Council on the Environment is a body of experts convened by the Federal Republic of Germany to advise the state on matters of environmental policy. I’m grateful to @tomdabassman on Twitter for drawing attention to its recent and deeply creepy 200-page report on ‘The obligation of policymakers: facilitating environmentally friendly behaviour‘. It abounds in remarkable and revealing statement, and I’ve spent a good part of the day studying it for a longer post that I hope to write in the coming weeks.
For now, I want to draw your attention to the introduction, which is bad enough. Its authors depart from the premise that the state currently lacks “policy measures… targeting environmentally relevant behaviour”, and join others in affirming that it is the job of the state to nudge individual decisions in the right direction. Tellingly, both the pandemic and the sanctions-induced European energy crisis play a very large role in their thinking:
Although the key environmental crises, such as loss of biodiversity and climate change, are less directly visible and tangible than the energy crisis and the pandemic, environmental policymakers can learn from the sometimes painful but also important experiences of recent years: Behavioural changes in the population can be a part of the solution to crises such as these, and it is possible to adopt and implement policies aimed at changing behaviours.
For example, Germany introduced a series of measures in mid-2022 to alleviate the energy crisis. … These measures targeted the behaviour of citizens. In addition to general calls to save energy, building owners were obliged to optimise their heating systems, employees had to accept lower room temperatures at work and it was forbidden to heat private swimming pools. …. Earlier, Germany imposed far-reaching pandemic measures to contain the spread of Corona. For example, since 2020, the stated adopted and imposed various lockdowns and social contact limitations. Both highlight the contribution of behavioural changes, whether in energy consumption or social behaviour, to the project of combating a collective problem…
The aforementioned measures doubtless demanded a lot from people and in the specifics of the necessary extent of the restrictions, they proved controversial, as also in their unequal impact on different social groups. Nevertheless, the two crises show that political measures to carefully restrict the behaviour of citizens are possible if the threat is correspondingly great and the importance of the protected good – in these examples, health and energy – is recognised. The state has succeeded (even if not in every individual case) in devising measures such that it achieves its goal while maintaining proportionality. It is also clearly possible for these policies to be designed and communicated in such a way that the majority support them.
Emphasis mine. All of this speaks for itself, and I don’t have much to add, except to observe that the only way for restrictions to be “communicated” such that “the majority support them,” is by renewed forays into state media-fuelled mass panic and hysteria. Corona has taught our rulers that a great deal more is possible than they ever imagined, and they will spend the coming years exploring the limits.
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“I can’t recall the Ku Klux Klan or Einsatzgruppen A ever doing that.”
Thank you, Mr Tucker – For that line alone, you win Sceptic Satirist of the Year Award, sponsored by the Siblings of Monty Python.
A sorry Easter tale of diversity, duplicity and derangement.
This woman should be fired and the school shuttered. Atheopathy is a militant mental disease.
Easter is about the risen Christ – not about Eggs, Queers, Trannies, the mentally ill, the Musulman Jihad of terror and rape, the 2 million Hindu ‘gods’, the 3 gods Romans had for your door, Druidic gods of the rocks and trees, globaloneywarming, Satanism etc.
Die-versity leads to nothing but annihilation. You are what you eat. We eat nothing but shit.
I am sure that the Koranimals are uninterested in ‘celebrating’ the risen Christ or the mentally perverted gods of Trannyism, during Ramandanabangakillathon month.
Thoughts and prayers with Iqra and his/her/their ‘neurodivergent’ pals following the Supreme Court ruling and why religion is his/her/their new path to conflict.
What a shame they have nothing better to do with their time.
“What a shame they have nothing better to do with their time.”
Probably on benefits.
But she signed her letter Miss Mander with no declaration of pronouns. This woman is clearly not fit to be a head.
should be Miss Mandate
Miss, so presumably not married. In the traditional sense that is. Who would want to take this fruitcake on though?
I guess that everyone spotted that school holidays were two weeks early this year, aligning them, not with Easter, but with Eid…
In some senses, the number of people in the UK celebrating Eid is probably much higher than those celebrating Easter. Thats not an excuse to drop one for the other.
Not celebrating Easter but having an assembly for the Sikh spring celebration. What motivates these school leaders to sell out their country and where are the board of Governors?
Money.
Trump has been busy unearthing the scams in the US and I have no reason to believe they are not the same in the U.K.
Plus power on the Minorities circuit.
So a deputy head gets promoted to head and they go power crazy? I doubt traditional brown envelopes are involved. I just don’t get it. And, what about the Governing Body? I am wondering if that is where the real rot starts. They appoint the Head as well.
It may have been just my Governing Body (I was a Parent Governor for a year before resigning in despair and frustration), but from that experience I will say that the rot is everywhere and Governing Bodies merely complement the rot. And that most Governors seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that the Head is The Boss.
Weak, smiling, box-ticking sycophants is how I would describe most of the Governors I served alongside. Like those chaps that stand with little notepads alongside Kim, but with brightly died hair, rainbow lanyards and a large collection of coloured highlighters.
I recognise what you are saying but each Governor has the option of escalating to the council. I did that as the Chair of the Governors had a weekly meeting on her own with the Head and there were no minutes. Caused a few problems for sure! So many things went on that surprised me. The Head also wanted to do a PHD and the School Funded it as he was so talented and that’s what the private sector would do. I came in as Chair of the Finance Committee and insisted we added a clause to his contract with a taper repayment if he left. He and I did not get along after that
From Miss Mander’s letter: “By not holding specific religious celebrations, we aim to create a more inclusive atmosphere…”
This is the same approach that Mr Tucker has previously reported as being carried out at the Michaela Community School. Different cultures can only be practised in a truncated form. However, an Easter Bonnet Parade is not a religious service.
The manner of the reporting of these ‘cancellations’ provides an opportunity the rehearse the diversity system of governance and, above all, to broaden the narrative by abstracting away from the specifics. Thus the protesting Christians provide the material for this, and with it the opportunity to talk about and administer identity. And with this, converting the situation into one in which the correct cues for doing so are readily available.
That the ethnic people in this town are a small percentage is of no account since in the system of diversity they are a favoured group. By comparison, the Christians are reported as being ‘regressive’, even if by implication only. As Miss Mander says in her letter. “We are making a transition.” The favoured groups are a chosen people leading everyone to a better future. The has-beens must expect ‘disappointment’.
Now it must be understood that there are two things operating here. Both Christianity and Diversity have historicism as their motor. History is moving from the bad to the perfect, and a chosen people, a favoured people, whether by their actions or their mere presence, is moving it. The two are essentially rivals.
Part of the Easter story is the Gospel narrative called the wilderness temptation of Christ. In this, Christ is urged by the Tempter to leap into self-chosen and self-hastened action. In doing so He receives his kingdom on earth – thus fulfilling the biblical historicism – but as a gift from the Tempter. No Cross is required.
Moreover, this world rule is that of the Roman Empire’s already-established bureaucracy, economy and military; the Romans calling their empire ‘the single authority over the whole earth’. As the Tempter owns this Empire, he is really the sole authority. In accepting his offer, Christ would become only a client king subject to Rome and the Tempter would become the benefactor of mankind, not Christ’s Father in Heaven, since only good things would result from Christ’s world rule however attained.
The contest here is who is the benefactor. Is it Christianity or is it Diversity?
What this teacher, and Ofsted seem to overlook is that they are paid by the tax payer to Educate, not indoctrinate, it seems the idea is to brainwash children from the age of 4.
Let’s examine what these people and the state are actually doing, they are trying to erase the Christian religion, erase the past of this country, and what they are teaching our children is that if they are white, if their family has been here for generations then they are nothing, they are to not learn their countries traditions, because they are nothing compared to those of the Muslim, and other far countries beliefs and religions. The head mistress is discriminating along with Ofsted against British indigenous children.
For me I would remove my child from this wicked system which is Government sponsored and which is teaching young children that they count for nothing because of their nations history.
What should be happening is that schools in this country should be focused on teaching British traditions, Christianity, British History and achievements.People who come to this country must assimilate, we do not assimilate into their belief and behaviour systems. People should be moving here and living here because they want our culture, ways of life etc, if they don’t then they should move to places which reflect their belief and culture systems. It seems that we have allowed institutions and people like Miss Mander to reverse the logic.
Unless and until people in this country start to do things like remove their children from such schools, refuse to pay council taxes, actually speak up and refuse to play the erasure and ashamed game then they are accepting that their country is to be erased to mean nothing,
Nailed it.
Western Nations are to be eradicated ….. One World Government requires it.
I shall once again place her photo here, not as an attempt to encourage any sort of vigilante behaviour (everyone has seen her photo by now), but to make clear what I believe is the crux of the problem. Here is a very simple lady, not a bad person, unwittingly doing her best to destroy everything her ancestors worked for. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present Exhibit A; Useful Idiot; Product of and now Supporter of a system which rewards compliance and enforces the totalitarian idea that truth comes from authority.
Just another drone…
That is another way of putting it, yeah!
When we were young, we used to pass mental asylums and point at them. Then they closed them and the inmates are now running the country. Lord help us!!!
We all know why the big brands (Christianity, Islam, Hindu etc) do it, but I have since childhood found the teaching of ‘beliefs’ to children to be faintly disturbing, whether in school or church. Filling fertile enquiring minds with rigmarole, fairy tales and power structures hasn’t even turned out to be that successful in the First World, where religion is broadly being abandoned (and in the UK, being replaced by a militant brand of dogma). In that respect, Ms Mander and the LBGTNUTJOB+ are no better or worse than the rest of them. They ‘believe’ in something (in Ms Mander’s case, career advancement), and we allow them to foist that on children. Resulting in typical brand battles, all of them irrelevant. Let the children watch Star Talk over the holiday instead, and start learning what humans truly inhabit – a tiny ball hurtling at 500000 mph amongst things so strange they make Miracles look commonplace. That’s a much better starting point for life skills than bunnies and chocolate eggs
In the interests of truth, the earth travels along its orbit around the star at approximately 67,000mph, which is a lot slower than 500,000mph.
Apart from this, I agree wholeheartedly
Although 67,000mph is still very, very fast. I hope no-one stamps on the brake pedal. Because, children, what they tell you at school isn’t true, speed doesn’t kill.
Thanks, MAk. The entire solar system, Earth included, is of course moving thru the Milky Way galaxy at just under 500,000 mph. Although there are plenty of strange things in the solar system, we have to look outside the solar system, to the galaxy and beyond to see the really strange stuff. Our galaxy is travelling at about 1,400,000 mph against the Cosmic Microwave Background – and we are along for the ride! This, however, does not apply to people in Wales or to Lib Dem councillors, who will of course only be doing 20 mph
Enjoy your long weekend, may the local star shine on you but not melt your chocolate eggs!
Here’s a free plug for Star Talk https://startalkmedia.com/
Ah yes, the galaxy. Forgot about that one.
I suppose it’s all…. relative!
Or as Green Cross man should have said:Don’t get F’d by an MA.
“That It Now Worships the New State Religion of Diversity Instead”
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Islam! That’s the covert target of all this shyte, teaching Islam by the back door! (Or even the front door seeing how blatant this is becoming)
Britanistan is fast approaching!
The schools attitude is patronising the”less fortunate” ie the minority groups. This need to be kind is based ironically on Christian values. Also an example of “pathological altruism”
An excellent and highly informative article – the problem here for the parents of the children at this school is how they access such information, rather than relying on the MSM, and deciding what power collectively they have to form the kind of education they wish their children to receive – parents need to be more active to ensure that they have access to reliable sources of information rather than force fed a received line
Okay, I am presently working on a project in the Gulf states. I read this article and, out of curiosity, I ran what this British school headmistress did past several colleagues of a variety of cultures, a high proportion of whom are Islamic. All thought it to be totally weird and ridiculous. Funny thing is that here, in the Gulf states, a variety of religious festivals are celebrated but they are neither denied or conflated with each other. This deluded British school should realise that it is doing nobody any favours but is, instead, the international laughing stock.
Why does this woke head teacher not sign letters with her proper name? Unless of course Miss is her Christian – oops, I mean First – name? Was the letter addressed to the children or the parents?