The Existential Threat of the Drive-Thru, by Eric Peters

Anything that makes life easier for ordinary people is to be verboten by the climate nazis. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:

It’s no wonder they’re coming after drive-thrus.

They are, apparently, the latest “threat” to the “climate” they have been telling us is “changing” in vague but alarming ways  . . . for the past 50 years.

Over those years, they have had to rebrand this always-imminent (but never-arriving) “change” several times, when it didn’t arrive as predicted or the predictions were so obviously wrong that they could no longer be mentioned without triggering snickers – among the intelligent, at least.

The ice age that they predicted was imminent – back in the ’70s – never materialized. So they rebranded that, Better-Call-Saul-style, to “global warming” and worked that angle for several decades until the obvious became undeniable and to continue to Al-Gore-it-up became embarrassing to almost everyone, except Al Gore.

But then they got smarter. Or rather, more cunning. They realized the trouble with making specifically alarming predictions: These could be pinned down. It was either cooling – or it wasn’t. It is warming – or it isn’t. But when the “climate” is constantly “changing”  . . . well, who can say? It might “change” this way or that way. Just the same as you might be “asymptomatically” sick and so had better wear that “mask.”

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