Jordan Peterson's Climate Culture War

[Brenda]

WTF is wrong with so many people believing the outright megalomaniac ranting lies of men like him and Chump?

Peterson was there to create hype and advance sales for the book he’ll be releasing in November, as well as stoke enrollment for his new online school called Peterson Academy that launches September 9. He was also communicating a worldview that’s increasingly central to the political strategy of his allies in the U.S. conservative movement – that environmental advocates who push for urgent action to avert climate catastrophe are followers of a “pseudo-religion” seeking to impose socialist control over every aspect of modern society.

Variations of this message can be heard from Texas fracking billionaire and pastor Farris Wilks; rightwing media The Daily Wire and PragerU; anti-abortion groups such as Focus on the Family; and The Heritage Foundation, the Donald Trump-aligned think tank responsible for producing Project 2025.

Project 2025, the over 900-page blueprint for a radically conservative White House that includes severely weakening the Environmental Protection Agency, meanwhile claims environmentalism “is not a political cause, but a pseudo-religion meant to baptize liberals’ ruthless pursuit of absolute power in the holy water of environmental virtue.” Green activists, the document says, want human activity “to be sacrificed to the god of nature.”

“The religious right has been pushing the same narrative for years, linking social liberals to authoritarian socialism and in turn characterizing environmental science as a socialist partisan weapon,” Adrian Bardon, a professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University who has studied evangelical movements and climate denialism, told DeSmog. “Jordan Peterson may or may not be fully aware of the long history of the exact messaging he is pushing, but he is closely parroting an old, familiar spin.”

Oh, I'm pretty sure he's aware $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. All of the anti-Dem, anti-Harris issues are being funded by OIL and sexist male pigs.

Alongside his church duties, Wilks started an oil and gas company called Frac Tech in the 2000s with his brother Dan, just before the U.S. fracking industry exploded in value. They sold the company in 2012 to a Singaporean sovereign wealth fund for $3.5 billion and landed themselves on the Forbes 400 list. The following year, Wilks appeared to brush aside any concern about climate change, claiming during a sermon that “we didn’t create the Earth, so how could we ever save the Earth, or save all the animals even on the Earth, or save the polar caps?”
That was around the time the Wilks brothers started making large investments in conservative media. They donated more than $6.5 million in 2013 to Prager University, now known as PragerU.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/jordan-petersons-climate-culture-war/