David

“Do you not trust the government to have its citizen’s best interests at heart?”
― Mark Hood, The Return of the Martians

“when it comes to climate change, we’re not really talking about science. We’re talking about scientism. We’re talking about the use of science to fortify political agendas. We’re talking about the way the technocratic elites now marshal expertise in their fearful moral favour. And we’re talking about the treatment of science, this science at least, as a god for a godless age, whose decrees must be blindly obeyed.”
― Brendan O'Neill, A Heretic's Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable

“In 1942 and 1943, as India produced food and manufactured goods for the British war effort, food shortages emerged. Food imports could have alleviated the crisis, but Prime Minister Winston Churchill refused to allow it. Why? “Much of the answer must lie in the Malthusian mentality of Churchill and his key advisors,” concludes historian Robert Mayhew. “Indians are breeding like rabbits and being paid a million a day by us for doing nothing about the war,” Churchill claimed, falsely. Partly as a result of his decisions, three million people died in the Bengali famine of 1942 to 1943, which was three times the death toll of the Great Irish Famine.55”
― Michael Shellenberger, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

“Spinoza said. ‘Government which attempts to control minds is accounted tyrannical, and it is considered an abuse of sovereignty and a usurpation of the rights of subjects.”
― Brendan O'Neill, A Heretic's Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable