Most Warmists will approve, at least internally. And only for Other People, because they want their gifts. Here’s Tony Thomas at Quadrant
Shooting Santa to Save the World
If you ever doubted that warmism endorses a preening, totalitarian disdain for the lives and rights of others, take up a copy of “Climate Change” by graphic novelist Philippe Squarzoni, who imagines how virtuous it would be to go berserk with an assault rifle in a shopping mall. And yes, he’s not joking
A top scientist of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr Jean Jouzel, is lauding a comic publication which has the heroine gunning down three Santa Clauses in a supermarket with a military assault rifle. The realistically-drawn massacre in Climate Changed by Philippe Squarzoni (Abrams, New York 2014) is meant to symbolise the need to reduce consumerism and CO2 emissions.
The book was written a year before the Nairobi Westgate shopping mall massacre in September, 2013, in which gunmen killed or wounded 240 people in the name of Islam. But the fictional massacre in the cause of reducing CO2 emissions is retained in this year’s English translation.
The book, 480 pages and 1.2kg, is in the ‘graphic novel’ genre, now a serious literary form. The book won the Jury Prize at the Lyon Graphic Novel Festival in 2012. (A graphic novel, Maus, by New Yorker cartoonist Art Spigelman, won a Pulitzer in 1992).
Thomas highlights a portion where a woman shows up a shopping center, takes an assault rifle, and guns down three Santa suited men in gruesome graphic panels.
Their suits are riddled with bullets and gore continues to spout. The bland caption for this bloody mayhem reads: “On the demand side, it’s up to individuals, households, and local communities to evaluate their own needs themselves, with an eye to conservation.â€
The final frame shows shows Camille and author Squarzoni standing over the corpse of one Santa, Camille still training her rifle on him. The caption reads: “Making conservation a positive factor in the future would require a huge change in political direction.â€
Make sure to read the entire post for full context, but, let me make one observation: is the graphic novel not part of consumerism, which Warmists want to do away with (for Other People), much like Naomi Klein’s latest climate change screed, Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth”, and so much emanating from Warmists?
Santa already is going to have yo look for a new home at the North Pole
Maybe it will sell as many copies as The Turner Diaries, the right-wing extremist bible.