The Associated Press’ in-house climate doom prophet Seth Borenstein ran one of the most punch-drunk, inane pieces of low-brow eco-babbling propaganda to ever plague the publication’s website.
Borenstein’s April 22 Earth Day headline read like a heaping pile of satire: “Climate doom and gloom? Try laughing instead. Activists embrace joy in the fight to save Earth.”
How is this even real? Borenstein proceeded to make his narrative out to be the plot to a Super Mario World game: “Across the world, groups of activists, teachers and psychologists are tackling one of the planet’s most daunting problems with laughter, dancing, hugs and most especially joy.” Oh, so the new schtick for climate activists is just to hug, laugh and flatulate their way to a world without fossil fuels? What editor in their right mind signed off on this! As usual in climate activist PR pieces, there is no "climate denier" rebuttal.
Oh but Borenstein couldn’t be stopped as he dedicated close to 1,000 words to this drivel as if it made a lick of sense:
People like [climate activist Katharine] Wilkinson want to harness happiness to power those fighting to curb the burning of coal, oil and gas and the heat-trapping gases they emit, causing Earth to warm. In a recent speech at American University, Wilkinson called power and joy ‘a really potent portal to the gifts that we want to offer in this time of immense trouble and yet also immense possibility.’
How Borenstein is able to just yank the metaphysical concept of “joy” out of the ether without an explanation of origin and just shoehorn it into a climate hippie pop drum circle of a news item is a logical feat unto itself. In fact one of his sub-headlines read as follows, “From ‘eco-pooper’ to making students happy talking about climate disasters.” No, you didn’t misread that blatant contradiction.
His usage of “eco-pooper” came from an interview he conducted with University of Illinois-Chicago clinical psychology professor Julia Kim-Cohen, who apparently switched tactics from being a climate doom monger to being a joyful soothsayer:
‘I was that person at the cocktail party bringing up, you know, have you have you heard about the latest wildfire? Have you seen the flood in Spain?’ Kim-Cohen said. “It was such a downer. I was such a pooper. There’s actually a term called ‘eco pooper.’ I was that person. And it didn’t work. People would just shut down.’
Cue the belly laughs. Borenstein even highlighted how former United Nations Climate Chief and Paris Climate Agreement shepherd Christiana Figueres danced at night in 2015 with her staff “to feel joy” after listening to everyone’s climate concerns at the corresponding climate summit.
Newsflash Borenstein: You’re not supposed to out-onion The Onion!
But this is par for the course for a news organization that’s getting millions in funding from climate-obsessed interest groups, which have effectively made the AP the de facto propaganda arm of the climate change lobby.
One of its financiers, the radical KR Foundation, openly boasted of how it’s “[s]upporting a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels.” Moreover, KR specifically led an effort to drive U.S. banks out of fossil fuels. It particularly bemoaned how the rise of the “anti-ESG” movement was allegedly causing “many financial institutions to backpedal on their climate ambitions.”
This definitely puts a new spin on AP’s “About” section blurb, pontificating that it is a hub of “Accurate, independent, nonpartisan journalism that advances the power of facts.” Sheesh! Rodney Dangerfield couldn’t have written better comedy than this.
