In pre-Christian times, the ancient Vikings worshipped and made sacrifices to Odin, Thor, Frey and Freyja as part of the ancient Ásatrú faith. Today, in this age of de-Christianisation, we have taken a giant step backwards: we worship the man-made climate god, which is little more than a form of indulgence and political theatrics.
This is done so that the climate-devout can showcase a cause that supposedly means something, a cause that gives the impression of moral commitment, but which is really just a façade in front of a vast «nothing», albeit a very expensive version of «nothing».
Expensive indulgences for nothing
Just as an aside: Norway, together with the UK and Canada, recently pledged a further 40 billion kroner towards a 100-billion-kroner initiative for climate measures in developing countries. This is on top of a series of previous financially binding international climate commitments.
Moving from the macro to the micro level, we see that the Labour Party government has included climate measures worth billions of kroner spread across a number of ministries in next year’s national budget. Once the Socialist Left Party (SV) and the Green Party (MDG) have had their say and demanded their ‘indulgence’ in order to vote for the Labour Party’s budget, the total amount will almost certainly exceed ten billion – taken from the public purse and funded by the general public, that is to say, the taxpayers. One might ask: what for? The answer is: ultimately, absolutely nothing.
Emissions-free zones!?
Among the latest additions to the list of new, utterly pointless climate measures are emission-free zones in Oslo and other major cities. That is to say, zones where petrol and diesel vehicles are banned, directly targeting lorries, construction vehicles and goods transport, as well as car traffic in general. A fine of 1,000 kroner is proposed for breaching the zone ban.
But – and this is important – because this is all about political posturing and tokenism of the most expensive kind, the government is leaving it to the local authorities to implement the scheme. Hmmm. Yes, one might well ask which local authorities are so foolish and so hostile towards their own residents and local businesses that they would actually introduce something like this. Just think of the retail trade in these zones!?
A man-made idol
Here at Document, we and our readers are fortunate enough to have the country’s foremost critic of current climate policy, Kent Andersen, amongst us, so I have no desire to tread on his toes. I’ll simply add a philosophical observation, as the introduction to this article suggests.
In the absence of anything to believe in during our largely de-Christianised age here in the West, we have found a new god – or rather, an idol: the climate god – with regular, ritual sacrifices running into the multi-billion range to show the whole world just how good and morally superior we are.
In stark contrast to alleged climate changes beyond the norm, this idolatry is one hundred per cent man-made, albeit driven by ulterior motives. For surely no one believes that the endless series of political climate measures will actually work, do they? If so, they must be rather unenlightened and ‘slow on the uptake’, or infinitely devious.
Paradise or Helheim
Our ancient Vikings, on the other hand, poured their hearts into Ásatrú, which in many respects resembles Christianity, which, amongst other things, holds dear the commandment that ‘Thou shalt not lie’. In Ásatrú, the honourable dead went to Ásgard, which was their paradise; Christians go to heaven or home to God in paradise – ‘… those who believe in him’, as it is said.
As for where those who believe in the climate god end up when death parts us, I shall not say anything for certain, but I do not entirely rule out the possibility that the destination is Helheim.
