🦜 The Liberal Climate Delusion: Why Euphemism Sustains Mass Death
Liberal culture cannot say the word “death,” even as billions face it. Euphemism has become a form of violence — and the first step to resisting collapse is naming reality without flinching.
We are living through the most dangerous period in human history, yet the public conversation about climate breakdown remains stuck in liberal euphemism, self-censorship, and the relentless softening of truth. Even those who know what is coming rarely say it plainly. The death of billions is turned into a headline question mark. Collapse becomes “risk.” Civilisational breakdown becomes “concern.” And the liberal media — especially The Guardian — continues to present a fantasy world where collapse looks like a snowy cycling scene rather than the violent unravelling of states.
This piece is a collection of my recent posts about how liberal culture avoids naming reality, how this avoidance enables mass death, and why honesty — brutal, undiluted honesty — is now a moral obligation.
How even the best of us censor ourselves
My friend Chris Ketcham, the US journalist, recently published an article titled: "Two Billion Dead at 2C Warming?"
Christopher Ketcham
Already, you can see the problem. The question mark. The softening. The hedging. So here are my three points.
- If you read the last three paragraphs, you will “notice” that at 3C there will be a predicted 4 billion dead. So why not headline that? If reporting on a war, why headline 1 million dead on one front while ignoring the 2 million dead on another?
- Why the question mark? This is a prediction by the science team at Exeter University and the UK insurance sector. When a doctor tells you your cancer is terminal, you don’t write “My cancer is terminal?” It is. It is the main scenario.
- And, small detail, Appendix A actually says “more than 2 billion” and “more than 4 billion.” But sure, let’s not worry about an extra few hundred million dead young people.
After all, we are all Stalinists now. Self-censorship is not accidental — it is learned, encouraged, and rewarded. The climate industry trains people to soften the blow, to make horror palatable, to turn the murder of nations into a polite policy debate.
The Guardian’s fantasy world
Nowhere is this liberal delusion more absurd than in The Guardian.
Their coverage regularly portrays collapse using cosy images: a hardy cyclist on a snowy hill, a quaint winter scene, a picturesque inconvenience.
Damien Gayle
But here is the actual reality behind what they refuse to show:
- The street lights will be off because the grid has collapsed.
- People will not have parked cars; they won’t be able to afford them.
- They won’t be living in those houses because Britain will have undergone mass migration.
- Nobody will be cycling around in –20°C temperatures unless they want to die.
The Guardian’s image suggests “charm.” The actual scenario is bodies piled against borders, because the French and Germans — dealing with hundreds of millions fleeing Africa and the Middle East — will not be welcoming starving Brits.
This is not a metaphor.
It is the straightforward geopolitical consequence of 3°C and above.
But liberals cannot show it.
House slaves always side with their master. And if the master desires mass death, the role of the house slave is to hide the consequences from the other slaves.
Radical evil.
Sex and death: the liberal avoidance ritual
The liberal refusal to name reality resembles a Victorian mother refusing to say the word “sex.”
When The Guardian writes about “climate,” what they really mean is “death,” but they cannot speak it aloud:
- “how little time is left” — left until what?
- “exposed to heatwaves, wildfires and floods” — exposed and then what happens?
- “secure the world’s future” — because our future may not exist?
They never finish the sentence.
They cannot say: you will die; your parents will die; your children will die; nations will fall; states will collapse.
Instead, we get therapeutic vagueness.
A linguistic lullaby for a dying civilisation.
COP as theatre: the liberal game of death
Consider COP.
Every year, liberals play the same dumb, deadly game.
The “bad guys” block progress completely. Then at the last moment they concede some meaningless line, allowing liberals to declare a “partial victory.” This gives them justification to remain “at the table,” which is exactly what the fossil states need: liberal cover.
As Martin Luther King said, the greatest opponents are not the extremists but the moderates.
Today the stakes are billions of lives, not millions.
Yet liberals cling to the table like security blankets.
The Guardian is a masterclass in this post-modern obfuscation.
They turn objective reality — the death of billions — into a set of “subjective impressions”:
- “fears Cop could disappoint”
- “Indigenous groups believe…”
- “negotiations risk failing…”
- “some observers warn…”
- “ambitious delivery…”
- “complicated dynamics…”
This is the linguistic framework of evil.
It turns atrocity into management-speak.
It turns the largest crime in human history into a “risk profile.”
It turns death into a conversation.
If you want to understand liberal culture, read a Guardian climate article.
If you want to understand evil, read two.
The Age of Honesty or the Age of Death
We are entering a period where euphemism itself becomes a form of violence.
Every question mark where a full stop belongs.
Every snowy photo hiding a mass grave.
Every “risk” instead of “certainty.”
Every “concern” instead of “collapse.”
Every “complication” instead of “crime.”
These are not linguistic errors; they are acts of collective self-preservation for a class that cannot bear to speak its own destruction.
But honesty is now a revolutionary act.
The first task of any movement capable of preserving life is to name reality — plainly, without flinching, without qualification, without euphemism.
Because if we cannot say what is happening,
we cannot resist it.
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