Creating a sense of doom has been central in spreading the environmental gospel. The pandemic has taught climate activists how an acute crisis enables governments to impose draconian restrictions. In Real Clear Energy, Joel Kotkin reports on green movement calls for semi-permanent lockdowns to save the planet.
The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”
