{"id":339218,"date":"2024-08-11T16:34:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T14:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=339218"},"modified":"2024-08-11T16:34:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T14:34:51","slug":"earth-14-years-away-from-ted-turners-2038-countdown-to-cannibalism-2008-flashback-most-of-the-people-will-have-died-and-the-rest-of-us-will-be-cannibals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=339218","title":{"rendered":"Earth 14 years away from Ted Turner\u2019s 2038 Countdown to Cannibalism: 2008 Flashback: \u2018Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Climate Depot<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Marc Morano<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever Will Climateers Cook Up Next? – Quadrant Online<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever Will Climateers Cook Up Next?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Tony Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the inspirational spokesfolk sermonising about saving the planet from fossil fuels are actress Jane Fonda and ex-husband Ted Turner (2024 net worth $US2.5 billio<\/a>n). Jane ditched Ted in 2001 after 10 years marriage, leaving Ted so heart-broken that he needed a quartet of girlfriends<\/a> for consolation. He rotated each for one week per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jane extracted $US40 million from Ted as a divorce settlement. This helped keep the wolf from her door as she turned author in 2020 to write \u201cWhat Can I Do?\u201d<\/em><\/a> about arresting the planet\u2019s imminent death from CO2. The same year, with other Hollywood A-listers, she also signed a petition<\/a> against excessive consumerism, which demanded that governments fiercely crack down on emissions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ongoing ecological catastrophe is a meta-crisis: the massive extinction of life on Earth is no longer in doubt, and all indicators point to a direct existential threat \u2026 The pursuit of consumerism<\/em> [see here<\/a>] and an obsession with productivity have led us to deny the value of life itself \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Leigh Sales at ABCTV\u2019s 7.30<\/em>, the combination of celebrity Jane and more touting of global warming was irresistible. The interview was a classic. Fonda literally wept on camera<\/a> about emissions \u201ctrashing our home\u201d (in her case an $US5.4 million Los Angeles townhouse):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these wonderful species are going to go and life is going to be very, very difficult to live and eventually possibly the human species will go as well because we are trashing our home and I just, I wouldn\u2019t be able to live with myself or die with myself if I don\u2019t do something.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She grieved with Sales (herself on something north of $400,000) about the cost of living:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do I need money? There\u2019s that. People forget that we are working people. I belong to three unions. I have to earn a living. I have a bottom line that I\u2019ve got, that I have to meet and its tough right now. I mean, not that tough, I have a roof over my head and a very nice home that\u2019s paid for and food and I have an assistant with me and I\u2019m very, very lucky, but I\u2019m worried. We will have gone almost a year without working and that\u2019s scary\u2026. I have to keep working.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might by now be asking, \u201cSo what? Got anything new to say about celebrities?\u201d Well, yes I have. This essay is about how celebs warn that global warming will turn us into cannibals, maybe you\u2019re not up with that prospect yet? Jane\u2019s ex-husband Ted is a leading public intellectual on this cannibalism forecast. He\u2019s influential too \u2013 in 2017 he donated $US1 billion<\/a> to the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 2038, he believes, the last survivors of the world\u2019s heat-stricken masses will turn on each other for food. His prediction in 2008 was taken up by the conservative Washington Free Beacon<\/em> online newspaper<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to help people prepare for what is coming, the Free Beacon created the Countdown to Cannibalism Clock, which will let you know exactly how much time is left until you must engage in the practice for basic sustenance.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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