{"id":373691,"date":"2025-04-05T09:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T07:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=373691"},"modified":"2025-04-05T09:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T07:45:13","slug":"the-climate-crisis-was-christopher-columbuss-fault-a-mutant-offspring-of-european-scientific-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=373691","title":{"rendered":"The Climate Crisis was Christopher Columbus\u2019s fault \u2014 \u201ca mutant offspring of European Scientific racism\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From JoNova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jo Nova<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forget the carbon credits and solar panels, the root cause of climate change is Caribbean slavery.<\/h4>\n\n\n
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If only Christopher Columbus hadn\u2019t discovered America, the Little Ice Age would never have ended! (Just one more thing to thank him for).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new (old) rehash of White Guilt is so dark, we wonder why the author, Tao Leigh Goffe, chooses to live in the evil empire of the capitalist US. Shouldn\u2019t she boycott it, and move to a place that never had slavery, like Antarctica?\u00a0 For a woman who claims the world is boiling today because of the dark inhuman laboratory of experiments, it does seem incongruous that she supports the same institutions that grew from …as she puts it \u2026Columbus\u2019s travesty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She decries European scientific colonialism and a \u201cscientific method rooted in eugenics and racism\u201d,  yet she probably wrote her book on a computer with silicon chips, and works at City University, New York, surely an institutional product of that same ghastly colonialism? She got her PhD at Yale. Is there no moral limit to her hypocrisy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait til she finds out the theory of climate change, which her career depends on, mutated out of the same scientific method which she says is rooted in racism and denigrates black and indigenous forms of science? I mean, which is it? Somehow white science is nonsense, but climate change is real?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If ever we needed a reason to stop funding academia, to just say \u201cNo\u201d, this study would be it. The hypocrisy, the self-contradictory internally inconsistent, attention seeking and incoherent non-research, pretty much encapsulate everything that is unworthy in academia. And we can get more of the same for free from any AI, except it would make more sense. Her book \u201cDark Laboratory\u201d is one of the few books that may have already crossed the too-bad-to-be-AI line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And where are all those climate scientist champions of science, now?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s an anti-science academic seeking fame and glory while trashing science. So where are you, O Defenders of University consensuses and experts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This woman is damaging all of academia \u2014 and they won\u2019t even stand up and tell her that slavery doesn\u2019t correlate well with Global Warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All parts of The Blob defend the rest of The Blob. Climate science is just another part of the same anti-Western, collectivist, parasitic Blob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dark Laboratory: groundbreaking book argues climate crisis was sparked by colonisation<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n
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Tao Leigh Goffe argues climate breakdown is the mutant offspring of European scientific racism and colonialism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Tao Leigh Goffe, an associate professor of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at the City University of New York, wants us to visualise a far more specific cause: the shunting of a ship\u2019s prow on to the sandbank of a paradise island in 1492.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Dark Laboratory, her groundbreaking new book, Goffe argues that it was the colonization of the Americas<\/a> by Christopher Columbus that set off the chain of events that has led us to where we stand today, on the precipice of global catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historians and scientists will be surprised to hear that capitalism, monocrop agriculture, and land clearing was invented in Jamaica\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was there [in the Carribbean] that enslaving farmers first formulated the structures of modern capitalism, alongside a scientific method rooted in eugenics and racism that privileged the status of white men while denigrating Black and Indigenous forms of science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such experiments included the creation of monocrop agriculture, the clearing of terrestrial and marine ecosystems making territories vulnerable to extreme weather, the categorisation of wildlife along lines of superficial characteristics and the now equally discredited categorisation of different races along similar lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We must, she argues, \u201cconnect the dots between the brutal system of chattel slavery and the degradation of the natural environment \u2026 The worlds Europeans built depended on making the lives of some disposable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps we should connect the dots between narcissistic academics and the tax slaves forced to fund them today? Call it modern slavery. The lives of the working class serfs who fund Tao Leigh Goffe seem pretty disposable to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least they didn\u2019t waste money on the book cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her X feed:   @taoleightgoffe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t ClimateDepot<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image: Columbus Taking Possession<\/a>, Wikimedia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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