Application of Universal Vaccination Narrative to Climate Change

Implications for biodiversity, human equality and anti-otherness

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Introduction

There are now numerous authoritative sources justifying universal vaccination, especially with regard to COVID-19 -- and many others clarifying the reasons for it (Benefits of Getting Vaccinated, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 12 April 2021; 10 Reasons To Get Vaccinated, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases).

However many other sources highlight the arguments for vaccine hesitancy, whether in relation to the current pandemic or more generally (Raymond Wolfe, 160+ Experts Slam COVID Vaccines as 'Unnecessary, Ineffective and Unsafe' in Powerful Letter, Global Research, 22 May 2021; Great Barrington Declaration, 20 October 2020). The controversy bears a very strong resemblance to the poisonous discourse currently evident between opposing political parties in any country -- except that the enforced total dominance of public discourse by pro-vaccination authorities is more consistent with the dynamics of a dictatorship.

It is of the course the case that response to the pandemic has virtually obscured all meaningful debate on other global issues such as climate change -- together with others framed by the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. It has been argued that the pandemic, whether engineered or not, is in process of being exploited as part of the Great Reset agenda promoted by the World Economic Forum (Tim Hinchliffe, The 'Great Reset': A Technocratic Agenda that Waited Years for a Global Crisis to Exploit, Global Research, 27 May 2021).

The following exercise is firstly an attempt to clarify the narrative associated with promotion of universal vaccination -- especially in relation to the coronavirus and its variants. It resulted below in a Universal vaccination narrative. Sources used have been official documents and those clarifying such arguments.

That exercise is followed by an attempt to apply that narrative to climate change by the simple process of replacing "vaccination" by "climate-change indoctrination" (and its grammatical variants). It is presented below as Universal climate change narrative. The result raises the question as to whether public discourse with respect to climate change should be dominated in a similar manner to that relating to vaccination -- and if not, why not? Anm alternative to "climate-change indoctrination" could have been used, but "indoctrination" is suitably reminiscent of both "inoculation" and the "indoctrination" associated with promotion of belief in its efficacy.

Over the past decades there have been sufficient authoritative analyses of the disastrous consequences of climate change in the immediate future to warrant such an approach. Is any failure to accord attention to climate change at this time simply to be recognized as a political failure of the "climate change community", associated with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), in contrast with the "pharmaceutical community" associated with the World Health Organization (WHO)? The problematic dynamics of WHO leadership have been the subject of extensive commentary (F. William Engdahl, Can We Trust the WHO?  Global Research, 22 May 2021; Hanah Lola Johnson, Can We the People Still Trust the WHO? Inside Over, 29 April 2020).

The methodology of the above exercise can also be applied to human equality, notably evident in the widely recognized failure to accord appropriate consideration to developing countries -- whether with respect to distribution of vaccines or to the projected consequences for many of them of climate change. The result below takes the form of a Universal human equality narrative. The challenge of human equality is of course evident within developed countries, most obviously with respect to income and to discrimination against minoroties, people of colour, and women. For that exercise "vaccination" is replaced by "human-equality indoctrination" (and its grammatical variants) -- although clearly a different phrase might have been used.

Beyond issues of inequality, the exercise can be extended to the problematic challenge of "others", whether understood in political, religious, cultural, or other terms. For that exercise "vaccination" is replaced by "anti-otherness indoctrination" (and its grammatical variants) -- presented below as Universal anti-otherness narrative. In this case, such a possibility follows from a more extensive previous use of the method (Elaborating a Declaration on Combating Anti-otherness -- including anti-science, anti-spiritual, anti-women, anti-gay, anti-socialism, anti-animal, and anti-negativity, 2018). This is of some relevance to controversies associated with vaccine hesitancy -- given the preoccupation of authorities with the so-called "anti-vaxxer" movement (WHO Says Anti-Vaxxers Are Global Health Threat, WebMD, 17 January 2019).

The method used, and the articulation in each case, invite further refinemen -- given the results of the exercise. The generic possibility, and the range of issues to which it could be applied, have been the subject of more detailed consideration (Towards a Generic Global Issue Statement: evoking an instructive pattern of unquestionable responses, 2009).

What is historically remarkable about the response to the pandemic is the apparent level of determined global consensus on a particular initiative -- a determination and a consensus of a far higher order than for the challenges of climate change, human inequality and the discriminatory relation to others. Arguably this consensus could be recognized as a form of surrogate for the demonstrated failure of the past with respect to other such challenges. It is in this sense that the narrative with respect to the pandemic -- now so widely adopted by politicians of most persuasions -- needs to be applied to other challenges. Failure to do so would then merit condemnation with the same language and strategies now adopted with regard to any vaccine hesitancy.

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