What’s Really Behind Climate Change?

“Before the Great War all intelligent people said: ” We shall not have any more war, we are far too reasonable to let it happen, and our commerce and finance are so interlaced internationally that war is absolutely out of the question.” And then produced the most gorgeous war ever seen.  And now they begin to talk that foolish kind of talk about reason and peace plans and such things; they blindfold themselves by clinging to a childish optimism – and now look at reality! Sure enough, the archetypal images decide the fate of man.  Man’s unconscious psychology decides, and not what we think and talk in the brain-chamber up in the attic.” Carl Jung, The Tavistock Lectures, Lecture V, CW XVIII, par. 371

These words of Jung were from 1935.  While I tend not to weigh in on political issues very often, I was struck by how appropriate they are to the climate change puppet theater unfolding across the pond these last two weeks.