re: #312 Eclectic Cyborg

Who the fuck is Brendan O’Neill and why should I care what he has to say?

Brendan O’Neill
“… Brendan O’Neill is a British columnist. He is the editor of Spiked Online and has been a columnist for The Australian and The Big Issue.

Once a Trotskyist Marxist, O’Neill was formerly a member of Revolutionary Communist Party and wrote for the party’s journal, Living Marxism. O’Neill self identifies as a Marxist libertarian[1][2] and writes for a range of publications. …”

“… O’Neill has opposed the tackling of global warming through reductions in carbon emissions and instead advocates for “technological progress” to deal with the damage done by climate change.[7] He criticised the environmentalist activist Greta Thunberg in his 2019 article “The Cult of Greta Thunberg”[8] in which he describes her as a “millenarian weirdo” and criticises the allegedly “monotone voice” speech patterns[9][10] of the Swedish environmentalist who speaks English as a second language. …”