From the flood of stupid proposals trying to end climate change by spoiling life for humans, one meriting my full consideration has finally come up. It is Matthew Liao’s thesis “Tackling Climate Change Through Human Engineering,” set out in an article in the book The Next Step: Exponential Life and republished by OpenMind. His star proposal is to genetically modify humans to develop an intolerance to meat and, thus, reduce livestock farming, which drunken warmists say is the mother of all pollution.

Matthew Liao is kind enough to acknowledge that it should never be “coerced, mandatory” genetic modification but instead be voluntary and driven by “tax breaks or sponsored health care.” I thank the American philosopher for sparing us from this forced trauma. In his opinion, this plan should be applied to those who firmly believe that man has a say in the temperature of the earth, and to activists who are willing to truly sacrifice for the cause.

This is the first time someone has proposed a measure to mitigate climate change that affects only those who have already been driven crazy by environmentalist communist propaganda, thus excluding yours truly — even though everyone knows that, even if you’re not genetically modified, the treatments needed for something like this will eventually come out of your pocket; don’t expect for a second that activists will pony up a dime for a team of doctors specialized in hard drugs to create an overnight meat intolerance so perfect that you’ll break out in hives just from watching Looney Tunes on TV. On the other hand, guys like Matthew Liao come up with the idea, and totalitarian governments pick it up and apply it to their liking.

In his famous classification of sects, the priest Manuel Guerra explains that a sect is “the existential key, both theoretical and practical, for those who belong to autonomous, non-Christian, fanatically proselytizing groups, exalting personal effort and expecting a wonderful change, either collective — humanity-wide — or individual.” Father Guerra contrasts individual participation in Christianity, where the individual contributes a small effort that is completed by the divine action of grace, with the total involvement of the sect, where “everything is achieved with the effort of the followers and the help of the group.”

You are already contributing, as you may already imagine, to the climate effort: financing ruinous renewable energy projects, paying millions for energy, dispensing with objects that were once made of plastic, turning off the heating in winter so as not to provoke the climate apocalypse, or getting on a bicycle or an electric car to go to work and arriving in a sweat-drenched suit.

In light of the above definitions, climate environmentalism is a cult. And, as the same author points out, when “the leader loses his mind … everyone goes mad and may rush into the horrors of collective or ritual suicide.” All the leaders of this sect have lost their minds completely. I do not know if Mr. Matthew Liao belongs to the climate sect; the only sure thing is that he has been able to calibrate its essence, because he knows that only a very crazy collective could go along with a hallucinogenic proposal of genetic modification of humans to mitigate global warming. That is to say, if any group of crazies were going to accept something like that, it would be the same lot that has accepted as its leader someone like Greta Thunberg.

But if you think that the philosopher has already crossed all limits, it is only because you haven’t heard the second part of his proposal (I had to rub my eyes several times and test my blood alcohol level): “make humans smaller” so that we consume less food and resources. Good heavens, he has discovered Lilliput! In Jonathan Swift’s celebrated novel, this nation was inhabited by tiny individuals, no more than 6 inches tall. Here’s Liao’s plan: “one possibility is to use preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). PGD is currently employed in fertility clinics…. One might also be able to use PGD to select shorter children.” I’m not sure if I should be laughing at all this, or if we should be praying for a meteorite to arrive soon and, if possible, fall on Liao and save poor embryos of normal stature from being thrown into the garbage.

Other of his crazy proposals include “lowering birthrates” or pharmacologically inducing climate altruism: “There is evidence that altruism and empathy have biological underpinnings and can be affected pharmacologically.” The latter is the Democrats’ dream: to make you want to vote for Biden just by taking a pill!

While this all seems like an aberration — all the more so when the initiative to publish all this garbage openly comes from the “CSR” of a large bank — perhaps there is some hope. If they can make a pill to make you more eco-friendly, or tasty-beef-burger-intolerant, maybe they could design one for me to make me totally idiot-intolerant.

Translated by Joel Dalmau.