Environazi’s exposed! In the new doom and gloom climate change book, The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy (Politics and the Environment), the authors tell us that a Democracy like the United States is bad, an authoritarian government like China – good.
In this provocative book, Shearman and Smith present evidence that the fundamental problem causing environmental destruction–and climate change in particular–is the operation of liberal democracy. Its flaws and contradictions bestow upon government–and its institutions, laws, and the markets and corporations that provide its sustenance–an inability to make decisions that could provide a sustainable society. Having argued that democracy has failed humanity, the authors go even further and demonstrate that this failure can easily lead to authoritarianism without our even noticing.Even more provocatively, they assert that there is merit in preparing for this eventuality if we want to survive climate change. They are not suggesting that existing authoritarian regimes are more successful in mitigating greenhouse emissions, for to be successful economically they have adopted the market system with alacrity. Nevertheless, the authors conclude that an authoritarian form of government is necessary, but this will be governance by experts and not by those who seek power. There are in existence highly successful authoritarian structures–for example, in medicine and in corporate empires–that are capable of implementing urgent decisions impossible under liberal democracy. Society is verging on a philosophical choice between “liberty” or “life.”
One of the authors penned this recent article on the subject:
Liberal democracy is sweet and addictive and indeed in the most extreme case, the USA, unbridled individual liberty overwhelms many of the collective needs of the citizens. The subject is almost sacrosanct and those who indulge in criticism are labeled as Marxists, socialists, fundamentalists and worse. These labels are used because alternatives to democracy cannot be perceived! Support for Western democracy is messianic as proselytised by a President leading a flawed democracy
There must be open minds to look critically at liberal democracy. Reform must involve the adoption of structures to act quickly regardless of some perceived liberties. It is not that liberal democracy cannot react once it sees a threat, for example, the speedy response to a recent international financial emergency. If governments can recognise a financial emergency and in an instant move heaven and earth (and billions of dollars, pounds sterling and euros) to contain it, why are they unable to do the same in response to a global environmental emergency? Quite simply our system is seen to live and breathe by the present economic system; the problem is that living and breathing within the confines of the world ecological systems is contrary to the activity of progress and development as defined within liberal democracy.
We are going to have to look how authoritarian decisions based on consensus science can be implemented to contain greenhouse emissions.
He then proceeds to write glowingly about how great China is because they don’t have to deal with any individual liberties and other such nonsense. Plastic bags a problem? China just bans them and closes all the factories. Why oh why can we not do such things!
They don’t have to worry about loss of political donations or temporarily unemployed workers. They have made a judgment that their action favours the needs of Chinese society as a whole.
For the collective good. Sound familiar?
A pure socialist/communist heaven I suppose. But this time its going to be the dictatorship of the scientists. The elites among the science circles will now be the holders of the keys.
For most of the 20th century these fascists have sought to escape responsibility for the condequences of their utopian fantasies. The world is littered with the corpses and awash in the tears of the people who they have “helped”. Fantasy environmentalism is only the most recent strategies they have adopted as they attempt reassert their socialist ideology under the guise of “saving the planet”, while they chain all of humanity. Ask yourself how it has come to be that Al Gore’s environmental obsession has become required classroom reading. And how our children are being indoctrinated right this moment in the K-12 classrooms into the holy rituals of the environmental histrionics.
Consider for a moment the call to imprison those who ignore climate ‘science’. The very essence of free scientific inquiry is open discussion and high levels of skepticism; but the fascist ‘elites’ must carefully contain any speech or any attitude that questions their own interpretation of environmental science.
Clearly, this is not scientific inquiry, it is an inquisition. It is not science, it is religious dogma. And if you do not believe, you are in danger of committing the horrific sin of apostasy.
You begin to see how much in common these neo-marxist, fascist ‘elites’ have with the imams of radical Islam. Both suffer from an unquenchable desire for power over others. Either submit to their authority, or else….
I’m guessing that you will not be shocked to find out upon reading the whole article that the only way for this utopia of environmental rainbows to work is that the ones in charge, the holder of the keys if you will, will be people such as the writer himself.
Shocking!
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global warming is just left wing cow flops there is nothing that we can do or don’t do that will effect the tempture of planet earth.global warming=piltown man you have proof you say wellgo to junkscience.com show your proof and collect a $125,000 prize.
I’m here in Texas. It’s 73 degrees outside right now. I’m looking for a downside to this global warming thing…
Global warming sure makes sitting in a deer stand a lot more tolerable…. 🙂
I am sitting here in Michigan with a high of 12 degF (yesterday was a balmy 8 degsF). It might even get to the mid 20s during the warming period this week. Even at the worst doom and gloom from the very rich and profitable “man made” global warming industry, it might eventually rise 1-2 deg F. Considering that each period of cyclic warming since 5,000 BC has resulted in a boom in human civilization (and it was much warmer then than now), I have to wonder what the downside is also.
We even have a few more storms worth of that white stuff the Church of Gore said was going away forever coming in. Meanwhile, it is so cold that one of my house’s windows cracked from the temperature difference last night.
The author manages to be wrong twice: first in touting the Chinese (or any other Communists) as some sort of benefit for the environment, and second in acting as if our society needs radical reorganization in order to deal with environmental challenges. Look at the damage the Soviets did to Lake Baikal or the Aral Sea, or look at China’s air and water pollution… they’ve matched the worst excesses we had during the 19th and early 20th century, but lack the democratic institutions to fix their problems.
We cleaned up Pittsburgh’s air and Lake Erie’s water without having to resort to fascism. There are still some corporate villains who could stand to be brought to heel, but overall we’re doing pretty well.
Of course the hippie leftists MUST be wrong about global climate change. Their being correct on anything is just to frightening to imagine.
National Geographic Channel is showing Six Degrees Could Change The World on Feb 14th
Don’t let your kids watch it, they may be brainwashed.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/sixdegrees/videos_1.html?nav=NGC-sixdegrees-one
As for cleaning up Lake Erie wasn’t that done under the 1972 Clean Water Act, more hippie propaganda.
John,
Considering the hippie leftist have been wrong on every other dire prediction, why should their new-age religion prophecy on Man-Made Global Warming (based itself on disproved data and political expediency) be any different?
And as I keep telling our other resident leftist. Conservatives do not go out destroying the environment like some Captain Planet “villain”. Socialists nations, on the other hand, have a very poor track record.
There will always be a segment of society that thinks our affairs should be managed by some self-appointed elites. Everyone else will have to accept mass death and poverty, and its for their own good.
Ever wonder why the Global Warming Movement took off right around the time the Soviet Union collapsed? Marxism was such an obvious failure (100MM dead? 200MM dead?) they had to move onto something else.
Global Warmingism is just the latest iteration of absolute statist collectivism.
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wasn’t that done under the 1972 Clean Water Act
Yup. Democracy at work. I can imagine other ways it might have been done that I would have liked even better, but it looks like a success story for our system of governance. I’m not hostile to all environmental initiatives, just stupid ones.
Six Degrees Could Change The World
Seen the ads for it. Looks like a lot of dramatic footage of what *would* happen if the temperature rose, and not much discussion of *whether* we’re making the temperature rise. Though as I said I’ve only seen trailers, so who knows.
>>Looks like a lot of dramatic footage of what *would* happen if the temperature rose,…>>
Given that the latest thing is the possibility of global cooling, I wonder if they’ll do a reciprocal show on what would happen if the average global temperature _dropped_ the same six degrees. I suspect the effects would be much worse.