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.

Dr. Sanity:

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!