February 8, 2008

Global Warming Authoritarianism

According to one academic, the problem with the response to global warming lies at the feet of those of us who believe in democracy and freedom:


We are going to have to look how authoritarian decisions based on consensus science can be implemented to contain greenhouse emissions. It is not that we do not tolerate such decisions in the very heart of our society, in wide range of enterprises from corporate empires to emergency and intensive care units. If we do not act urgently we may find we have chosen total liberty rather than life.

"...chosen liberty rather than life"? This is the evil that we as advocates of a free and prosperous society face. Environmentalist whackos are starting to reveal themselves for what they truly are: authoritarians who believe that their knowledge and opinions trump all. Of course, they are advocating this for your own good. Just read this excerpt from the description of his new book:

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.

Of course those who are authoritarians are by definition those who seek power.

Deleterious Anthropogenic Warming of the Globe Posted by Harrison Bergeron at February 8, 2008 10:28 PM

You worry too much, hb. This will be governance by experts and not by those who seek power. I imagine they'll have advanced degrees from America's finest academic institutions.

To tie your posts together, Don Luskin said on Kudlow & Co. that if this country elects Senator Hillary Clinton, he's giving up n democracy too.

Posted by: jk at February 9, 2008 1:15 PM

I am reminded of a great quote by Frank Knight (via The Road to Serfdom, p. 152):


The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping master in a slave plantation.

Posted by: HB at February 10, 2008 10:15 AM

No, HB does NOT worry too much. While collectivism is discredited in countless places around the world it is being pressed forward in this country, liberty's shining city on a hill, for its adherents know if they can conquer the American Spirit in America the rest of the world will be defenseless.

While American attention is focused on Islamic terrorism there is evidence that totalitarian elements in other countries, notably Putin's Russia, work actively within our borders to subvert individualism in society and in government. For example, on January 28 of this year NPR interviewed former Soviet agent Sergei Tretyakov, whose story of defection to the US as an act of Russian nationalist pride is documented in the book 'Comrade J - The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War.' Sergei tells us:

"Russia is doing everything it can today to undermine and embarrass the U.S. The SVR rezidenturas in the U.S. are not less, but in some aspects even more active today than during the Cold War. What should that tell you?"

I highly recommend listening to the 8 minute interview (click Listen Now at the top of the linked page.)

Posted by: johngalt at February 10, 2008 1:15 PM

And on the 'Global Warming' side, we have this from the mouths of unwitting child accomplices:

"Tick, tick, tick, tick,
Massive heat waves,
Tick, tick, tick, tick,
Severe droughts,
Tick, tick, tick, tick,
Devastaing hurricanes,
Tick, tick, tick, tick,
Our future - is up - to you.
Go to fight global warming dot com,
While there's still time."

Well if the Ad Council says it it MUST be true, right? That's what they call "consensus science."

Posted by: johngalt at February 10, 2008 1:26 PM

And aren't those "tick,tick" kids the same ones who play ring-around-the-rosey while the AMA tells us we have to support Socialized medicine?

Posted by: jk at February 11, 2008 10:55 AM

The 16 latest pieces of evidence of global warming are the 16 degrees currently outside my door.

It's damn cold enough here, and it's still 50 degrees warmer than International Falls!

Posted by: Perry Eidelbus at February 11, 2008 11:59 PM

With all respect to my friends in New York and Minnesota: haha.

I have driven my covertible top-down at least once every calandar month since I bought it (Oct 2004). And I got my February in today!

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