Climate Alarmists Demand Wartime Austerity, Rationing, Controls

Global-warming alarmists are turning up the heated rhetoric as the UN’s Paris “Climate Summit” approaches, claiming that the supposed “crisis” of global warming is “the equivalent of war,” even though there has been no measurable warming of the planet for the past nearly 19 years.

 

“It is life on our planet itself which is at stake,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius declared on November 8 at a press conference in Paris, as foreign ministers and climate envoys from around the world met to prepare for the United Nations global summit on climate change. The heavily promoted event will take place in the “City of Light” November 30-December 11. Failure to enact a global environmental regime, said Fabius, would have “catastrophic consequences” for all life on our planet. Fabius, a former prime minister of France and a key figure in the French Socilaist Party, as well as the Socialist International, made a similarly florid appeal before the Council on Foreign Relations, the globalist brain trust that has been one of the leading forces pushing the climate panic.

 

A couple of weeks earlier, a headline in The Times of San Diego proclaimed: “Governor: Climate Change Challenge Equivalent to World War II.” Governor Jerry Brown, the Times story reported, “told climate scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography that addressing climate change is the moral equivalent to building the atomic bomb first in World War II.” Brown, commonly referred to as “Governor Moonbeam” for his New Agey, off-the-wall statements, style, and policies, told climate researchers and activists at the two-day UC Summit on Carbon and Climate Neutrality that global warming is an “existential threat” similar to that posed by Hitler and the Nazis in World War II.

 

“He likened the ‘existential threat’ of climate change to Nazi Germany, and noted that California’s universities managed the national laboratories that built the bomb 70 years ago,” the Times reported.

 

We have been enduring shrill warnings by politicians and enviro-activists about supposed imminent doom from global warming (now more frequently called climate change) for more than two decades. However, the nearer we get to the UN’s Paris summit — billed by many activists as the “last chance” to avoid climate Armageddon — the more alarmists are turning up the rhetorical heat (yes, once again) to new levels. “Catastrophic,” “existential threat,” “equivalent of war” are just a few of the overheated phrases they are using to stoke public fears sufficiently (they hope) to win support for draconian controls over all human activity. “This is war,” they proclaim, and we have to treat it as such. Ergo, governments must assume wartime powers to inflict the necessary austerity, controls, sacrifice, rationing, redistribution, and pain necessary for survival.

 

A recent example of this type of exhortation is The Atlantic’s “Why Solving Climate Change Will Be Like Mobilizing for War.” Repeatedly invoking “the war against climate change,” the author of the article, Seattle-based environmentalist Venkatesh Rao, proposes that mankind place blind trust in scientists and technocrats to redesign and regiment society — for the good of all. “It’s clear that the market is unlikely to solve the problem of climate change on its own,” Rao avers. “If scientists are right, and there is no reason to think they aren’t, averting climate change will require such large-scale, rapid action, that no single energy technology, new or emerging, could be the solution.”

 

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