To be effective, a new set of institutions would have to be imbued with heavy-handed, transnational enforcement powers.
Skeptics get scoffed at when we say the burdensome regulations that have been and have been sought to be imposed by the alarm over global warming are just a tool to secure a larger governance control. In today’s society, if you control how energy is generated, used, and tax, you pretty much control the modern world. People will do almost anything to keep that computer, iPhone, and electric heat and appliances.
Now in Scientific American, one writer just lays it all out for us to see, pulling no punches.
Effective World Government Will Be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe
Almost six years ago, I was the editor of a single-topic issue on energy for Scientific American that included an article by Princeton University’s Robert Socolow that set out a well-reasoned plan for how to keep atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations below a planet-livable threshold of 560 ppm.
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If I had it to do over, I’d approach the issue planning differently, my fellow editors permitting. I would scale back on the nuclear fusion and clean coal, instead devoting at least half of the available space for feature articles on psychology, sociology, economics and political science. Since doing that issue, I’ve come to the conclusion that the technical details are the easy part. It’s the social engineering that’s the killer. Moon shots and Manhattan Projects are child’s play compared to needed changes in the way we behave.
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Unfortunately, far more is needed. To be effective, a new set of institutions would have to be imbued with heavy-handed, transnational enforcement powers. There would have to be consideration of some way of embracing head-in-the-cloud answers to social problems that are usually dismissed by policymakers as academic naivete. In principle, species-wide alteration in basic human behaviors would be a sine qua non, but that kind of pronouncement also profoundly strains credibility in the chaos of the political sphere. Some of the things that would need to be contemplated: How do we overcome our hard-wired tendency to “discount” the future: valuing what we have today more than what we might receive tomorrow? Would any institution be capable of instilling a permanent crisis mentality lasting decades, if not centuries? How do we create new institutions with enforcement powers way beyond the current mandate of the U.N.? Could we ensure against a malevolent dictator who might abuse the power of such organizations?
Read it all here
Socolow’s article goes well beyond the seeds of tyranny. It is a sapling. These kinds of ideas remind one of the intellectual genesis of the genocidal Khmer Rouge, whose murderous pogrom was based on a doctoral dissertation innocently named “Cambodia’s Economy and Industrial Development.”
We are far beyond a dissertation. “The science is settled” and Socolow has jettisoned all pretense of common morality. He has moved directly to the calculated implementation of tyranny and genocide.
History repeats. The evolution of the Khmer Rouge is instructive.
They want to force us to stop using fossil fuels.
In practice, that is not going to happen in a democracy.
In practice, that is not going to happen in every country.
So, one would need a non-democratic global government.
I for one welcome our new super national overlords. I like the look of the futuristic jump suits we are to be rationed, though I’m a bit concerned mine might be bright red. I have been practising repeating everything our local dear leader says on the vidi screen and showing my agreement with the waggling fingers. Due to a sporting injury however I am only able to waggle one main finger and do so vehemently.
The Green project was invented by World Government people: CIA and then Margaret Mead and co-conspirators. Later, the project came to serve Wall Street more than tyrants.
This article strikes me as a last-gasp attempt to restore the original tyrannical purpose of the project.
Since Wall Street has collapsed the countries that formerly subsidized the project, the infinite fountain of money is gone.
So it’s time for an urgent appeal to the infinite power-hunger that started the project.
Good God not those metamorphosing Hollywood Greenshirts again!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116684/Hitlers-Los-Angeles-bunker-planned-run-Nazi-empire-war.html#ixzz1pW2RMhfd
At least my folks knew how to deal with them when they popped their nasty heads out of their bunkers or spider holes or whatever it is they inhabit nowadays.
Leo Morgan says: March 19, 2012 at 4:02 am
[So, there’s my first thoughts. Any opinions?]
Sounds like perfection…
Glock
Sam Geoghegan says:
March 19, 2012 at 2:50 am
The Progressive right, admittedly–but not conservatives in the US. The Tea Party (for “Taxed Enough Already”) is a strong proponent of down-sized, relatively small, Constitution-based government. The individual knows better than the collective how to spend their money, preserve their freedoms, and avoid socialism/communism.
Question: Does anybody know how long they took when discussing the concepts in the US Constitution before that document was penned? Was it 2 years, 5 years, maybe even 10 years?
Answer: It was about 60 years and was the main editorial topic of the time–which back then would have spanned 3 generations. And that’s why the Progressives hate it–because all the excuses they currently use to justify their movement have already been discussed and slapped down–they desperately need us to ignore history to win.
John A says:
March 19, 2012 at 1:42 am
For this classical liberal, who remembers well what the world was like with the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact and the systematic abuse of human rights under Communism, the words of this article seem to me to be an artifact of a massive case of memory loss combined with hubris.
The world has changed since the fall of Soviet Communism, and there is no appetite anywhere for such draconian governance.
The author is dreaming if he thinks that any of this would be enacted.
Apparently you are a classical liberal – oblivious to the realities around you. “No appetite for such draconian governance” … perhaps somebody’s mumbled in conversation to you about some of these things: Lebanon, the Arab Spring, denial of the Holocaust by Iran, denial of Israel by Iran, Darfur, Tiamenen Square, the Taliban, honour killings, the London, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Paris rioting, the drug cartels, Red Brigade, FARC, the EU, the UN, Islam, Fatwa, Occupy [whatever], the DNC, Putin, Mugabe, Agenda 21, gun control, criminalization of the legitimacy of self-defence (Britain, Canada – by liberals), Chavez, to name just a few that come to mind without even thinking about it… Many of those in just the last few months and years.
There is a hockey stick a-brewing, and it has nothing to do with climate. Fascist ideologues have already begun identifying, labelling and ostracising the culls – deniers, sceptics, the radical right, those in the pocket of [insert favourite Big.meme], many other pejorative expressions. All designed to identify and demonize contrarian views. Stars of David on steroids.
Peak Warming Man said: ,,,the next step is for the countries then to unite under a central(or world) government for the common good, it will be elected just like our governments are, it’ll swing between being a government of the left persuasion to one of a right persuasion just as it happens now in all democratic countries….
Elected by whom>? Have you looked at the EU? We are not now [in the west], living in democratic countries, nor have we ever been. Democracy is a theoretical principle, not a working governance model. How often does your elected representative vote the way you want him to vote? How is a “vote along party lines” any part of a democratic process? Right and left are relativistic; you keep an eye on the extremes but you watch the movement of the centre, and its trending left. There no longer is a right and left when your only choice is this “re-education” camp, or that “indoctrination” program, just left and more left (or to use the eerily contra “progressive and “more progressive”)
The singularly most important and symbolic western action of freedom that occured in the last 15 years, world-wide, was the enactment in the US of the “shall-issue” carry laws. Whether you agree with them or not, they represent the last stand of those who cherish what freedom really is: the ability to make and ensure your own choice. That ability, by degree and decree, has all but disappeared in the west. Throw a small pocket knife in your briefcase in Britain and see where that gets you.
mfo – Thanks for that reference to “The Carbon Cost of Crime”, which I’ve just been reading. It’s a whole, unsuspected new demonstration of ‘Whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad’, and everyone should read it. Surrealism is not dead. Amazing.
I allowed my subscription to SA to expire about a year ago now. I could not justify paying for a magazine which focused so much attention on ACC and AGW and not enough on general sciences. Science topics were what I thought I was paying for after all.
I’m not sure if the editors of SA are even aware that climate science is really political science.
FWIW, the “Scientific” “American” has been owned by a German company for a while and their Green Agenda reflects the more “Over the top” German attitudes toward “green” than the American common culture. We’re also setting up for a generational backlash as the younger generation is not interested in the Greenwash anymore. They just want to live their lives and are ignoring the propaganda (much as “Reefer Madness” sent more of my generation out to try M.J. rather than scaring us off of it…)
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/the-five/index.html#/v/1510896340001/teens-not-going-green/?playlist_id=1040983441001
So I’d not worry too much about the good ‘ol USA…
It’s also worth noting that some in the EU are starting to reject “government without representation”
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/eu-overreach-causing-discomfort/
Especially Spain:
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2012/03/end-of-merkels-europe.html
and Poland:
http://notrickszone.com/2012/03/11/poland-says-no-blocks-eus-climate-roadmap-napoleon-hedegaard-vents-she-wont-stand-for-it/
So with their “sandbox” for world domination in the non-representative EU blowing up in their faces at the moment, I don’t see expansion to a Global Domination any time soon…
Oh, and did I mention Greece?….
(Sidebar: There are about as many guns as people in the USA. Most of them are owned by “redneck” sorts who don’t like the idea of a world government. Heck, they aren’t all that fond of the Federal government… And the 2nd amendment is not about shooting Bambi, it’s about making sure the OTHER amendments are recognized… So anyone trying to install an unelected government here is going to have “issues”…)
Q. Daniels says:March 18, 2012 at 10:41 pm
What would John Galt do?
He would take note of Ellsworth Toohey
http://www.tysknews.com/Articles/exterminating_ellsworth.htm
Keith Minto says:
March 18, 2012 at 9:41 pm
“Gary Stix is the author and I can find no further qualifications other than journalist and author. This apparently is enough to qualify to be Senior editor at SA.”
No his real qualification is that he can use “sine qua non” in a sentence [heh].
Folks – people like Gary Stix should be laughed at. They are merely misguided buffoons pretending to be erudite scholars.
Again, though, I would remind everyone in the U.S. to please VOTE this November to remove any possibility that disturbing fantasies such as those espoused by Mr. Stix could ever come true…
The EU and the Euro are on their way to collapse–so there is something to fear.
Just like Freddy the Sivershirts are back-
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/03/17/elle-macpherson-loves-obama-i-m-socialist-what-do-you-expect#ixzz1pRRjJ75n
Would that be national socialist, socialist socialist or socialist socialite dear capitalist clotheshorse?(hat tip to Bernard Slattery from Slattsnews for link)
I know you fought for their right to say whatever comes into their heads mum and dad but it’s so hard, so awful hard…………!!!!
Hmmm. Remake individuals to fit the upcoming society. Where have I heard that before? Seems like they could fill the Gulags but still were left with real people outside.
I’m guessing that Stix can’t taste the flavor of bitter almonds in his Kool-Aid.
We have always been at war with oceanic sea level aggression. We have always been at war with anthropogenic CO2. If these enemies did not exist we would have to invent them.
@ur momisugly Andrew30
I infer that your reply is from a gun ad.
That was a nice turn of phrase.
Nevertheless your reasoning is obscure. Are you against every form of world government, or only those that would be as limited as I proposed?
Are you repudiating my claim that some form of world government is inevitable, given how quickly we now travel? My high school lecturer in Ancient History claimed the limits of Empire were how far a message could travel in a day. In the 21st century we can get to the other side of the planet and back again in that time.
Is it your preferred future that you die as a lone crazed gun nut trying to fight all the world, or would you rather take a proactive role in developing a future of freedom, dignity self government and human rights?
I know that the pseudo religious crackpot opposition to world government is not soundly based on the Bible. I stand by my earlier claim that we should start planning for a government that we can live with, or else we’ll end up with one that we cannot live with. Do you really want to leave planning for the future in the hands of the leftists and totalitarians?
By the way, was your response a death threat?
I’ve never received one of those before.
DBCooper says:
March 19, 2012 at 12:02 am
Absolutely beyond belief!
How can anyone be that stupid?
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In my experience, it usually takes an advanced degree or two to make someone that stupid.
From the article : “There would have to be consideration of some way of embracing head-in-the-cloud answers to social problems that are usually dismissed by policymakers as academic naivete.”
Academic naivete, pie-in-the-sky, wishful thinking, head in the sand… call it whatever you want. It generally means YOU’RE WRONG!
“How do we overcome our hard-wired tendency to “discount” the future: valuing what we have today more than what we might receive tomorrow?”
Well, that’s easy. You get a tenured job at Princeton or some such place. Then the future forty years down the road is just as rock solid as this evening’s cocktails.
For those of us without tenure in academia or government, the future can look as tenuous as it must to someone sneaking across the US border in Arizona. The condition of the vast majority of mankind resembles that of the person who saw that he had no future and crossed the border.
Of course the World Government will be run from the perspective of tenured academics and for the benefit of tenured government employees.
I canceled my subscription to SA last month because of the John Horgan “Should Global-Warming Activists Lie to Defend Their Cause?” article. I had been a subscriber for about 50 years. I was introduced to the magazine by my 9th grade science teacher Phylis Singer (soon to marry Philip Morrison, book editor for SA and very much more).
To work for “a new set of institutions that have heavy-handed, transnational enforcement powers” betrays everyting about America. Why did my father bother to fight in WW-II? If we wanted “heavy-handed, transnational enforcement powers” we could have just let the NAZIs win.
Yeah. That’ll work. I mean, dictatorial socialism has always produced benevolent leaders for the good of mankind, right? Let’s see…. There’s Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Hussein… to name a few. They did so much good for mankind by actually killing off their own people (and others too!) in order to save the planet. And if you’re going to resort to mass murder and death, why not save the world at the same time? Good call. That way, no matter how ‘bad’ you are, you’re still doing ‘good.’
Sorta like Assad in Syria. Sure, he’s killed 10,000 of his countrymen lately, but think of how that is helping the planet! Without those people breathing we can all breathe much better ourselves! I wonder why he hasn’t received the Nobel Peace Prize yet? Probably just an administrative oversight. I’m sure the geniuses that run it will fix that oversight soon. They have such a good record going…
Today, others toil selflessly in an effort to save the planet. Well-known current human environmentalists include: Mugabe, Chavez, Mbasogo, Castro, Berdymukhammedov, Thein Sein, Karimov, Al-Bashir, Afewerki and Jong-Un. Please keep them in your thoughts to help them continue the great work they are doing to “save the planet.”
Many are joining the cause every day. Soon, if all goes well, we’ll all be forced to! **
And won’t that be a great day! / sarc
(** Unfortunately, I won’t be there with you. I’ve been called a “flat-earther” by the pResident of the United States. I won’t be allowed to join the collective. I am… dangerous.)
Power – when we understand this is how it works, and not the other way around, we’ll have found the beginning of a solution to our problems:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_ZFZizRGeHY/TzJm59NHJ5I/AAAAAAAAVPM/0dz2SnUEd2c/s1600/power.jpg