Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Yet another Aussie academic attack on Democracy, Mark Diesendorf, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, UNSW, UNSW Australia has demanded wide ranging social changes, a “wartime response” to the climate emergency, including vesting the government with extraordinary powers in order to overcome resistance from “vested interests”.
…in practice there are several big, non-technical barriers. These include politics dominated by vested interests, culture, and institutions (organisational structures, laws, and regulations).
Vested interests include the fossil fuel industry, electricity sector, aluminium smelting, concrete, steel and motor vehicles. Governments that receive taxation revenue and political donations from vested interests are reluctant to act effectively.
To overcome this barrier, we need strong and growing pressure from the climate action movement.
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UNSW PhD candidate Laurence Delina has investigated the rapid, large, socio-economic changes made by several countries just before and during World War 2.
He found that we can learn from wartime experience in changing the labour force and finance.
However, he also pointed out the limitations of the wartime metaphor for rapid climate mitigation:
- Governments may need extraordinary emergency powers to implement rapid mitigation, but these are unlikely to be invoked unless there is support from a large majority of the electorate.
- While such support is almost guaranteed when a country is engaged in a defensive war, it seems unlikely for climate action in countries with powerful vested interests in greenhouse gas emissions.
- Vested interests and genuinely concerned people will exert pressure on governments to direct their policies and resources predominantly towards adaptation measures such as sea walls, and dangerous quick fixes such as geoengineering. While adaptation must not be neglected, mitigation, especially by transforming the energy sector, should be primary.
Unfortunately it’s much easier to make war than to address the global climate crisis rapidly and effectively. Indeed many governments of “democratic” countries, including Australia, make war without parliamentary approval.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/rapid-transition-to-clean-energy-will-take-massive-social-change-58211
The reason it is “difficult” to convince people to support extraordinary incursions of government into everyone’s lives, is nothing bad has happened. Not only has nothing bad happened, greens have a long and growing track record of predicting bad stuff which doesn’t happen.
If I thought there was a climate emergency, I would support extraordinary measures to stabilise the biosphere. But until someone presents more substantial evidence than a bunch of broken models with no predictive skill, I’ll hang on to my democratic right to vote for politicians who ignore radical greens.
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It’s the Venezuelan Option for climate action.
Common and garden fascist. He must be a [pruned] academic, so he’s taking the political route, where shoddy science changes from being a liability to being an advantage.
He looks pretty senior (and secure) actually – some kind of interdisciplinary environmental committee.
What are the requirements to be an associate professor in Australia? Does he not realize that Australia could quit oxidizing all forms of carbon and make essentially no difference in Global warming?
You know some days as a reasonable Anglo bloke you think- I give up ISIS. You win. Come and do your thing and stick them in burquas rather than their tree suits, etc as it might be a lot easier on the eyes and ears-
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/elizabeth_v_elizabeth/
Do watch the video for the aliens from outer space even if you can’t handle Liz Farrelly’s unintelligible dribblings for long They walk and squawk among us, not to mention being responsible for that grey lichurchur from their inimitable IPCC.
The Aussie govt will certainly need emergency powers … to deal with lack of investment in new dispactable power stations, and to deal with the resulting riots when the power goes off just when most needed, during summer heatwaves when winds tend to be very light.
just imagine what would happen to conventional farming if “free” but intermittent food appears, and all political parties encourage ever more “free” food, that is what is happening NOW to proper power stations in the so-called developed world.
Socialists are opposed to two things. Any power center that they don’t control. Anybody else getting government money.
Round them up and ship them off to the Green Gulag camps.
Manmade climate change isn’t real, if it were real, the scientists wouldn’t have confessed making up data and putting it in the records.
There is an entire field of astronomy named infrared astronomy. If the atmosphere were actually growing warmer at night due to back radiation there would be a never ending stream of information about back radiation and it’s ever upward climb.
The fact it isn’t real, is not only proven by taking apart manmade warming – taking the compression out of the mathematics for temperature, then pretending ”green house warming” is doing it- but by looking around at all the other scientists.
Infrared astronomy is done from satellites as infrared has never been able to penetrate the earth’s atmosphere.
MarkW
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http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/outreach/Edu/ground.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Infrared_Telescope_Facility
Oh, I think it’s real, alright. Just not what it’s cracked up to be.
They are not “gulag” camps! The sign on the front clearly says “re-education”.
Work will make you free?
Portland Oregon School Board
I sometimes talk about how crazy Portland is. Here is the latest. The school board is throwing out all textbooks (including those recently purchased) that fail to promote Climate Change.. From now on all textbooks must promote Climate Change and, get this, Climate Justice.
What the hell is Climate Justice????
Eugene WR Gallun
Home schooling is looking better and better.
They will tell you later when they get the kids right on the message.
And the “bad books” are just a match-strike away from oblivion…
Anytime there is a modifier on the word justice, just replace it with the two letters “in”
Climate Justice = injustice
Social Justice = injustice
Political Justice = injustice, etc.
Anything that is not simply “Justice” is tyranny by another name.
Owen in GA — I like that. Truth revealed and simply done. — Eugene WR Gallun
The Warmunists are finaly openly admitting the true reason for their Climate Change scam!
Is Climate Emergency Powers trending on Facebook? The algorithm says jump.
In the end everybody has to come clean, otherwise there’s no way to finalize an agenda. At last they break cover, at last their agenda is made plain.
All that remains is to choose. Its happened from time to time. It’s what life is all about. As it was in the beginning so shall it ever be; its happening now – we’ve all got to choose.
The dark is rising.
A fascist’s wet dream – emergency powers.
They never mention the biggest, most-powerful vested interest; the Climate Industry. They are the ones who stand to gain from the lies about “carbon”. As usual, the Carbon Cultists accuse others of that which they themselves are guilty.
Meanwhile, satellite data says that Australia hasn’t warmed at all for 20 years.
Where is this climate emergency?
http://s19.postimg.org/gqalfdnlf/Australia_1996_now.png
Dictatorial control of society has always been what it is all about. Global Warming and “the environment” are just excuses. They are becoming more overt as they gain in confidence that they have gained control of media and government. The propaganda is almost total; no heresy is allowed.
When the global warming movement is finally left on the dust bin of history, the same suspects will be out ahead, pushing a new excuse that only massive government control over everyone can save us from.
In 1991, the “Club of Rome” published The First Global Revolution:
“In searching for a common enemy against whom we can unite, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like, would fit the bill. In their totality and their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which must be confronted by everyone together. But in designating these dangers as the enemy, we fall into the trap, which we have already warned readers about, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention in natural processes, and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy then is humanity itself.” page 75
The influence by Club of Rome and “The limits to growth” on United Nations is very evident: 2013 Economic and Social Council Integration Meeting “Achieving sustainable development: Integrating the social, economic and environmental dimensions”:
«Graham Turner’s comparison of 30 years of historical data and scenarios presented in the Limits to Growth was provided as an example to illustrate that business-as-usual will result in an economic collapse by 2030.»
http://www.un.uz/images/2012-09-17.jpg
The Logo is somewhat misleading – it should have read something like:
UN – Building a bloated idiocracy based on what seems to work fine inside our heads.
And given the success United Nations still seem to think they have had with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – it is no surprise that the United Nations unelected bureaucrats wants to do it again – Conclusions and recommendations:
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• An intergovernmental committee on sustainable development should be set up to bring together all stakeholders.
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http://www.fineart.no/i/img_img/1013308-0.jpg/w=450,h=325/Pushwagner_-_They_are_asleep.jpg
If vested interests are the real audience of who decides how what is done, perhaps we can show them different technologies that are less exploitative and damaging to our environment. There’s a job.
OK, OK already!
If a “climate emergency” EVER appears, you can have wartime authority.
Wait. Does Australia even have Climate Special Forces?
Recently a whirlwind wiped out parts of the desalination plant that was built to resolve Sydney’s predicted eternal drought.
It is a new work creation plan, Green jobs.
No legislation ever protected us poor Sydneysiders from this folly of prediction, where we were told that the dams would run dry.
The comments of this professor remind me of ‘Rage against the dying of the light’.
A total frustration that nothing is being done to solve the problems of the planet, so extreme measures are justified.
Yet in a broader context and natural progression, Australians would have to stop China and India growing, as even if we in Australia cracked back to the stone age, there would be no change in the IPCC predicted planetary temperature.
So the next logical progression is that we block supply of raw materials, like coal and natural gas to these billions of the poorest on Earth.
One can see hundreds of his student manning the barricades to stop coal mining and chaining themselves to bulldozers, with emergency powers putting in police to protect them.
Emergency powers were always there for us in war.
Is this professor suggesting we need to wage war to resolve climate change?
Against whom?
China, India?
Our fellow citizens?
Our just rule of Law?
Our own critical faculties?
Is it just me or does it seem like all the solutions being proposed seem to converge towards socialism?
It’s not just you, that’s been the intention from the start.
In case it hasn’t come up yet….
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Lord Acton
No surer way to “absolute” than to declare and sell an imaginary emergency.
(Didn’t Adolf do something like that?)
“vested interests” include people like the good Prof who seems to lack the ability to research his field of expertise(?).
Well the aussie´s have started sacking these nutcases :
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/global-sealevel-expert-john-church-made-to-walk-the-plank-by-csiro-20160513-gov0k9.html
A dose of reality for our jackboot professors. The latest survey in Australia’s upcoming election show that climate change is a top priority for 7% of voters.
I wonder idly whether the Diesendorf brothers, Mark the environmentalist, activist and UNSW apparatchik and John the engineer are on speaking terms? I would imagine that Mark would have his own father turning in his grave – a Jewish Austrian and Australian emigre who fled the Nazis, with first hand experience of ’emergency government’. One could be forgiven for wondering whether Mark may unfortunately be showing the signs of early onset dementia.
Security measures to avoid mass deaths by terrorist activity on home soil = unjustified infringement of civil rights.
Wide-reaching government control of virtually all aspects of life to avoid a possible, maybe, who-knows slight rise in temperature = justified restrictions for the good of us all.