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Now The Elites Want To Use Covid-Style Tyranny To ‘Fight Climate Change’

by Justin Haskins
January 14, 2022, 2:01 PM
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sheepHow far would you go to mitigate the effects of climate change? If you’re like most people, the answer is, probably not far at all.

According to numerous surveys, the vast majority of Americans aren’t willing to make even modest sacrifices to address global warming.

For example, a 2019 survey found 68 percent of Americans wouldn’t agree to pay just $10 extra per month in higher electric bills to “combat climate change.” In the same survey, only 57 percent said they would support paying $1 extra per month.

These views are remarkable for a variety of reasons, but perhaps the most striking is that they show there is a huge chasm between how most working families view the issue of climate change compared to ruling class types in government, corporate boardrooms, and academia.

While most Americans have repeatedly resisted calls for dramatic changes to society to battle climate change, elites have worked feverishly to push the world toward adopting a “net-zero” economy.

In just the past two years, thousands of businesses, including many large corporations, have committed to phasing out products linked to fossil-fuel use.

Similarly, hundreds of banks and financial institutions in the Glasgow Alliance for Net-Zero — which, together, control more than $130 trillion in assets — have agreed to use their wealth and power to force other businesses and individuals to go what they call “green.”

Push for Radical Reforms

Most disturbing of all, however, a growing movement among some in academia and environmentalist groups pushes openly for radical and in some cases downright authoritarian reforms of Western societies.

Perhaps the best illustration is a recent, disturbing paper published by the American Political Science Review and Cambridge University Press, one of the most influential and highly respected academic publishing houses in the world.

In the paper, titled “Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change,” professor Ross Mittiga argues that the “climate emergency may legitimate resorts to authoritarianism, both in managing the fallout from impending or unfolding climate catastrophes (i.e., emergency of effects) and in ensuring that such events are more limited in number and scope in the future (i.e., emergency of action).”

For Mittiga, the allegedly dire nature of climate change justifies rethinking democratic norms and Western understandings of individual rights.

Mittiga believes freedom is the problem when it comes to mitigating climate change, and that “authoritarianism” — his word, not mine — is justified and perhaps even necessary to ensure humanity doesn’t die from a climate catastrophe.

Reducing Meat Consumption

What, exactly, does Mittiga have in mind?

“For one,” he wrote, “governments might impel citizens to make significant lifestyle changes. One pertinent example concerns curbing meat-heavy diets, common in the Global North, given the enormous carbon footprint of animal agriculture.”

Although banning meat consumption would ordinarily be “considered an unacceptably paternalistic affront to individual autonomy,” Mittiga admits, “there is by now extensive evidence that it is likely impossible to avoid catastrophic climate change without drastic reductions in animal agriculture.”

Limiting Democracy and Free Speech

Mittiga doesn’t stop with meat consumption, either. He also suggests “a censorship regime that prevents the proliferation of climate denialism or disinformation in public media,” as well as “relaxing property rights in order to nationalize, shutter, or repurpose certain companies.”

Even democracy itself is too dangerous for Mittiga, who says governments could “justifiably limit certain democratic institutions and processes to the extent these bear on the promulgation or implementation of environmental policy.”

For example, anyone running for office could be subjected to a “climate litmus test,” and governments “may establish institutions capable of overturning previous democratic decisions (expressed, for example, in popular referenda or plebiscites) against the implementation of carbon taxes or other necessary climate policies.”

Extremism Becoming Normalized

It isn’t surprising that a radical environmentalist would make the sort of sweeping, dictatorial suggestions made by Mittiga in his article. Far-left blogs like Daily Kos have been full of this sort of nonsense for many years.

But it is incredibly disturbing that one of the world’s most important and influential academic presses, Cambridge University Press, and one of the nation’s most prestigious academic political science journals, the American Political Science Review, would agree to promote such an extremist view.

It appears to be a clear sign that environmental extremism is becoming normalized — at least among influential academics.

That might not concern you today, but it should. Every socialistic, economically disastrous, and authoritarian idea now popular today was first normalized among academic elites.

Further, Mittiga’s foundational argument — that responsible governments ought to engage in authoritarian or semi-authoritarian activities when a crisis becomes large enough to justify it — has essentially become standard operating procedure in our coronavirus-dominated world.

Just a few years ago, could you imagine a world in which Australia would force its citizens to live in government concentration camps?

Or one where friends and family members would be arrested in Canada for doing nothing more than trying to hold a New Year’s Eve party with six people in attendance?

Or one in which churchgoers in America’s Bible Belt would be fined $500 for attending a drive-in church service without permission from the government? And yet, these policies have now become the “new normal.”

With these examples in mind, is it really so hard to envision what truly horrific things government would do if enough people were to believe that the world is on the brink of an existential global warming catastrophe? Of course not.

That is precisely why Mittiga’s article and the reckless decisions by Cambridge University Press and the American Political Science Review to publish it matter so much.

If Americans don’t swiftly condemn the normalization of authoritarianism, it will become our terrifying reality.

Unlike with the coronavirus, for most of us, concerns over climate change will not fade in our lifetimes. Once climate authoritarianism is in place, it might never go away.

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Comments 6

  1. Daffy says:
    4 years ago

    I await the spin out from the fear of oil and its plastics in the health industry. Imagine getting your infusion from a paper cannula (or even worse a metal one), your saline from a waxed cloth bag…or a glass bottle (oh, think of the embodied energy)…hope it’s been sterilized rightly. This of the energy that would go into sterilizing all that is now safely disposed of. Think of all the plastic used in every aspect of health. I wonder what the non-plastic colostomy pouches will be made of.

    Reply
    • Sonnyhill says:
      4 years ago

      In the words of Nancy Pelosi, ” We’ll need to pass the bill to find out what’s in it”
      The paper straws I’m getting creep me out. I can’t ignore that they’re falling apart in my mouth.
      Paper has its place but not in my diet.

      Reply
  2. James says:
    4 years ago

    As with most political dreams, lots of cash gets spent on projects that just might be useful. Walking on the Moon was just such a dream, and lots of cash was spent on new materials and systems, some of which have entered our daily life so that now Space is a major industry. Politicians are spending plenty on the Climate project; any suggestions for research in fields, however remotely connected, that could be useful? The obvious is cheap reliable energy; any others? There certainly is research into batteries with high power density and lower costs, to replace the current junk. How about high energy transmission without cables? Application of nanotechnology to all possible fields. Printing large steel structures. IoT without batteries. I’d guess people like MIT have a substantial backlog of such work. Laboratory simulation of single cell functions. Machine learning and AI applied to policing, justice, medicine.

    Reply
    • David Lewis says:
      4 years ago

      There are some very significant difference between the benefits of the space program and action on climate change. Helped by advances from the space program, the cost of computers has gone down from over $100,000 for a mainframe in 1960 to about $150 for a basic PC lap top. Action on climate change on the other hand has increased the cost of energy by several times in many European countries, added a dollar a gallon to the cost of gas and propane in the US, and has hit the most vulnerable the hardest. The space program made advances in medical technology, smart phones, and TV’s all happen sooner. There is no “cheap reliable energy” on the horizon other than fossil fuels and hydroelectric. The closest is nuclear but in comparison to fossil fuels it is not cheap. It would be nice if better batteries are developed but I’m not hopeful that there will be anything dramatic. Remember, batteries only store energy; it still needs to be generated.

      Reply
  3. Spurwing Plover says:
    4 years ago

    Noting that back in the 1070’s it was Global Cooling and a New Ice Age was coming liberal rags like Time and Newsweek was giving it top coverage in their liberal rags as much as the have been doing with Global Warming/Climate Change in the 1990’s

    Reply
  4. Roger Payne says:
    4 years ago

    Given the known fact that Cambridge and Oxford are infiltrated with links to China and Chinese interests, is anybody surprised?

    Reply

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