Just when we all thought Communism was dead what with reports of ever increasing individual freedom for people around the globe maybe now all can get down to the business of living our lives without worrying about a police state monitoring our every move, thoughts and desires. Hold on, not so fast. We now are seeing before our very eyes the morphing of Communism into-what is it? A bird? A plane? No! It's Global Warming to the rescue!
There will always be busybodies among us - you know the types - tin-pot dictators who think they know it all and leftists who think they can think for us and conservative types that want to inculcate godliness in the rest of us. It's all about controlling the masses. The problem is that the new face of Communism is not local anymore - this is a world wide attempt at planet control.
Robert Tracinski at http://www.tiadaily.com/ writes about what is on the horizon. "A bit of the flavor of the coming environmentalist police state is provided by a new Australian television show titled "Carbon Cops." In a bizarre inversion of the typical American home improvement show, the experts in this show descend on the hapless homeowners to measure their "carbon footprint," the amount of fossil fuels involved in the manufacture and use of every item in their house. The "carbon cops" are shown rummaging through a family's smallest household items, searching for global warming contraband—and then scolding them for "polluting" the atmosphere with carbon dioxide. report
Vaclav Klaus has written an important article (Read) from the point of view of "someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning….
"The scientists should help us and take into consideration the political effects of their scientific opinions. They have an obligation to declare their political and value assumptions and how much they have affected their selection and interpretation of scientific evidence.
"Does it make any sense to speak about warming of the Earth when we see it in the context of the evolution of our planet over hundreds of millions of years? Every child is taught at school about temperature variations, about the ice ages, about the much warmer climate in the Middle Ages. All of us have noticed that even during our life-time temperature changes occur (in both directions).
"Due to advances in technology, increases in disposable wealth, the rationality of institutions and the ability of countries to organise themselves, the adaptability of human society has been radically increased. It will continue to increase and will solve any potential consequences of mild climate changes.
"I agree with Professor Richard Lindzen from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who said: "future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age".
But Planet control will go the way of Communism eventually (I hope) - but one wonders how many people will suffer because of another evil idea.
If we get what we wish for we may actually live the Australian TV show version of the Carbon Cops: "Each week they don their orange monogrammed shirts to cordon off the toxic home of an Australian family. They arrive with energy-auditing gadgetry, sobering statistics, and lips and eyebrows curled in withering admonishment. They rate these people, shame them, then challenge them to do better." (Read)
Read in NRO from Tracinski's article.
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