Not Surprising . . .

Gog and Magog Are Showing Signs of Life

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Greenists believe that these are desperate times--acutely so. The future of mankind is at stake. Therefore, it is not surprising that they are calling for desperate measures. We are not now talking about the lunatic fringe of the movement. We are referring to those in the Greenist mainstream, the card-carrying members, who know all the right people, sit on all the right committees and are deeply involved in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Enter one Professor David Shearman, MD, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Adelaide, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University’s Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences and Law School. Professor Shearman was an Assessor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Third Assessment Report and the Fourth Assessment Report. He is a mainstream Greenist.

The enlightened, and therefore desperate, professor has co-authored a book which addresses the question of what needs to be done to combat global warming so as to achieve planetary salvation. He is convinced that democratic governments are not up to the task. Presumably he has attended too many Copenhagens. (A "Copenhagen" is a UN talk-fest, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.) Copenhagens are not producing the desperate measures required. What we need is truly authoritarian government. (He is serious.)  According to Hauntingthelibrary:

Shearman has penned several books on global warming, such as ‘Climate Change as a Crisis in World Civilization: Why We Must Totally Transform How We Live‘ and ‘The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy‘. His argument is that overpopulation and industrialization are causing an ecological disaster which requires a total change of lifestyle for everyone on the planet. As democracy isn’t up to the challenge, an authoritarian government must (obviously) be imposed to save us from ourselves.

 Here are some excerpts from a recent book co-authored by the Professor (The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy). They reveal desperate measures indeed. 

Government in the future will be based upon . . . a supreme office of the biosphere. The office will comprise specially trained philosopher/ecologists. These guardians will either rule themselves or advise an authoritarian government of policies based on their ecological training and philosophical sensitivities. These guardians will be specially trained for the task. [p. 134]

Plato must be rubbing his hands with glee.  

The good Professor acknowledges that religion is an important element for social control. It is required to keep people in line. The authors muse whether Christianity or Islam should be employed (in an authoritarian manner, of course) to help save the world. But, no. There is a more likely alternative.

However, they [Christianity and Islam] are not the only contenders for providing social glue for the masses. Although too much of the natural world will be destroyed for civilization to continue in its present form, some biodiversity will still exist . . . It is not impossible that from the green movement and aspects of the new age movement a religious alternative to Christianity and Islam will emerge. And it is not too difficult to imagine what shape this new religion could take. One would require a transcendent God who could punish and reward – because humans seem to need a carrot and a stick. [p. 127]

Naturally, the required authoritarian society needs to be controlled by enlightened elites, like, well, the good Professor.

Chapter 9 will describe in more detail how we might begin the process of constructing such real universities to train the ecowarriors to do battle against the enemies of life. We must accomplish this education with the same dedication used to train its warriors. As in Sparta, these natural elites will be especially trained from childhood to meet the challenging problems of our times. [p. 134]

Now, let's recap. This is not the lunatic fringe of Greenism. This is hard-core, serious, mainstream Greenism exposing itself in all its nudey-rudey, so to speak. We expect that we will see more and more of this. The Greenist world-view sees the planet becoming more destroyed by the day. More and more carbon dioxide is being relentlessly emitted.  The desperation thermometer is therefore rising. Critical mass is approaching. Desperate times call for desperate measures. For Greenists the good Professor is being both reasonable and rational.

The biggest risk facing us in this regard is to think of such views as being on the lunatic fringe of Greenism. They are not. More sinister is the way Greenism has now infected most Western governments and elites, to where they are prepared to countenance desperate measures, like taxing carbon and monitoring household energy and proscribing some light bulbs whilst prescribing others. And let's not forget the desire of New Zealand's previous Prime Minister eventually to control the nation's showers and baths. 

None of these irritating measures are going to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.  So more serious, draconian measures will be required.  Politicians who have bought into the Greenist world-view and who have sanctioned the incandescent light-bulb's extinction and similar irritants will not find it easy to resist.  

Greenism is not going to fade away. The biggest mistake we could make is to laugh off  Greenism and not take is seriously precisely because it is so absurd. It is an evil ideology with totalitarian aspirations.  It is insinuating itself more and more into the corridors of power in the West. It must be exposed, confronted, and rejected. Desperate times and all that.