Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades. This is the stark conclusion of James Lovelock, the globally respected environmental thinker and independent scientist who developed the Gaia theory. ...
One of the main obstructions to meaningful action is "modern democracy", he added. "Even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while."
I won't even comment on the "Gaia theory" stuff. Yet he's still globally respected. Wonderful.
But what is that crap about putting democracy on hold during war? I'll just speak for America, but we've always maintained our democracy and never put it "on hold." Not during World War II. Not during the current War on Terror despite the lunatic ravings of lesser minds than the developer of Gaia theory. And during our own Civil War when the fate of the Union quite literally hung on the outcome of our 1864 presidential election, we did not suspend democracy. But perhaps I'm just a history denialist, too.
Face it, a lot of warmists just like the idea of ordering people about. And if their excuse is saving the freaking planet, then that reason will work as well as any other that fascists, communists, and tin-pot dictators have peddled in history.
