How many years have Climate Realists, including myself, told people that the actual basis of the “climate change” (hoax) movement is to push for more government control (and putting lots of money in the pockets of climate researchers, but that’s a different post), and has little to do with actually stopping any sort of increase in temperature? Via Tom Nelson comes this article
(Liberation, the paper of Socialists) The central lesson of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else, meaning that human activities interact with nature in sometimes problematic ways. Thus, evidence accumulating this summer of powerful and accelerating changes in the global climate offers a warning that capitalism’s insatiable appetite for profits is pushing the global climate system toward runaway global warming.
The only viable choice in responding to the ecological crisis of capitalism is socialism. Continuing the effort to reform capitalism is a dead end, as Rio+20 has unequivocally demonstrated. Abandoning modern society also is not a choice, as that would mean abandoning the very tools we need to limit the impact of the crisis and adapt to a changing climate.
What is Socialism? It is one of three Democratic political models, along with Liberalism and Conservatism (American Conservatism is actually based on Liberalism, often referred to as neo-Conservatism, while Conservatives in Europe are true Conservatives). There are three cores to the Democratic model, the Moral, the Economic, and the Political. With Socialism we find
- Moral core: government should stay the hell out of people’s private lives
- Political: free and open elections
- Economic: the government is heavily involved in the means of production within the private sector, and will actually own many companies itself
Obviously, today’s socialism is very involved in people’s private lives (think Nanny State regulations and laws), and Lefties love “Direct Democracy”, except when they lose. Then they sue to overturn. What they really like is heavy government involvement in the economy, controlling everything. And, somehow, putting the government heavily in charge will save the planet from over-heating, without destroying the economy.
Socialism would mean: developing our human resources through free and quality public education; strengthening workers’ organizations so that they can become partners in ecological recovery; reconstructing our health care system so that it can address the emerging public health issues that are coming out of the ecological crisis; promoting international cooperation, rather than militarization and war, which is necessary to reducing the human impact on the environment; and most importantly, including and respecting all members of our global community as brothers and sisters in this struggle.
It’s not really socialism per the political theory definition, but more a blend of socialism and fascism. Which worked so well in the Soviet Union and today’s mainland China, eh?
