Is it? Obviously, the Warmists at Grist believe so or they wouldn’t run this “we’re just wondering” piece
Authoritarianism is on the rise. Is climate change to blame?
In November 2013, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in history made landfall in the Philippines. Known locally as Super Typhoon Yolanda, the storm pummeled the island country with 235-mile-per-hour gusts and a 17-foot storm surge; picked up limousine-sized boulders as easily as plastic bottles and deposited them hundreds of feet away; and officially killed 6,300 people, although the true death toll was likely much higher.
Rodrigo Duterte, then the longtime mayor of Davao City, made headlines for traveling some 400 miles to one of the worst-ravaged areas of the country, along with a convoy of medical and relief workers and roughly $150,000 in cash. He announced that he’d told security forces to shoot any looters who might try to intercept the convoy. (He went on to clarify, “I told them to just shoot at the feet. … They can have prosthetics after, anyway.”) As a presidential candidate in 2016, Duterte slammed his opponent, the former interior secretary, for allegedly misspending Yolanda recovery funds. He won in a landslide.
Over the next six years, Duterte proved that his foul-mouthed maverick shtick wasn’t harmless posturing. He presided over a brutal war on drugs in which police and vigilantes — emboldened by the president — killed as many as 30,000 people, imposed martial law on an island home to 22 million for two and a half years, and signed a law that gave law enforcement broad authority to arrest and detain suspects without warrants.
So, a hurricane hits, a strongman takes over (something which is rather normal in that part of the world), and it is all your fault.
The past decade or so has given rise to a grim parade of Duterte-like candidates around the world — politicians who have obliterated the bounds of acceptable political discourse, scapegoated religious and ethnic minorities, dismissed journalism as fake news, sought to imprison their rivals, and undermined democratic checks and balances. In India, commonly referred to as “the world’s largest democracy,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vilified Muslims and carried out a campaign promise to build a Hindu temple on the site of a mosque razed by Hindu mobs. In Brazil, former President Jair Bolsonaro promoted a bill that would strip Indigenous tribes of control of their lands and unsuccessfully plotted a coup to remain in power after losing reelection. And in the United States, former President Donald Trump — currently running for reelection — separated immigrant children from their parents and incited a horde of supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol.
See? Because you drive a fossil fueled vehicle Bad Things happen. Anyhow, this goes on and on and on. I saw this over at Watts Up With That?, which was reprinted from Climate Realism, as written by Linnea Lueken, with the title
Wrong, Grist, Climate Change Isn’t Causing a Rise in Authoritarianism
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It may sound like an alright or reasonable conclusion at a shallow level, it is true that uncertainty and instability can lead to the rise of corrupt leadership, but the idea that climate change is generating these conditions is false.
I hate to disagree, but, the climate crisis (scam) is creating authoritarianism, though Grist has it exactly backwards. Authoritarians have always risen. Such is life on Earth. But, those rising from ‘climate change’ are the Warmists themselves. I’ve said thousands of times “for the sake of argument, let’s agree that the slight increase in global temperatures since 1850 are mostly/solely caused by the actions of Mankind, particularly the burning of fossil fuels: so, why is almost every policy being pushed by the Cult of Climastrology, especially by the big wigs, all about more and more government control over our individual lives? Why is that power trying to be centralized? Why are they trying to limit your freedom of speech, of movement, of where you can live, what you are allowed to eat?”
The climate cult is, at it’s core, Authoritarian. That’s who these people are. James Delingpole calls them watermelons: green on the outside, red on the inside. The commies/Socialists/Progressives infiltrated the enviro movement after the Soviet Union fell, then took over the climate movement, as it was a perfect platform to push their massive government policies. They’ve brainwashed a huge number of people into believing that Big Government is the way.
Read: Climate Cult Wonders If Authoritarianism Is On The Rise Due To Global Boiling »
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