
Chinless-wonder Al Gore, better known to all and sundry as the creator of the internet (until he defeats the environment, anyway), is at it again.
Having successfully driven off audiences in the US through his slobbering fixation with the mirage of climate change, Gore is increasingly venturing abroad to spread the wisdom of his rantings.
On this particular occasion, he was in Oxford (UK) at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, where he stated that (regarding “climate change”),
“... it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements.”
If this weren’t so scary, it would be funny. In fact, I’m going to leave the funny to S.Weasel over at her site (and it is an awesome site), while I concentrate on the scary.
Climate change legislation is a fig leaf for global absolutism. The Left desires for it to be the issue upon which the foundation of global governance is built, in the same way in which the supranational European Union was originally constructed around the coal & steel sector in 1951.
In their fantasy world, “global governance” is the ultimate panacea. One people, one world, one government! All our problems will be solved through harmonious international cooperation!
Which begs the question: how can Lefties believe this? Removing politics from the national to the supranational level will only p*ss people off even more. Accountability will nosedive while corruption skyrockets. If you think that the crooks in power are bad enough now, then just wait ’til they’re joined by a host of “leaders” from countries that make our decrepit democracies look like shining cities of gold.
Global governance has long been an explicitly left-wing objective. This is nothing more than a modern update on an old theme. Karl Marx maintained that nationalism was an artificial division, that it was class – and not the nation-state – of which people should be aware. He propounded transnational alliances of the proletariat that disregarded national constraints, as later put into such spectacular and disastrous effect by Stalin, in order to realize his dream of a classless global society (i.e. where everyone is equally poor and miserable).
This rationale remains essentially unchanged, as Barry and the Democrats, through their fervor for “justice” and “fairness”, seek to finish what Marx started.
[Thanks to long-time reader, contributor and West Coast editor Voyska PVO for sending me the link to S. Weasel.]