Monday, June 23, 2008

Environmentalism & Totalitarianism

Environmentalism & Totalitarianism

I've mentioned before the threat to put on trial for "war crimes" those who denied that global warming was a threat, or was actually happening, or was entirely man-made. Now, an employee of the federal government is saying to start those trials now. From the June 23, 2008 Guardian:
James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.
Hansen will use the symbolically charged 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking speech (pdf) to the US Congress - in which he was among the first to sound the alarm over the reality of global warming - to argue that radical steps need to be taken immediately if the "perfect storm" of irreversible climate change is not to become inevitable.
Speaking before Congress again, he will accuse the chief executive officers of companies such as ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy of being fully aware of the disinformation about climate change they are spreading.
In an interview with the Guardian he said: "When you are in that kind of position, as the CEO of one the primary players who have been putting out misinformation even via organisations that affect what gets into school textbooks, then I think that's a crime."
Environmentalism is a form of totalitarianism. It seeks to criminalize free speech about important issues of public policy. It seeks to punish people for something that was not a crime when they did it, and which is still not a crime. And remind me: why does a guy who is proposing trying people for something that is not just legal, but protected by the First Amendment still have a job?

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