Posted on 06/01/2009 10:23:20 AM PDT by Ed Hudgins
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently met with Beijing officials to secure international agreement about tighter restrictions on economic activity in order to deal with perceived global warming. Happily, China’s regime over the past three decades has been moving away from its Maoist cult and totalitarian communism and towards more freedom, most notably in its economy. Thus Beijing officials are reluctant to strangle economic freedom and, as a result, slow economic growth with such restrictions.
Sadly, it looks like Pelosi has picked up the totalitarian sword and is bringing it back with her to wield against Americans in the name of what can only be called an environmentalist cult.
Consider the three elements shared by Marxist communism and this Eco-cult.
First, both are collectivist. Communism rejects the moral primacy of the individual in the name of a group, “the Proletariat.” Individuals don’t have a right to their own lives. They are not to be left alone to do as they see fit, dealing with others based on mutual consent rather than the initiation of force. Under communist morality we’re all expected to sacrifice our personal goals, values, and dreams for the good of the downtrodden. The purpose of communist governments is to force subjects at gunpoint to do the bidding of political elites who supposedly know what is in the interest of the “the Proletariat.”
The Eco-cult is collectivist as well. Al Gore wrote that “We must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization.” Here he does not mean simply that we should deal with cases in which pollution directly harms humans. Rather, we’re expected to sacrifice ourselves not even for the alleged good of other humans as was the case with communism. Rather, we’re to give up our own wellbeing for a non-human...
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Environmentalism is just the latest tool. The authoritarian strain has always been there.
The Left tends to be dominated by control freaks. They have an obsession with micro-managing the lives of others, even though many can’t even manage their own.
Environmentalism is 100% lib-nazi fraud.
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