Environmental fascism

Cliff Kincaid points to the fascism of the environmental extremists, who have gained the support of both the leadership of Democrats and Republicans, that uses global warming to exert the authority of government against the freedom of the people:

His book, Blue Planet in Green Shackles, published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, charges that the movement to "save" the environment has been taken over by ideologues who favor total government control over our lives. He says it can be considered a form of communism, socialism or even fascism. Whatever you call it, the result will be the extinction of human freedom.

Fascist Roots

Indeed, Klaus’s book quotes the authoritative essay, "Fascist Ideology: The Green Wing of the Nazi Party and Its Historical Antecedents," by Peter Staudenmaier, as providing the backdrop for understanding the mentality driving the media-led hysteria over "global warming" and the alleged necessity for immediate governmental action at the national and global levels.

Staudenmaier wrote that "the Nazi movement’s incorporation of environmentalist themes was a crucial factor in its rise to popularity and state power." He explained, "Hitler and Himmler were both strict vegetarians and animal lovers, attracted to nature mysticism and homeopathic cures, and staunchly opposed to vivisection and cruelty to animals. Himmler even established experimental organic farms to grow herbs for SS medicinal purposes. And Hitler, at times, could sound like a veritable Green utopian, discussing authoritatively and in detail various renewable energy sources (including environmentally appropriate hydropower and producing natural gas from sludge) as alternatives to coal, and declaring ‘water, winds and tides’ as the energy path of the future."

While the Nazi embrace of these alternative energy or health solutions does not discredit them, the historical facts should prompt us to consider the motivations of those promoting these causes in the current context. Are the attacks on "Big Oil" and the push for alternative energy technologies being used as a pretext for more government control over the economy? Are the demands for government action to curb global warming being used to undermine and subvert free enterprise capitalism and private property rights?

But while communism was an atheistic system, Klaus notes, modern environmentalism has assumed a religious dimension and has become a "green religion."

Liberal Fascism

At the end of Klaus’s remarks on this subject at a Washington, D.C. dinner hosted and sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), master of ceremonies Jonah Goldberg remarked that he wished that we had a U.S. President who would make such a speech. Tragically, Bush and Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, have fallen into the camp, which includes Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and most of the Democratic Party, which wants to further erode individual freedom in the name of saving the environment. It is the modern version of the Marxist, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need," except that the needs of the environment are now being placed above those of people.

It was noteworthy and appropriate that Goldberg, who praised Klaus’s remarks, has written the excellent book, Liberal Fascism, about the totalitarian tendencies of modern-day liberalism.

For his part, Klaus writes that "The environmentalists’ attitude toward nature is analogous to the Marxist approach to economics. The aim in both cases is to replace the free, spontaneous evolution of the world (and humankind) by the would-be optimal, central or—using today’s fashionable adjective—global planning of world development. Much as in the case of Communism, this approach is utopian and would lead to results completely different from the intended ones. Like other utopias, this one can never materialize, and efforts to make it materialize can only be carried out through restrictions of freedom, through the dictates of a small, elitist minority over the overwhelming majority."

In short, we will not only lose our freedom but economic progress and human advancement will be stifled. And more people will inevitably die.

Klaus adds, "In the past 150 years (at least since Marx), the socialists have been very effectively destroying human freedom under humane and compassionate slogans, such as caring for man, ensuring social equality, and fostering social welfare.

Comments

[KathyYou know what s]

The biggest problem in the US is the media. Liberals have a stranglehold on it tosay nothing of their control of publishing houses , colleges and hollywood. How can this situation possibly become better when most Americans are too stupid and or lazy to dig for the truth?