Lovelock: Authoritarian System Needed to Deal with Global Warming

March 31st, 2010

Imagine my shock.

Via: Guardian:

We need a more authoritative world. We’ve become a sort of cheeky, egalitarian world where everyone can have their say. It’s all very well, but there are certain circumstances – a war is a typical example – where you can’t do that. You’ve got to have a few people with authority who you trust who are running it. And they should be very accountable too, of course.

But it can’t happen in a modern democracy. This is one of the problems. What’s the alternative to democracy? There isn’t one. But even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.

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3 Responses to “Lovelock: Authoritarian System Needed to Deal with Global Warming”

  1. Bigelow says:
    March 31, 2010 at 7:38 pm

    F him.

  2. lagavulin says:
    April 1, 2010 at 2:52 am

    Actually, I agree with Lovelock….IF the goal is to “deal with global warming”. There’s just no way that’s going to happen without serious top-level control over large corporations.

    But that will never happen. The “large corporations” will never let the mass of humanity see the problem so clearly. So they’ll continue to pin the blame on anything and everything that isn’t a multi-national conglomerate…

    Because of course the problem isn’t “global warming” at all. It’s these huge corporations. They ARE the system that’s destroying everything. So there’s no chance they’re going to allow “global warming” to be dealt with in any material way. No, instead they’ll just continue to spout pablum about how it’s ‘us’ as the individual’s concern….changing light-bulbs and sealing our doors and windows and shit…

    If WE, as individuals, don’t STOP buying and supporting companies that are “appropriately sized within our communities”, then we are giving our hard-earned support to the Evil Overlords who are working against us. Plain and simple.

  3. gbell says:
    April 1, 2010 at 11:45 am

    Cuba was able to survive the collapse of the USSR and resulting oil/food shock precisely because of a strong, centralized government. There was action, not debate.

    See “The Power of Community” documentary.

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