Re: Climate Change Summit Displays Inherent Flaws of Globalism

[Mike Cawood, HND BIT]

"Mack the Knife" <bulldo...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> There'll be nowhere to run from the new world government
>
> By Janet Daley
> 19 Dec 2009
>
> There is scope for debate - and innumerable newspaper quizzes - about
> who was the most influential public figure of the year, or which the
> most significant event. But there can be little doubt which word won
> the prize for most important adjective. 2009 was the year in which
> "global" swept the rest of the political lexicon into obscurity. There
> were "global crises" and "global challenges", the only possible
> resolution to which lay in "global solutions" necessitating "global
> agreements". Gordon Brown actually suggested something called a
> "global alliance" in response to climate change. (Would this be an
> alliance against the Axis of Extra-Terrestrials?)
>
> Some of this was sheer hokum: when uttered by Gordon Brown, the word
> "global", as in "global economic crisis", meant: "It's not my fault".
> To the extent that the word had intelligible meaning, it also had
> political ramifications that were scarcely examined by those who
> bandied it about with such ponderous self-importance. The mere
> utterance of it was assumed to sweep away any consideration of what
> was once assumed to be the most basic principle of modern democracy:
> that elected national governments are responsible to their own people
> - that the right to govern derives from the consent of the
> electorate.
>
> The dangerous idea that the democratic accountability of national
> governments should simply be dispensed with in favour of "global
> agreements" reached after closed negotiations between world leaders
> never, so far as I recall, entered into the arena of public
> discussion. Except in the United States, where it became a very
> contentious talking point, the US still holding firmly to the 18th-
> century idea that power should lie with the will of the people.
>
> Nor was much consideration given to the logical conclusion of all this
> grandiose talk of global consensus as unquestionably desirable: if
> there was no popular choice about approving supranational "legally
> binding agreements", what would happen to dissenters who did not
> accept their premises (on climate change, for example) when there was
> no possibility of fleeing to another country in protest? Was this to
> be regarded as the emergence of world government? And would it have
> powers of policing and enforcement that would supersede the authority
> of elected national governments? In effect, this was the infamous
> "democratic deficit" of the European Union elevated on to a planetary
> scale. And if the EU model is anything to go by, then the agencies of
> global authority will involve vast tracts of power being handed to
> unelected officials. Forget the relatively petty irritations of
> Euro-bureaucracy: welcome to the era of Earth-bureaucracy, when there
> will be literally nowhere to run.
>
> But, you may say, however dire the political consequences, surely
> there is something in this obsession with global dilemmas. Economics
> is now based on a world market, and if the planet really is facing
> some sort of man-made climate crisis, then that too is a problem that
> transcends national boundaries. Surely, if our problems are universal
> the solutions must be as well.
>
> Well, yes and no. Calling a problem "global" is meant to imply three
> different things: that it is the result of the actions of people in
> different countries; that those actions have impacted on the lives of
> everyone in the world; and that the remedy must involve pretty much
> identical responses or correctives to those actions. These are
> separate premises, any of which might be true without the rest of them
> necessarily being so. The banking crisis certainly had its roots in
> the international nature of finance, but the way it affected countries
> and peoples varied considerably according to the differences in their
> internal arrangements. Britain suffered particularly badly because of
> its addiction to public and private debt, whereas Australia escaped
> relatively unscathed.
>
> That a problem is international in its roots does not necessarily
> imply that the solution must involve the hammering out of a uniform
> global prescription: in fact, given the differences in effects and
> consequences for individual countries, the attempt to do such
> hammering might be a huge waste of time and resources that could be
> put to better use devising national remedies. France and Germany seem
> to have pulled themselves out of recession over the past year (and the
> US may be about to do so) while Britain has not. These variations owe
> almost nothing to the pompous, overblown attempts to find global
> solutions: they are largely to do with individual countries, under the
> pressure of democratic accountability, doing what they decide is best
> for their own people.
>
> This is not what Mr Brown calls "narrow self-interest", or "beggar my
> neighbour" ruthlessness. It is the proper business of elected national
> leaders to make judgments that are appropriate for the conditions of
> their own populations. It is also right that heads of nations refuse
> to sign up to "legally binding" global agreements which would
> disadvantage their own people. The resistance of the developing
> nations to a climate change pact that would deny them the kind of
> economic growth and mass prosperity to which advanced countries have
> become accustomed is not mindless selfishness: it is proper regard for
> the welfare of their own citizens.
>
> The word "global" has taken on sacred connotations. Any action taken
> in its name must be inherently virtuous, whereas the decisions of
> individual countries are necessarily "narrow" and self-serving. (Never
> mind that a "global agreement" will almost certainly be
> disproportionately influenced by the most powerful nations.) Nor is
> our era so utterly unlike previous ones, for all its technological
> sophistication. We have always needed multilateral agreements, whether
> about trade, organised crime, border controls, or mutual defence.
>
> If the impact of our behaviour on humanity at large is much greater or
> more rapid than ever before then we shall have to find ways of dealing
> with that which do not involve sacrificing the most enlightened form
> of government ever devised. There is a whiff of totalitarianism about
> this new theology, in which the risks are described in such cosmic
> terms that everything else must give way. "Globalism" is another form
> of the internationalism that has been a core belief of the Left: a
> commitment to class rather than country seemed an admirable antidote
> to the "blood and soil" nationalism that gave rise to fascism.
>
> The nation-state has never quite recovered from the bad name it
> acquired in the last century as the progenitor of world war. But if it
> is to be relegated to the dustbin of history then we had better come
> up with new mechanisms for allowing people to have a say in how they
> are governed. Maybe that could be next year's global challenge.
>

[Aloysious Cholmondeley-Smythe]

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"Climate change" was invented by Labour in collusion with other leftie
governments simply in order to give themselves "reasons" for giving everyone
tax increases. "Climate change" is a religion, not a science. The climate of
the Earth has been changing since long before dinosaurs were roaming and it
will continue for millions of years into the future. We also have "global
warming", however this is mainly fuelled by all the hot air coming from the
government.

Remember that "climate change" is a scam run by the British Labour
government on the British people in order to screw more tax grabs from them.

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