The 'Climate Emergency' Is A Threat To Democracy | Climate Dispatch

The 'Climate Emergency' Is A Threat To Democracy | Climate Dispatch
"One week, it’s that old Malthusian David Attenborough telling us ‘the moment of crisis has come’. The next it’s that young Malthusian Greta Thunberg telling us ‘our house is still on fire’ and ‘inaction is fuelling the flames’.
Both express the key elements of today’s environmentalist script. 
The shrill tone.
The end-is-nigh urgency.
The act-now-or-else command.
And underwriting this script, as ever, is the core idea of contemporary environmentalism — namely, the climate emergency.
This is the idea that so imminent and ‘existential’ is the threat of climate change that world leaders need to act as if they are at war.

• They need to declare a state of emergency. 
• There’s no time for deliberation or debate anymore, because, well, ‘our house is on fire’.
• In this state of emergency, all civil liberties and democratic freedoms can be suspended.
•  All dissent and debate silenced.
• Only then will the authorities, using all force necessary..."

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