Don't let a fabricated crisis go to waste! Hysteria and alarmism drive human fears and this university president! A call for Big Government!
Nature & the environment has become the ersatz god for some in our society!
Novus ordo seclorum for the Stone Ages: Do humans have to submit to or become subservient to nature (a.k.a. e.g. ecosystem, environment)? Who gets to define what nature is? A modern form of slavery? This struggle has been going on for decades! Or some of the elites versus plebeians, a familiar story since at least the Romans.
Clarification: This book published by MIT Press is a collection of essays and Professor Crow wrote only one of them. Strange enough you don't even get to see the table of content.
Exploiting the Global Warming hoax and Climate Change religion for drastic and dangerous reforms of democracy!
"... In the book published last week, “Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation,” Crow declared that the principles of the Founding are no longer sufficient. ...
Although the philosophical underpinnings of our democratic experiment were pragmatically balanced by the founders, the pivotal formulations of the U.S. Constitution failed to protect nature,” ...
a new form of governance must serve the environment alongside mankind. ...
The ASU president also lamented that the current system of representative democracy has allowed for “scientific[ally] or technological[ly] illitera[te]” elected officials who oppose progressive climate initiatives. ...
Although the philosophical underpinnings of our democratic experiment were pragmatically balanced by the founders, the pivotal formulations of the U.S. Constitution failed to protect nature,” ...
a new form of governance must serve the environment alongside mankind. ...
The ASU president also lamented that the current system of representative democracy has allowed for “scientific[ally] or technological[ly] illitera[te]” elected officials who oppose progressive climate initiatives. ...
“It is, after all, the deficiencies of the democratic process that have allowed the election of unscrupulous politicians who deny climate change or obstruct efforts to combat environmental degradation,” stated Crow. “Scientific or technological illiteracy among policy-makers and elected officials is matched by a growing affluent class that valorizes individualism over civic engagement and is insulated from complex sociotechnical issues.”
Crow also criticized individualism and Enlightenment philosophies as a threat to natural resources, indicating the need for limitations on personal freedoms in a climate change revolution. ..."
From the publisher's book description:
"The first major book to deal with the dual crises of democracy and climate change as one interrelated threat to the human future and to identify a path forward.
Democracy in a Hotter Time calls for reforming democratic institutions as a prerequisite for avoiding climate chaos and adapting governance to how Earth works as a physical system. To survive in the “long emergency” ahead, we must reform and strengthen democratic institutions, making them assets rather than liabilities. Edited by David W. Orr, this vital collection of essays proposes a new political order that will not only help humanity survive but also enable us to thrive in the transition to a post–fossil fuel world. ...
the human future in practical ways that will improve the effectiveness of democratic institutions and lay the foundation for a more durable and just democracy."
the human future in practical ways that will improve the effectiveness of democratic institutions and lay the foundation for a more durable and just democracy."
A better book title would be Democracy In A Timer Of More Hot Air!
The face of an elitist, arrogant authoritarian! Professor Michael Crow
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