Fraudulent Global Scare is to Sheep’s Clothing as Socialism is to Wolf

Excellent article by George Will about doomsday predictions:

An unstated premise of eco-pessimism is that environmental conditions are, or recently were, optimal.  The proclaimed faith of eco-pessimists is weirdly optimistic: These optimal conditions must and can be preserved or restored if government will make us minimize our carbon footprints, and if government will “remake” the economy.

It’s cunningly smart: Create a global scare in a field that confuses most people where government action to curtail the freedoms of its citizenry is the only solution.  Then, wait for the citizenry to demand that the government take away its freedoms in order to eliminate the global scare.  King George III couldn’t have done it any better.  Sadly, more people have died as a result of the “good intentions” of command economies than have ever perished as the result of what Adam Smith deemed “the invisible hand.”

The growing list of cons that “experts” were absolutely positive would lead to the destruction of the earth:

1. Overpopulation in the 1960s
2. Resource Scarcity in the 1970s
3. Global Cooling (!) in the 1970s
4. Global Warming in the 2000s

Ironically (and sadly) the only scare that had any real basis in fact - total nuclear annihilation (1950-1990) - was approached with absolute weakness by the Left, whose solutions amounted to unilateral disarmament and appeasement.  We can only wish they’d take such an approach to global warming.