Op naar een ecosocialistisch paradijs?

Watermelons: green on the outside, red on the inside. As you know, this is the theme of a book I shall be publishing shortly on the real agenda of the global green movement. And, of course, I’m well aware as I write on this subject that one or two readers are going to slap their foreheads and go: “Jesus. The guy has lost it completely. He’s a conspiracy nutcase. He’s away with the fairies ”

Which is why I’m so boundlessly grateful to men like Professor David Shearman, Professor of Medicine, University of Adelaide. You’ll find Professor Shearman listed here as one of the Authors and Expert Reviewers of Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Not someone considered by the IPCC to be a crank or a member of the lunatic fringe, then. But an expert whose views are well worth heeding by a body whose reports allegedly represent the “gold standard” of scientific understanding about the current state of climate science.

So let’s have a closer look at where Prof Shearman stands on global governance and environmental affairs, shall we? As the new climate sceptic blog Haunting The Library has noticed, he displays exactly the kind of pustulating misanthropy (Prof Shearman once described humanity as a “malignant eco-tumour” and an “ecological cancer”) and fascistic yearnings for a New World Order I talk about in Watermelons.

Shearman has penned several books on global warming, such as ‘Climate Change as a Crisis in World Civilization: Why We Must Totally Transform How We Live ‘ and ‘The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy‘. His argument is that overpopulation and industrialization are causing an ecological disaster which requires a total change of lifestyle for everyone on the planet. As democracy isn’t up to the challenge, an authoritarian government must (obviously) be imposed to save us from ourselves. ...