The headline of this article would appear to most as an unwanted means to an end. Those who are worried about the Global Warming ‘crisis’ would agree that steps should be taken to slow it, if not reverse it altogether, however is a recession really the best of solutions? George Monbiot, in his article Bring on the Recession actually believes it is:

I recognize that recession causes hardship. Like everyone I am aware that it would cause some people to lose their jobs and homes. I do not dismiss these impacts or the harm they inflict, though I would argue that they are the avoidable results of an economy designed to maximize growth rather than welfare. What I would like you to recognize is something much less discussed: that, beyond a certain point, hardship is also caused by economic growth.

Right from the start of this article we get an insight into the mind of the author as he proclaims that economies should focus more on welfare than economic growth. No word where the money would come from for those welfare programs without a growing economy however.

This leads us to the most obvious way in which further growth will hurt us. Climate change does not lead only to a decline in welfare: beyond a certain point it causes its termination. In other words, it threatens the lives of hundreds of millions of people. However hard governments might work to reduce carbon emissions, they are battling the tide of economic growth. While the rate of growth in the use of energy declines as an economy matures, no country has yet managed to reduce energy use while raising gross domestic product. The UK’s carbon dioxide emissions are higher than they were in 1997, partly as a result of the 60 successive quarters of growth that Gordon Brown keeps boasting about. A recession in the rich nations might be the only hope we have of buying the time we need to prevent runaway climate change.

As I have written in the past, man made global warming has become a form of religion, in that it’s followers believe in it so wholeheartedly, even absent any undeniable evidence it exists, they are willing to take fanatical steps to assure their ‘God’ is appeased. Catholicism has fanatics like those at the Westboro Baptist Church, Muslims have their Jihadists, and Global Warmingists have people like George Monbiot. In all three cases you have individuals who listen to the message being preached to them, and take it to extreme measures.

Mr. Monbiot believe the only way to counter Global Warming is through a worldwide recession of all industrialized nations. The hardships the people of the world would endure as a result of this recession are of little consequence to him, in comparison to the possibility of an increase of a 0.7 degree Celsius rise in global temperatures.

Ironically in his bio at the end of the page, it list Mr. Monbiot as the author of 2 books, however it does not mention to which welfare program the proceeds have been donated to, nor where the carbon credits were purchased from in order to offset the trees cut down to print thousands of books.

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