Environazi’s exposed! In the new doom and gloom climate change book, The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy (Politics and the Environment), the authors tell us that a Democracy like the United States is bad, an authoritarian government like China – good.
In this provocative book, Shearman and Smith present evidence that the fundamental problem causing environmental destruction–and climate change in particular–is the operation of liberal democracy. Its flaws and contradictions bestow upon government–and its institutions, laws, and the markets and corporations that provide its sustenance–an inability to make decisions that could provide a sustainable society. Having argued that democracy has failed humanity, the authors go even further and demonstrate that this failure can easily lead to authoritarianism without our even noticing. Read the rest of this entry »
