Here, former Blair adviser Anthony Giddens shows what a flexible tool global warming…, sorry, “climate change” theory is for the elite. As we have seen elsewhere it provides a handy cover to explain away the disappearance of bees and pollinators and to divert our attention from this ecological catastrophe. Is it coincidental that Brown’s global new deal, an attempt to recreate our financier oligarchy globally, is now directly linked to a new “post-industrial era” resulting from the “climate crunch”, with all its possible neo-Malthusian or neo-feudal possibilities?
We are on the brink of a revolution: the demise of the fossil-fuel economy. A new deal must jolt us out of orthodox thinking
Anthony Giddens
11th March, 2009
Every crisis, Sigmund Freud said, is potentially a stimulus to the positive side of the personality and an opportunity to start afresh. Today we are facing two global crises in tandem – the economic recession and climate change. Both are deeply worrying, but what is their relationship likely to be?
In These New Times 