George Klein,
What could have seemed more “toothless” then small groups of largely easily identifiable leftist fringe academics babbling about carbon regulations to “save the environment” and organize “Earth Day”??
Now they are appendages of almost every government system in the world. The mix of totalitarian planning and tools associated to Paris dwarf anything they could ever imagined as a practical goal. Since they largely view themselves as justified authoritarians with a “cause” and part of large complicated social groups (the “Tribe” being one descriptive) Paris is far more then the “camels nose” under the tent.
The predictable whine from the full moon sect that “it doesn’t go far enough” will play out for decades further. Those fighting for individual rights against statist aggression can only play defensively against even greater odds as there is little interest in rooting out stealth arm-chair Marxism which is what the core of climate activism is in the West. The same sort of apathy that tolerated the Bolsheviks in Moscow in 1918 or Hitlers rise in the 30’s.
Paris is billions of current expropriation and crony enabling but the ground work for trillions and more important the total social destruction (transformation) of science reasoning (science method with objective proofs and verification) is now well in place. The Mayans or Carthaginians only killed a small handful of their populations based on superstition with political supports. The Eco-left is in the millions dead already with dreams of totally indoctrinated populations on a global scale.
The supportive media arm will likely back shelve the agenda for a time, use the structure to marginalize any dissent since so many countries “agreed”. Just as state run monetary mismanagement is accepted everyday of the week the new climate (and thereby deciders of what “science” is) authority looks permanently funded. Expect fear based copycat junk science to expand ever further through this century.
