There are two great acts of political make-believe in our time, so
all-pervasive that it is hard for us to grasp just how much effect they are
having on our lives
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What has a Papal Encyclical calling on the world to end its use of fossil fuels and to pray to God for the success of the global “climate summit” in December got in common with the Greek euro crisis,
the ominous rift between the West and Russia, and the shambles Europe
is making over the desperation of African and Syrian refugees to find
safety this side of the Mediterranean? They are all different aspects of
the two greatest acts of political make-believe of our time, so
all-pervasive that it is hard for us to grasp just how much effect they
are having on all our lives.
When future historians come to look back on our age, few things will
puzzle them more than the extent to which our politics became so
dominated and bedevilled by two belief-systems, each based on an
obsessive attempt to force into being an immensely complicated political
construct which defied economic, psychological and scientific reality.
One of these was the peculiar way in which Europe’s politicians, with full support from the US, had set out to unite their continent under a form of supra-national government unlike anything the world had seen before. The other was the way those same politicians fell for the idea not just that human activities were disastrously changing Earth’s climate, but that by taking the most drastic measures they could somehow change it back again.
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