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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW - December 15, 2009
The New Socialism
by Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON - In the 1970s and early '80s, having seized
control of the U.N. apparatus (by power of numbers),
Third World countries decided to cash in. OPEC was pulling
off the greatest wealth transfer from rich to poor in
history. Why not them? So in grand U.N. declarations and
conferences, they began calling for a "New International
Economic Order." The NIEO's essential demand was simple:
to transfer fantastic chunks of wealth from the
industrialized West to the Third World.
On what grounds? In the name of equality -- wealth
redistribution via global socialism -- with a dose of post-
colonial reparations thrown in.
The idea of essentially taxing hard-working citizens of the
democracies in order to fill the treasuries of Third World
kleptocracies went nowhere, thanks mainly to Ronald Reagan
and Margaret Thatcher (and the debt crisis of the early
'80s). They put a stake through the enterprise.
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But such dreams never die. The raid on the Western
treasuries is on again, but today with a new rationale to
fit current ideological fashion. With socialism dead, the
gigantic heist is now proposed as a sacred service of the
newest religion: environmentalism.
One of the major goals of the Copenhagen climate summit
is another NIEO shakedown: the transfer of hundreds of
billions from the industrial West to the Third World to
save the planet by, for example, planting green industries
in the tristes tropiques.
Politically it's an idea of genius, engaging at once every
left-wing erogenous zone: rich man's guilt, post-colonial
guilt, environmental guilt. But the idea of shaking down
the industrial democracies in the name of the environment
thrives not just in the refined internationalist precincts
of Copenhagen. It thrives on the national scale too.
On the day Copenhagen opened, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency claimed jurisdiction over the regulation
of carbon emissions by declaring them an "endangerment" to
human health.
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Since we operate an overwhelmingly carbon-based economy,
the EPA will be regulating practically everything. No
institution that emits more than 250 tons of CO2 a year
will fall outside EPA control. This means over a million
building complexes, hospitals, plants, schools, businesses
and similar enterprises. (The EPA proposes regulating
emissions only above 25,000 tons, but it has no such
authority.) Not since the creation of the Internal Revenue
Service has a federal agency been given more intrusive
power over every aspect of economic life.
This naked assertion of vast executive power in the name
of the environment is the perfect fulfillment of the
prediction of Czech President (and economist) Vaclav Klaus
that environmentalism is becoming the new socialism, i.e.,
the totemic ideal in the name of which government seizes
the commanding heights of the economy and society.
Socialism having failed so spectacularly, the left was
adrift until it struck upon a brilliant gambit:
metamorphosis from red to green. The cultural elites went
straight from the memorial service for socialism to the
altar of the environment. The objective is the same: highly
centralized power given to the best and the brightest, the
new class of experts, managers and technocrats. This time,
however, the alleged justification is not abolishing
oppression and inequality but saving the planet.
Not everyone is pleased with the coming New Carbon-Free
International Order. When the Obama administration
signaled (in a gesture to Copenhagen) a U.S. commitment
to major cuts in carbon emissions, Democratic Sen. Jim
Webb wrote the president protesting that he lacks the
authority to do so unilaterally. That requires
congressional concurrence by legislation or treaty.
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With the Senate blocking President Obama's cap-and-trade
carbon legislation, the EPA coup d'etat served as the
administration's loud response to Webb: The hell we can't.
With this EPA "endangerment" finding, we can do as we wish
with carbon. Either the Senate passes cap-and-trade, or
the EPA will impose even more draconian measures: all cap,
no trade.
Forget for a moment the economic effects of severe carbon
chastity. There's the matter of constitutional decency. If
you want to revolutionize society -- as will drastic carbon
regulation and taxation in an energy economy that is 85
percent carbon-based -- you do it through Congress reflect-
ing popular will. Not by administrative fiat of EPA
bureaucrats.
Congress should not just resist this executive overreach-
ing, but trump it: Amend existing clean air laws and
restore their original intent by excluding CO2 from EPA
control and reserving that power for Congress and future
legislation.
Do it now. Do it soon. Because Big Brother isn't lurking
in CIA cloak. He's knocking on your door, smiling under
an EPA cap.
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