OUTRAGEOUS – AT 10:39 A.M. ET:  In the immortal words of that great philosopher, Jerry Lewis – bad looks you can change, stupid is forever.  From the Daily Caller:

United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres said that democracy is a poor political system for fighting global warming. Communist China, she says, is the best model.

China may be the world’s top emitter of carbon dioxide and struggling with major pollution problems of their own, but the country is “doing it right” when it comes to fighting global warming says Figueres.

“They actually want to breathe air that they don’t have to look at,” she said. “They’re not doing this because they want to save the planet. They’re doing it because it’s in their national interest.”

Figueres added that the deep partisan divide in the U.S. Congress is “very detrimental” to passing any sort of legislation to fight global warming. The Chinese Communist Party, on the other hand, can push key policies and reforms all on its own. The country’s national legislature largely enforces the decisions made by the party’s Central Committee and other executive offices.

Communism was responsible for the deaths of about 94 million people in China, the Soviet Union, North Korea, Afghanistan and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century. China alone was responsible for 65 million of those deaths under communist rule.

COMMENT:  Ah, the totalitarian temptation.  It's always so tempting to dream of the shortcuts available through dictatorial systems.  And I think that dream is very much present in our universities and media.  But totalitarianism always leads to the same things, misery and death.  And getting out of totalitarianism is always much harder than getting in.

Ms. Figueres is an ignorant clown and should be removed from her position.  It is disgraceful that a UN official should be endorsing dictatorship over democracy.   I wonder if our State Department will show any interest in this.  Don't hold your breath.

January 16, 2014