Why Governments Have Replaced God with Global Warming

Governments have replaced God with the apocalyptic threat of “climate change’s apocalyptic threat, writes Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: Governments have created a “higher power” that they exclusively control.

Governments have decreed, “The science is settled,” and once the “science” has spoken, no lowly heretic may disagree, he writes.

Governments effectively give their citizens a spiritual choice: they can either follow oppressive carbon-neutral regulations that micromanage every detail of life...or burn in a fiery apocalypse.

Frida Ghitis: Those who love government’s coercive grip over their lives are forever “institutionalized” She says they become accustomed to the illusion that some man-made monstrosity must be allowed to tax their labor, regulate their activities, indoctrinate their children, intimidate them with threats of force, and send them off to war whenever defense industry CEOs think business is slow.

Ghitis says all rulers seek to institutionalize’ the people under their charge by seeking to “invent threats for their citizens to fear, and establish a monopoly over available solutions.