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The Final Solution to the Global Warming Skeptic Question
...As several commenters pointed out at Ed’s post, the proposition of the video is Nazism. It’s not “like” Nazism – it is Nazism. This is partly because a tortured idea of environmental-ecological hygiene was a strong element in Nazism. But that’s not the most important reason. The “No Pressure” video’s proposition is Nazism because it implies a moral justification for “problematic” humans being exterminated. It shows the global-warming skeptics dying because they “deserve it” – because they interfere with realization of the urgent collective idea.

This is Nazism. It is the very heart of Nazism. It is why Nazism produced euthanasia of the old and disabled, why it justified ghastly eugenic experiments on “problematic” humans, and why it led to the Holocaust of the Jews....

...The central moral vulnerability of radical environmentalism is that it does exactly what the Nazis did: it advances arguments that would justify a wildly hubristic, fabulist attitude about our fellow humans; and it never mitigates the force of that rhetorical theme with an uncompromising commitment to the moral right of those fellow humans to their lives and liberty.

This latter form of mitigation is not a given in any time or place. It cannot be left to operate on its own, because it doesn’t. The moral right to life and liberty has been defined out of effective existence by every collectivist ideology and most forms of autocracy. ..