The Conceit of Power.

When will we learn? To borrow a cliche, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Case in point -- the current "climate change crisis" and global government.
For years we have been told that our very existence hinges in the balance unless we constrict our emission of greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide in particular. Never mind the fact that CO2 is absolutely essential to life on this planet. How many trees and plants will go extinct upon reduction of the very element necessary to their growth? How will reducing CO2 affect green plants' ability to provide the oxygen we need to breathe? Regardless, according to the "experts" the climate crisis threatens our extinction.
We have seen that the climate change crisis is in large part global redistribution of wealth -- taking from the haves and giving to the have nots.
But wait, there's more...
According to a report by the U.K. Guardian, a leaked document drafted by a select few participants of the Copenhagen climate change summit proposes handing power to control global climate change regulation and financing over to a few wealthy countries including the United States, the U.K., and Denmark. Developing countries are understandably furious.
According to the report:
"The so-called Danish text, a secret draft agreement worked on by a group of individuals known as 'the circle of commitment' — but understood to include the UK, US and Denmark — has only been shown to a handful of countries since it was finalised this week.
The agreement, leaked to the Guardian, is a departure from the Kyoto protocol's principle that rich nations, which have emitted the bulk of the CO2, should take on firm and binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gases, while poorer nations were not compelled to act. The draft hands effective control of climate change finance to the World Bank; would abandon the Kyoto protocol – the only legally binding treaty that the world has on emissions reductions; and would make any money to help poor countries adapt to climate change dependent on them taking a range of actions (emphasis added)."
The progressive agenda is centralized control over many by few. This interventionist world view determines only enlightened progressives working within the power and scope of a broad, far reaching Government can fix the problems and solve the injustices of society on a personal, national, and even global level. But this world view is also dependent upon perpetuating a class system of sorts which ensures the wealthy and powerful permanently retain their elite position of influence over the poor and subjugated.
Perhaps it is time to take all those "New World Order" conspiracy theories seriously. There is no question there is a progressive element of society which vigorously supports the idea of a global governance by which wealth and resources are distributed from richer to poorer nations and through which laws and treaties are drafted and enforced. Climate change is a mechanism to achieve that goal. Given this report that conclusion holds greater merit. This also ensures an even greater divide between the few extremely wealthy and powerful and the rest of the populace likely in near poverty, and most definitely powerless. Government can not provide for anyone without taking from everyone.
The powerful few with control of regulation and finance can distribute wealth, technology, opportunity and, ultimately, freedom on a global scale as they see fit.