Jeffrey Sachs: ‘We Cannot Solve the Global Climate Crisis Except with Global Government’

EXCERPT:

SACHS: “And I will tell you one thing. If the weather that we had was what we create just over our own heads, the climate crisis would be solved. Each place it would warm to the extent that they want to warm, they would stop, they would take care. You would control your own climate. If it was getting too dry, you would turn the dials on, 'Maybe we should have some more solar power, a little bit less gas power,' and so forth. The problem is, as you know, the climate is driven by the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. And when you put some CO2 into the atmosphere by driving your car that is a petrol engine, burning the petrol, putting the CO2 up, in 30 days, that CO2 can be anywhere in the atmosphere. The scientists call it uniform mixing. So, the atmosphere doesn’t care where the CO2 comes from. It all gets mixed to create the global climate. That means we cannot solve the global climate crisis except with global government, dare I say say. That’s a term that’s evil in the United States context. 'Global government, Mr. Sachs? Are you a globalist?' Of course I’m not a globalist in this awful sense that people think. I don’t want the U.N. telling you what to do, how to live, what to eat and so forth."