A key theme of Jonah Goldberg?s Liberal Fascism deals with progressive planners? support for the large-scale collectivist planning efforts linked to war.
I thought of the book when reading the first couple of paragraphs in Bryan Walsh?s cover story in TIME: ?How to Win the War on Global Warming?:
What else was the Great Depression or the space race or the construction of the railroads or the eradication of polio but a massive, often frightening challenge that we decided as a culture we ought to rise up and face? If we indulge in a bit of chest-thumping and flag-waving when the job is done, well, we earned it.
We are now faced with a similarly momentous challenge: global warming. The steady deterioration of the very climate of our very planet is becoming a war of the first order, and by any measure, the U.S. is losing.
What’s the answer? Large-scale collectivist planning, of course.
