You do have to feel for the Canadian leader, Justin Trudeau, dressed down in front of the whole school by head prefect Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Bali. It seems the narcissist Trudeau, eager for relevance, had been leaking Xi’s private conversations. Deeply humiliated, the gossiping Trudeau shot back, ‘We believe in free and open and frank dialogue’.

Canadians will no doubt pay for his vanity. After all, apart from being unaccustomed to people answering back, Xi would have seen through Trudeau’s hollow response. For this is the same Justin Trudeau who, not long before, refused to meet protesting truckers over Covid vaccination mandates, froze their personal and corporate bank accounts and had their vehicles towed away.

Indeed the inner-Trudeau confesses to ‘a level of admiration’ for China’s dictatorship.To him, democracy is frustrating because it ‘doesn’t allow prime ministers to do what they want’. He believes showing fealty to the United Nations and other multilateral bodies is a higher calling.

Sadly, there are too many sanctimonious Western leaders like Justin Trudeau, many of them in Australia, who find democracy inconvenient and sovereignty outdated.

This authoritarian mindset was on full display at the recent Cop 27 meeting held at the luxurious Egyptian beachside resort, Sharm El Sheikh, where the United Nations, world leaders, crony capitalists and media groupies came together to agree the world is on a ‘climate highway to hell’ and that society must be ‘transformed’ and centrally managed to combat it, whatever the cost and no matter the principles sacrificed.

Like choosing Egypt where homosexuality is a crime, to host the conference when only recently the UN adopted a resolution affirming LGBT rights are human rights. No problem either with the emissions released transporting 45,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries to Sharm El Sheikh. It seems no one had heard of Zoom.

Tellingly, China, which emits more CO2 than the developed world combined, fielded just 65 delegates. Beijing’s interest in climate conferences is geopolitical. Its views align with Professor Ottmar Edenhofer, one of the world’s leading authorities on climate policy, that ‘it is an illusion to think climate policy is about science. It is about redistributing the world’s wealth’.

That is indeed what Cop 27 was about, even to endorsing the world’s indigenous peoples’ demands for ‘climate justice’ and supporting ‘indigenous rights and self-determination’.

Tugging his forelock, Australia’s Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction, Chris Bowen, spoke in a Torres Strait Island language, championing the plight of indigenous people who he asserted had inhabited the area for 70,000 years – a dubious claim given homo sapiens began leaving Africa 60,000 years ago.

Still, as a ‘constructive climate collaborator’, Mr Bowen committed Australians to the UN’s redistribution agenda, enthusiastically supporting a $6 trillion to $9 trillion per annum ‘loss and damage’ fund intended to compensate poorer countries whether ‘ravaged by fossil fuel colonialism’ or not. China, keen to impoverish the West, pushed for the fund but declined to contribute.

In addition to the compensation fund, the UN encouraged a ‘fit for purpose’ operational model where tradeable instruments can divert trillions more dollars into climate related projects. This initiative complements US Special Presidential Envoy John Kerry’s launch of the World Economic Forum’s First Movers Coalition, ‘Where, for the first time, and, in a massive way, the private sector is at the table’. Indeed!

Big Food is a Coalition member. It supports the 122 nations, including Australia, who have pledged to reduce methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030. It expects reduced cattle numbers will make meat so expensive it will become an ‘occasional treat’. So food companies are now investing in meals from insects and lab-grown products because re-engineered food is ‘for the good of our bodies and the planet’. Pity about subsistence farmers and those already impoverished consumers who will be pushed into starvation.

Another Coalition member, Google, intends to profit from an emissions track-and-trace app, while Mastercard and the UN have announced credit cards which calculate household emissions. A social credit system seems only a matter of time.

This coalition of big government and big business is insidious fascism writ large. Yet it is the altar upon which Western leaders are carelessly sacrificing their national freedoms. It is not new, nor is it a conspiracy. For over 50 years, environmental catastrophists have been openly advocating for one-world government.

While none of the forecast catastrophes have materialised, the threats alone have allowed powerful interests to keep pushing for a ‘more virtuous (centrally controlled) capitalist system’. They argue increasingly complex social and environmental problems are incapable of being solved by elected national governments. Accordingly, sovereignty must be ceded to the UN and its agencies. And already, much has. Climate change is simply the latest and most successful vehicle. Just the prospect of sharing in the redistribution of trillions of dollars will be enough to keep it on the UN table for a very long time.

This is more than the Great Reset of capitalism. It is the Great Nation Sell-Out. Sadly for Australia, Chris Bowen is in the vanguard. He is a dangerous climate change zealot who excels in putting carts before horses, dreams before reality and ideology ahead of the best interests of those he represents.

He and his colleagues are born again believers in an environmental religion, promoted and often directed by the United Nations. Like the role played by the Latin Church in the Dark Ages, the UN has its scriptures, high priests and enforcers and is hell bent on colonisation. And, like medieval times, its aim is liberty for a privileged few, limited social mobility and, economic patronage for the ruling class.

In his epic, The Road to Serfdom, legendary Austrian  economist, Friedrich Hayek, described how central planning and industry capture would lead slowly but inevitably to totalitarianism. Thanks to the climate change religion, we’re well down that road and accelerating.