According to Torbjörn Tännsjö, referred to as the ‘most well-known living Swedish philosopher’, the only way to prevent the looming ‘climate disaster’ is to establish a global government through a ‘coup’, effectively abolishing all nation states.
In a recent opinion piece published by Sweden’s leading daily Dagens Nyheter, 71-year-old Torbjörn Tännsjö conjured an apocalyptic image of a world about to go under as a consequence of man-made climate change. To prevent this downfall, a world government should be put in place, the liberal left thinker argued.
Hakelius argued that despotism was merely a more refined word for dictatorship.
‘Climate hysteria begins to resemble a propaganda campaign paving the way for a climate dictatorship’, another one mused.
Torbjörn Tännsjö is a Swedish professor of philosophy and a public intellectual. He has been a research fellow at a number of the country’s leading institutions and has held a chair in practical philosophy at Stockholm University since 2002. His distinctly utilitarian ethical views have made him a controversial figure.
Tännsjö has also been an influential member of the Left party since the 1970s, which was then known as the Communist Party. In 2015, at the height of the migrant crisis, he made ripples by calling on the Swedish government to open borders. Although detrimental for the Swedish welfare, this step, he argued, would maximise living standards across the globe.