There has been a misplaced focus of attention upon an academic paper by Ross Mittiga, in the American Political Science Review, December 6, 2021. The paper puts the line that dealing with the alleged “climate crisis,” could require governments to adopt an authoritarian approach, which Mittiga believes is justified in the light of the Covid mandates. He holds that climate change is even more serious, hence even more drastic measures than we have seen with Covid could be justified. We maintain that the Covid mandates are not justified, so the alleged “logical” link to climate change is broken. It is highly likely that the authoritarian measures anyway would do nothing for the environment, and everything for consolidating global power of the ruling elites, just as Covid did, and continues to do.