Will democracy survive climate change?

We have just witnessed a year of climate carnage around the world.  There is hardly a country that has not experienced one or more extreme climate events.  Yet whenever anyone tries to tie in all those deaths to our continued out pouring of greenhouse gases they are drowned out by the denialist movement.

It is clear that, no matter how many people are killed and how much the climate carnage costs us, those denialists will refuse to move from their position and continue to feed the press to sow seeds of doubt such that no action is taken.  The end result will, of course, be just more and more extreme climate events.  So where will this end?

Is there a point where extreme climate events become so bad that Western governments will declare states of emergency, muzzle their press and mobilise their armed forces to achieve rapid change? And will those governments then look at China with a longing for the certainty that their dictatorship gave them to manage their own change to a world of renewable energy?  Could this then put us on the slippery slide to less and less individual freedoms and the overriding of individual rights for the benefit of the community at large?  Why am I asking all these questions?? :-)