Posted by
On the Right on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:44:35 PM
The president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, as show on the web.
I
spent most of my life under the communist regime which ignored and
brutally violated human freedom, and I remember quite well, wanted to
command, not only the people, but also the nature, to command wind and
rain is one of the famous slogans I remember since my childhood. In
the past, it was in the name of the Marxist or the proletariat, this
time in the name of the planet. Structurally, it is very similar. The
current danger as I see it is environmentalism and especially its
strongest version, climate alarmism.
We
are now at the stage where the facts, reason, truth are powerless in
the face of the global warming propaganda. We have probably and
regretfully already reached that stage. Now, the whole process is
already in the hands of those who are not interested in rational ideas
and arguments. It is in the hands of climatologists and other related
scientists who are highly motivated to look in one direction only
because a large number of academic careers has evolved around the idea
of man made global warming. It is fodder in the hands of politicians
who, through the manipulation of people, maximized the number of votes
they seek to get from the electorate.
The
green movement is trying to dictate, control, regulate, mastermind our
lives. This is what we see every day. They want to discuss how many
children we can have because the man is a creature which damages the
atmosphere because of breathing. They are dictating us what kind of
cars we can use, how big the refrigerators we can have. I speak as
someone who lived in a communist era and who knows what it means to
eliminate freedom, as someone who knows what it means to eliminate the
market economy, someone who knows what it means to regulate, to
command, to mastermind the economy from above.
I don't believe that man is destroying the planet and environmentalism
is based not on small issues of saving electricity here in the National
Press Club or of greening one pond or lake or water. That's not
environmentalism. Environmentalism is an ideology which wants to
control the world.