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Fri, 30 Mar 2007

A Laugh A Day Keeps Global Warming Away

Every once in a long while I come across something in Common Dreams that makes me laugh out loud instead of cry. Actually, on further investigation, it was more sad than funny

"Czech President Vaclav Klaus has offered fresh warnings that environmentalism and measures to curb climate change are a threat to human freedom". (Substitute the words 'corporate freedom' for 'human freedom' and he begins to make sense.) "The Czech President is strongly opposed to environmentalism, which he calls a 'religion based on political ambitions rather than science,' and accuses environmentalists of using 'sophisticated methods of media manipulation' to spread 'fear and panic'." (I had no idea that environmentalists had control of the media! Oh Happy Day!)

"While most Czechs are by now familiar with Klaus's radical pro-market views, he managed to surprise many when claiming that 'while some deserts may get larger and some ocean shores flooded, enormous parts of the earth' could become 'fertile areas able to accommodate millions of people.'"

"Vojtech Kotecky from Friends of the Earth replied by asking Klaus whether he thought 'people from flooded Bangladesh or dried up Africa should move to Siberia only to allow obsolete industrial forms to continue emitting pollutants.'"

A few choice comments on the Vaclav Klaus article:

"Whenever I hear a politician begin to talk about 'freedom,' I prepare myself to be inundated with verbal manure"

"History proves one incontrovertible fact, unrestrained free market capitalism leads to excessive concentration of wealth, which leads to concentration of power, which leads to fascism."

"He's another damn Economist. What else would you expect him to say?"