[FairWitness]

Note: The above is transcribed by hand from the hardcopy of Parade in my Sunday Post-Dispatch. The version on the Parade website is appreciably different and is included below.
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“Because two billion people don’t have access to fresh water, we have many diseases, particularly infectious diseases,” says Gorbachev. “The Middle East has a water crisis, so does Central Asia and the former Soviet Republics, as well as Argentina, parts of Latin America and even Los Angeles, which has to bring water from several hundred miles away. Water is just like air; people need both. And two-thirds of fresh water is used for irrigation. We need investment in order to improve the infrastructure systems to ensure that water is not wasted. Major investment is needed to speed work on desalination [removing salt from seawater]. We also need to preserve forests and plant cover. Forests are actually preserving water."

And, ever the politician, Gorbachev also has strong views on U.S. foreign policy, particularly with regard to America’s embargo of Cuba. “When I was president [of the Soviet Union], I made suggestions to my U.S. partners to improve relations with Cuba,” he says. “I believe Cuba is a healthy nation. It is a good country, in terms of education and health care. We should close the book on this chapter in history. If this embargo is lifted, wide-ranging prospects for cooperation will open up. I've urged President Bush to do a good thing for Cuba and the U.S. by lifting the embargo. It will improve his standing in America and in the world."

For more information on Green Cross International, visit the group's Web site.

[Moonman62]

Just more confirmation that Green is the new Red. Technology has solved, or is close to solving the problems that the Greens (Reds), are wetting their panties over.

[FairWitness]

This article is an example of the thesis that Communists did not disappear with the fall of the Soviet Union, they just became "watermelons" -- green on the outside and red (still wanting to run a one-world government) on the inside.

"Technology has resulted in a major conflict between man and nature."

And only more technology will solve the indicated problems.

[the_Watchman]

Given Rush's "watermelon" analysis, would someone please explain the difference between the two?

[TheCrusader]

"When I became a political leader," he said, "I saw how badly nature was suffering. Technology has resulted in a major conflict between man and nature."

The United States, as the largest industrialized nation on earth, has the most to lose economically from the green weeny movement, Kyoto would do serious harm to the U.S. economy and Gorbachev knows this as well as anybody.

Gorbachev still has the old Soviet, Communist heart and still seeks to spread the Communist mentality througout the world. In fact, Gorbachev is fully supportive of the "United Religions" movement for a one-world religion that combines all religions, (and thereby destroys all religions). Here is a quote from Gorbachev's Green Cross web page:

"we need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between mankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility."

Another Gorbachev quote:

"I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. Look at the sun. If there is no sun, then we cannot exist. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals."

10 Fred Matser, "Nature Is My God," an interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, Resurgence 184, Internet document, http://www.gn.apc.org/resurgence/184/gorbachev.htm, p. 3

"I am now, just as I've always been, a convinced Communist." -

Spoken by Gorbachev in 1990; The New American magazine, Vol. 11, No. 22, Oct. 30, 1995 Issue, p. 26.

[ladyinred]

He became a member of the democrat party?
They pretend to be green, but they really are red too.

[onedoug]

Nature worship, and the urgency of ecology over human evil.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

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[F.J. Mitchell]

THese shiiiitheads fail to understand that fresh water is on the way, compliments of global warming. As soon as all the ice caps melt and release all that trapped fresh water, the seas will become so dilluted that salt in the water will be barely detectable. The humidity will rise to a constant high so great that refreshing rains will fall almost daily upon every corner of the globe.

The Kyoto accord and idiots like Garbachev are trying to block the worlds return to eden, and why not-their master is the guy who got us kicked out in the first place.