Czech President: "Religion" of Environmentalism a way of "masterminding human society from above"

LifeSiteNews ^ | 3/12/07 | John-Henry Westen

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LONDON, March 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The general appreciation for taking care of the earth's resources, of being stewards of creation is being exploited to drive a political and even mythological system of environmentalism.  The President of the Czech Republic spoke at the Cato Institute Friday calling "environmentalism" a "religion", and warning against the hysteria being generated by 'global warming' enthusiasts.

"All of us are very much in favour of maximum environmental protection and protection of nature," said President Vaclav Klaus during a follow-up interview for a Cato podcast.  "But it has nothing in common with environmentalism, which is ideological and practically attacking our freedom."

Environmentalism is, he said "a way of introducing new forms of statism, new forms of masterminding human society from above."   The Czech President noted that the citizens of his nation experienced communism first hand giving them awareness of agendas of domination.  It is, he said, "something we feel very strongly about because our experience with communism gives us very special sensitivity in this respect."

Almost as if on queue, Gordon Brown, likely to replace Tony Blair as the next British prime minister, delivered a speech today calling for a "new world order" to combat global warming. He called on the United Nations to make the fight against global warming a core "pillar" of its international mission.

The warnings of President Klaus come as no surprise to the pro-life movement which has warned for years that Kyoto and similar proposals to counter global warming have at their core a population control agenda.

According to scientists who contest the science behind global warming, the faithful followers of the environmentalist religion do not sanction dissent. Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Canada, told the Sunday Telegraph that he has received five deaths threats by email since raising concerns about the degree to which man was affecting climate change.

"I can tolerate being called a sceptic because all scientists should be sceptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust," said Ball.  "That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal."

The Telegraph also reports that Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently stated that: "Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges."  Dr Myles Allen, from Oxford University, concurred: "The Green movement has hijacked the issue of climate change. It is ludicrous to suggest the only way to deal with the problem is to start micro managing everyone, which is what environmentalists seem to want to do."

To hear the podcast interview with President Klaus:
http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/presidentvaclavklaus_enviro...

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Environmentalism is, he said "a way of introducing new forms of statism, new forms of masterminding human society from above." The Czech President noted that the citizens of his nation experienced communism first hand giving them awareness of agendas of domination. It is, he said, "something we feel very strongly about because our experience with communism gives us very special sensitivity in this respect."

Wow! I wish American politicians would stand up and tell the truth like this.

[tranzorZ]

I think I read in one of Ben Stein's (Beuler?) books that the whole roots of environmentalism is from the 1950s and a bunch of self aggrandizing knowitalls got together and announced we were going to run out of resources destroy the planet unless power of said resources were turned over to them and liked minds.

This Pres knows what is going on and our leaders should follow.

[unkus]

The people who suffered under the Nazi's and then suffered more under Soviet Communism won't fall for this nonsense. They can recognize Repression and know that this Environmental crap will end up in that form.

[LibKill]

A smart fellow. I wish our politicians were as smart and plain-spoken.

[gotribe]

I'd vote for a Howard / Klaus ticket in '08. Would make the libs' heads spin.

[Free Vulcan]

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[John Semmens]

Report Indicates Global Warming May Be Worse than We Think

Two new reports indicate that the global warming problem may be more widespread than heretofore thought. One report from National Geographic News asserts that temperatures on both Earth and Mars have been rising. Data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey mission in 2005 disclosed that the carbon dioxide "ice caps” near Mars’ south pole are shrinking.

The other report indicates that cosmic rays from exploded stars are decreasing. This is causing fewer clouds to form and allowing more sunlight to hit the planet, raising temperatures.

Former vice-president and internationally acclaimed climate expert, Al Gore, cited the reports as further evidence in support of drastic action aimed at cooling the planet. “It was bad enough when just the Earth was affected, but now it looks like the entire solar system may be in danger,” Gore proclaimed. “There is no time to lose. We must act before it is too late.”

Gore suggested that a “global climate czar” be appointed from among a list of persons nominated for both an Academy Award and Nobel Prize for work on climate change. “We need someone with the authority to brush aside the barriers to immediate action,” Gore said. “We can’t afford to allow a nostalgic reverence for archaic notions of property rights and individual freedom to be used to block the steps necessary to save the Earth. Everything and everyone must be strictly controlled if we want there to be a planet here for our grandchildren.”

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http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm

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[rbg81]

Actually, this whole Global Warming thing is right out of Clinton's playbook. Create a false crisis, get the MSM to decry its urgency, scare the sheeple, then mobilize Government resources to fix it--thereby gaining power.

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[Daveinyork]

Living and suffering all those years under communism seems to have clarified the thinking of Czechs. Last year when I was in Prague, I saw a massive anti-Castro rally.

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