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The Environmentalists' Real Agenda
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY ^ | April 22, 2008

Posted on 04/23/2008 8:07:53 AM PDT by Delacon

Ideologies: Once in a while the truth accidentally tumbles out on global warming activists' real agenda. That's exactly what happened at the U.N., when Bolivia's leader called for ending capitalism to save the planet.

Delivering the keynote address at the United Nations forum on Indigenous People on Monday, Bolivia's President Evo Morales told the adoring crowd that "if we want to save our planet earth, to save life, to save mankind, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system."

Morales elaborated on that by calling for an end to "unbridled industrial development, extraction of natural resources, excessive consumption of goods and accumulation of waste."

More conveniently, he also demanded that trillions of dollars from the West be diverted to places like Bolivia, "to repair the earth."

Seldom has the environmentalist agenda to end the capitalist system been laid out so plainly.

But in reality, it's capitalism — combined with the framework that enables it to flourish, like rule of law and property rights — that has lifted billions of people out of poverty and improved the environment. Contrary to Morales' assertions, the most capitalist countries are also the cleanest.

According to a 2006 study by the Heartland Institute, free enterprise does more to protect the environment than state intervention.

"The nations that have the best track records on environmental protection and improvement are those with the highest amount of free-market capitalism," wrote Samuel Aldrich and Jay Lehr, in "Free Enterprise Protects the Environment."

Morales is a Marxist, so the environmental records of the communist and socialist systems he touts to save the earth are instructive.

After communism fell in Eastern Europe, some of the biggest revelations were about how vast the pollution was in countries where no one was permitted to own or...


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: alarmists; anticapitalist; capitalism; climatechange; communismkills; earthday; environment; globalism; globalwarming; globalwarmingscare; gore; marxism; skeptics; socialism; starkravingsocialism; un
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Gosh, here and I thought greenies had nothing but good intentions.
1 posted on 04/23/2008 8:07:55 AM PDT by Delacon
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To: Genesis defender; proud_yank; FrPR; enough_idiocy; rdl6989; TenthAmendmentChampion; Horusra; ...

ping


2 posted on 04/23/2008 8:08:45 AM PDT by Delacon ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." H. L. Mencken)
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3 posted on 04/23/2008 8:10:25 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: Delacon
save our planet earth, to save life, to save mankind

This the geneticists will do by reducing human population from 6 or 7 billion to 200 million.

4 posted on 04/23/2008 8:12:15 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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To: Delacon

They do. They want America destroyed. Despots everywhere will rejoice and it’ll be “for your own good”.


5 posted on 04/23/2008 8:20:52 AM PDT by weegee (Vote Obama 2008 for a bitter America.)
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To: RightWhale

Green on the outside and Red in the center..
But rotten to the core.


6 posted on 04/23/2008 8:20:59 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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TIME magazine’s cover photo should’ve been a picture of Adolf Hitler at the podium, with the swastika on his armband replaced by a recycling symbol.
The envirofascist greenshirts turn my stomach.


7 posted on 04/23/2008 8:21:53 AM PDT by 95 Bravo ("Freedom is not free.")
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To: GodGunsGuts

The tin miners in Bolivia had a violent strike two years ago when Evo tried to send his goons to take over the mines. He is not against mining, just against letting anyone other than the gov’t getting any of the profits. Four of the nine districts in his country are trying to become autonomous because this guy wants to nationalize everything. The educated in his country realize they will be following in Venezulea’s footsteps if they let him get away with it.


8 posted on 04/23/2008 8:23:45 AM PDT by milwguy (........)
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To: Delacon

Envirowacko Pingaroony.


9 posted on 04/23/2008 8:29:46 AM PDT by CarryaBigStick
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To: RightWhale
The WSJ recently had a piece by one of the founders of Greenpeace, entitled: "Why I left Greenpeace". He left a long time ago.

He says that he has a science background, whereas most of Greenpeace have backgrounds in political activism. What made a difference for him was when Greenpeace came out against chlorine. He says that no studies have shown a danager from chlorine in our drinking water, and in fact it is instrumental in decreasing water-borne diseases in countries that use it. Greenpeace wants it out of the water. This would pretty clearly result in millions of human deaths. Greenpeace doesn't care.

The Left wants us dead.

10 posted on 04/23/2008 8:31:24 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Delacon

“Delivering the keynote address at the United Nations forum on Indigenous People on Monday, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales told the adoring crowd that “if we want to save our planet earth, to save life, to save mankind, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.””

Yeah because that communist system was so humanitarian. This guy’s been smoking the coca leaves.


11 posted on 04/23/2008 8:32:01 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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ping


12 posted on 04/23/2008 8:35:37 AM PDT by phs3 (Call a terrorist a freedom fighter, I call you the enemy.)
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To: milwguy

Sounds like a good candidate for .308 Ballistic Cranial Surgery.


13 posted on 04/23/2008 8:38:06 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By any means necessary.)
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Massive pollution in Russia and her satellites proves when no one owns anything, no one cares for anything.
14 posted on 04/23/2008 8:44:54 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Delacon
"The urge to save humanity is often a false front for the URGE TO RULE."
-- H.L.Mencken

15 posted on 04/23/2008 8:51:52 AM PDT by philled (Rest in Peace, Sgt Merlin German. www.merlinsmiracles.com)
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To: Delacon
Delivering the keynote address at the United Nations forum on Indigenous People on Monday, Bolivia's President Evo Morales told the adoring crowd that "if we want to save our planet earth, to save life, to save mankind, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system."

PING for the real agenda of environmentalism...

16 posted on 04/23/2008 8:55:32 AM PDT by WOSG (Gameplan: Obama beats Hillary, McCain beats Obama, conservatives beat RINOs)
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To: Delacon

thanks, bfl


17 posted on 04/23/2008 8:57:44 AM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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To: philled

You did read my tag line didn’t you? :)


18 posted on 04/23/2008 9:00:00 AM PDT by Delacon ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." H. L. Mencken)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Roger that.

But hey....a body count of several hundred million...wrecked lives...wrecked societies...brainwashed slaves...what’s not to love about socialism??? Everybody (except for the elite few) is EQUALLY miserable, EQUALLY destitute, and usually EQUALLY dead at the end of the failed experiment. That’s FAIR, right?

The right people just haven’t been in charge...yeah, that’s it. That’s the ticket...the right people...


19 posted on 04/23/2008 9:10:06 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By any means necessary.)
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To: traviskicks

take a look...


20 posted on 04/23/2008 9:45:05 AM PDT by bamahead (Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
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