Walter Russell Mead: Kyoto Fraud Revealed

When the idiotic Kyoto Protocol was put before the US Senate, 95 senators voted against this confused and destructive initiative on the grounds that, as designed, the measure would simply ship American jobs to China and other countries without reducing greenhouse gasses.

For years, green activists have mourned and bemoaned the shortsightedness of the US. How could we sit out from something so noble, so planet saving, so wise as the sacred Kyoto Protocol? We have been listening to the green moral scolds for twenty years: those fat, dumb and ignorant Americans are simply too stupid and too selfish to save Planet Earth.

The EU, where disingenuous politicians are forced to demagogue green issues because addlepated proportional representation rules empower the lunatic eco-fringe in key countries, ratified Kyoto, and Americans were then treated to years of vainglorious Euro-puffery about the nobility, the wisdom and the self-sacrificial idealism of the cutting edge eco-warriors of the Green Continent.

Over the years, some of the Kyoto fairy dust had begun to wear off. Global greenhouse emissions did not in fact appear to be declining very much. Many of the EU cuts were accounting tricks; counting the closure of inefficient, money-losing industrial dinosaurs in East Germany that were doomed to close anyway towards Germany’s greenhouse targets was a fairly typical example.

But a couple of recent studies now seem to show that Kyoto was as big a fraud as the most militant enviro-skeptics ever suspected. And it looks as if the 95 American senators were 100 percent right: the much heralded Protocol was a singularly stupid piece of counterproductive social engineering that encouraged the migration of good jobs to China and other low wage countries — without helping the environment at all.

How many times do widely hailed, ritualistically praised and endorsed green policy initiatives have to go down in flames before the press realizes that the way to help the environment is to subject such proposals to critical scrutiny before they flop?

Has green policy really been a failure though? That depends upon what the true intent was.

Those 95 US senators were totally right; twenty years of the Kyoto Protocol have brought the world twenty years of rising greenhouse gas emissions and twenty years of job migration to low wage, low regulation havens in the Third World.

If the intent was the redistribution of wealth and an economic crisis for the powerful western nations it might be seen as a success. That is the well-documented goal of socialists, communists and Progressives who were all around long before the "green movement." It dovetails nicely with a Cloward & Piven strategy.

The old time conservationist orgs like the Sierra Club document the migration of the old Communists into the conservation orgs when their Garden of Socialist Eden in the USSR collapsed and Communism for a little while fell into world disrepute. As “greenies” they don’t carry the stigma of Stalin and Mao and GULAGs and slaughter of “deviants” but they are the same people and will use the same methods when they attain the power to do so.

The Fed. Because it was going to happen anyways. The crash was inevitable given the circumstances. Bubble would have burst under Obama and the Fed was leery of his intentions. Purposeful Disaster, controlled under a known American is more acceptable than Convenient Opportunity which would present under an Obama administration.

The Fed, if culpable, did a bang up deed, dont’cha think?

Thanks neverdem.

When the idiotic Kyoto Protocol was put before the US Senate, 95 senators voted against this confused and destructive initiative on the grounds that, as designed, the measure would simply ship American jobs to China and other countries without reducing greenhouse gasses... The EU, where disingenuous politicians are forced to demagogue green issues because addlepated proportional representation rules empower the lunatic eco-fringe in key countries, ratified Kyoto... Global greenhouse emissions did not in fact appear to be declining very much. Many of the EU cuts were accounting tricks; counting the closure of inefficient, money-losing industrial dinosaurs in East Germany that were doomed to close anyway... And it looks as if the 95 American senators were 100 percent right: the much heralded Protocol was a singularly stupid piece of counterproductive social engineering that encouraged the migration of good jobs to China and other low wage countries -- without helping the environment at all.

The fact is, those ignorant jackoffs who are the entire never-fails constituency of the Demwit party don't think for themselves and are the ones who need to be educated, and the best way to do that is the arrest, show trials, and executions of the global warming demagogues in and out of office. Figuratively of course.

But seriously, we are under attack from a gang of single party state advocates who want to run the world and enslave all of us. And historically, there's only one effective response for that.




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