Anyone with half a brain knows that.
Posted on 07/23/2014 12:31:16 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Environmentalists have declared that global warming can’t be stopped without ending the “hegemonic capitalist system,” saying that cap-and-trade systems and conservation efforts are “false solutions.”
“The structural causes of climate change are linked to the current capitalist hegemonic system,” reads the final draft of the Margarita Declaration, presented at a conference including about 130 environmental groups.
“To combat climate change it is necessary to change the system,” the declaration adds.
Environmental activists met in the oil producing, socialist country of Venezuela as part of a United Nations-backed event to increase civil engagement in the lead up to a major climate conference.
But environmentalists surprised U.N. officials by offering up a declaration that not only seeks to end capitalism, but one that also opposes U.N.-backed efforts to fight global warming — namely, cap-and-trade and forest conservation programs.
Climate-change news analysis site RTCC reports that it’s unclear which groups signed onto the declaration, adding that it runs in the face of the “green economy” solutions to global warming backed by rich nations.
But many poor countries, like Venezuela, do not support a “green economy” solution to global warming, instead, arguing that rich countries should give poor nations cash payments and technology transfers.
Rejection of cap-and-trade and forest conservation programs also fly in the face of U.S. and European environmental groups, which back programs to limit and price carbon dioxide emissions.
In the U.S., environmentalists rallied behind the Environmental Protection Agency proposals to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing power plants — a plan that would force the shutdown of coal-fired power plants.
“Climate disruption is the greatest challenge facing our generation,” Michael Brune, the director of the Sierra Club, said in a statement in June. “Until now, power plants have been allowed to dump unlimited amounts of carbon pollution into our air, driving dangerous climate disruption, and fueling severe drought, wildfires, heat waves and superstorms.”
The EPA’s plan to cut emissions from power plants has been attacked by the coal industry and Republicans who say it will harm the U.S. economy without doing much to help the climate.
“EPA is setting up our states to fail – our local economies to fail – to deliver on the president’s promise that electricity prices will skyrocket – all for immeasurable so-called climate benefits,” Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter said in a Thursday hearing on the EPA’s new rule. ”This rule is all pain and no gain.”
The environmentalists who support the Margarita Declaration may have also been pleased to hear that Australia repealed its two-year-old carbon tax — though Australia is still a free-market economy.
Australia’s conservative coalition government has been bucking the so-called climate consensus since their electoral wins last fall. Not only did Australia send no high level diplomats to the last U.N. climate conference, but they also plan to cut global warming and green energy programs by 90 percent over the next four years.
The Soviet Union, and now communist China, are polluted cesspools. Do these idiots really think that communism is the solution?
Anyone with half a brain knows that.
Because as we can see from North Korea and the USSR, Communism works so much better for the environment.
Yes it is.
They created a system where all money went through government. Now every industry is owed billion and billions and the government cannot pay them.
I have no idea why foreign airlines are still operating there and why foreign cargo ships still go there (with waiting times of 3 weeks or more to unload their ships, which costs them real $$$ to sit idle)
What they want is corporate fascism.
Whatever the problem, I have little doubt that these idiots think it can be solved by massive money transfers from the US to whoever is claiming aggrieved status.
AmIright?
Paraphrasing Winston Churchill: Capitalism is the worst economic system... except all the others.
200 million capitalists call for an end to environmental groups.
My, my, who could have seen this coming? Rehashed Marxism on a stick.
It will work if it is just enforced by smart people.
And replace it with what? Communists in Russia used nukes to move earth for dams. The Chinese have terrible air quality and water pollution.
Which economies have the money to do eco-sensitive things? The rich, capitalist democracies!
Sad how many mixed up people there are in the world (who are getting media attention for it.)
Capitalism is the only economic system that actually protects the environment. All government socialist economies are enviro rapists. Check the record.
Demonstrating, once again, environmentalists are not interested in protecting the environment. They are attempting to gain control of the means of production and convert the world economy to a global tyranny.
130 capitalist groups call for the end of environmental groups.
130 capitalist groups call for the end of environmental groups.
Proving once and for all that none of this ever had ANYTHING to do with saving the planet.
Margarita Declaration..............wasted away again in Margaritaville..............
I call for an end to the UN and environmental groups. The only good red is a dead red.
They’ve got a Margarita Deceleration, well I’ve got a Bourbon Declaration and it kicks their tequila drinking butts any day of the week.
130 Communist Front Groups, you mean.
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