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by Michael Weiss, March 21, 2007
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Hey comrade, can you spare a Prius?: Vaclav KlausI didn't say it, Czech President Vaclav Klaus did:
'Communism has been replaced by the threat of an ambitious environmentalism,' Klaus wrote in response to questions from the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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'[Poor countries] will not be able to absorb new technological standards required by the anti-greenhouse religion, their products will have difficulty accessing the developed markets, and as a result the gap between them and the developed world will widen,' he wrote.
'This ideology preaches earth and nature and under the slogans of their protection – similarly to the old Marxists – wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central, now global, planning of the whole world,' he added.
Actually, Marxists are much closer to anti-Kyoto skeptics of global warming since both think unfettered industrialization is a good thing. But one appreciates the point of turning a push for societal reform into an encompassing, messianic ideology.
That Al Gore has little time for anything else besides chlorofluorocarbons and soggy glaciers is termed "passion" in the American press. In Eastern Europe, it's reason to crank up the Velvet Underground.
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Anonymous
CFCs? You're about 20 years
CFCs? You're about 20 years behind the times -- they fixed that one.
And I believe it was the fettering, not the industrialization, that separated Communism from postwar America.
Michael Weiss
Re: CFCs? You're about 20 years
Wasn't talking about the Soviet-style Communism (or Stalinism, to call it by its right name) and American capitalism. Marxism would have had no time for the environmental movement because anything that hindered industrial development and prevented the sufficient conditions for proletarian revolution was deemed bad.
As for CFCs, wasn't that a big Gore worry more recently than 20 years ago?
Anonymous
CFCs were depleting the
CFCs were depleting the ozone; I believe they were unilaterally outlawed in the USA under Reagan and other countries quickly followed suit, and the ozone hole is gradually self-repairing.
Anonymous
The complete text
Klaus' letter to the US lawmakers - the full text.
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