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Czech prez: Environmentalism is new communism 
'Biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity'

As the House Energy and Commerce Committee prepares to question former Vice President Al Gore tomorrow morning about global warming, Czech President Vaclav Klaus is warning congressmen that environmental extremism is the modern equivalent of communism.

Responding yesterday to U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and former House Speaker Denny Hastert, R-Ill., the Czech leader said: "It becomes evident that while discussing climate we are not witnessing a clash of views about the environment, but a clash of views about human freedom."

"As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants," said Klaus, responding to questions posed by the two lawmakers. "Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism."

He added, "The so-called climate change and especially man-made climate change has become one of the most dangerous arguments aimed at distorting human efforts and public policies in the whole world."

In a letter to Klaus, Barton, the committee's ranking Republican, and Hastert, ranking Republican on the Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee, asked the Czech president to comment on global warming, based on his background as an economist and political leader, especially since he is familiar with European responses to global warming.

"We believe your perspective on the political, economic and moral aspects of the climate change debate can be useful as we seek to assess the potential impacts of proposed U.S. climate-related regulations on the economic well-being of its citizens and their ability to contribute to future economic vitality and innovation here and abroad," Barton and Hastert said.

Klaus urges policymakers to rely on free-market principles, not government coercion, in formulating public policy. In his written response to the House committee members, the Czech leader said:

"I warn against adopting regulations based on the so-called precautionary principle which the environmentalists use to justify their recommendations, the clear benefit of which they are not able to prove." Klaus added, "Responsible politics should take into account the opportunity costs of such proposals and be aware of the fact that the wasteful environmentalist policies are adopted to the detriment of other policies, thus neglecting many other important needs of millions of people all over the world. Each policy measure must be based on a cost-benefit analysis."

Last month, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., ranking member of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee, congratulated Klaus for speaking out against the fears of man-made global warming. Klaus had told a Czech newspaper on Feb. 8 that fears of catastrophic man-made global warming were a "myth" and critiqued the U.N.'s report, calling it "political." Klaus also said other government leaders would speak out, but "political correctness strangles their voice."

"President Klaus is to be commended for his courage in speaking not only the truth about the science behind global warming fears, but the reality of the politicization of the U.N.," Inhofe said. "President Klaus's reported comments questioning the fears of catastrophic man-made global warming are in line with a growing chorus of scientists, peer-reviewed literature and government leaders who are finally realizing the true motivations behind climate scares. The scientific and political momentum is clearly shifting away from climate alarmists to climate realists," Inhofe said.

The real reason behind the scares comes down to money.

Why would Al Gore be a leader in this?
Democrat.  What do I mean by this?
Well scare us off of things like incandescent lighting and into florescent.  Florescent lighting has many problems in it.  As mentioned in another thread, it contains mercury.  Mercury cannot simply be disposed of in the trash cans.  So in order to ensure that we dispose of mercury we will have to have special trash pick up for it.  Or special drop off sites for it.  This means that the cities, states, etc will have to have special handling processes and specialized people for this.  In order to pay for this there will have to be more money raised.  More money means more taxes.  This also means that special contracts and things of that nature across the board to help these municipalities out. 

Also the direct link to things like epilepsy.  This is a health issue, so in order to assist with that we need a national health care organization...socialized medicine.  Socialized medicine has to be funded in part by the gment.  If the gment has to spend more money to maintain then again the money has to come from somewhere...taxes. 

I really cannot say anything as far as mainstream scientists agreeing or disagreeing on this issue....the mainstream scientists are still holding onto evolution ;)

There is much more than just money it is control, control of the people. The desire to make everyone , except themselves, to use government controlled public transportation. No one can go anywhere that they don't want us going to. The problem I see with this ... more time spent in travel, more taxes to support a larger number of public transits, more out of pocket expenses for transport, less freedom of movement, and most of those public transports are really big polluters compared to cars.