Humanity Haters

Miranda Devine interviews (President of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav) Klaus:

“Twenty years ago we still felt threatened by the remnants of communism. This is really over,” Klaus said.

“I feel threatened now, not by global warming—I don’t see any—(but) by the global warming doctrine, which I consider a new dangerous attempt to control and mastermind my life and our lives, in the name of controlling the climate or temperature."…

He said environmentalists had been arguing for decades that we should reduce our consumption of fossil fuels, using various farcical ploys from the exhaustion of natural resources to the threat of “imminent mass poverty and starvation for billions”.

Those same environmentalists shamelessly talk now about dangerous global warming.

“They don’t care about resources or poverty or pollution.

“They hate us, the humans. They consider us dangerous and sinful creatures who must be controlled by them.

“I used to live in a similar world called communism...”

Global warming alarmists “want to change us, they want to change our behaviour, our way of life, our values and preferences. They want to restrict our freedom because they themselves believe they know what is good for us. They are not interested in climate. They misuse the climate in their goal to restrict our freedom. Therefore ...what is in danger is freedom, not the climate”.

As much as I agree with these sentiments I despair at the vested interests controlling the AGW debate. Because this is more about a faith than reason, those who advocate a crippling of the economy and a steady return to the Stone Age are not listening to the facts. They are concerned with stopping any debate (witness the attack on the ‘hate press’) and changing the laws so that moral, economic, industrial and environmentalist decisions are made by the judiciary, most of whom occupy the same rarefied atmosphere as the Watermelon brigades.