I have no doubt about the
veracity of climate change. It's been happening for as long as Earth has
existed. And I have no doubt that the causes are various and changing, and that
they include the toxic effects of human industry and manufacturing. But "climate
change" is different from "global warming," which extends the
debate from the scientific and climatological to the emotional, if not purely
political: Bush vs. Gore; liberal vs. conservative; Republican vs. Democrat;
First World vs. Third; etc. I find myself in none of those categories (except
perhaps the First World one), but when I see the same agitprop behind
"global warming" marches and anti-American political demos, I
conclude that something is going on that has nothing to do with Mother Earth.
Great minds think alike,
as we know, so it comes as no surprise that no less eminent a person than
Vaclav Klaus, the President of the Czech Republic, has reached the same conclusions.
But President Klaus, who is well-known for going against the ideological
mainstream, goes a step or two further and compares the environmental movement
to the Communism that he grew up under. "We are talking about two
ideologies," he says, "and in this respect they are structurally very
similar: they are against individual freedom, they are in favor of
central(ized) masterminding of our fates, they are both very similar in telling
us what to do, how to live, how to behave, what to eat, how to travel, what we
can do and what we cannot do and so on. There is a huge similarity in
this respect."
In
other words, there's nothing new under the sun, and humans will always need to
lord it over other humans.
