The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy, and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is no longer socialism or Communism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism. So writes Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, in Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What Is Endangered - Climate Or Freedom? In this brilliantly argued book, Klaus argues that the environmental movement has transformed itself into an ideology that seeks to restrict human activities at any cost, and that policies being proposed to address global warming are both economically harmful -- especially to poor nations -- and utterly unjustified by current science.
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Damage done by Global Warming Hoax,
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This review is from: Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom? (Paperback)
This well-reasoned book by the current President of the European Union objects to the politicization and hysteria of the Global Warming Hoax. President Vaclav Klaus, the author, cogently explains the dangers of the Global Warming Hoax.
He attacks this hoax first of all as an assault on human liberty. Klaus shows that the the tactics of the hoax promoters are basically the same tactics of the Communists - lack of debate, suppressing opposing views, and complete state control by a few dictators. When he quotes the architect of the Kyoto Protocol, Maurice Strong, as saying, "Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our duty to bring that about?", you will realize that such a nasty comment could only exist in a climate of fear and oppression. What a difference a few years makes. Now as we see the engineered collapse of our civilization by these same kooks, who can argue that Klaus is wrong? Klaus has lived and seen this limitation of freedom that socialism imposes on its citizens and his is a welcome voice of warning. The foreword to the book by the head of a think tank notes that the very success of Capitalism would lead to a massive bureaucratic Mandarinate of pseudo-intellectuals and government functionaries who would restrict liberty. Again, you will be amazed at the prescience of these people. The first part of the book introduces and proves the theme that the hoax promoters are thinly-veiled fascists. Klaus also includes a fair amount of science debunking the absurd claims of the hoaxers. The middle part of the book is a fairly technical economics discussion of resources, prices, scarcity and discounting. For me, not an economist, this part was less interesting. Klaus then closes with a coup de grace involving correct information on climate. You can only laugh when Klaus notes that the current hoax document, the IPPC, contains information like this - "climate may be partly predictable." And after you laugh, you will cry when you realize that idiocy now substitutes for science and liberty in the world. The appendices which stand on their own include the author's testimony before the US Congress, a speech at the UN, and other refutations of this hoax. The bibliography is also critical to developing an understanding of the strength of President Klaus's thesis and the weakness of the hoaxers' ridiculous computer models. The late Michael Crichton's speeches and writings are cited and if you haven't read his "State of Fear", you need to just for the citations of papers refuting various aspects of Global Warming. This is a serious work by a well-respected international figure, and I highly recommend it.
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Freedom versus Environmentalist Madness,
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This review is from: Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom? (Paperback)
The is is THE essential summary of global climate activism by a man who understands the issues, not to mention the issues behind the issues. As a survivor of socialism, Klaus understands clearly what the environmentalists are after - and it isn't saving the planet. It's dominating it and using it for vast social experiments by a self-appointed elite.
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Denial Is Not An Option,
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This review is from: Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom? (Paperback)
It is so difficult to convey in words how absurd this short book may be, that the reader may conclude that it is actually a parody. Lines such as "The environmentalist paradigm of thinking is absolutely static" and "I do not believe the whole idea to combat climate change by emission limits is rational" sound more like something by Monty Python than by someone who has actually studied the facts of global climate change.
The author is a survivor of Communist tyranny, and may therefore be forgiven for a strong stand against any form of government intervention. This appears to be his stated fear of environmentalism: that it will lead to a loss of human freedom. This leads him to deny that global warming is a problem or, in the alternative, to deny that we can stop it from happening. That he contradicts himself is a serious problem of the book, but since his expressed concern is political freedom, not science or health, he doesn't appear bothered by his contradiction; political arguments have no need to be consistent. Fortunately, persons reared in freedom can better understand than does the author that freedom is strong. A free people can address serious problems without sinking into a dictatorship. Moreover, fear is no reason to deny the well-established risks of global warming nor to deny that fixing a disaster after it occurs is always more expensive than avoiding it in the first place. Apparently, the author lacks faith in human ingenuity and even in the marketplace itself to come up with solutions to the problem we all face. This book is therefore a tragic waste of the author's talent; don't let it be a waste of your time.
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