Vaclav Klaus Compares Global Warming Mantra to Communism's Mantra: Sacrifice

I have great respect for Vaclav Klaus, the President of Czechoslovakia. He is the ONLY head of state (that I'm aware of) that speaks out forcefully against all the global warming hype. He even questions the integrity of its spokespeople. Mr. Klaus astutely compares the Global warming mantra with the same type of mantra that the communists spewed forth decades ago. To understand how that ideology caused the deaths of millions is to be bewildered how today many people can still be taken in yet again by the same ideology: the sacrifice of the individual for the so called good of the "majority", "country" or today "earth". (Read at The Earth Times).

Czech President Vaclav Klaus said Tuesday he is ready to debate Al Gore about global warming, as he presented the English version of his latest book that argues environmentalism poses a threat to basic human freedoms. "I many times tried to talk to have a public exchange of views with him, and he's not too much willing to make such a conversation," Klaus said. "So I'm ready to do it."

Klaus was speaking a the National Press Building in Washington to present his new book, Blue Planet in Green Shackles - What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?, before meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney Wednesday.

"My answer is it is our freedom and, I might add, and our prosperity," he said.

...Klaus, an economist, said he opposed the "climate alarmism" perpetuated by environmentalism trying to impose their ideals, comparing it to the decades of communist rule he experienced growing up in Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia.

"Like their (communist) predecessors, they will be certain that they have the right to sacrifice man and his freedom to make their idea reality," he said.
"In the past, it was in the name of the Marxists or of the proletariat - this time, in the name of the planet," he added.

Klaus said a free market should be used to address environmental concerns and said he opposed as unrealistic regulations or greenhouse gas capping systems designed to reduce the impact of climate change.

"It could be even true that we are now at a stage where mere facts, reason and truths are powerless in the face of the global warming propaganda," he said.

Klaus alleged that the global warming was being championed by scientists and other environmentalists whose careers and funding requires selling the public on global warming.

"It is in the hands of climatologists and other related scientists who are highly motivated to look in one direction only." (Read).