Vaclav Klaus: Global warming: truth or propaganda?

[Naturalized-Texan]

Global warming: truth or propaganda? (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e9df7200-19c7-11dc-99c5-000b5df10621.html)

Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, argues in the Financial Times (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9deb730a-19ca-11dc-99c5-000b5df10621.html) that ambitious environmentalism is the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity.

Mr Klaus writes that “global warming hysteria has become a prime example of the truth versus propaganda problem” and the issue “is more about social than natural sciences and more about man and his freedom than about tenths of a degree Celsius changes in average global temperature.”

[Naturalized-Texan]

Freedom, not climate, is at risk (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9deb730a-19ca-11dc-99c5-000b5df10621.html)
By Vaclav Klaus

As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning.
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As a witness to today’s worldwide debate on climate change, I suggest the following:
■Small climate changes do not demand far-reaching restrictive measures
■Any suppression of freedom and democracy should be avoided
■Instead of organising people from above, let us allow everyone to live as he wants
■Let us resist the politicisation of science and oppose the term “scientific consensus”, which is always achieved only by a loud minority, never by a silent majority
■Instead of speaking about “the environment”, let us be attentive to it in our personal behaviour
■Let us be humble but confident in the spontaneous evolution of human society. Let us trust its rationality and not try to slow it down or divert it in any direction
■Let us not scare ourselves with catastrophic forecasts, or use them to defend and promote irrational interventions in human lives.

[Timberwolf]

The Czechs got one smart cookie for a Prez....

[DesertFox]

Yep. And not afraid to stand up straight and tall and speak truth to power.