Blue Planet in Green Shackles
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/blue_planet_in_green_shackles.html
Type of Content: Article The President of the Czech Republic shares his misgivings about the current climate change debate. A quote: "My today's thinking is substantially influenced by the fact that I spent most of my life under the communist regime which ignored and brutally violated human freedom and wanted to command not only the people but also the nature. To command "wind and rain" is one of the famous slogans I remember since my childhood. This experience taught me that freedom and rational dealing with the environment are indivisible." Read »
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"My central concern is - in a condensed form - captured in the subtitle of this book. I ask: "What is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?" My answer is: "it is our freedom." I may also add "and our prosperity."
Freedom & Prosperity. Where else have i heard those two words used together...
"Inexplicable humans...how can you combine so much baseness and so much greatness, so many virtues and so many crimes?" Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 'The World As it Is" circa 1748.
Is a great antidote to Al Gore. He is a tremendous voice for freedom, especially in Europe - he has had personal experience at the hands of the Soviets. His conception of how the face of environmentalism is so much like that of communism is thought provoking to say the least.
Great post, Claire.