Posted on 03/10/2007 3:48:40 PM PST by phatus maximus
Czech Pres: Environmentalism is a religion WASHINGTON, March 9 (UPI) -- Environmentalism is a religion that is based more on political ambitions than science, the president of the Czech Republic warned Friday.
Speaking at the Cato Institute, a public policy think-tank, President Vaclav Klaus said that environmentalists who clamor for policy change to combat global warming "only pretend" to be promoting environmental protection, and are actually being driven by a political agenda.
"Environmentalism should belong in the social sciences," much like the idea of communism or other "-isms" such as feminism, Klaus said, adding that "environmentalism is a religion" that seeks to reorganize the world order as well as social behavior and value systems worldwide.
As for government spending on global warming studies, the former finance minister and of the Eastern European nation and trained economist said that such efforts were a "waste of money," adding that there was already sufficient scientific evidence for those seeking policy change to back up their proposals
Premier Klaus is right on the money.
Buy that man a Miller!
Finally someone who see's the truth and recognizes the worship of "mother Earth" and by default Al Gore...When the movie Inconvenient Truth won for best documentary I was thinking that the director literally was worshipping fat Albert when he was just gushing over the assistance Al gave toward the film...and the song by Melissa Ethridge of waking up or whatever it is...as if the world is going to shrivel up and go away because I and 3 billion others don't recycle routinely or breath too much CO2...ugh...
I thought it might be but couldn't resist...
That's ok. I hadn't seen it. Good to see the guy speaking the truth.
I'm getting sick and tired of these eastern European politicians having more brains and guts than what we have running this country.
I'm not! Bring it on. The more the merrier.
You're right. If we don't straightened out, we'll need somewhere to go.
Gorism...even that sounds ridiculous...
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