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Posted on 07/10/2009 2:27:32 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about “global governance.”
“I bring you good news from the U.S., “Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK Times.
“Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey climate bill,” Gore said, noting it was “very much a step in the right direction.”
Gore touted the climate bill, claiming it “will dramatically increase the prospects for success” in combating what he sees as the “crisis” of man-made global warming.
“But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements.” (Editor's Note: Gore makes the “global governance” comment at the 1min. 10 sec. mark in this UK Times video.)
Gore's call for “global governance” echoes former French President Jacques Chirac's call in 2000.
On November 20, 2000, then French President Chirac said during a speech at The Hague that the UN's Kyoto Protocol represented "the first component of an authentic global governance."
“For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global governance,” Chirac explained. “From the very earliest age, we should make environmental awareness a major theme of education and a major theme of political debate, until respect for the environment comes to be as fundamental as safeguarding our rights and freedoms. By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace,” Chirac added.
Former EU Environment Minister Margot Wallstrom said, "Kyoto is about the economy, about leveling the playing field for big businesses worldwide." Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper once dismissed UN's Kyoto Protocol as a “socialist scheme.”
'Global Carbon Tax' Urged at UN Meeting
In addition, calls for a global carbon tax have been urged at recent UN global warming conferences. In December 2007, the UN climate conference in Bali, urged the adoption of a global carbon tax that would represent “a global burden sharing system, fair, with solidarity, and legally binding to all nations.”
“Finally someone will pay for these [climate related] costs,” Othmar Schwank, a global tax advocate, said at the 2007 UN conference after a panel titled “A Global CO2 Tax.”
Schwank noted that wealthy nations like the U.S. would bear the biggest burden based on the “polluters pay principle.” The U.S. and other wealthy nations need to “contribute significantly more to this global fund,” Schwank explained. He also added, “It is very essential to tax coal.”
The 2007 UN conference was presented with a report from the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment titled “Global Solidarity in Financing Adaptation.” The report stated there was an “urgent need” for a global tax in order for “damages [from climate change] to be kept from growing to truly catastrophic levels, especially in vulnerable countries of the developing world.”
The tens of billions of dollars per year generated by a global tax would “flow into a global Multilateral Adaptation Fund” to help nations cope with global warming, according to the report.
Schwank said a global carbon dioxide tax is an idea long overdue that is urgently needed to establish “a funding scheme which generates the resources required to address the dimension of challenge with regard to climate change costs.”
'Redistribution of wealth'
The environmental group Friends of the Earth advocated the transfer of money from rich to poor nations during the 2007 UN climate conference.
"A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources,” said Emma Brindal, a climate justice campaigner coordinator for Friends of the Earth.
Global Governance through a one world order is is the ulterior motive for all these socialists bills.
GLOBAL WARMING MY A**!
I had to turn on my furnace this morning to take the chill off the air. This is July!!!
Same thing last year in July and August both.
Never had to do that before in my life, and it’s the same story all across western Canada. This is NOT the norm where I live.
My wife asked me tonight how the US could have a Vice President as obviously stupid as Joe Biden. I told her that Al Gore had left some big shoes to fill.
Freakin' Friends of Socialists and Communists. How about transfering the wealth from dictators to peasants? Start with the big, fat, wealthy shieks. THAT I'll support
don’t worry - there are no liars in heaven - he will be in that warm abode one day.....and the Global Governor of that realm is not going to do one thing to ease his pain either
I'm forwarding a link to the thread to a lot of those who scoffed over a decade ago when a few of us in the "Wise Use" movement could see this puss coming out of Kyoto and Rio!!!
Even though these skeptics said "they can't do that to us and you must be a little nuts to believe they can," well, BOHICA!!!
The liberty loving conservatives are sure outnumber by the mind bending control freaks!!! We are now in the twilight zone where the strange and rediculous rules the day!!!
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When is this fatass blimp going to explode and go away???? It will cause a dramatic spike in carbon emissions but it will be well worth it.
We could have ended up with global governance in the early 1940s if things had turned out just a bit different. I don’t really picture Al Gore being happy under such a scheme...
gore and zerobabble.
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What I said.
You’ve gotta love The People’s Cube. They get *so* much right, and they’re funny as all get out. Unfortunately, too many don’t get the joke.
Everything liberals do is embodied in a John Lennon song. I wonder what he would think of Bloomberg telling him he can’t smoke in a bar in NYC or that his Dick Cavett interview would be airbrushed by the Ministry of Truth Forrest Gump movie editors....
He might have a different opinion of Socialism than. It sounds good in theory, but it could only work with an iron fist.
Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
These maniacs are amazingly candid lately. I just pinged you on Ginsburg’s admission that Roe V Wade was to limit “Populations We Don’t Want to Have Too Many Of.”
Scary.
I had seen this yesterday. We were mentioning how disgusting it was. It’s hard to believe the left sometimes, the things they say. If a right wing person had said something like that, they would have to resign.
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