Posted on 01/20/2014 10:35:03 AM PST by Kaslin
Well… On the bright side: The UN Climate Chief has finally decided to adopt a certain modicum of honesty in her crusade to rid the world of pollution. As suspected by capitalists, free market advocates, and anyone who read into the redistributive agenda of the UN Climate Scientists, Christiana Figueres has suggested that only communism is capable of successfully fighting global warming and “climate change”.
Of course it’s a strange statement, given the Soviet Union’s abysmal record on environmental issues, and red China’s horrific display of environmental abuse. Figueres even went so far as to suggest that communist China is leading the world, and should be viewed as a role-model, in the fight against environmental damage. According to the Daily Caller:
“[China] actually wants to breathe air that they don’t have to look at,” she said. “They’re not doing this because they want to save the planet. They’re doing it because it’s in their national interest.”
She went on to suggest that China is a better steward of environmental concerns than the United States, Socialist Europe, or any capitalistic entity on the face of the planet. And, to an extent, she’s right… China would like to breathe air they didn’t have to look at… Of course, their solution so far has revolved around handing out face masks, and erecting giant LCD screens to broadcast the sunrise and sunset.
China has struggled with environmental disaster since central planning bureaucrats first crept into the field of industrial planning. And while China has suffered through smog storms that make turn-of-the-century Philadelphia look like a clean-air-utopia, the civilized world (led primarily by free markets and capitalism) has cleaned up their act environmentally and morally. While the Soviet Union was busy draining lakes, and pumping sulfur into the German atmosphere, the West was busy inventing catalytic converters and low-emission power-plants.
And while America’s carbon footprint has largely stood still, that of China’s has grown to a burdensome (and worrisome) level… So, objectively, Christiana Figueres is more than wrong… She’s an outright ideological shill with little concern for historical context, or objective evaluation of environmental stewardship. Of course, to be fair, environmentalism has never really been about caring for the environment.
Capitalism has proven to be the greatest anti-poverty scheme in history, and has also thrust most of the developed world into a space-age era of technological, and socioeconomic, progress. And while capitalism has thrust the human condition into realms of universal luxury not previously imagined, the statists, socialists, communists, and elitists have bemoaned the individual power guaranteed by economic freedom. With this freedom, ironically, has come a greater philanthropic spirit and a broader understanding of community issues.
After all… It’s a whole lot easier to spend extra money on environmental, or societal, concerns when a nation produces more wealth. It is, much to the dismay of socialist hacks like Figueres, the wealth built by capitalism that has financed Europe’s socialist agendas. Exxon Mobile continues to lead the world in environmentally conscious research, while government funded “green energy” projects have continued to bankrupt themselves. Communism might be effective at reigning in the excess of prosperity, but it is wholly ineffective at delivering prosperity, efficiency, or technological progress. (I mean, let’s face it: Aside from suicidal novelists, firearms, and vodka, what did the Soviet Union really do well?)
Economic freedom is accompanied by an unpredictable trajectory of entrepreneurial philanthropy… And leftists hate the individualistic nature of self-interest. So, despite capitalism’s provably superior track record on environmental issues, communism has proven to be more admired by the big-government statists of the leftist environmental movement. After all, Communism promises a whole lot more power and cronyism to the friends of Figueres than an objectively market-driven laissez faire society.
Figueres’ assertion that the smog-plagued, carbon-hungry, toxin spilling nation of China is better at environmental stewardship than the increasingly earth-conscious western democracies is another illustration of the UN’s agenda over fact. Just like UN scientists omitted inconvenient data to sell the notion of global warming, Figueres is willing to spew ludicrous assertions in an advocacy for centralized government, and redistributive policies.
After all, what good is a UN Chief if they don’t push for ideology that was once adopted by the “evil empire”? Clearly, an ideology that led to millions of political prisoners and widespread environmental damage is best equipped to spur market based solutions to environmental pollution… Right?
But, hey… At least she is more transparent than the American champions of redistributive-environmentalism.
Let's see my choice is living in hell on earth or destroying the environment (not happening) and living a decent quality of life until the environment decides it chooses to survive and wipe us out. I am going with choice number 2.
Do these morons know that after Chernobyl people opted to live in the town they set up just outside of Chernobyl (a town that was set up very much like an American suburban town with all their wants, needs and amenities-I forget the name) They OPTED to go with the risk and have a decent shorter life (possibly) than live in the hell that was communism.
She obviously sees her personal notion of “what’s good for the environment” as incompatible with economic freedom and a decent standard of living for humanity. Communism is indeed the best way to stop all that.
Mostly its the Aral Desert these days. (And its toxic)
Glad someone finally said it out loud.
They have OBVIOUSLY been pursuing this idea for some time.
Most of those numbers are low since they had no record keeping in Russia or China as well as starvation as a weapon.
Many think the numbers are around 200 million.
Pray America is Waking
This aptly describes Obama, or as my friends and I nicknamed him, Lying Sack of Sh!+ or LSoS for short!
Obviously, this ditzy dildo has never been to a communist country. I was in Germany when the wall came down. The difference between East and West Germany was stunning. Czechoslovakia was all gray. Even in the summer. We won’t even go into Red China and the environment there.
Environmentalism is communism’s only hope.
Sure...that explains why China’s air can be cut with a knife.
and why China gets exempted from pollution controls in all the climate treaties...
It must be hard being a liberal, having to remember which lies to believe when.
Orwellian “Double-Think” means never needing to remember which lie is active.
The only hope for the world is the dissolution of the UN!!!
Environmentalism is like a watermelon. Green on the outside but red on the inside.
That 20 million in the Soviet Union cannot be right. Stalin killed more than that himself.
and the soviet union before that
WTF is wrong with these people?
WTF is wrong with these people?
Tell her to take a big drink out of Lake Baikal.
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