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.
What needs to happen is the media has to portray communists the same way they portray Nazism, in other words tell the truth.
Yep—I remember being amazed at how pristine Eastern Europe was after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the implosion of the USSR.
Communism is the only hope the UN thugs have of becoming a global-government dictatorship.
Communists are better at killing their citizens than any other political or economic system.
Ergo, communism is the best economic system for Mother Earth.
Now for my next trick I will prove that 2+2=5.
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”.Apparently this lying liar has never heard of the Soviet environmental disaster like the Aral Sea basin, the Aswan High Dam, etc etc; and clearly she's spinning the Chinese malfeasance. And if Kyoto Treaty were really about saving the planet, why did China ignore it, why was China exempt? Thanks Kaslin.
I never heard that before.
For all the ugliness that goes on inside, it is a fantastically beautiful building.
Good news comrades. PM readings have been reduced to 671 micrograms.
LOL! I tell you, I would not doubt if that was their rational.
Just like Al Gore...the UN supports the Global Warming BS and Free Trade....and will use Communism to achieve (fail at) both
How stupid can people be..
At the end of World War 2, the USSR took the northern half of what was once known as East Prussia; Poland took the southern half. The USSR used their half, known as Kaliningrad SSR, as a toxic waste dump. The Russians aren’t now interested in keeping it, and approached Poland, Lithuania and Germany about taking it off their hands.
They all declined. It makes New Jersey look like the Garden State. (Oh wait...never mind).
Let’s paint a huge bullseyes on each building so they are easy to spot next time.
(We'll drill the other planets later.)
So funny I forgot to laugh.
There is a solid relationship there.
Canadian Communist Maurice Strong, after Communism's humiliation in Russia, dusted off the 1980's Communist platform, inverted the relationship between the environmental modules and planks in the outline and the main body of the document, and took the rehashed document to Rio -- and sold it to Al Gore.*
Environmentalism is just Communism upside-down, with a spray-coat of green paint.
* Whose daddy was on the board of directors of Oxy Petroleum, which was run by lifetime Communist Armand Hammer. (Yeah, I know -- it's just a coincidence.)
Nah. They change their lies daily, and their moronic base does not even notice. Esp as long as they get their obama phones and money from obama’s stash...
Are the people in the UN all fools?
Nope. They are power hungry monsters who think that the US populace is made of fools. Sadly, after seeing this nation elect obastard twice, I have to grant that they may be right. The nominations of McCain and Romney as the “opposition” candidates just reinforces that belief.
Oh yes, and when the Aral Sea dried up, the entire ethnic group living there, the Karakalpak tribe, was poisoned by toxic waste. A video or picture of Darvaza would be appropriate, too. That’s the crater in neighboring Turkmenistan where gas has been burning since a drilling rig fell into it in 1971.
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