Posted on 07/23/2014 12:31:16 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Environmentalists have declared that global warming can’t be stopped without ending the “hegemonic capitalist system,” saying that cap-and-trade systems and conservation efforts are “false solutions.”
“The structural causes of climate change are linked to the current capitalist hegemonic system,” reads the final draft of the Margarita Declaration, presented at a conference including about 130 environmental groups.
“To combat climate change it is necessary to change the system,” the declaration adds.
Environmental activists met in the oil producing, socialist country of Venezuela as part of a United Nations-backed event to increase civil engagement in the lead up to a major climate conference.
But environmentalists surprised U.N. officials by offering up a declaration that not only seeks to end capitalism, but one that also opposes U.N.-backed efforts to fight global warming — namely, cap-and-trade and forest conservation programs.
Climate-change news analysis site RTCC reports that it’s unclear which groups signed onto the declaration, adding that it runs in the face of the “green economy” solutions to global warming backed by rich nations.
But many poor countries, like Venezuela, do not support a “green economy” solution to global warming, instead, arguing that rich countries should give poor nations cash payments and technology transfers.
Rejection of cap-and-trade and forest conservation programs also fly in the face of U.S. and European environmental groups, which back programs to limit and price carbon dioxide emissions.
In the U.S., environmentalists rallied behind the Environmental Protection Agency proposals to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing power plants — a plan that would force the shutdown of coal-fired power plants.
“Climate disruption is the greatest challenge facing our generation,” Michael Brune, the director of the Sierra Club, said in a statement in June. “Until now, power plants have been allowed to dump unlimited amounts of carbon pollution into our air, driving dangerous climate disruption, and fueling severe drought, wildfires, heat waves and superstorms.”
The EPA’s plan to cut emissions from power plants has been attacked by the coal industry and Republicans who say it will harm the U.S. economy without doing much to help the climate.
“EPA is setting up our states to fail – our local economies to fail – to deliver on the president’s promise that electricity prices will skyrocket – all for immeasurable so-called climate benefits,” Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter said in a Thursday hearing on the EPA’s new rule. ”This rule is all pain and no gain.”
The environmentalists who support the Margarita Declaration may have also been pleased to hear that Australia repealed its two-year-old carbon tax — though Australia is still a free-market economy.
Australia’s conservative coalition government has been bucking the so-called climate consensus since their electoral wins last fall. Not only did Australia send no high level diplomats to the last U.N. climate conference, but they also plan to cut global warming and green energy programs by 90 percent over the next four years.
But bicycles require metal, and that means mining, which means machinery, which these Luddites are against.
I’m very well aware of all of that.
I declare, I would enjoy a Margarita right about now.
Marxism was created to rule the uneducated. Kind of like not teaching the people to read and then telling them what is in the Bible.
Is the EPA one of them?
There they go again. NOT a single byte of proof in support of what they have ever said about anything.
They expose their true goal in their demanding an end to capitalism, and where (Venezuela) they are in doing so.
These people are plain old Communists that shouldn’t be recognized as anything other than crackpots, and NOT allowed to utilize our court system for their unproven purposes. They are malicious vandals disrupting the system. They are not the heroic saviors of the World they imagine themselves to be.
BREAKING NEWS:
I as a single capitalist call for the end of Communist environmental groups!
Global warming can’t be stopped without the systematic extermination of all undesirables and the total enslavement of the proletariat.
It’s the only way to be sure. /s
1 radar engineer calls for the end of environmentalists ...
I can’t say we’ve ever had true capitalism for at least 100 years.
These people are insane and if they had their way, tens of millions would die.
At least those mud huts don't have graffiti all over them.
I have absolutely ZERO problem giving dollars to places like Venezuela.
In fact, I’ll give them a brand-new ten-dollar bill for every barrel of oil they give me in exchange. . .
ONLY SOCIALISM CAN SAVE US from _______ !!!!! (fill in the blank)
How many times in our lifetimes have we heard this crap?
So the rind is being peeled from the watermelon.
I think we need a device that generates electricity from burning the bodies of “environmentalist”...preferably alive.
I truly hope that somebody can get a list of the attendees, because even if they didn’t sign on, they still made love to the tar baby. And it could ruin them in the future.
I “call for” an end to “environmental groups”.
“Climate disruption” ah the new buzzword for the communists since all the other ones have proven to be false tags (global warming, climate change etc...). Keep moving the target so the uniformed don’t get the wiser.
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