Totalitarian Climate Alarmism

I have often written about the socialistic basis of the global warming alarmist crowd as not having as much to do with the the climate or the environment as it is about imposing the ideals of the few into controlling the many. Well you might not believe me but how about someone that has lived under the totalitarian socialist rule of the Soviets, Vaclav Klauss, the Czech President and economist. He has been a very outspoken critic of the climate alarmists and the solutions they propose to save the earth from mankind by stopping economic and population growth and limiting the production of energy to a few politically correct sources that in some cases do more harm than good. So I point you to this piece in the Australian adapted from a speech he gave to the '08 International Conference on Climate Change last week in New York that was ignored by the MSM and hosted hundreds of scientists, climatologists and economists skeptical of the outlandish claims made by Al Gore and his band of koolaid drinkers.

I am afraid there are people who want to stop the economic growth, the rise in the standard of living (though not their own) and the ability of man to use the expanding wealth, science and technology for solving the actual pressing problems of mankind, especially of the developing countries. This ambition goes very much against past human experience which has always been connected with a strong motivation to better human conditions. There is no reason to make the change just now, especially with arguments based on such incomplete and faulty science. Human wants are unlimited and should stay so. Asceticism is a respectable individual attitude but should not be forcefully imposed upon the rest of us.

I am also afraid that the same people, imprisoned in the Malthusian tenets and in their own megalomaniacal ambitions, want to regulate and constrain demographic development, which is something only the totalitarian regimes have until now dared to experiment with. Without resisting it we would find ourselves on the slippery road to serfdom. The freedom to have children without regulation and control is one of the undisputable human rights.

Hattip to American Thinker.