Tuesday, May 27, 2008

We'll see how much press this guy gets!

Czech President Klaus, an economist, has written a book. Blue Planet in Green Shackles - What is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?
His answer? "Our freedom and, I might add, our prosperity"

Speaking in Washington, he said he opposed the "climate alarmism" perpetuated by environmentalism trying to impose their ideals, comparing it to the decades of communist rule he experienced growing up in Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia.
"Like their (communist) predecessors, they will be certain that they have the right to sacrifice man and his freedom to make their idea reality," he said.
"In the past, it was in the name of the Marxists or of the proletariat - this time, in the name of the planet," he added.
Klaus said a free market should be used to address environmental concerns and said he oppposed as unrealistic regulations or greenhouse gas capping systems designed to reduce the impact of climate change.


Do you think he or his book will get much press in the US?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Kinda like the US sacrificing man and his freedom and prosperity fighting unnecessary and unconstitional wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the name of "democracy"...