Environmentalists Are The Threat, Not Global Warming

Vaclav Klaus, the renowned President of the Czech Republic, has written an excellent article on the hysteria surrounding global warming.

Here are some quotes:

• As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism.
• As a witness to today’s worldwide debate on climate change, I suggest the following:
  ■ Small climate changes do not demand far-reaching restrictive measures
  ■ Any suppression of freedom and democracy should be avoided
  ■ Instead of organising people from above, let us allow everyone to live as he wants
  ■ Let us resist the politicisation of science and oppose the term “scientific consensus”, which is always achieved only by a loud minority, never by a silent majority
  ■ Instead of speaking about “the environment”, let us be attentive to it in our personal behaviour
  ■ Let us be humble but confident in the spontaneous evolution of human society. Let us trust its rationality and not try to slow it down or divert it in any direction
  ■ Let us not scare ourselves with catastrophic forecasts, or use them to defend and promote irrational interventions in human lives.