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Czech President Vaclav Klaus, drawing on his memories of Soviet oppression, recently declared that the global warming hysteria had replaced Communism as"the biggest threat to freedom, democracy,the market economy,and prosperity."The environmentalists continue to do their best to prove him right.In making the parallel to Communism,President Klaus cited the use of environmentalism as a justification for global central planning.But it is not just the vast scale of the controls proposed by environmentalists that is so revealing;it is also the detail.There is no aspect of life too trivial or intimate(as Sheryl Crow infamously reminded us)to fall outside of this new ideological regimentation.A bit of the flavor of the coming environmentalist police state is provided by a new Australian television show titled "Carbon Cops."In a bizarre inversion of the typical American home improvement show, the experts in this show descend on the hapless homeowners to measure their"carbon footprint,"the amount of fossil fuels involved in the manufacture and use of every item in their house.The"carbon cops"are shown rummaging through a family's smallest household items, searching for global warming contraband-and then scolding them for"polluting"the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.Part of what Vaclav Klaus was sensing-what gives this all the faint whiff of totalitarianism-is the global warming alarmists' eagerness to reach into the smallest details of our private existence and re-arrange our lifestyle to fit the austere requirements of their political ideology....
To read more go to:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/06/the_seeds_of_the_global_warmin.html
As in the days of Noah...
