Red and green: Czech president compares environmentalism to communism
“The merits of global warming where questioned by President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic at the National Press Club where Klaus likened the environmentalist movement to the communism of his youth. According to Klaus both ideologies promote causes that transcend the individual; environmentalism promotes the planet while communism promotes the proletariat. … Klaus said that both communism and environmentalism are motivating forces that cause people to ignore opposition and live in a world of reduced freedoms. Klaus stated that “global warming alarmism” is a greater threat to the world than socialism and that environmentalists, through government subsidies that favor certain industries, take away from a free market’s ability to provide for the welfare of its citizens.”
This was discussed tonight on Special Report with Brit Hume on Fox. I was shocked how incredulous and clueless the response of the commentators was, including Krauthammer. Juan Williams said he’d never heard that argument before and seemed genuinely surprised and confused by the idea.
The panel concluded that the Czech president’s remarks were an expression of resentment from a developing country - as if the Czech Republic is some third world backwater.
America, get a clue! The Czech president stated the obvious! This is a historical fact; environmentalism = socialism/communism!
All the Western European socialist and communist parties in the mid-1980s rebranded as green parties, just before the Wall came down, and the failed socialist movements of the 1970s morphed into environmental groups and NGOs etc.
I know, because I was there, as a teenager in Dutch leftist circles and a little later as a Political Science student in Amsterdam.