To Conservatives, Climate Change is Trojan Horse to Abolish Capitalism

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http://www.alternet.org/story/153230/to_conservatives%2C_climate_change_is_trojan_horse_to_abolish_capitalism_/

There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row.

He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland’s Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually “an attack on middle-class American capitalism.” His question for the panelists, gathered in a Washington, DC, Marriott Hotel in late June, is this: “To what extent is this entire movement simply a green Trojan horse, whose belly is full with red Marxist socioeconomic doctrine?”

Here at the Heartland Institute’s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, the premier gathering for those dedicated to denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, this qualifies as a rhetorical question. Like asking a meeting of German central bankers if Greeks are untrustworthy. Still, the panelists aren’t going to pass up an opportunity to tell the questioner just how right he is.

Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute who specializes in harassing climate scientists with nuisance lawsuits and Freedom of Information fishing expeditions, angles the table mic over to his mouth. “You can believe this is about the climate,” he says darkly, “and many people do, but it’s not a reasonable belief.” Horner, whose prematurely silver hair makes him look like a right-wing Anderson Cooper, likes to invoke Saul Alinsky: “The issue isn’t the issue.” The issue, apparently, is that “no free society would do to itself what this agenda requires…. The first step to that is to remove these nagging freedoms that keep getting in the way.”





*** me? i'm cynical -- i think they purposely create stupid stuff out of whole cloth. i think they know climate change is real and man made -- but to behave in a civilized manner would be inconvenient.

[NMMNG]

1. Morons

Apparently capitalism can't exist without raping the environment.

[blindpig]

2. Well, it ain't no Trojan Horse......

but it is one of many very good reasons for adopting a rational economic system which addresses human need. Human need certainly includes a stable environment. The anarchy of capitalism, the pursuit of profit and necessity of ever greater capital accumulation take no account of human necessity. Capitalism is ecological suicide.

k&r

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3. ...

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[MisterP]

4. and also to impose "population reductions"

they don't realize they're ripping off Lyndon LaRouche, who also tried to ban current tuning forks: www.belcantosociety.org/pages/magazine2.html