Mega-Hypocrisy in Copenhagen

The hypocrisy meter is in a desperate race with the irony meter in the frozen wasteland of Copenhagen.  I mean, what better place and time for a proclamation of the incontrovertible fact of global warming than in Denmark  in December, right?  And it’s damn the torpedoes of the truth about the hoax of global warming (and I declared it that months ago), and full speed ahead against the industrialization of the developing nations.

Right off the bat the participants want to stop those developing nations from installing the industries that would at long last allow their people to eat, live in decent housing, and have the medical care they so desperately need, because the carbon dioxide thereby produced might add to the 1.7%, or whatever the figure actually is, that humans produce of that gas.

But then, one thing socialists have never been any good at is taking the rights and needs of individual human beings into consideration.  They deal with abstractions such as “the proletariat” and “the masses,” all in service of their ideology.

And if you want to punish the fauna of the world for its CO2 production, how about starting with the termites?  They produce an enormous percentage of it.  Why aren’t we deeply into a campaign to eradicate the termites from Africa?  That is, if the real issue is global climate change.

But no.  Now the real, underlying agenda of the Copenhagen Conference is being blurted out by some participants who don’t know how to keep their mouths shut.  As Richard Cochrane has put it, basing his remarks on an article by Cliff Kincaid for Accuracy in Media, Bolivia’s socialist president, Evo Morales, speaking for the “global movement for climate justice,” has stated, “What we call for is full payment of the debt owed to us by developed countries for threatening the integrity of the Earth’s climate system.”

In response, left-wing writer Naomi Klein describes the proposed payments as “reparations.”  One United Nations report declares that the US owes the world 24 trillion dollars, and another report puts the figure at 45 trillion.  The implication is that we’d better pay up or there will be reprisals.  Uh, huh.  Now, in case anyone thinks we’re supposed to miss the fact that our already teetering economy would be tossed over the edge by our paying even a fraction of that, note that the most recent UN report on “climate justice” declares that change is possible only with “major economic and political rearrangements around the core principles of equity and sustainable development.”

In other words, bring the US to its knees and install the government you really want in here.

The UN statement is code for the creation of a global socialist superstate, as Kincaid is quick to point out.  He continues, in reaction to more of the same, “This is about as clear as it gets—free markets will give way to a worldwide socialist state, created under the guise of solving a climate crisis that does not really exist.”  Even the authors of the report in question, Nick Dearden and Tim Jones, while denying that this amounts to a blueprint for “world communist government,” acknowledge that the proposal implies “fundamental changes in the global economy” and the “radical redistribution of the world’s resources.”  Do you notice the word “radical” in there?

Well, I don’t know about you readers, but I happen to know what kind of ethos built this country up from nothing to being the greatest civilization the world has ever known, and I’m not exactly thrilled by the prospect of having it destroyed for the benefit of a bunch of countries which are likely to spend those trillions on enormous crap games while our economy languishes in the muck of a socialist state.  Just what, if anything, does the sane portion of this society intend to do about it?