Eurocommissar Connie Hedegaard asserts that climate change is here and so is still more people on the Planet. When Hedegaard's grandmother was born, there were not even 2 billion people living on this planet. When Hedegaard was born there were more than 3 billion. When Hedegaard's children are her age, world population will have grown to staggering 9 billion. And at the same time more people are better off. This is of course good. At the same time it is also a challenge. Why? Because the resources on this planet, like water, like food and like energy, are limited.
Vaclav Klaus points out people tend to confuse environment protection with climate control. We have to take care of our rivers, lakes, seas, forests, and air. But humans cannot control the climate. Rabblerousers have been for a long time searching for a simple and sufficiently threatening catastrophe that could justify the implementation of kleptocratic ambitions. After having tried various alternative ideas, they came up with the idea of dangerous, man-made global warming. This concept was formulated despite the absence of reliable data. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Hedegaard points out that if we continue to use our resources like we do now, we are exhausting the planet's reserves at an increasingly rapid pace. Every day 24.000 football fields of forests are being burned or trapped. This affects our climate in terms of less precipitation. According to the United Nations, our water supply will satisfy only 60% of the world demand in 20 years. And the last example: Today's fishing fleets harvest nearly seven times the catch from 1950; 80% of our fish stocks are fully or even over-exploited with no further room for expansion.
Rabblerousers bought into the global warming dogma(WGD) at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, fell in love with it and – without waiting for its scientific underpinning – started preparing and implementing economically damaging and freedom endangering measures. They accepted the idea that participating in the global warming game is easy, politically correct and politically profitable, especially when it is obvious that they themselves will not carry the costs of the measures they are advocating and implementing and will not be responsible for their consequences.
Hedegaard notes that we live very different life styles in different parts of the world. Per capita, we in Europe, every year emit around 10 tonnes of greenhouse gases and use twice as much energy as the global average. But the European emissions are decreasing. The per capita emission in the US is 19 tonnes. While in China it is 6 tonnes per year and steeply increasing.
Further more, as the world's population is growing, more than a billion new people will enter middle class by 2050. If they adopt the same consumption patterns as their fellows from industrialised countries, the global use of resources will be multiplied by 15. Or, put in another way: we would need at least two and a half planets to accommodate all these needs.
There are plenty of arguments indicating that the real threat is not global warming itself. The real threat comes when kleptocrats start playing with the climate and with all of us. Environmentalism and global warming alarmism ask for restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions, which would substantially increase the costs of energy. This would be devastating, because cheap energy is the source of much of our prosperity.
Hedegaard points out nearly half of all global consumers now live in developing countries. This means that the traditional concept of rich and poor no longer applies to countries. To a much higher extent it applies to groups within countries. We definitely need a global approach to sustainable consumption. As you can hear, not only because of the climate, but also because of climate change.
Some stupid socialist climate scientists are warning that by the end of this century we are heading for a global temperature increase of most likely 4°C and in the worst case even more than 6°C. This would lead to an increasing number of severe floods, droughts, forest fires, storms – in short, violent weather, increasing sea levels, more unpredictability.
Hedegaard points out more and more extreme weather events already now. Think about the extreme floodings in Pakistan and Brazil last year; and the dramatic flooding in Australia at the beginning of this year. We also saw examples of other extremes like the forest fires in Russia, a once in a hundred years drought in the Amazon and the worst drought since decades in parts of China and India.
Hedegaard declares the consequences of these dramatic events are not only felt in the region itself, but by consumers all over the world, as food prices are soaring. When rice harvests fail, or when Russia, due to the heat wave and forest fires, stops her export of wheat. Globally, we pay almost 40% more for our food today compared to last year.
The Global Warming Dogma(GWD) asks for an almost unprecedented expansion of government intrusion into our lives and of government control over us. They tell us how to live, what to do, how to behave, what to consume, what to eat, how to travel, how to spend our holidays and many other things.
Rabblerousers, their bureaucrats as well as many eggheads, who accept the GWD and with it the alarmist view of anthropogenic climate changes, probably hope that – by doing so – they are displaying intelligence, virtue and altruism. Some of them even believe they are saving the Earth. We should tell them that they are merely passive players in the hands of pullpeddlers, of producers of green technologies, of agrobusiness firms producing ethanol, of trading firms dealing in carbon emission permits, etc., who make billions at our costs. There is no altruism there. It is a cold-hearted calculation. http://venitism.blogspot.com
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