{"id":289903,"date":"2023-12-04T13:14:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T12:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=289903"},"modified":"2023-12-04T13:14:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T12:14:20","slug":"national-elections-threaten-the-un-climate-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=289903","title":{"rendered":"National elections threaten the UN climate agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Duggan Flanakin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The jet-setters gathered in Dubai have been hit with blow after blow of bad election news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is clear that \u201cglobal warming\u201d (now \u201cclimate change\u201d) has, from the beginning, been a smokescreen for replacing free market capitalism and, with it, human freedom and prosperity \u2014 even the freedom of nations and individuals to choose their own destinies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobel laureate<\/a> Milton Friedman summed it up<\/a> in chapter 1 of his seminal book Capitalism and Freedom<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economic arrangements play a dual role in the promotion of a free society. On the one hand, freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself. In the second place, economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the 1992 Rio Summit, Sen. Tim Wirth echoed the need to \u201coffer up scary scenarios\u201d (as climate propagandist Stephen Schneider infamously said) in admitting<\/a>, \u201cWe have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Al Gore, in his 1992 book Earth in the Balance<\/em>, crowed that, \u201cWe must make the rescue of the environment [updated in 2021 to \u201cdecarbonization\u201d] the \u2018central organizing principle\u2019 for civilization.\u201d And the much-celebrated Mikhail Gorbachev in 1996 spilled the beans, stating, \u201cThe threat of environmental crisis will be the international disaster key to unlock the New World Order.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This vision of a \u201cnew world order\u201d is definitely not what President George H. W. Bush envisioned<\/a>, one in which \u201cthe principles of justice and fair play \u2026 protect the weak against the strong \u2026 a world in which freedom and respect for human rights find a home among all nations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor is it what IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer warbled in 2010: \u201cOne has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto<\/em> the world\u2019s wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, technically, Edenhofer was right. The institution of global governance will surely \u201credistribute\u201d the world\u2019s wealth \u2013 from the poor and middle class to the rich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Want evidence? The great majority,<\/a> using subsidies or rebates to buy electric vehicles, earn over $100,000 a year. The reason is obvious: poor and middle-income people cannot afford (or have a garage for) personal EV charging stations; EV insurance rates are through the roof in many countries; and most people cannot afford long waits for repairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Socialist Hugo Chavez once claimed that socialism was \u201cthe way to save the planet; capitalism is the road to hell.\u201d Venezuela\u2019s GDP per capita rose during Chavez\u2019s reign, but under his successor Nicolas Maduro, GDP per capita dropped from $12,688 in 2013 to just $2,624 in 2019. The BBC reported<\/a> in 2021 that three-fourths of the nation\u2019s people were living in \u201cextreme poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contrary to the massive weight of historical evidence, they tell us that socialism is more benevolent and more equitable than free-market capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The late Charles Krauthammer, in October 2009, in a speech entitled, \u201cDecline Is a Choice: The New Liberalism and the End of American Ascendancy,\u201d warned that President Obama and the ultraliberal leadership of Congress were pursuing policies that, as Peter Ferrara<\/a> put it, \u201cwill by design produce major declines in the standard of living of the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many say the Biden Administration is more of the same \u2013 in spades. And in Dubai, the billionaires and their hired (or brainwashed?) disciples clamor for greater reductions in energy production, cutbacks on meat production (in favor of billionaire-owned fake meat and crickets), and other \u201csacrifices\u201d by the hoi polloi<\/em> that they will never make themselves. George Soros even boasted that \u201cI fancied myself as some kind of god.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, as in the movies<\/a>, a funny thing happened on the way to the Forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here and there, nations and people began throwing out socialist leaders in favor of Giorgia Meloni in Italy (whose election opened up a crack in the Net Zero unity), Christopher Luxon in New Zealand, and Javier Milei in Argentina. Even Geert Wilders was the highest vote-getter in the Dutch elections. Even Justin Trudeau\u2019s reign in Canada is under serious threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The would-be dictators and their minions in the media and \u201cpublic service\u201d are not happy, and their dismay (and panic?) is being reflected in Dubai and in the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christiana Figueres, the architect<\/a> of the Paris Climate Agreement said, \u201cWe have to keep the outrage really high because we are so darn late.\u201d In an interview<\/a> with Al Jazeera, Figueres added, \u201cI thought fossil fuel firms could change. I was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

True. She was wrong \u2013 to think companies don\u2019t respond to demand. Or to think that people would voluntarily give up the freedom that gasoline has long afforded them. She was wrong to think major sacrifices by Westerners would prod China, India, and African nations into eschewing fossil fuels their people know \u201cfueled\u201d the West\u2019s rise to prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The natives are restless \u2013 and freedom is worth fighting for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The post\u00a0National elections threaten the UN climate agenda<\/a>\u00a0appeared first on\u00a0CFACT<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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