Peter Foster Obliterates Global Warming in Road to Bali
Peter Foster, Columnist at Canada’s Financial Post, simply obliterates Global Warming in his piece entitled “Road to Bali”. In the very first paragraph Mr. Foster comes out swinging:
The fate of the Earth hangs in the balance in Bali, but the issue is not whether humanity will succumb to a “climate crisis,” or how the international community might craft a successor to the tattered Kyoto Accord (Let’s call it KyoTwo). The real theme of this United Nations gabfest — like that of its 12 predecessors, and of the hundreds, if not thousands, of related meetings –is whether globalization and trade liberalization will be allowed to continue, with a corresponding increase in wealth, health and welfare, or whether the authoritarian enemies of freedom (who rarely if ever recognize themselves as such) will succeed in using environmental hysteria to undermine capitalism and increase their Majesterium. Any successor to Kyoto will be rooted in hobbling rich economies, increasing the poor world’s resentment, unleashing environmental trade warfare, and blanketing the globe with rules and regulations that benefit only rulers and regulators. Bali is not about climate; it symbolizes the continued assault on freedom by those who seek — or pander to — political power under the guise of concern for humanity.
Awsome liberal pwnage; here’s my favorite excerpt:
Capitalism had once been the enemy because it was alleged to make people poor. Now it was the enemy because of the alleged side effects of making them rich.
And more:
Climate-change alarmism couldn’t be presented as simply a new justification for power-seeking, so it had to be cloaked–as social-ism has always been cloaked, both consciously and unconsciously — in concern for “the poor.” Addressing climate change has always been linked in the UN script with Third World development, even though it in fact represents the greatest threat to such development. Nevertheless, the prospect of more international redistribution has meant that poor countries’ corrupt and/or incompetent governments have become enthusiastic supporters of the Kyoto “process.”
I’m not sure I’ve ever read a more articulate and succinct written-piece calling Global Warming what it really is, veiled socialism on a grand scale.
Please read the entire article, It’s worth it.