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The real reason behind the global warming scare and why the
United Nations’ alarmists have been driving us into forced submission of environmentalist
stewardship of Mother Earth is that they want capitalism destroyed and replaced
with their vision of a utopian communist economy that has never worked across
the centuries.
These progressives have a problem with the Industrial
Revolution, with “fossil fuels,” (They are not so fossil since the earth keeps
producing them), with the only successful economic model that has provided
generous income to all these hot-air spewing, idle bureaucrats, who have
nothing better to do than meet in exotic locales planning the destruction of
the goose that lays the golden eggs that feed their exorbitant lifestyles,
salaries, bonuses, and pensions.
Christina Figueres, Executive Secretary of U.N.’s Convention
on Climate Change, disclosed the real reason for the climate change industry
when she told us that they are not interested in saving the world from global
warming Armageddon but they want to destroy capitalism. “This is the first time
in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of
intentionally, within a period of time, to change the economic development
model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial
Revolution.”
Having lived under such economic model that these
progressives advocate, I can say with 100 percent certainty that, on a cold day
like today, the proletariat in the village would be huddled around a cast iron
stove, or an adobe stove made of mud bricks and straw with a cast iron top, or
a porcelain stove fed with chopped wood, trying to keep warm further than a few
feet from the source of heat, providing they had money to buy the wood, and the
wood was available since it was forbidden by the state to cut down trees.
City dwellers, who were forced to live in high rise concrete
block quarters, heated their tiny apartments with steam sent from a plant via
underground pipes. By the time this steam made its way up to our fifth floor
apartment, we were lucky if the ambient temperature was 45-50 degrees F. Bundled up inside the house like Eskimos,
with icicles forming on the inside windows, we sometimes turned on the gas
stove to heat the miniature kitchen, if the flame was strong enough. We were
slightly better off than our communist Chinese brethren, who did not even have
heat in winter time. There were times when we stayed in bed, fully clothed and
covered by heavy wool comforters.
Have these promoters of communist utopia and of an
unproductive but supposedly “equal” and “socially just” economy ever have to
live like this? Of course not, their elitist reality comes from the Ivory Tower
of academia, political office, and from college textbooks’ propaganda at Ivy
League bastions of progressive thinking that enslaves people rather than frees
them to pursue free-market capitalism.
Even the poorest person living under free-market capitalism
has food, heat, medicine, health care, electricity, refrigeration, phones, TV, running
water, water heaters, a bathroom, and other amenities that make life more
pleasant, healthier, and double human life expectancy.
On a day like today when it is so dangerously cold even domesticated
animals are sheltered, Americans should remember that these environmental global
warmists and the United Nations want to put them out freezing in the cold, in
the dark, hungry, sick, and hopelessly dependent on the global elites, who are
wealthy, healthy, warm, and happy, bureaucrats that never produced anything,
but would control our survival with a law, decree, or a treaty, dropping crumbs
to keep us alive and under control.
Copyright: Ileana Johnson 2015
Copyright: Ileana Johnson 2015
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