Vaclav Klaus - Environmentalism: A Threat to Freedom?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/03/09/Vaclav_Klaus_Environmentalism_in_Europe

President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus criticizes modern environmentalist movements for advocating what he views as threats to individual freedom.

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"Facing a Challenge of the Current Era: Environmentalism," with Vaclav Klaus

President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic, one of the leading market reformers of the post socialist era, will be speaking at the Cato Institute about contemporary environmental issues facing Europe and the world. Please join us for what will surely be a timely and thought-provoking address - Cato Institute

Vaclav Klaus is president of the Czech Republic. He presided over economic reforms in the former Czechoslovakia as finance minister. After the Czechs and Slovaks separated on January 1, 1993, Klaus continued with his reform program as prime minister of the Czech Republic.

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[MrSalimMilas]

Environmentalism, like fascism, is an anti-creative (pro-destruction), extremely dangerous ideology! They deny or oppose human creativity at its core. They are against nuclear power, hydroelectric power, hydrocarbon fuels (coal, petroleum), and even burning wood (sometimes cutting a tree is worse than killing a human!) How then, can you have an economy, or civilized human society? Environmentalism is anti-technological, anti-scientific, anti-human. Hitler and Mussolini were both green.

[trulpen]

@katards And blue is the death of the future.

[N33DL3R]

Freedom is a myth. There is no freedom in a universe run by laws. You are a slave to physics and brain chemistry, and free will is an illusion.

[manoman0]

...check out the Palmer-Vid....

[manoman0]

Environmentalists are like creationists...they claim scientific proof for their belief system.

[pavelkrivak]

@Lenguse I don't like populism of any kind, therefore I don't like GW populist (and you are right there are many of them, because the whole GW bubble is a big business) the same as I can't stand Klaus. If you want to know something about climate change, read academic journals, not just Klaus. Beware worshiping Klaus the same blind way as he worships Free Markets ideology. I really don't think it is necessary to remind all his affairs around privatization, "fuel oils", financing of his party etc.

[Lenguse]

@pavelkrivak Konspiracni teorie ty chudaku??? Hlavne, ze ma nastat chladnejsi obdobi asi tak za 15 let. Rekni mi co kdy ukradl a dej mi nejake dukazy. Napsal knihu a tam je to krasne popsane. A ze je populista? Prosimte, populisti jsou prave ti, kteri si stavi sve kariery na GO. Jsi ostuda Ceske republiky, uz jen proto jaka jsi ovce GO. Mnohe vyzkumy jsou zfalsovane, aby byly katastrofalni a prave ze pseudo - vedci jsou ti, kteri podporuji tyto ideje GO. Hanba.

[GentlemanThunder7]

@MGGoblin Of course. Science and technology are key to protecting the environment, and this person says that we're trying to bring people back to some kind of prehistoric century. And yeah, I dislike Al Gore as well.

[MGGoblin]

@GentlemanThunder7 Totally agree. There are environmental problems. I am an environmentalist, but I do believe in industry and technology. Of course I do. Science and technology, are the solution to these problems, we don't want to kill industry, on the contrary, we want to increase it's capacity. There are 2 kinds of environmentalist: 1-The screaming idiot fanatic defender of Al Gore, and 2- Those who propose efficient solutions to environmental problems. =)

[GentlemanThunder7]

@MrSalimMilas That's a ridiculous idea. For one thing, how exactly is it anti-creative when they're proposing other methods to attaining energy that are safer, cleaner, and using just as much technology and science as energy that would be "dirty?" Take solar energy, for example, which uses a system of silicon-based cells that absorb's the sun's light in order to excite electrons to create an electric current, mirroring the system at which plants convert light to energy. That wasn't creative?