To see just what those motives may be, we need to go no further than
Mikhail Gorbachev whose remarkable political transformation offers a
striking insight into the true character of the man-made global warming
movement.
Formerly leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev is now one of the
world's most vocal global warming activists. This is an unlikely role
indeed for a man who during his years in power showed no inclination to
address environmental issues. This could not have been for lack of
op****tunity, given that he presided over a country which suffered from
extensive ecological damage wrought by years of gross disregard and
mismanagement. Had he had the inclination, there was much to do about
the lamentable state of his country's environmental condition.
Gorbachev, however, not only did nothing, but brazenly continued the
Soviet regime's ecologically disastrous policies.
But nothing revealed his true attitudes more glaringly than the
explosion of a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. His first reaction was not
to launch a clean-up operation, but to conceal the fact. Initially he
denied that anything happened at all. Then, when radioactive clouds
reached countries hundreds of kilometers away, he claimed that it was
only a 'minor' accident. It was only under the pressure of growing
evidence that Gorbachev finally admitted the truth. While mounting the
cover-up, the time and energy that could have been used to contend with
the unfolding ecological catastrophe were irretrievably lost. But that
was not all, for Gorbachev also decided to sacrifice the lives of
thousands whom he refused to evacuate or even notify of the danger.
Scores died and countless others suffered from diseases caused by
exposure to radiation. Many could have been saved had Gorbachev done the
decent thing. Chernobyl thus stands as tragic evidence of Gorbachev's
disdain both for nature and human life which, sadly, is all too often
found in those who espouse the communist worldview.
Yet today this man is one of the world's most prominent eco-lobbyists
and an ardent proponent of global warming. The question is how we are to
reconcile Gorbachev's past behavior of environmental destructiveness
with his present-day activism. We would do well to ponder this, because
the answer sheds light not only on a wily personal reinvention, but also
on the motives of those responsible for the creation and spreading of
the global warming hysteria.
The many interviews and statements made by Gorbachev since the collapse
of the Soviet Union offer im****tant clues. What they essentially reveal
is that despite the ignominious fall of communism, Gorbachev has not
changed his basic ideological convictions. In other words, this
life-long party apparatchik remains an unrepentant communist to this
day. This should surprise no one, since people rarely change their
thinking later in life, especially if they are as willful and
ideologically driven as Gorbatchev apparently was. After all, it was his
ideological rigor that enabled him to successfully negotiate the
dangerous waters of Soviet politics and emerge as his country's supreme
leader barely a week after his fifty-fourth birthday.
But ejected from power less than seven years later, he faced a
challenge. Unwilling to retire, he needed to find a new outlet for his
political energies. This posed a problem, because Gorbachev could not
afford to openly fly the banner of his communist convictions, since a
declaration of allegiance to this well-discredited ideology would have
resulted in his marginalization if not ridicule.
To remain credible, Gorbachev had to look for a more respectable
platform from which to continue his efforts. This he quickly found in
environmentalism and less than two years after his fall from power he
founded Green Cross International, a Geneva-based eco lobby group.
It is not at all surprising that Gorbachev--like so many others on the
left--has found environmentalism so attractive given that it in a
furtive way tends toward the very essence of socialism. It is precisely
this covert quality that makes this brand of activism so palatable to
true believers in the post-communist era.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/kohlmayer051107.htm
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
". researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar Research in Germany
re****t the sun has been burning more brightly over the last 60 years,
accounting for the 1 degree Celsius increase in Earth's temperature over
the last 100 years."
http://ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287279412587175
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