Climate Control: "not prudent at this juncture"

Guest columnist Stephen McClanahan cited two former Republican Secretaries of State--James Baker and George Schultz--as key developers of a tax and regulation scheme that would "induce the kind of societal changes needed" to address climate change, formerly known as "global warming." That name change should give the wary pause that maybe the climate is not warming appreciably, and that what we are witnessing are normal climate cycles. Baker and Schultz were both key advisers of President George H.W. Bush who participated in the 1992 "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro chaired by Canadian billionaire Maurice Strong whose 1100-page Global Biodiversity Assessment suggests a cure for "human-pox.": simply cut the world's population by approximately 80% by establishing a feudal lifestyle short on amenities. Strong contends that global ecosystems will be preserved only when affluent nations (i.e. the American middle class) lowers its standard of living.

That can be accomplished only through a system of top-down global governance. Bush, Sr., Baker, and Schultz are all long-time members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), established in 1921 in New York for the goal of world government following the rejection of the League of Nations by a wiser United States Senate. The reader can go to the CFR's website cfr.org to download the CFR's "Crisis Guide: Climate Change." By "coincidence," Mikhail Gorbachev, former Secretary of the Soviet Union's Communist Party, is the founder of the Green Cross International, which is hard at work to implement the pantheistic Earth Charter written by Steven C. Rockefeller. Also "coincidentally," the first two points of the Baker-Schultz plan echo classic Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist strategy to "hook" Americans: 1. carbon taxes will be levied at the refinery or at the first point where fossil fuels enter the economy, i.e. "make the evil, rich capitalist oil companies pay!" Any thinking person knows that companies do not pay taxes--taxes are passed along to consumers in the price of goods and services. 2. carbon dividends from carbon taxes exacted from companies will be returned to all Americans via quarterly checks issued by the Social Security Administration. Nothing like a check from the government to buy subservience to the government's schemes! Josef Stalin and Mao tse-Tung established their dictatorships by grabbing land (and killing the land-owners) to be redistributed to the peasants. The leading promoter of "climate change activism" (after Al Gore) is Bill McKibben, founder of an organization called 350.org that vehemently opposes the use of fossil fuels, particularly oil and coal. He contends that capitalism is at the heart of the climate crisis, and that economic growth is harmful because it leads to "unnecessary" energy use. Most of 350.org's ongoing campaigns are geared toward organizing concerted events and demonstrations around the world.

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Marxist Van Jones, former "green jobs czar" for the Obama Administration, who supports 350.org's aims, will speak in Cincinnati in June sponsored by Xavier University and the City of Cincinnati. Among McKibben's more controversial works was his 1999 book, Maybe One: a Case for Smaller Families, in which he argued that one-child families were ethically superior to larger families because human population growth was detrimental to the environment. Last month, the communist Chinese government admitted that its one-child policy had resulted in the deaths of 336 million unborn babies since 1971. Top-down prognosticators love to make "doom and gloom" predictions to justify their power-grabs. Google "Great Moments in Failed Predictions" by Anthony Watts for an entertaining list. Then write Baker and Schultz to remind them that the George H.W. Bush impersonator, comedian Dana Carvey, quipped "Not going to do it. . .wouldn't be prudent at this juncture!"