This article from Investor’s Business Daily takes a look at the United Nations priorities and makes you wonder why they think global warming is such a grave threat to the world, but they sit on their hands on so many other things:
From genocide in Rwanda and the Sudan to wars and rumors of wars in the Middle East and the Balkans, the U.N. has done little to protect the human species as millions die at the hands of despots that sit on its human rights panel.
If Ban wants to prevent famine and disease, let him get busy in Darfur, which he also has blamed on global warming.
Indoor spraying of DDT in Africa could save millions from malaria. Bio-engineered foods could save millions from hunger. The billions wasted on climate change research could provide clean drinking water and sanitation to everyone on the planet.
The Copenhagen Consensus 2004, a cost-benefit analysis of health issues by leading economists (including three Nobel Prize winners), figured that money spent on things like micronutrients for children, HIV/AIDS and water purification produces 50 to 200 times the benefit for the human species than spending money to effect imperceptible declines in the Earth’s temperature.
So why is global warming so important? It is the vehicle the United Nations wants to ride in to global governance. Conspiracy theory? Not so much. As I have pointed out on the podcast, the Kyoto Protocol was supposed to “level the playing field” by tying our hands economically:
Many global warming advocates see Kyoto and other treaties as instruments of international power politics. Ultimately, they seek to give activists and centralized government entities more say over fossil fuel use, economic growth, lifestyles, housing and transportation.
EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstroem says Kyoto “is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the economy, about trying to create a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world. You have to understand what is at stake and that is why it is serious,” she declaimed. And French President Jacques Chirac has termed the Kyoto Protocol “the first component of authentic global governance.” (Emphasis mine.)
Don’t be fooled. This isn’t about saving the world. It’s about stopping the United States economy, shackling capitalism to a set of regulations so that socialist societies can continue to overtax its citizens and still compete with us. Global warming is just the cover for it.
Hat Tip: D A Web on Newsvine
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