Vaclav Klaus Quotes About Environmentalism

Quotes about: Environmentalism

• As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Democracy, Ambitious, Global Warming

• The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Democracy, Ambitious, Arrogant

• Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Dangerous, Ideology, Humans

  YouTube Chanel "bbcworldnews"/ "HARDtalk with Vaclav Klaus", www.youtube.com. November 13, 2007.

• Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Men, Weapons, Becoming

• The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of human society. It is not about nature or scientific ecology; it is about environmentalism, about one - recently born - dirigistic and collectivistic ideology, which goes against freedom and free markets.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Climate, Temperature, Global Warming

• And finally, there is another danger: the emergence of nonideological but very aggressive 'isms,' which are really quite new. Let me at least name them: We all care about human rights, but I am afraid of 'human rightism.' We all want to have a healthy environment, but I see the danger in environmentalism. To put it politically correctly, I admire the second gender, but I fear feminism. We all are enriched by other cultures, but not by multiculturalism. I am aware of the importance of voluntary associations, but I fear NGOism.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Rights, Other Cultures, Names

• Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Ambitious, Communism, Threat

  "Monbiot's royal flush: Top 10 climate change deniers" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2009.

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