Hmm, lets put some excerpts from a thread I made here:
KLAUS:
"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."
"Global warming has recently become both a symbol and a prototype of the tension between the truth and propaganda. One politically correct truth has taken over and it is not easy to oppose it although a significant number of people, including top scientists, see the climate change issues, its reasons, and its impact very differently. They are scared by the arrogance of the advocates of the global warming hypothesis and the related conjecture that connects this warming with particular acts of Man. They are afraid of the consequences that it will have for all of us. The best environment for humans is the environment of freedom. It is the only right criterion to judge all environmentalist visions and all their categoric demands. The current debate about global warming is thus inherently a debate about the freedom."
"Klaus argues that the environmental movement has transformed itself into an ideology that seeks to restrict human activities at any cost, while pursuing an impossible utopian dream of a perfectly "natural" world. The supposed threat of human civilization against a fragile Earth has become an article of faith, especially in the realm of global warming activism. --- "The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy, and prosperity at the end of the 20th and at the beginning of the 21st century is no longer socialism," writes Klaus. "It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism."
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As much as I don't like him, he does have some points which I must admit are quite realistic. He makes interesting points in his book: "Blue Planet in Green Shackles -- What is endangered: Climate or Freedom?". Contrarily to him I actually do believe that humanity does have a huge impact on the climate and environment, but I can also honestly see where this "Safe the planet" is leading to. I brought up the "incandescent lightbulb ban" because it just shows how the EU is completely disregarding the opinions of its citizens, and makes crucial decisions on their behalf just to manage their agenda about meeting up with the CO2 emission targets proposed by the Commission -- with this taking away our freedom to use whatever f*cking bulb we want to; limiting our freedom even more.
http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=95884
