4.3. Hidden Agenda «No matter if the science (of global warming) is all phony . . . climate change (provides) the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world. It's a great way to redistribute wealth », Christine Stewart, Canadian Minister of the Environment, Calgary Herald, 1998 From what has been explained in the previous section, none should be surprised of the existence of a hidden agenda. While the global warming alarmists have done a good job of spreading fright, they haven't been so good at hiding their real motivation. We have been told now for almost three decades that man has to change his ways or his fossil-fuel emissions will scorch Earth with catastrophic warming. Scientists, politicians and activists have maintained the narrative that their concern is only about caring for our planet and its inhabitants. But this is simply not true. The narrative is a ruse. They are after something entirely different. If they were honest, the climate alarmists would admit that they are not working feverishly to hold down global temperatures -- they would acknowledge that they are instead consumed with the goal of holding down capitalism and establishing a global welfare state. «One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole. We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy» Ottmar Edenhofer342. For those who want to believe that maybe Edenhofer just misspoke and did not really mean that, consider that a little more than five years ago he also said that "the next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world's resources will be negotiated." Get it now? If you have still have a doubt listen to what Christiana Figueres 343 said in February 2015 «This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution. This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history». At the same time and not fearing conflict of interests or mental contorsions, Figueres served as Senior Adviser to C-Quest Capital, a carbon finance company focusing on programmatic CDM 344 investments. She was the Principal Climate Change Advisor to ENDESA Latinoamérica, the largest private utility in Latin America with operations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru. She was also Vice Chair of the Rating Committee of the Carbon Rating Agency, the first entity to apply credit rating expertise to carbon assets. The plan is to allow Third World countries to emit as much carbon dioxide as they wish -- because, as Edenhofer said, "in order to get rich one has to burn coal, oil or gas" -- while at the same time restricting emissions in advanced nations. This will, of course, choke economic growth in developed nations, but they deserve that fate as they " have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community" he said. The fanaticism runs so deep that some have even suggested that we need to plunge ourselves into a depression to fight global warming. The goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism. Naomi Klein is typical of these authors considered as influential opinion makers who have no training nor experience in the matter they discuss but run a well organized hidden agenda. She hasn’t got the slightest scientific background nor does she demonstrate any knowledge of economic science, but as her ideas align with the mainstream nobody dares question her credential or the rationale of her arguments, whereas ad-hominem attacks are immediately directed against those who do not conform (to the consensus). She knows that capitalism will destroy climate and as her communists grand-parents taught her parents who inspired her, she must be a beacon for mankind showing us the way forward into full speed “backwardation” and misery. Klein's third book, «The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism» (2007) argues that the free market policies of Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of 342Ottmar Edenhofer co-chaired the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change from 2008 to 2015. 343Christiana Figueres was Executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change (2010-2016) and completed her second term as Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC on 6 July 2016. 344The Clean Development Mechanism allows the Annex I countries to meet part of their emission reduction commitments under the Kyoto Protocol by buying Certified Emission Reduction units from CDM emission reduction projects in developing countries.
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