-Caveat Lector- Electric Crisis Shocks California http://www.insightmag.com/archive/200102279.shtml By John Elvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] <snip> At any rate, Brower, Foreman and even the ELF gang give you an idea of the sort of folks who helped precipitate today�s energy crises through their opposition to conventional energy. And what drives them? Love of the land, they would likely say. But let�s get back to this Club of Rome for the real story. What sort of model did it provide for the Sierra Club? The Club of Rome is an elite international group of 100 select Marxists, socialists and other leftist academics, policymakers, scientists and national leaders now headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, with regional support centers and national associations around the world. While the core group is restricted to 100, during its prime an association membership list for the United States contained about 1,500 names, many of them quite prominent. The Club of Rome�s reputation is built on the doomsday report Limits to Growth published in 1972. The report predicted imminent global disaster due to out-of-control population growth, industrial expansion, depletion of natural resources, food shortages and environmental degradation. And here�s the kicker: These catastrophic results might be avoided through creation of a collectivist world government and through a �global society� to replace �sterile nationalism� with its evil emphasis on competition and consumption. Most of the club�s predictions �paralleling those of guru-of-doom Paul Ehrlich, whose more radical followers favor voluntary extinction of the human race � were so far off base as to be laughable. Curiously, its prominence began to fade almost coincident with the demise of the Soviet Union. In terms of impact and influence, though, the Club of Rome still is riding high. Its predictions were incorporated into numerous textbooks that remain standard fare for environmental education. The group�s report is credited with shaping the thinking, if that is the word, of environmental evangelists such as Ted Turner and Al Gore and even of entire bureaucracies such as the Environmental Protection Agency. The club�s current interests include pushing energy credits for underdeveloped countries which could sell them to �polluting� countries, as well as some form of global taxation to assist further in the redistribution of wealth. So when the Sierra Club says that it is following in the footsteps of the Club of Rome, it is talking about a no-growth, one-world, collectivist agenda. As many observers have pointed out, the environmental movement is the new refuge of Marxists and socialists who have found themselves homeless with the fall of the Soviet Union and communism. What is the big attraction? The meeting between Gould and the Sierra delegation would seem to make it quite clear: They are, begging the spotted owl�s pardon, birds of a feather. �Like socialism, environmentalism combines an atheistic religion with virulent statism,� writes free-market columnist Lew Rockwell. �But it ups the ante. Marxism at least professed a concern with human beings; environmentalism harks back to a godless, manless and mindless Garden of Eden.� Rockwell continues: �And like Marx and Lenin, they are heirs to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His paeans to statism, egalitarianism and totalitarian democracy have shaped the left for 200 years, and as a nature worshipper and exalter of the primitive, he was also the father of environmentalism.� --end-- ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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