Environmentalism Is A Dangerous Ideology Endangering Human

People Like Me Who Were Engaging In Brinkmanship With The Party Economic Bosses And The Open Dissidents Who Were Being Arrested Were Pursuing A Common Goal In Different Ways.

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.

Communism Was Replaced By The Threat Of Ambitious 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.

I Was 25 Years Old And Pursuing My Doctorate In Economics When I Was Allowed To Spend Six Months Of Postgraduate Studies In Naples, Italy. I Read The Western Economic Textbooks And Also The More General Work Of People Like Hayek. By The Time I Returned To Czechoslovakia, I Had An Understanding Of The Principles Of The Market. In 1968, I Was Glad At The Political Liberalism Of The Dubcek Prague Spring, But I Was Very Critical Of The Third Way They Pursued In Economics.