The alarmists keep telling us their concern about global warming is
all about man's stewardship of the environment. But we know that's not
true. A United Nations official has now confirmed this.
At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres,
executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change,
admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the
world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
"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," she said.
Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will
be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she
added: "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."
The only economic model in the last 150 years that has ever worked
at all is capitalism. The evidence is prima facie: From a feudal order
that lasted a thousand years, produced zero growth and kept workdays
long and lifespans short, the countries that have embraced free-market
capitalism have enjoyed a system in which output has increased 70-fold,
work days have been halved and lifespans doubled.
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