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Vaclav Klaus

“not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming”.

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And finally, there is another danger: the emergence of nonideological but very aggressive ‘isms,’ which are really quite new. Let me at least name them: We all care about human rights, but I am afraid of ‘human rightism.’ We all want to have a healthy environment, but I see the danger in environmentalism. To put it politically correctly, I admire the second gender, but I fear feminism. We all are enriched by other cultures, but not by multiculturalism. I am aware of the importance of voluntary associations, but I fear NGOism.

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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.

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Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the idea that talking about ‘saving the planet’ is an effective way to show their ‘caring’ for humanity and that it is the easiest way to maximize votes irrespective of any relevant activity which would aim at the real needs of people. The global warming dogma has become a very easy form of escapism from the current reality.

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But how can you speed up the transformation of society in a country as large as Russia? Those sounding the moral outcry are the ones who are trying to dictate their standards from the outside. Of course, that isn’t the right way to go either. One cannot impose democracy from the other side of national borders, which is something we ourselves experienced during the communist era. The West’s policies toward Eastern Europe, the Helsinki process – none of that really helped us.

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By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

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Climate alarmists believe in their own omnipotency, in knowing better than millions of rationally behaving men and women what is right or wrong, in the possibility to give adequate instructions to hundreds of millions of individuals and institutions and the resulting compliance or non-compliance of those who are supposed to follow these instructions.

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Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.

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Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

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Czech Republic is an important part of central Europe. It’s clear that we must participate in European integration. I am convinced that the Czech Republic – or, in the past, Czechoslovakia – would have been one of the founding members of the EU if it hadn’t been for the communist takeover in 1948.

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Quotes by Vaclav Klaus

Vaclav Klaus

“not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming”.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.

Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

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