WASHINGTON, March 9 (UPI) -- Environmentalism is a religion that is based
more on political ambitions than science, the president of the Czech
Republic warned Friday.

Speaking at the Cato Institute, a public policy think-tank, President Vaclav
Klaus said that environmentalists who clamor for policy change to combat
global warming "only pretend" to be promoting environmental protection, and
are actually being driven by a political agenda.

"Environmentalism should belong in the social sciences," much like the idea
of communism or other "-isms" such as feminism, Klaus said, adding that
"environmentalism is a religion" that seeks to reorganize the world order as
well as social behavior and value systems worldwide.

As for government spending on global warming studies, the former finance
minister and of the Eastern European nation and trained economist said that
such efforts were a "waste of money," adding that there was already
sufficient scientific evidence for those seeking policy change to back up
their proposals.

Meanwhile, he pointed out that those seeking to protect the environment
could do a great deal under the existing political framework and with
existing technologies, such as importing less goods from far-flung regions
that require enormous jet fuel use.

Klaus concluded Friday his week-long tour of the United States, having met
with a number of senior Bush administration officials, including Vice
President Dick Cheney.

http://www.upi.com/InternationalInte...nmentalism_is_
a_religion/20070309-060020-3030r/

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