Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, addressed the climate summit in Copenhagen on Thursday. He took aim at the U.S. and capitalism in particular as the reason for the world’s ills.
He cited Karl Marx and called capitalism the “ghost” walking in the halls of the summit.
“Socialism, this is the direction, this is the path to save the planet,” he said, “I don’t have the least doubt.”
Chavez received thunderous applause for the statement.
He also continued the drum beat of demanding financial help from the industrialized world for third world countries.
“The political conservatism and selfishness of the largest consumers of the richest countries shows high insensitivity and lack of solidarity with the poor, the hungry and the most vulnerable to disease, to natural disasters,” he said.
Appearing to agree with Chavez’s statement, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised the U.S. would pay $100 billion annually if a compromise could be reached at the summit. The Obama administration wants a global warming pledge that holds growing nations like India and China agree to international inspection.
Dr. Cal Beisner, with the Cornwall Alliance, said Clinton is putting her trust in cap and trade legislation.
“How do we know?” he asked. “Because Clinton said in her press conference that one source of the $100 billion annual wealth transfer to developing nations would be the revenues from auctioning carbon-emission permits under a potential cap-and-trade regime.”
Cap-and-trade would cost American families dearly by making literally everything cost more.
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