New
Film Exposes Communist Roots of “Sustainability” Agenda, by Alex Newman,
4/12/16, New American
A powerful new documentary takes a fresh
look at the global “green” agenda, often marketed under the misleading label
“sustainable development,” and exposes it for the dangerous assault on human
freedom that it is. Beyond that, the film shows how the so-called
“sustainability” movement of today is little more than a poorly re-packaged
version of the murderous “red” communist agenda that supposedly fell along with
the Soviet Union — after killing hundreds of millions of people along the
way. The
film, It’s
Easy Being Green When You Have No Choice: Sustainable Development and the End
of History, provides a great deal of evidence and information that all
supporters of liberty should be familiar with.
At the center of the scheme for
global totalitarianism is the increasingly discredited anthropogenic (man-made)
global-warming theory, the film and experts interviewed for it point out. And
at the center of that theory is the claim that CO2 drives warming — an idea
discredited by, among other evidence, the 18 years and counting in which the
undisputed satellite and weather balloon temperature records show no warming.
But facts and concerns over the climate were never the real issue, as the film
documents using a combination of powerful interviews with experts and even
quotes from the key individuals and organizations pushing the anti-human,
anti-freedom “sustainability” agenda.
“Ever since the failed Bolshevik
revolution the managerial class has been searching for a common enemy for people
cross the world to unite against,” the narrator explains as the film begins.
“They have found it. The new enemy is carbon dioxide.”
CO2, of course, is exhaled by humans
and is necessary for plant life. So crucial is CO2 to the planet that
scientists have often referred to it as the “gas of life.” Human emissions of
CO2, meanwhile, represent a fraction of one percent of all greenhouse gases
present naturally in the atmosphere. On top of that, growing amounts of
evidence — especially the 18 years and counting of no warming even as CO2
concentrations increased — suggest that carbon dioxide plays only a minor role
in the global climate system, if it plays any at all. But because CO2 is
emitted during every human activity, including breathing, it is the most
perfect enemy imaginable to justify totalitarian control over every element of
life.
“Human freedom is the problem and
the only solution is to limit and control freedom,” explains the film's
narrator, radio host and former meteorologist Brian Sussman. “Through careful
marketing techniques and propaganda designed for mass consumption the trusting
public has been embracing all of Communism's ultimate goals of redistribution
of wealth; dictating and regulating commercial production; controlling land,
private property, natural resources, and the economy, diminishing Christianity
and the general control of society.”
CO2 and the “climate,” the film and
the experts interviewed in it explain clearly, offered the perfect excuse to
justify the tyranny. “The whole idea of controlling and limiting carbon dioxide
is to control human beings,” says Marc Morano, editor of the Climate Depot
website and the producer of a soon-to-be released documentary called Climate Hustle exposing the
AGW con. “So if sustainable development becomes even more codified and becomes
more accepted and becomes implemented, this is a way for central planners to
control human freedom. We have been through this before. We have been down this
road before. We have seen the age of the super state in the 20th century and
frankly I don’t know that humanity is going to survive this latest assault.”
Morano's commentary in the film,
like that of other experts interviewed for it, is insightful and revealing. For
example, Morano and others interviewed in the documentary explain how global
environmentalism has replaced the Cold War as the key justification for so many
of the establishment's agendas. “The idea of sustainable development is that
there is a common enemy,” Morano explained. “Now, whether you are rich, whether
you are poor, whatever nationality you are, whatever race you are, whatever
creed you are, religious — we can all unite. And that is what they were looking
for. They wanted a common enemy. I mean, short of an alien invasion from outer
space, this was it.”
Other experts interviewed in the
film provide equally compelling commentary on the massive threat facing
humanity today. Those experts include author Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, a spokesman
for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, who touches on the
anti-Christian element of the global “sustainability” agenda. He also points
out how the agenda is completely incompatible with Christianity and a biblical
worldview — a major reason why the attacks against Christians and the Bible are
accelerating around the world.
Beverly Eakman, an author and
educator well versed in what is happening in the education system, exposes the
use of “green” propaganda in schools and the media to push the sustainability
agenda. “The idea that educated people are unsustainable is in the mix of the
green agenda,” she explains. The film also brings in quotes from official UN
documents stating as much. The Obama administration has also been very open
about using the government “education” system to push “sustainability”
indoctrination and create “green” citizens.
Also interviewed for the film is
climate expert John Casey, the president of the Space and Science Research
Corporation, who exposes the false claims surrounding AGW. “Clearly, the
reaction, the displays by the global warming or the warmist crowd have reached
an all time fever pitch in terms of their anger, their frustration, their
attacks on not just global warming critics, but anyone with the scientific data
that shows they are wrong,” Casey explains. “This is unparalleled,
unprecedented in the modern era, to see these kind of ludicrous extreme attacks
that are coming from the warmist community.” He also warned that contrary to
the UN narrative about warming, “we are actually going into a new cold climate
era.”
Population Research Institute chief
Steve Mosher, meanwhile, highlighted the role of the population-control zealots
in the whole agenda. “The idea that people cause global warming is driving the
population control movement, it is certainly driving the radical environmental
movement and it’s driving the sustainable development movement,” he said. “So
when you ask, what are these people, the population controllers, in the name of
sustainable development or in the name of reducing the emission of greenhouse
gases, prepared to do? They are prepared to do anything. They are prepared to
arrest women for the crime of being pregnant, give them cesarean section
abortions and sterilize them for life.”
Cato Institute Senior Fellow Randal
O'Toole, who also spoke in the film, noted that sustainability as it is being
pushed means much less freedom and much more poverty. He tackles everything
associated with so-called “Smart Growth,” which in essence equates to higher prices,
less choices, and more government control of housing, food, transportation, and
more. The best solution to so many problems, O'Toole also explains, is more
freedom and less planning laws at all levels of government.
The film is interspersed with quotes,
often from establishment and insider sources, supporting its thesis. For
example, one of the key organizations pushing the agenda is the Club of Rome, a
pseudo-environmentalist outfit dominated by top globalists and “former”
communists. “In searching for a common enemy against whom we can unite, we came
up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages,
famine and the like, would fit the bill,” the group said in its report on the
“First Global Revolution.” “All these dangers are caused by human intervention
in natural processes, and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviors
that they can be overcome. The real enemy then is humanity itself.”
Another key area in which the film
adds value is how it exposes the giant role of former Soviet dictator Mikhail
Gorbachev and his allies in the shackling of the planet under the guise of
phony environmentalism. Just a few years after the ostensible collapse of
Soviet tyranny, for instance, Gorbachev worked with top “capitalists” through
the United Nations to create the globalist plan for “sustainable development”
known as UN “Agenda 21.”
Unsurprisingly, as the film
documents extensively, the agenda was remarkably similar to the agenda pursued
by Moscow and the international communist conspiracy just a few years before
the 1992 UN “sustainable development” summit in Rio de Janeiro — in some cases
even the wording is almost identical. Indeed, Gorbachev himself touted the plan in
his Club of Rome-endorsed bookProphet
of Change: From the Cold War to a Sustainable World.
Even in the United States, the shift
from Red communism to Green tyranny has become readily apparent. Just consider
Obama's former “Green Jobs” Czar, Van Jones, who was forced out after past
media interviews surfaced in which he identified himself as a revolutionary
communist. The so-called “green agenda,” too, brazenly promotes central
planning, government control, and more. Most recently, radical state attorneys
general have even launched “investigations” into climate skeptics with a goal
of prosecuting them.
Overall, the film does an excellent
job of exposing the totalitarian nature of the “sustainable development”
agenda. It also provides an extremely valuable service by thoroughly
documenting the “sustainability” jihad's extensive links to the “ideology” and
even the individual mass murderers behind global communism. In fact, the two
movements are essentially inseparable, the only difference being that each
movement was able to attract a slightly different variety of well-meaning
zealot to advance the same totalitarian cause — dupes that Soviet dictator
Vladimir Lenin would have referred to as “useful idiots.”
"The climate change debate is
more than debating what the climate models say and how people come to accept
defacto what they are told by the media," said It's Easy Being Green producer
Frank Pinski. "This film tries to get across that the desire of men to control
his fellow man never ends, it just changes form. This latest attempt uses the
constant changes in the climate to instill fear so that people willingly turn
over the regulation of all aspects of their lives to the government. This is
reminiscent of Communist society and that is what this film tries to
explain."
The documentary is a very good
primer for those who are not yet familiar with the dangers of the “sustainable
development” movement and green-tinged Marxism in general. But even for
longtime readers of this magazine and other well-informed people, there is a
lot of valuable information presented in the film. It is worth watching and
sharing as Americans gear up to fight back against the extremist agenda at the
local, state, and federal level.
Alex
Newman is a correspondent for The New American, covering economics, environment, politics,
education, and more. He can be reached at anewman@thenewamerican.com. Follow him on Twitter @ALEXNEWMAN_JOU.
Documentary trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilIEOMaC4Mw
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