Immediately prior to his nomination as White House Science Czar,
John P. Holdren called for a global carbon tax in order to "redistribute"
wealth to the Southern Hemisphere.
Holdren's comments were underreported at the time but have
since garnered attention in the wake of the Democratic leadership's
new push to pass comprehensive climate change legislation.
Holdren, the director of the White House Office of Science
and Technology Policy, made the statement on July 3, 2008 on
"Democracy NOW!", hosted by Amy Goodman.
Holdren said: "It’s important that we have a global
agreement on how we are going to limit the emissions of carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse gases going forward, and an agreement
that will include the tropical forests, that will include ways
to transfer some of the revenues from carbon taxes or carbon
emission permits in the North to pay for reduced deforestation
in the South."
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Directly echoing Holdren's comments, Sec. 756(c ) of the most
recent climate change legislation being debated in Congress,
the Kerry-Lieberman bill, legislates for "international
offset credits" to be provided to countries that reduce
deforestation.
In addition, Section 5004 would mandate the Secretary of Agriculture,
in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency, to
create a program "to provide assistance to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries, in
accordance with this title."
Holdren argued during the "Democracy Now!" appearance
that limits and levies on carbon emissions would create so called
"green jobs".
"The notion that this is going to be unaffordable and
an economic catastrophe to address this problem is just wrong,"
said Holdren.
However, precisely that scenario has unfolded in Spain, according
to its own government. The "green economy" has left
the country with a 20 per cent unemployment rate, virtually
bankrupt and in
need of being bailed out by the rest of Europe.
Obama's
green economy bill has been laying in wait for
almost two years now. However, the president's stated intention
to "Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050" has
not gone away.
Recent exposure of the fraud behind the climate science driving
the global warming movement had seemingly scuppered
Obama's chances of pushing through the legislation,
which would see some $2.9 trillion shaved off the economy by
the year 2050 if enacted. The legislation would also reduce
GDP by 6.9 percent – a figure comparable
with the economic meltdown of 1929 and 1930.
Now, however, in the wake of the BP disaster, and a tightly
controlled public relations machine managing it, Obama has seen
an
opportunity to gain momentum, once more wheeling
out his "clean energy" rhetoric.
Exploiting the catastrophe is necessary to “catalyze
support for an American environmental policy with teeth,”
writes top elitist and Harvard Professor Kenneth Rogoff, noting
that the cap and trade system basically amounts to the same
thing as a carbon tax and is just a trick to hide the use of
the incendiary word “tax”.
The carbon trading scam has little to do with the environment
and everything to do with vast profiteering while actively de-industrializing
the developed world. As our previous
research highlights, it is a is a long term policy
goal of the global elite.
In his now notorious 1977 book, Eco
Science, John P. Holdren wrote of a need for the
U.S. to follow an agenda of "de-development" via "a
stable, low-consumption economy". The book also calls for
programs of mass sterilization, one child policies and an authoritative
"Planetary Regime" to oversee their implementation.
As we have previously
pointed out, though the catalyst has changed throughout
Holdren's work, the endgame remains the same. In the 70’s,
Holdren was busy talking up the drastic threat of global cooling,
warning that it would produce giant tidal waves and environmental
devastation. Holdren’s convictions about climate change
have flip-flopped in order to accommodate whatever scientific
fad holds sway at the time, however, his goal of depopulation
and de-development remains constant.
Immediately prior to his nomination as White House Science Czar,
John P. Holdren called for a global carbon tax in order to "redistribute"
wealth to the Southern Hemisphere.
