Al Gore says a little bit more than he probably intended to.
From Climate Depot:
Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About 'Global Governance'A pox on all of their houses. The United States is a sovereign nation and we bow down to no external rulemaking body. The United Nations has well proven just how effective it is -- and there are mouth-breathers who think that a bigger version of the U.N. is a good idea?
Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about �global governance.�
�I bring you good news from the U.S., �Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK Times.
�Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey climate bill,� Gore said, noting it was �very much a step in the right direction.� President Obama has pushed for the passage of the bill in the Senate and attended a G8 summit this week where he agreed to attempt to keep the Earth's temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C.
Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it �will dramatically increase the prospects for success� in combating what he sees as the �crisis� of man-made global warming.
�But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements.� (Editor's Note: Gore makes the �global governance� comment at the 1min. 10 sec. mark in this UK Times video.)
Gore's call for �global governance� echoes former French President Jacques Chirac's call in 2000.
On November 20, 2000, then French President Chirac said during a speech at The Hague that the UN's Kyoto Protocol represented "the first component of an authentic global governance."
�For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global governance,� Chirac explained. �From the very earliest age, we should make environmental awareness a major theme of education and a major theme of political debate, until respect for the environment comes to be as fundamental as safeguarding our rights and freedoms. By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace,� Chirac added.
Former EU Environment Minister Margot Wallstrom said, "Kyoto is about the economy, about leveling the playing field for big businesses worldwide." Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper once dismissed UN's Kyoto Protocol as a �socialist scheme.�
