Whatever you do, Rasmussen, don’t ask the publc whether they’ve read the Club of Rome’s First Global Revolution, where this idea of the “threat of global warming” was first manufactured. And certainly don’t let the public know that it was Al Gore who hosted the 1989 Club of Rome meeting in DC, only a year or so before the First Global Revolution was published.
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”
Whatever you do, Rasmussen, don’t ask the publc whether they’ve read the Club of Rome’s First Global Revolution, where this idea of the “threat of global warming” was first manufactured. And certainly don’t let the public know that it was Al Gore who hosted the 1989 Club of Rome meeting in DC, only a year or so before the First Global Revolution was published.
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”
Chapter V - The Vacuum
First Global Revolution
Club of Rome (1991)
http://www.archive.org/details/TheFirstGlobalRevolution