While Copenhagen seems poised to enjoy a white Christmas, an equally noticeable color in the city was red, with flag-waving communists and socialists protesting and hoisting banners with messages such as “CAPITALISM MEANS WAR” and “CAPITALISM ISN’T WORKING, Crush the system not the climate.” They were well represented within the conference as well, with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe and Bolivian President Evo Morales all registering such sentiments.
The limelight-lusting Chavez, who undermines his nation’s rule of law and suppresses its press with equal vigor, spoke for four times longer than his allotted five minutes, leaving plenty of time to bang his communist drum. Reporting on the Venezuelan’s comments, ABC.net.au, wrote:
“The destructive model of capitalism is the eradication of life,” he said.
Recalling how rich nations last year swiftly pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into their faltering banking systems, he added: “If the climate was a bank, they would have already saved it.”
After Morales echoed these remarks, Mugabe, best known for changing Zimbabwe from a breadbasket into a basket case, followed suit. Obviously upset that the West has targeted him with sanctions over human rights abuses, he said:
When these capitalist gods of carbon burp and belch their dangerous emissions, it’s we, the lesser mortals of the developing sphere who gasp and sink and eventually die.
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