Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences: Statement 2009 UN Climate Change Summit
Sep 25th, 2009
Statement by Mr. Fazlun Khalid
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convened a Summit on Climate Change on 22 September 2009 to focus Heads of State and Government on the need for urgent action on a global climate deal in Copenhagen this December. The Summit featured several innovative elements. Among them, civil society organisations invited to attend the event had the opportunity to send a video statement, like this one:
Asalamu-alaykum,
As far as I am aware only the people invited to attend the event were asked to produce a short video as an introduction to their position.
Ayyub
Assalamualaykum.
Opinions will vary but I would remind muslims to be wary of the whole climate change bandwagon. Many issues are spoken as if they are a given yet just a cursory examination reveals that experts in the field are deeply divided. The Club of Rome (a precursor to the EU) was talking about a green tax in one of their policy documents in the sixties and the fact that Al Gore is a major shareholder in the Chicago Carbon Exchange speaks volumes.
Wassalaam
I see Muslims are smart enough to notice the scam of so-called global warming. Thanks and good luck!
The Great Global Warming Swindle
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=4282841098761265190
the whole business it is about taxation that goes directly to the banks,
and restriction of industrial development in countries that would otherwise use their natural ressources for themselves.
Every topic of this nature is always polarised into pro- and anti- camps, with great simplifications. That then allows a third group who try to synthesise the two positions to reach a new broader consensus that pleases neither party.
The fact that quite sinister forces use the climate change argument for very dubious ends does not entirely invalidate it.
If I thought that being against the climate change argument meant that I was pro- industrial development in ‘developing countries’ and their use of their own ‘natural resources’, i.e. the spread of this technical culture which is a disaster whether or not it causes climate change, then I am sorry, the thought does not appeal to me. I would have to vote on the other side.
But this simple polarisation doesn’t sit well with me. So we need to lift the argument above these simple dialectical processes.
It does not matter at all what side you would like to vote for.
The mass-media established climate religion with all its fraudulent data is far “above these simple dialectical processes” like voting.
But still you can vote directly against the disastrous tecnlogical culture, just take
a hammer and smash your computer. And stop internet publishing.
Do all of these and more. Stoppin to drink recycled water would as well be an option,
and the toilet flush also uses to much energy. At last, think of yourself of carbondioxide producer. But then, I know, suicide is categorically forbidden.
But stop patronizing countries with this climate religion just to exploit their ressources.
Hardly imaginable for ecologically reborn luxury kids in the tracks of french educated Pol Pot, but there are still billions of people who desperatly crave for disasters like clean water, food, freedom of information and even, beware, cars.
with much respect for all your work, though.
et voilà
Europe bids to tax personal fuel consumption
(AFP) – 6 hours ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g7WrSUtoLFcfTSUJZKeAI1e_kH5A
Assalamualaykum.
As muslims we all know about viceregency and being frugal and all that. But what in the world do banks have to do with anything. That alone should set off every alarm bell there is. And yes there is climate change and I believe its called seasons in old fashioned english! On a more serious note I remember bush jnrs science advisor (I think his name is Paul Ehrlich) writing in one of his books in the 60s or 70s that the uk would be underwater if the population of the world was allowed to go on! I am not joking,and this guys best friend is chairman obamas(barky) science advisor Holdren who is a hardcore malthusian genocidalist. Give these vermin a wide berth and file under scum?trash.
Peace
wa alaikum as-salam,
Your phrase “But what in the world do banks have to do with anything?” has certainly set my alarm bells ringing, and I think it requires elucidation.
Acknowledging your antipathy for some of the more loony ideas of environmentalists and the abhorrent fashion in which capitalism is doing what it does best, capitalising, and without once more expounding on the simple dialectical polarisation such topics always receive as treatment, I would only say in defence of the climate change thesis that if you imagine that the industrial and developing worlds can daily pour billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, that being merely the tip of the iceberg, without producing some change, then I must admit to bafflement.
The catalogue of truly gargantuan changes that the consumer-led industrial lifestyle have made in ecosystems around the world – from the destruction of the rain-forests to the pollution of the seas while simultaneously emptying them of fish and all life – cannot simply be wished away as a deception fostered on us by Bilderbergers led by Al Gore and believed in by gullible environmentalists.
So let us try to get beyond these superficialities.
Should it not ring a bell that there are currently two big “world governmental” agendas,
hammered into the publics brains by the media, and save the fish nor save the rainforests are neither of them, although their extinction is for long time obvious, while climate change is disputable to say the least. So lets save the banks and climate in one wash. Who needs fish and rainforests. Some somali ex fishermen turned pirates and those obnoxious indians, what the. Not only forests need CO2, by the way, oceanic plankton does too, and fish eat that. While Banks and bureaucrazies eat taxes, newest tax will be carbon tax. Bon appetit.
The dealing with carbon emission certicifates is already a big business, I had the opportunity to attend a special fair for that 2 years ago. Judged by the looks and behavior of the attendees, the kind of food and beverage served etc. and the way it was marketed it could as well have been a fair for luxury yates or diamonds.
Sometimes the surface tells the truth.
Assalamualaykum
I totally second what Opa says in the above post.
I am also amazed that people are so easily led to believe that carbon dioxide is a noxious gas. WHAAT #*?? Is this the same carbon dioxide that I breathe out and that life on earth is dependent on along with sunlight,oxygen and water? Well, it appears that is the case especially when people like Jonathan Porrit openly want to reduce the population of the uk to 30,000,000 over the next twenty or so years. The earth has seen similar temperatures before in its history and climatologists say this is due to sunspot activities.
I do believe there are environmental problems out there I just dont believe co2 is one of them. GMO crops,nuclear testing in the atmosphere,genetic engineering on dna are far more pressing concerns.
Peace
A short piece by Abdal Hakim Murad at the Guaradian UK, website
A warning we should heed
The message of Islam is that pursuit of money for its own sake is unnatural, inhumane, and will lead us to catastrophe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/oct/12/islam-economics-religion?commentpage=1&commentposted=1
Thank you for this piece, which we have posted in our blog section.