Socialism, climate change, and hypocrisy

Hugo Chavez spoke at the climate summit in Copenhagen and was greeted by loud applause. Here is an excerpt from his speech, which sums up his over all message:

We could say that there is a ghost lurking. To paraphrase Karl Marx there is a ghost running through the streets of Copenhagen. And I think that ghost is silent, somewhere in this room, amongst us. Coming through the corridors and underneath. And that ghost is a terrible ghost and nobody wants to name him or her. It’s capitalism. Capitalism is that ghost. Nobody I don’t think wants to name it. Capitalism. I’ve also been struck by some of the signs outside this conference. One sign in particular that reads, “Don’t change the climate … change the system!” I particularly liked that one and would add to that by saying that by changing the system, we could save the planet. The destructive model of capitalism is eradicating life.

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This shouldn’t be news…

Senator John Kerry will Be flying to the global warming summit in Copenhagen on a commercial flight. So what? It’s certainly not a big deal. That’s true, but when you consider how many people there will be taking private jets, it certainly deserves some mention in order to contrast him with the environmental hypocrites.

Do you think John will point this sort of thing out to fellow attendees once he gets there? I wouldn’t count on it.