While it is true that action need be taken about global warming, it is not true that global warming action need be unobservant of human instincts and human nature.
Once again, the field of discussion is shifted into calls for strong action, rather than "strong thought."
Vaclav Klaus is saying is based on his experiences as a politician in a command and control economy. The key words in his statement are this:
This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning.
Jerome a Paris chooses to place the most unfavorable interpretation on this, that Klaus is a right wing idiot, but there is another interpretation based, perhaps, on a more "nuanced" understanding of Klaus' history of living under communism, or more properly, socialism, majority state control of the means of production, coupled with a completely top-down government backed up with police surveillance and neighborhood spying.
It's easy for us, we who live in freedom, to lose sight of how little technical difference there is between freedom, and slavery to our neighbors, through government run amok.
Look at National ID cards, touted as a solution to the problem of the hiring of illegal workers by making it possible for an employer to check on the citizenship and residency status of virtually anyone. What could be wrong with that?
Plenty. You could be prevented from working by a mistake in a government database. That happens. Flown lately, filled with dread your name will appear on the "Don't Fly" list?
Vaclav Klaus is talking about the complete penetration of daily life by government control. He seems worried that mindless tiny nuances of governmental environmental regulation will gradually become just one more way to threaten people who aren't quite socialized enough, through nature or experience.
We already do it here in the USA. That's what political correctness means.
I suspect that IF questions were asked of Klaus that indicated respect for his social intelligence; IF hyperrationalists like Jerome et al, (who talk as if human problems can be solved by rationality and reason alone) would read up on the current research in human emotional/rational cognition, THEN maybe a dialogue could begin with a man who may already know MORE than they do about politics, which is THE place where the real levers of force lie to change the climate.
EVERY discussion of global warming founders on the "belling the cat" problem: how do we get lawmakers to make the laws we need?
And the answer is always education, but always of the dry, factual kind.
Maybe you need Michael Moore to talk to Vaclav Klaus, and make an emotional hardhitting movie about the practical effects of global warming: people on rooftops holding up babies; bloated carcasses of animals and people floating around in some obscene parody of innertubing; parched skeletons of cows on the plains when the rivers run dry because the Himalayas lose their glaciers; fly-covered baby faces when the crops fail.
Maybe Vaclav Klaus knows something about moving people to action that Jerome a Paris and his coterie of elevated thinkers and doers don't know yet. Just nuancin' here...