Environment and Energy
Meštrović says that LaRouche believes that policy-makers should take counsel from Russian-Ukrainian biogeochemist Vladimir Vernadsky, in seeing the human mind as a force that transforms and improves the biosphere into a higher form, the noösphere, through the development of infrastructure and other "natural products" of human cognition. LaRouche and his followers favor a vision of a highly industrialized, high "energy flux density" civilization reaching for innovation and interplanetary colonization. The movement asserts that the Green movement rides on the coat-tails of finance capital, and that the theory of human-caused global warming masks a big scam designed to prevent the development of emerging economies. Movement literature says that the "top level" organizations in the "command structure" of the environmental movement include: the World Wildlife Fund, headed by Prince Philip, the Aspen Institute, and the Club of Rome.
According to Chip Berlet, "Pro-LaRouche publications have been at the forefront of denying the reality of global warming". The LaRouche movement's 21st Century Science & Technology magazine has been called "anti-environmental" by the magazine Mother Jones. LaRouche publications were denouncing nuclear winter, the theory that nuclear war could lead to devastating climate change, as early as 1983, calling it a "fraud" and a "hoax" popularized by the Soviet Union to weaken the U.S. The movement developed ideas that became part the Wise use movement, and it remains peripherally involved. Together with the Wise use movement, the LaRouche movement is credited with waging a successful campaign to prevent ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity by the U.S. Senate in 1994.
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