Thirty-one years ago, I clipped an interesting portion of a Newsweek story about “the coming ice age.”

Science Magazine had this alarming news: “The world’s climatologists are agreed that we must prepare for the next ice age.” And International Wildlife Magazine said, “A new ice age must stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery.”

Now, to the contrary, we are inundated with hysterical claims that global warming is a dire threat. Al Gore is betting his political future on frightening the people of the U.S.A. into seeing him as a savior from the big industrial giants that are ruining the country with smokestack emissions.

What has changed from 31 years ago, when the ice age was around the corner? Nothing. It is just the desire of environmentalists and socialist world planners to tie down the industry of this country.

Nearly 270 years ago, Jonathan Swift wrote a novel with remarkable insight. In Gulliver’s Travels, a race of tiny people discovered a giant in their midst. And even though he was friendly, they were very frightened of him. So they managed to subdue him when he was sleeping. They put tiny threads over his body so that when he awoke, he could not move.

That is what is happening to the United States. Radical environmentalists and the proponents of world government want to weaken this country so that we have to merge into the New World Order.

Harvey Lord, South Paris