Memory hole for a Rothschild?

Let's consider the motives for climate alarmism

- by NIALL McCRAE

IT is believed by some to have been the most significant event in the life of Edmund de Rothschild.

And yet a speech — reportedly given by the elite-level financier to launch the worldwide campaign against carbon dioxide — is missing from his memoirs.

Researchers will now find that mentions of his ‘eloquent’ appeal for action — allegedly given at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 — appear to have disappeared from YouTube and been ‘memory-holed’ by Google.

De Rothschild, who died in 2009 at the age of 93, is unusual amongst his other family members in having an autobiography published (A Gilt-Edged Life, 1998).

He presents himself in the book as a sophisticated English gentleman with a passion for horticulture — but was there more to this high-profile member of a prominent banking dynasty?

In 1975, when De Rothschild retired from the NM Rothschild bank, he attended a conference of the World Wilderness Leadership, held in conjunction with the United Nations, in Colorado.

He wrote: “I have also been interested in wider environmental problems, in particular pollution control.” Otherwise, his involvement in the climate crisis campaign is absent from the book. Isn’t that strange for an environmentalist?

The final chapter (‘Home Stretch’) portrays him as retiring to his home and garden, occasionally attending commemorations.

But it is believed by some that he made the most impact on the global stage during his seventies and eighties.