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"To understand the
politics behind the environmental movement and its persuasive
propaganda, let's look at the social ambitions that drive it. Its
agenda was formed during the sixties, when four overlapping
anti-establishment groups joined to form the Green Party in Germany:
radical feminists, Marxists (the new Left), peace-niks (the anti-war
movement), and hippies seeking spiritual enlightenment. Small wonder
they chose Vladimar Lenin's birthday as the Earth Day. Militant U.S.
'Greens' formed a similar agenda: radical population control, a
global welfare system (replacing capitalism with socialism),
planetary governance (including national disarmament), and earth-centered
spirituality. The blend of these four counter-culture philosophies
shows why pantheism and Marxism permeate environmentalism"
[source].
"Saving the rainforest
from those evil loggers is a cute story that may go down well in the
developed world, but it's a no sale to a peasant, if that means
continuing to live in the abject poverty of a favela rather than
striking out and clearing a free acre of rainforest to grow food for
his family. Leaving all the propaganda aside, everyone knows they're
the ones actually doing the clearances, ... He may just be a
peasant, who's had nothing much in the way of education, but he's
smart enough to wonder why, when we've already chopped down all our
forests and have so many things he doesn't have like abundant food,
medicines, children who're expected to reach adulthood, decent
housing and electricity, we want him to continue living in poverty
to somehow salve our consciences. He sees things clearly in a way we
don't and will do his best for the ones he loves. We might live on
the same planet but we're living in completely different worlds.
He'll clear that land, plant a crop on it and nothing will stop him,
and I wish him and his the best the luck with it"
[source].
"All the fuss about
introducing compulsory 'green' lightbulbs in our homes, phasing out
the traditional incandescent ones in the the next few years, has
flooded me with apprehension. Before Christmas, our hall and
stair-landing light fixtures were fitted with low-energy bulbs, not
for eco-reasons so much as that Richard hates changing the wretched
things. These new planet-friendly bulbs had a very unpleasant effect
on me, which at first I did not realise was due to their light. I
started to get bad headaches and even nausea. I also got depressed
and found it hard to read sitting on the landing. Eventually, I
realised it was because of the flat, grey light coming from the
bulbs - something to do with the fact they flicker 50 times a
second. We changed them and I immediately felt better, not to
mention happier with the return of the golden light. ... Although
this is an EU directive, I cannot imagine French women putting up
with lighting that makes them look and feel like a walking corpse"
[Judy Finnigan, Daily Express, 17 March 2007].
"When I moved to ...
Brighton seven years ago, I was told we had three major issues to
deal with: rubbish, parking and seagulls. Bin bags were torn apart
by the seagulls and there was nowhere to park your car, even if you
lived there. The rubbish problem has since been solved by placing
huge communal bins on every street corner. These used to be emptied
every day but since the Green party started running the council,
it's sometimes not collected at all. Same with with the recycling,
which is collected only intermittently. The Greens have solved the
parking problem completely. They have raised tariffs by more than
100 percent in some cases, making sure nobody wants to park. It used
to be £4 a day to park on the seafront, it's now £20. I've seen
daytrippers get out of their cars to buy a ticket, recoil in horror
and drive off. Hundreds of parking spaces stand empty all day, thus
depriving the greedy Greens of their revenue and local business
people of their living. Council leader Jason Kitcat, ... says they
want to stop people using their cars, yet has recently cut several
bus routes too. There are no plans for a park-and-ride scheme, just
more bicycle lanes. They're completely out of step with the Brighton
spirit. ... I think we Brightonians might have finally learned the
difference between national politics and local councils and we'll
vote more carefully in the future"
[Comment, Sunday Express,
19 August 2012].
"Long ago I lived in a
mad country, where expensive bread was so heavily subsidised that it
was cheaper than swill, and so fed to the pigs. It was called the
USSR, and it was ruled by Red zealots. Now I live in another mad
country, where Green zealots close perfectly good coal-fired power
stations in the middle of a fuel shortage. It is like watching a
dentist pulling out sound teeth, or a surgeon cutting off a healthy
limb, and being able to do nothing to stop it"
[Peter Hitchens,
Mail on Sunday, 31 March 2013].
"Since the days when
coal was delivered in sacks, the arrangement has been simple. The
householder pays for the fuel he needs and can afford. That is how
things work in free societies. But now, thanks to the
Establishment's wholesale embrace of Green dogma, this is no longer
so. The authorities are seriously considering plans which will allow
them to reach into our houses and reduce the flow of power to our
appliances. We will pay for these complex and faintly sinister
arrangements, as we already pay for forests of grossly subsidised
and unreliable wind turbines, so forcing up the price of energy once
more. These increased costs are all driven by the ever-more
questionable belief that reducing carbon emissions will save the
planet. Even if this is so, the rising economies of the East are
paying no attention, and blithely continuing to open coal-fired
power stations, as we shut ours. This mess could be avoided if we
reintroduced rationality into our energy policy, cancelling the
closure of perfectly serviceable power plants, building new gas and
nuclear generators, and exploiting the shale gas which lies beneath
our feet. All that is needed is a return to sanity in the political
class, which - if it understands nothing else - must see the cost
and intrusion of the 'energy-saving' scheme will be deeply unpopular
with voters" [Comment, Mail on Sunday, 28 April 2013].
"The more that the
Greens get media attention, the more it'll become obvious that they
don't really deserve it. For those of us with experience of actually
living under a Green council, the case against them is overwhelming.
Since they took over Brighton in 2010, we've had proposals for
gender-neutral toilets and the option of identifying oneself as Mr.
Mrs or Mx on council forms. They've tried to hike taxes by an
eye-watering 4.75 per cent. Moreover, for a supposedly Green party
they are remarkably bad for the environment. Shortly after taking
over there was a bin strike that led to rubbish collecting in the
streets. They've signed-off on the construction of a monstrous tower
on the front ... New windfarms promise to despoil the view out to
sea. And, most ironically of all, Brighton has plummeted down the
recycling tables: it now ranks 302nd out of 326 councils"
[source].
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