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Articles
Household Recycling is State-Endorsed Slavery
(05 July 2014)
"Recycling is authoritarian,
demeaning and an unutterable waste of time, energy and money. No
surprise, then, that the European Union is planning to force its
vassal states to do much, much more of it..."
EU Regulation: Towards Zero Landfill
(02 July 2014)
"[T]he gaff has been well and truly blown on the Commission's
anti-landfill propaganda..."
The Great Recycling Myth
(04 January 2014)
"My frail elderly mother has recently moved in with us in
Epsom and in so doing has joined the 15 million people worldwide who
spend their days sorting through rubbish. Mum, however, does not get
paid $1 a day. She does it for nothing. This is because we now have
five separate bins and every morning she and the other 10,000-plus
members of Surrey's army of housewives sort through their rubbish to
make sure it all goes into the right one..."
Recycling is Garbage
(30 June 1996)
"As they put on plastic gloves for their first litter hunt,
the third graders knew what to expect. They knew their garbage. It
was part of their science curriculum at Bridges Elementary, a public
[state] school on West 17th Street in Manhattan. They had learned
the Three Rs - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle..."
Videos and YouTubes
Websites
The Green Agenda
"We should all want to be wise and
careful stewards of the beautiful planet we call home. But most of
us realise that humans in general are not being good stewards. We
are wasteful with our natural resources and have reduced
biodiversity. Therefore, when we read about groups and organisations
calling for a 'green revolution' and a new relationship between
humanity and nature it is easy to agree with their ideas. However,
certain aspects of the modern green movement that is permeating
every segment of our society are not about protecting the
environment. You don't have to dig very deep to discover the true
beliefs of the influential leaders who are using genuine concerns
about the environment to promote an agenda of fear and control..."
Books
All of the books recommended here should be
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usedbooksearch.net
The Little Green
Book of Eco-Fascism (2013)
"Do you believe we should
bomb our economy back to the dark ages? Carpet our beautiful
countryside with bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco-crucifixes?
Indoctrinate our kids with scary North Korea-style propaganda
nonsense in order to deal with the alleged perils of 'climate
change'? Neither does [this author]..."
Watermelons
(2011)
"If global warming isn't real then
how come the ice caps are melting? Why would all the world's top
scientists lie to us? What exactly is so wrong with biofuels, wind
farms, carbon taxes, sustainability and preserving scarce resources
for future generations? And what about Bangladesh, the drowning
Maldives and all those endangered polar bears? [This author] has all
the answers - and they're not the ones Al Gore would like you to
hear. In Watermelons [this author] tells the shocking true
story of how a handful of political activists, green campaigners and
voodoo scientists engineered the world's biggest, most expensive and
destructive outbreak of mass hysteria - one that threatens the very
fabric of Western Civilisation. As the world stands on the brink of
a new Great Depression, [this author's] message could not be more
timely or urgent. In order to save our planet must we really
surrender to the green movement's misanthropic tyranny? Or might
there be a better way?"
The
Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
(2001)
"The idea for this book was born in a bookstore in Los
Angeles in February 1997. I was standing leafing through Wired
Magazine and read an interview with the American economist
Julian Simon, from the University of Maryland. He maintained that
much of our traditional knowledge about the environment is quite
simply based on preconceptions and poor statistics. Our doomsday
conceptions of the environment are not correct. He stressed that he
only used official statistics, which everyone has access to and can
use to check his claims. I was provoked. I'm an old left-wing
Greenpeace member and had for a long time been concerned about
environmental questions..."
The Utter
Pointlessness of Recycling
"Recycling is a total waste of
life."
"'I'm not against recycling...' we
begin by saying. But then comes the massive 'but...'
"Why are so scared to admit it?
Because, a bit like equality, communism and multiculturalism,
recycling sounds like it really ought to work if only we all close
our eyes and clench our tiny fists and wish hard enough. Being
against recycling is like refusing to say 'I believe in fairies' in
that audience-participation moment when you go to see Peter Pan.
Do you really want to be the one responsible for the death of
Tinkerbell?
"Well, killing Tinkerbell may be a
bit of tragic collateral damage we're going to have to accept on
this one. Here's the truth: recycling is just a ritual from of
self-mortification designed to make bien-pensant guilt-trippers feel
less bad about living in a capitalist system of abundance.
"Oh sure, there are a few things that
are worth reclaiming from the trash and using again - steel,
aluminium, copper, whatever - but the point about any efficient
capitalist system is that that stuff gets taken care of anyway.
You've seen the machine in Toy Story 3 that strips all the
trash into its constituent parts, valuable metals from worthless
plastic dinosaurs, glass from cowboy rag dolls. Well, since the
movie came out, those machines have got even better. Why have they
got better? Because where there's muck there's brass. That is, scrap
metal has a value. Therefore, to whoever is prepared to invest in
the capital outlay to harvest those riches most efficiently go the
spoils.
"But, of course, that solution is way
too sensible and effective and free market for the greenies who
(thanks to their Agenda-21-style infiltration of local government)
now make the rules for our waste disposal industry. Instead of
letting capitalism take care of the problem, they've gone for
something more akin to Maoism. Just as all Chinese were expected to
give freely of their time to eradicate their daily quota of flies,
rats, bourgeois capitalist running dog lackeys or whatever, so today
in the supposedly free West we are expected to make daily obeisance
to the green recycling god.
"We are now expected to sort our
rubbish into as many as nine different colour-coded bins and bags.
The system is not optional. If we refuse to play the game - or
innocently forget to put the right colour-coded bin out on the right
day or accidentally mix our rubbish - we are liable to a hefty fine
or are denied our waste collection service (and never mind the fact
that we've already paid for the service with our council taxes).
"Does the world see any significant
environmental benefit from this slave labour? Hardly. Much of that
painstakingly recycled waste ends up being shipped to the Far East,
there to be re-sifted by hand by the much cheaper local labour or to
end up where it should have gone in the first place - in landfill.
Research from the US suggests that it
takes a typical household about forty-five minutes per week to
recycle its rubbish. That works out, in the UK, at round about 18.2
million man hours expended every week dividing green glass from
brown glass from cardboard from aluminium from paper from plastic -
to no practical purpose whatsoever.
"Our precious time, it would seem, is
the one ultimate scarce, non-renewable resource those greenies have
no concern about squandering"
[James Delingpole, The Little
Green Book of Eco-Fascism, pp.245-246].
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