Greens hate individual freedom and private property. They dream of a centralized, unelected global government, financed by taxes on developed nations and controlled by all the tentacles of the U.N.
No longer is real pollution of our environment the main Green concern. The key slogan of the Green religion is “sustainable development,” with them defining what is sustainable.
Greens hate miners. They use nationalized parks, heritage areas, flora and fauna reserves, green bans, and land rights to close as much land as possible to explorers and miners. Apparently, resources should be locked away for some lucky future generation. And if some persistent explorer manages to prove a mineral deposit, greens will then strangle it in the approval process, using “death by delay.”
Greens hate farmers with their plows, fertilizers, crops, and grazing animals. They want Aussie grazing land turned back to kangaroos. They plan to expel farmers and graziers from most land areas, with food produced in concentrated feedlots, factory farms, communal gardens, and hydroponics.
Greens hate professional fishermen with their nets, lines, and harpoons. Using the Great Barrier Reef as their poster child, they plan to control the seas using marine parks, fishing quotas, bans, and licenses, leaving us to get seafood from concentrated fish farms.
Greens hate foresters and grass-farmers. They want every tree protected, even woody weeds taking over ancient treeless grasslands. Red meat and forest timber are “unsustainable.” Apparently, they want us to live in houses made of recycled cardboard and plastic and eating fake steak and protein powder made from methane generated from rubbish dumps.
Greens despise the suburbs with their SUVs, lawns, pools, manicured parks, ponies, and golf courses. They prefer concentrated accommodation with people stacked and packed in high-rise cubic apartments, with state-controlled kindergartens in the basement and with ring-roads of electric trams and driverless cars connecting apartments, schools, offices, and shops.
Greens hate reliable grid power from coal, nuclear, oil, gas, and hydro generators. Their “sustainable” option is part-time power from wind and solar with the inevitable blackouts and shortages needing more rules and rationing.
Greens lead the war on fracking and pipelines. The victims are energy-consumers. The beneficiaries are Russian gas and Middle East oil.
Greens think it is “sustainable” to uglify scenic hills with whining wind towers, power poles, transmission lines, and access roads, and to clutter pleasant estuaries and shallow seas with more bird-slicing turbines. They think it is “sustainable” to keep smothering sunny flatlands under solar panels and filling the suburbs with extra power lines and batteries of toxic metals.
Greens think it is “sustainable” to clear forests for biomass to feed large wood-fired power stations, or for establishing biofuel plantations. They think it is “sustainable” to keep converting croplands from producing food for humans to producing ethanol for cars.
Greens hate free markets, where prices are used to signal changing supply and demand. There is no room for luxuries or frills in their “sustainable” world. They want to limit demand by imposing rationing on us wastrels – carbon ration cards, electricity-rationing meters, water-rationing, meat-free days, diet cops, and bans on fast food and fizzy drinks.
They also favor compulsory recycling of everything, no matter what the process costs in energy or resources. Surveillance cameras will keep watch on our “wasteful” habits.
None of this vast green religious agenda is compatible with individual freedom, constitutional rights, or private property.
The Despotic Green New World is coming. Climate alarm is the stalking horse, “sustainable development” is the war cry, and global government is the goal.
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Many enviromental actvists are total hypotcrites we used to have one of these enviromentalists groups in our agriculteral community they were always filing idiotic lawsuits against logging but the final straw came in 2001 just a few months before Sept 11th when they cut off the water to the Klamath Basin Farmers over some dumb fish well this group had a HQ made from Wood with a dumb fish shaped sign made from Wood their leader lived in a Log Home and had a second home with a Wood Burning Water Heater then these Al Bore and Leonardo DiCaprio as well as Robert Kennedy Jr all Hypotcrits
Socialism always devolves into uncontrolled bureaucracy, which always devolves into despotism and tyranny. In some countries it just takes a little longer.
Look around and see if this isn’t true: All nations have agreed to have some base level of a social safety net that most reasonable people can support. However, rarely is the ink on those laws dry before the left claims that if a little is good, then isn’t a bunch more even better? …And so is paved the roadway to the abyss.
I think that it’s almost axiomatic that the extent to which nations choose to expand socialism beyond a basic safety net, matches the extent to which they have limited their economic and social success. The trouble is with the innate need for socialistic programs to expand and limit true human potential.
A similar argument can be made comparing the extent to which countries offer full rights and freedoms to women. Nations that regard women as little more that property can at best achieve only 50% of their true potential.
Long live liberty and freedom.
I agree. Activists continually redraw the poverty line so that there’s always more victims. Truth be told, the poverty line is drawn the same way annual global average temperature charts are drawn.
Funding [subsidising] renewables makes rich nations poorer and choosing renewables bleeds valuable capital from the coffers of already poor nations.
It takes 22,116 MW of the very latest offshore wind turbine technology to sputter out as much grid-degrading electricity as the 24/7 electricity generated by 3,200 MW Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant.
The capital cost for this amount of offshore wind is £41,904 million. Hinkley’s capital cost is £18,000 million.
The O & M costs for offshore wind is £29,928 million. O & M costs for Hinkley’s is £6,437 million.
The fuel costs for offshore wind is 0 [zero]. Hinkley’s is £2,302 million
The decommissioning costs for offshore wind is £4,424 million. Hinkley’s is £7,300 million.
Offshore wind costs: £76,256 million. Hinkley’s costs: £34,039 million.
How do all of these extra costs for offshore wind accrue?
A vast amount of wasted resources – metals; concrete; plastics.
A vast amount of wasted energy – in processing and transporting materials and labour.
A vast amount of wasted labour – the ‘green-jobs’ delusion.
Socialists and Greens don’t give a toss about cost effectiveness.
Some of these Deep Ecologists beleive in this Gaia poppycock written by James Lovelock many think the idea that we belong to the earth and that were all the children of the Earth Mother just like to pagans who sacrificed many to their deities they worship