Radical environmentalism can be a domineering ideology.
It can subdue every other interest, every other policy and issue to its ordained cause. Apocalyptic certitudes of extinction and planetary collapse explicitly and implicitly bestow absolutism on the cause. [bold, links added]
For some environmentalists, nothing is more important — not industry, not employment, not national security, and certainly not national economies.
Anything that “contributes to global warming” must yield to their first dogma — that if we do not obey their alarms and edicts, subscribe to their millenarian nightmares, we face nothing less than the end of things.
It is the green version of the Bible’s Revelations.
Radical environmentalists are imperious. You must “obey” their science. You must degrade your economy in the service of dystopian visions. You must dismantle the energy systems of the world, the 21st-century communications and commercial systems sustained by oil and gas.
The negative consequences which will ineluctably flow from this are unimportant, as to not submit to environmentalist scripture is to bring on the end of the world and the life upon it.
How relentlessly have you heard from every high bishop of the environmentalist creed that “the future of our planet is a stake?”
From Elizabeth May to the young Greta to the vapid Al Gore to the sublimely ridiculous John Kerry (who publicly worried that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could damage its “commitment” to reducing emissions), their voices are as one.
They are on a “mission,” which is nothing less than “saving the planet.” They have a “calling.”
The embrace of this ideology by governments, world leaders, the world’s press, and the rich and famous has been the great folly of our time.
It has led to great economic injury, instability, graft, and — in my view — the greatest infusion of pure propaganda over three decades that we have ever seen.
From schools to colleges, from great companies to national governments, the networks of television giants and an amoeba-like profusion of so-called non-governmental organizations, activist behemoths like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, and of course those humongous gatherings of the true believers, the annual festivals of the Conference of the Parties — from all of these the preachments have flowed, to the immense detriment of our well-being and future.
It is under this environmentalist banner, to bring this matter to particular illustration, that the continent of Europe tied its economies and energy to the ruler of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
The armies now invading Ukraine were financed by Russian oil. Germany built windmills so that Putin’s treasury could grow fat, and the dictator could pursue his cruel war.
The logic of “Greenism” led to the fallback to so-called renewables, and the predictable failure of the latter in the countries that closed energy plants, banned coal, closed pipelines, and fought against any other form of energy, leading inescapably to the acceleration in the price of oil and gas, and the necessity of buying from Russia, and feeding Russia’s economy.
All to the benefit of Vladimir Putin.
Our government and its environmentalist allies want to landlock Alberta’s energy.
Our eastern Canadian provinces and Quebec piously determined not to buy “the world’s dirtiest oil” from the companion province of Alberta in favor of importing from (among other countries) the dictatorship of Russia, thereby — however, the thought might offend, in the present moment — contributing to Putin’s bellicose ambitions.
Note this well. Of all the governments of the world who share the fierce and heedless ideology of global environmentalism, none has been on the knee more reverently, none — none — has advertised and self-praised its commitment to the fight against global warming than the hollow, immature, amateur assembly currently chasing the bank accounts of truckers, which we know as the Trudeau administration.
They must look on the murderous doings in Ukraine today — indirectly as it may be, and distant from their intent — as yet, something to which their blind and obsessed full embrace of a totalizing ideology, Greenism, has contributed.
Could they blush they would also note, far closer to home, they have built a division in our Confederation and fostered estrangement in the West.
Will the shock and horror of what is occurring in Ukraine wake up the environmentally “woke” governments of the world to their folly, and convince them to walk away from this dangerous delusion?
Read more at National Post
Greenism is a radical and dangerous new age Cult that calls for the Sacrifice of our Freedom,Independence and Liberty
The UN IPCC itself stated (6th Assessment report that the climate is a coupled non linear chaotic system, making long term forecasts impossible, so they must rely on models, a statement which invalidates their own long term apocalyptic messages. They also stated they were no longer an environmental organisation, but are about redistributing funding. So why should anybody take their ideas seriously? Maurice Strong IPCC founding member, himself said they hit on the idea of such things as global warming as a tool. To what?