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August 7, 2008
Trendoids Begin to Move on From Enviromoonbattery
Enviromoonbats have exactly one thing going for them. Their antihuman ideology is very trendy, which guarantees the support of our shallow media, entertainment, and political establishments. Fortunately, fashion is a flower that doesn't bloom for very long. Alice Thompson reports that being green isn't cool anymore:
Julie Burchill can't stand them. According to her new book, Not in my Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy, she thinks all environmentalists are po-faced, unsexy, public school alumni who drivel on about the end of the world because they don't want the working classes to have any fun, go on foreign holidays or buy cheap clothes.
Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair, agrees. In an interview with Rachel Sylvester and me, he told us that the "nutbag ecologists" are the overindulged rich who have nothing better to do with their lives than talk about hot air and beans.
You can fool some of the people some of the time, but…
People have become wary of environmental causes that can turn out to do more harm than good. They don't want wind turbines marching across Britain's moors when nuclear power stations can do more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They worry that washing and bleaching all those non-disposable nappies may be damaging the ozone layer, that the massive incentives for biofuels have distorted the world food market, and that green taxes are actually stealth taxes.
It isn't just that the green movement is as phony as Obama's face on a $3 bill, from the Goracle on down. Environmentalism is a frivolous indulgence that people can't afford in lean economic times:
According to Andrew Cooper, director of the research company, Populus: "There is a direct correlation between how people perceive the economy and the importance they place on the environment. When times are tough people resent paying more to salve their conscience."
They might even come to question whether they have anything to feel guilty about in the first place. Next they'll be questioning the power-mad bureaucrats and greedy profiteers who demand they feel guilty when they've done nothing wrong.
Then will come the backlash. Dupes who fell for the global warming hoax are going to be in for more ridicule than white leisure suits after disco crashed.
On a tip from mega.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 7, 2008 8:35 AM
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Mr Osborne, in a speech last month, admitted: “When people are feeling the pinch, we need to make it pay to go green. Instead of being fined for not recycling, households should be paid for recycling.”
If these idiots understand even basic economics, they would know that if an activity makes economic sense, there is no need for the government to pay people to do it.
People are saving money by growing their own potatoes and carrots. They are turning off their central heating for a few more months of the year and ditching their second car rather than buying an electric runaround. And instead of carbon-offsetting their holidays, they are simply going on fewer of them.
Energy is the life-blood of our economy. The left wants us in a permanent state of severe anemia.
Posted by: V the K at August 7, 2008 8:57 AM
there's some spot-on comments following that article, too. Fine examples of British common-sense emerging from under the smothering tarp of moonbattery. For instance:
People preaching about carbon footprints, plastic bags, organic free range chickens, and other green nonsense - especially coming from those who drove their precious darlings 100 yards to school in a huge 4x4 - now seems an absurd relic of a smug, overly-affluent, self-indulgent age. Good riddance.
As with so many other issues which have a 'worthy' core, environmentalism has been hijacked by the usual sanctimonious middle class meddlers who seem to spend their entire existence 'protesting' against some imagined malignant 'oppressor', thus alienating the majority striving to achieve a balance.
Posted by: mega at August 7, 2008 8:59 AM
The scales are beginning to fall off of some people's eyes, but is it happening to enough people, and is it happening soon enough?
Posted by: Lyle at August 7, 2008 8:59 AM
OT: This is rich. For ambulance-chasing lawyers.
Posted by: Lyle at August 7, 2008 9:02 AM
Energy is the life-blood of our economy. The left wants us in a permanent state of severe anemia.
Posted by: V the K at August 7, 2008 8:57 AM
Mucho correcto. Rush nailed this on the head. He says the left is opposed to energy because it doesn't control it. Specifically oil. The same with corporations of pretty much every stripe. The left can't control them, they can only try hamstring them with endless taxes and regulations, even then they can only make a dent. So, they demonize them - they're destroying the environment, they're exploiting workers, they're taking huge profits.. Better get the all-wise, all-knowing government into a bigger role post haste.
Rushbo made another good point: The left don't want Americans comfortable or secure until after November - hence Pelosi shutting off the lights in congress without an energy bill resolved. They want Americans uncomfortable, with high gas prices and nothing being done about it, and blaming Bush and the Republicans for it.
Posted by: mandible claw at August 7, 2008 9:26 PM
