True environmentalists are a noble breed, dedicated to minimizing their footprint on earth, and utilizing resources wisely. They are devotees of efficiency. Fake environmentalists have a tell, a burning hatred of various elements of society and a wish to destroy. Read on…
I would not say “noble,” I may grant “idealistic but tend to be misguided.”
I tend to belong to the really old school which would cut a bed sheet down the middle that is frayed, sew the nice edges together to reuse. (Of course no one now is that much of a conservationist!) When that middle gets frayed, it gets cut up into dish cloth. And when the dish cloth is too dirty to wash, it becomes a rag. And there is practically nothing left of the rag when you finally throw it away.
I see nothing wrong with using chipped cups or saucers. Just drink from the side that is not chipped. I see nothing wrong with an ink stain on a shirt if it is completely dry. The shirt still serves its purpose. I bet none of the woke feminists would suffer being called genteel, but they react no different from Victorian ladies in being aghast at being served a chipped cup or seeing a stain on a gentleman’s shirt. And I can’t use a chipped cup or wear a stained shirt outside because I would scandalize the genteel ladies, inclusive of Mrs. OldBruin.
I drive an eighteen year old car and use a ten year old computer laptop, because I keep them functional and I am used to them. I like old comfortable clothes. To me, a car gets me from here to there. It is not used to show off my wealth or sense of fashion. I frankly don’t care if a stranger sees me driving the car and thinks that’s all I can afford. And I also frankly don’t care if a stranger sees me driving the car and compliments me on being such an environmentalist.
I avidly dislike ostentatious environmentalism as I avidly dislike ostentatious almost anything else. But I think if everybody lived and thought like me we will wind up using a lot less of the resources. But I am not going to make a religion about it, and I don’t think anyone else, let alone everybody, should have to do what I do. I only say it to repudiate those who style themselves “environmentalists” and criticize me because I happen to think oil is abiogenic and plentiful, CO2 is good for the environment up to at least ten times the current concentration, “global temperature” however elusive is not going haywire, etc. etc. I bet for reasons absolutely my own my “carbon footprint” (which is a lie to begin with) okay my “CO2 footprint” is a heck less than most people’s, let alone the “environmentalists” who love to fly two hundred miles for a hamburger, or cruise up and down the Brazilian coast to watch world cup soccer, or congregate in hoity doity vacation spots with private jets to talk about saving the world. I say to them shut up already unless you can at least live like me.
Interesting take on Liz May (so said she), she has no formal environmental training, learned it all when she served on the Mulroney Government environmental (she was a lawyer) meetings…..The dog & pony presentations sure fool the truly mentally challenged… those that are looking for a life cause like Al Gore…
BTW: It was Liz May who screwed up the natural water flow in S/E Saskatchewan (PFRA Dams) & lead to the flooding in N Dakota Devils lake….The brilliant mind of a mental dwarf…
“And when the dish cloth is too dirty to wash, it becomes a rag.” Old Bruin
I was reminded after reading an Old-timers story that my family also had a Rag-Bag…. Those that lived through those times don’t want to go back, the biggest societal advancement (IMHO) was Plumbing (water) & Waste….The Environmental freaks have lessons to learn….Yep! save those plastic Straws
Hot and cold clean! running water, waste disposal (sink, flush toilet!), electricity, and gas, with all major appliances. To most of the world living in a house with them would be a fantasy come true.
I grew up in an upper middle class household in a third world city (Hong Kong in the 1950’s.) We had electricity and water from a single tap (which was a luxury). When I emigrated to the U.S. I discovered that even public housing had all those things I mentioned, and they call it a slum! Taking a hot water bath in a tub was sheer enjoyment.
Life has treated me well. I am very appreciative, and I don’t want to get to like material things too much. But I think it is crazy when electricity can be provided cheaply and the powers that be choose to use inefficient sources. When natural gas, which is the most efficient source of heating, is now prohibited to new buildings in many cities. When they talk about rationing water when the reservoirs and snow packs are full, and what they should do is save more water in the rainy years. I can afford the excessive charges, but a lot of people find it difficult. In a word, they want to impose the third world on us, and there is absolutely no reason for it, except for the predictions of totally fallacious models that have never matched reality.
I won’t call people who want to do that noble, whatever their intentions, and however misguided they are.
Also why talking about nuclear is forbidden, come to think of it.
And also because Scheer and his cru are gormless weenies.
Everything that can be said has been said. Now they need to starve and freeze.
The government “environmentalists” say … “give us your money or we’ll shoot this dog”.
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Oh … and if you don’t give us all your money, then you must HATE the planet
Which do environmentalists value more – saving the earth or enslaving humanity? It is never about leading austere lives themselves. It is about forcing others to do so.
Note something in this missive, it simply assumes that “carbon” is bad. Why? Carbon Dioxide, which is never named even though that is what they are talking about (why?) is plant food. These people simply believe in “climate change”, since when was belief part of science? So, is their belief that “carbon” is bad shown true by actual science?
When dong actual science, where you do not believe, but verify, the following is shown. The longwave radiation goes up, it is captured by the greenhouse gasses (*ahem* mostly water vapor), this warms the air around it. If “climate change” is true, it should warm the air 2.1 degrees Celsius. The observed warming is 0.7 Celsius, which means that there is not enough warming to hurt anything. That means that the idea has been falsified.
Therefore, the major premise of this article, that hate is shown since the “environmentalists” will not do what is necessary to stop the non existent “climate change” may be true, but the major proof it cites is backed by a scientifically falsified belief.
Remember that when you see other articles that simply assume, without proof, that “carbon” is bad.
Oh, and the reason you have not heard that “climate change” has been falsified is because that has been censored. It threatens government grants, and slows the government and false environmentalists ability to take control of literally everything everyone does everywhere. We HAVE to stop that fact that someone, somewhere, is doing something without my permission!
All environmentalists are FAKES. None of the science or data is on their side and NONE of them care that it isn’t on their side.
None of their “solutions” work and they all want to enlist Totalitarian government to slave everyone else to their non-solutions.
H.L. Mencken bookends the issue of false prophets of doom looking only after their profits:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.”
Show this to people who don’t understand why good government, a constitutional imperative, is antithetical to big government.
Statists, socialists, regressive progressives and watermelon wolves in political sheep’s clothing must destroy any notion of limiting their state, living in a fixed pie world where a tax cut automatically means a cut to some service elsewhere (or their political power).
They are just fine with an even sum game, but with a fixed pie that they take an ever bigger piece of the fruits of our labour.
The real carnage and danger to life, liberty and prosperity begins when that pie shrinks, but their share increases more and more.