I wonder if the Hitchcock estate and/or the current copyright holder might want a piece of this action? The whole green movement has gone occupy crazy lately, which I suppose is a reflection of the failure of the movement as they write “Modern environmentalism has failed”. So it seems the strategy now is “if you can’t beat ’em, sit on them until they are annoyed enough to do something about it”.
This was on local über green activist Dr. Mark Stemen’s Facebook page.
Yeah, that looks attractive, that’ll pack ’em in. Color optional I suppose.
But it does give a view on the mindset. Like the last dark poster with the mask for the parking garage protest, these misguided kids think these sorts of images are attractive advertising. Maybe for Goths and Alfred Hitchcock fans, though I doubt the Hitchcock fans would stay long.
They have a website: http://deepgreenresistance.org/ where they claim the goal is to basically shut down modern industrial society:
The strategy of Deep Green Resistance starts by acknowledging the dire circumstances that industrial civilization has created for life on this planet. And that these circumstances should be met with solutions that match the scale of the problems.
This is a vast undertaking but it needs to be said: it can be done. Industrial civilization can be stopped.
And as I read more, I find their view on climate:
Furthermore, as intense climate change takes over, ecological remediation through perennial polycultures and forest replanting will become impossible. The heat and drought will turn forests into net carbon emitters, as northern forests die from heat, pests, and disease, and then burn in continent-wide fires that will make early twenty-first century conflagrations look minor.5 Even intact pastures won’t survive the temperature extremes as carbon is literally baked out of remaining agricultural soils.
Resource wars between nuclear states will break out. War between the US and Russia is less likely than it was in the Cold War, but ascending superpowers like China will want their piece of the global resource pie. Nuclear powers such as India and Pakistan will be densely populated and ecologically precarious; climate change will dry up major rivers previously fed by melting glaciers, and hundreds of millions of people in South Asia will live bare meters above sea level. With few resources to equip and field a mechanized army or air force, nuclear strikes will seem an increasingly effective action for desperate states.
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But if a runaway greenhouse effect could be avoided, many areas could be able to recover rapidly. A return to perennial polycultures, implemented by autonomous communities, could help reverse the greenhouse effect. The oceans would look better quickly, aided by a reduction in industrial fishing and the end of the synthetic fertilizer runoff that creates so many dead zones now.
I think they’ve been occupying a bong too long.
Goals
The ultimate goal of the primary resistance movement in this scenario is simply a living planet—a planet not just living, but in recovery, growing more alive and more diverse year after year. A planet on which humans live in equitable and sustainable communities without exploiting the planet or each other.
Given our current state of emergency, this translates into a more immediate goal, which is at the heart of this movement’s grand strategy:
Goal 1: To disrupt and dismantle industrial civilization; to thereby remove the ability of the powerful to exploit the marginalized and destroy the planet.
This movement’s second goal both depends on and assists the first:
Goal 2: To defend and rebuild just, sustainable, and autonomous human communities, and, as part of that, to assist in the recovery of the land.
To accomplish these goals requires several broad strategies involving large numbers of people in many different organizations, both aboveground and underground. The primary strategies needed in this theoretical scenario include the following:
Strategy A: Engage in direct militant actions against industrial infrastructure, especially energy infrastructure.
Strategy B: Aid and participate in ongoing social and ecological justice struggles; promote equality and undermine exploitation by those in power.
Strategy C: Defend the land and prevent the expansion of industrial logging, mining, construction, and so on, such that more intact land and species will remain when civilization does collapse.
Strategy D: Build and mobilize resistance organizations that will support the above activities, including decentralized training, recruitment, logistical support, and so on.
Strategy E: Rebuild a sustainable subsistence base for human societies (including perennial polycultures for food) and localized, democratic communities that uphold human rights.
It is sad these folks have become so brainwashed that they think the planet is dying and the only choice left is some sort of organized resistance. They have apparently just dismissed all of the good things that the ecological movement has produced, such as improving our air and water since the 60’s as if it never happened.
In the meantime, our own local “Occupy Chico” is having a “huge” impact.
This whole “occupy” thing is just a blip, and because it has no focus, nobody really pays much attention to it. When the next scheduled event comes up in city plaza, they’ll be asked to move, and they probably won’t, and then we’ll have the usual downward spiral for these sorts of things where the end game is “occupy jail”.
wayne says:
October 13, 2011 at 3:16 am
Socialist revolution – usually undertaken by a bunch of people who wring their hands at the plight of the poor bugger walking behind a water-buffalo, ploughing a paddy field.
They bring about their revolution, like as not, taking up priviliged postions in the new regime, and feel all so much better about themselves.
And the rice farmer? Well, he’s still there, watching his buffalo defacate in front of him. Nothing has changed, except the people at the top. And why would it? The rice still needs to be produced.
The warmists, greenists, anti-capitalists etc all have so much to rant about, but I guarantee you they won’t do the one thing that’s necessary to bring about their agendas. Stop breeding….
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Actually, I think breeding is necessary for life to continue. But, profligate consumption could be curtailed with little harm to the poor, and a reduction of excess profits for the “rich”.
The “stop breeding” message is a Club of Rome initiative to concentrate wealth.
It is too late. They are already recruiting the retired.
http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/manifesto-pensioners
Let us open communes!
We don’ need no ed ju cay shun
Da da dada da da dada……..
Teachah!
Leave them kids alone!
Two cavemen sitting in a cave (on Wall Street, I guess):
“Something’s just not right-our air is clean, our water is pure, we all get plently of exercise, everything we eat is organic and free-range, and yet nobody lives past thirty.”
I think this is what those “occupiers” want.
Even Reuters is now openly stating that the Vancouver group that started it all was paid by Soros…
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/whos-behind-wall-st-protests-110834998.html
I have bad news for them. China is very peacfully taking it’s share of the global resources pie right now. There’s no “will” about it. It’s time to build the northern gateway pipeline
The rich can hire others to carry their stuff. The poor must carry their own stuff, if indeed they have any, and may sometimes get an ill-paying job carrying a little of a rich man’s stuff. Ah stuff, it makes the world go round; along with a little food and water and…
One of the biggest environmental problems is the abject mess these groups leave when they occupy anything. Compare that with the clean environment left by Tea Party gatherings and you have an obvious indication which group really cares about their environment. These sit-down chill-out people are clueless–they are useless tools for the next fad-filling waste of resources and time. Sad they can’t see that.
The Occupiers are classic useful idiots, serving the ends of Wall Street perfectly. They are firmly in favor of the Carbon Cult, which is the Wall Street Mafia’s best hope for future criminal growth.
More broadly, they’re making anti-banker sentiment look dirty and juvenile, which is exactly what the bankers want.
Sure thing: there’s some Big Hedge money quietly pushing the Occupiers.
ferd berple says:
October 13, 2011 at 7:18 am
While it is true that the system is breaking down through over-leveraging, it is also true that shutting it down won’t fix it.
I’ve seen these demands before, Life of Brian where the PFJ demand that the roman empire be dismantled in three days or they’ll chop bits off Ceasar’s wife untill the Romans agree to their demands. Love that bit.
They are only against big money that doesn’t support progressive causes. Are they protesting George Soros and his various storefront groups? Protesting the undue influence of public employees unions and their incestuous relationship certain politicians?
But they are in favor of certain companies and industries getting special tax breaks, subsidies and bailouts — but only the ones they like. Most seem to be in favor of personal bailouts. They’re as upset that they didn’t bet a bailout as they are upset that the banks did. And they aren’t concerned at all about how government policy setup the whole mess in the first place.
This is just a diversion to grab attention and make the nutters look more reasonable. It is old school revolutionary stuff. Ultimately and eventually, all extremists are facists.
Advocating Violent Overthrow of the “established order” is considered in most societies, “TREASON”.
Since this is advocating violent overthrow of “established order” globally, consider this is UNIVERSAL TREASON.
There has been a “traditional response” to this. It involves using a substance well known to these guys, HEMP. (But not smoking it, you can hang your hat …and other things, on that.)
The protesters look pretty well dressed with “label” outfits. I expected straw and leaves for the greens.
They have come to our attention in Canada:
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/search/deep%20green/environmentalists/1105972562001#1103218454001
Brian Lilley interviewed Aric McBay on Sun News…
And a follow up on the Deep Green Interview:
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/search/deep%20green/environmentalists/1105972562001#1105913996001
Again Brian Lilley on Sun News.
Anthony, those aren’t birds, they’re Tiljander bats.
“Dr. Mark Stemen”
Dr? Of what? From where? I’d guess he’s a product of the pseudoscience of Conservation Biology, the ‘science’ that is even WORSE than AGW Climastrology.
This ‘goal’ is classic example of the ‘Dr’s’ fairy tale mindset and complete ignorance: “A planet on which humans live in equitable and sustainable communities without exploiting the planet or each other.”
Yes. To be unlike any other living species on the planet.
“That is what I saw. Maybe you will see something different in your area if you go and look for yourself. When you see the mainstream media portraying these folks as simple whack jobs, ask yourself, “Are these the same people who tell me the Earth has a fever? Can I trust them?””
Thanks for the golden invitation. No thanks. They are wack jobs and I’m not interested in taking part in their 15 minutes of fame.
From Lee Harris’s Al Qaeda’s Fantasy Ideology:
OWS is a tribal ritual for this generation of Leftists, where they get to affirm their fantasy identity as heroic revolutionaries. Little wonder that the leftists of the environmental stripe are envious, and want to hold their own pageant. Unfortunately for the masterminds and organizers, leftists have been too narcissistic for the last couple of generations to actually try and carry out revolution, that would be too unpleasant, not to mention too dangerous.
Jeremy, polyculture = multiple crops grown togethe; Perennial Crop = An agricultural commodity that is produced from the same root structure for two or more years..
Most crops are currently annuals, they have to be replanted every season. Perennials wouldn’t have to be replanted for years, the consequent larger root structure would make better use of soil moisture, etc. Some of the environmentalists are anti-agriculture too, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Research is being done on perennial crops, but they’re not ready for mass conversion of agriculture yet. Typically, the enviros are pushing a solution that’s unripe, yet.
Goal 1: To disrupt and dismantle industrial civilization; to thereby remove the ability of the powerful to exploit the marginalized and destroy the planet.
….and consequently starve a billion or two people to death.
Two words: “Haber process”
kids grow up to be exactly what they learned to be.
who taught those children?
who paid for teaching them what they were taught?
blame the parents, those perpetual blame-shifters and avoiders of responsibility.
‘why should i teach my children when the government does it for me?’
parents defaulted on teaching their children because they, themselves, were ignorant of fundamental laws of nature.
it’s not ordinary birds, mom and dad – it’s your chickens coming home.
you asked for it, you paid for it – how dare you complain now.
those apples fell right under the tree they grew on. they are no different than their parents. they learned their lessons well.
More Soylent Green! says:
October 13, 2011 at 8:43 am
They are only against big money that doesn’t support progressive causes. Are they protesting George Soros and his various storefront groups? Protesting the undue influence of public employees unions and their incestuous relationship certain politicians?
Did George Soros lose billions and get bailed out by the tax-payer?
Most seem to be in favor of personal bailouts. They’re as upset that they didn’t bet a bailout as they are upset that the banks did. And they aren’t concerned at all about how government policy setup the whole mess in the first place.
During the current recession there are good economic arguments for tax reductions to the lower paid because those with low incomes are more likely to spend any extra money they get. In contrast quantitative easing has had disappointing results because the money has gone into banks which have hoarded it – apart from the money that they are paying in bonuses to the sort of people who bear a heavy responsibility for the crisis in the first place.
You are right, however, to remind people that government policy was also to blame for the crisis.
Roy
I think we are witnessing the manifestation of the “me” generation; and they don’t want to work! I happened to view the GA in Dallas, Tx today, the group ‘occupying’ Pioneer Park in downtown Dallas and there was a LONG discussion about how to ‘wake people up respectfully’. I kid you not (as some have stayed up all night ostensibly ‘working’ as claimed by a few) … additionally, just today, a vote was taking on ‘what we should be doing’ beside occupying the park and standing by the street holding signs … recommended was one ‘protest march’ a day past city hall and the ‘Federal Reserve’ to get more recognition. On a camera pan of the GA, I counted 26 ppl, with two additional attendees from the lawyers guild making 30 total.
This might also be termed the “Happy Meal” generation, having now come of age in the years since H-M’s were introduced by McDs (and H-M toys being introduced circa 1995).
And humility, if I may venture an assertion, is a foreign concept to (many of) them as well; a case could be made on the basis of the use of social-media (twitter, facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Livestream, etc), the stage upon which many now live …
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Reference:
“Happy Meal” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Meal
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