The electoral troubles of the green bullies
Eric Worrall writes:
Anyone following the recent G20 will be aware that skeptical politicians, such as Australia’s Tony Abbott and Canada’s Steve Harper, have been subject to intense public pressure from prominent greens like President Obama, to change their public position on climate change. What is less apparent is that all of the most prominent climate bullies appear to be on the brink of losing power, due to a voter backlash back home, against their extreme green policies, and other policy failures.
President Hollande, the greenest of the EU politicians, is plumbing record levels of unpopularity in France;
http://rt.com/news/189444-france-hollande-popularity-low/
Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain just got nailed twice (second time in the last few days) by the upstart United Kingdom Independence Party, in high profile by-elections. As an indication of UKIP’s position on climate change, a few years ago, UKIP’s climate spokesman was Lord Monckton.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2842718/Mark-Reckless-wins-Rochester-election-Ukip.html
Chancellor Merkel of Germany is facing electoral difficulties on the home front, losing ground to euro skeptics (it is not clear if the challengers are climate skeptics, but the challengers are strongly pro business, anti EU);
We all know what happened to Obama – how he and his climate policies were soundly rejected in the US midterm elections.
The question – could here and now really be the last show of strength by green politicians, before voters back home sweep them and their policies into the dustbin of history? Will green politics soon be a thing of the past?
Klem said:
The worst part about all of this is that I’ll bet most of the people who post on this site were once environmentalists themselves many years ago.
I am sure Klem is right. In fact I still regard myself as an environmentalist, but one who is a realist. Many “green” technologies are capable of damaging the environment, e.g. dams for hydro-power. Hydro-electric power certainly has its place but nobody would want every beautiful river to be dammed, or damned for that matter!
If wind turbines can produce electricity at a price that is reasonably competitive with electricity from other sources and if there is plenty of back up power available, and if the turbines don’t spoil beautiful views, and if few birds are killed by them, then, as they don’t cause pollution it would be worth building wind turbines, but how many cases are there where all these criteria can be satisfied.
Greens need to grow up.
Green politics will never be a thing of the past, and suggesting so reflects a misunderstanding of the Green movement. They are not about climate change, or for that matter, the environment. They are about centralized control (but only if like-minded politicians are in control) and climate change is only the most recent flavor of the moment for the Greens. Once the vast majority (not just the majority) of the public have fully seen through the climate change scam the Greens will simply move on to another cause and there will be plenty of moronic dupes as well as inexperienced and overly emotional youth who will be sucked in.
Stop dreaming. And stop letting socialists control the education process and the new process. It’s all about informed choices.
“President Hollande, the greenest of the EU politicians”
Jeez, how stupid, how ignorant can you get? I imagine that this was supposed to read “…of the EU heads of state”.
Be reassured: Hollande has not a shred of greenery in him. He is carrying on with nukes as if nothing has happened, soldiering on with the calamitous EPR project and ignoring renewables.
And to even suggest that Camoron is any way connected with green policies… words fail me.
Unfortunately, leftist tropes, if bad enough, never die.
“Global Warming” works in mysterious ways.