by James Delingpole
Why is it that so many prominent environmental campaigners turn out to be such scumbags, sleazebags, hypocrites or frauds?
The latest to be exposed is, of course, New York’s ex-Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
When Schneiderman wasn’t busy – allegedly – “choking, beating and threatening” women, he was busy bullying the people he calls “climate deniers”.
Here he is on a video in 2014 declaring that “climate deniers have no place in public life.”
He was also one of the lead instigators of a scheme by liberal Attorneys General to use lawfare to harass fossil fuel companies such as Peabody Energy and Exxon Mobil. In 2016, he hosted 16 fellow Democrat AGs and former Vice President Al Gore to launch a coalition called AGs United for Clean Power.
“With gridlock and dysfunction gripping Washington, it is up to the states to lead on the generation-defining issue of climate change. We stand ready to defend the next president’s climate change agenda, and vow to fight any efforts to roll-back the meaningful progress we’ve made over the past eight years,” said Attorney General Schneiderman. “Our offices are seriously examining the potential of working together on high-impact, state-level initiatives, such as investigations into whether fossil fuel companies have misled investors about how climate change impacts their investments and business decisions.”
My, how the wheel of fortune has turned since!
Schneiderman’s departure from the scene represents a major blow for the Climate Industrial Complex and its efforts to undermine the Trump administration’s environmental and energy reforms. The jubilation among skeptics has been unconfined, as E & E News reports:
“A lot of climate skeptics are smiling at his downfall because he was an out-of-control, really wacky guy who held a lot of power,” said Marc Morano, who runs the blog Climate Depot.
Morano and his allies have been especially disdainful of the legal attempts Schneiderman led to hold Exxon Mobil Corp. and other oil companies accountable for global warming, calling him “the ultimate shakedown artist.”
“Let’s take a moment to pause and take a look at the strategy of blaming energy companies for bad weather,” Morano said. He added that Schneiderman’s resignation and quick disappearance from the public scene will force climate activists to reconsider their approach.
“He was the lightning rod,” he said. “He was the instigator. It definitely limits the movement when you take out the lead guy.”
Yup. But we still haven’t answered the question: why is it that so many prominent environmental campaigners turn out to be such reptiles?
Let me give you a few more examples:
Al Gore and the Portland massage therapist (one of several victims, allegedly, of his tentacular groping…)
Rajendra Pachauri, former head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, exposed as a serial sex pest.
David Suzuki – Canada’s most feted eco-campaigner who just happens to be a dick who is extremely rude and – see also Gore – an appalling hypocrite:
Suzuki, who did not return calls to respond, spends a lot of time hectoring others about over-population (but he has five children), reducing our carbon footprint (he has a jet-set lifestyle of the rich and famous), living smaller (he owns four houses in B.C. and an apartment in Port Douglas, Australia) and much else besides.
‘Suzuki is fond of flying all over the planet to deliver his $30,000 to $50,000 speeches, while hypocritically imploring others to stay close to home.’
Michael Mann – creator of that discredited artifact the Hockey Stick – who apart from being a hypersensitive and hyper-litigious bully likes to claim, falsely, that he won the Nobel Prize.
etc.
This is only a hypothesis – though it’s a lot more plausible, I think, than man-made global warming theory – but I think it might have to do with the well-observed phenomenon that unpleasant people are attracted to environmental causes in order to greenwash their image.
They’re a bit like sinners who in the past tried to expunge themselves of their earthly vices by engaging in particularly bracing acts of religious devotion.
Championing green causes is the modern equivalent of donning a hair shirt, or going on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, or renouncing society altogether and living on top of a rock in the desert.
The difference is, of course, that there is no personal cost, no suffering involved. You just parade all your green virtue and, hey presto, it magicks away all your vices without any of the trouble of forcing yourself to become a better person.
This isn’t just true of green virtue-signaling, by the way. It’s true of people who espouse liberal politics generally.
Greens and liberals are always looking for dirt in the lives of leading conservatives. The psychological term for this is “Projection.”
Full story at Breitbart
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Wow, I was almost clever there.
Power goes to some men’s heads, to other men’s balls and for still other men, both.
Still rebuilding my favorites list after my computer puked.
Gonna have to find Delingpole.
It’s quite straightforward really.
It’s not just with environmentalists.The root reason is because overly strong views usually equates to mental instability.
Just look at all the environmentalists, feminists, men’s rights, animals rights, social justice warriors, klu klux clan, black lives matter, etc etc etc etc. You would find very few, if any, that have a rational bone in their body.
If someone isn’t rational then don’t expect fair play.
The good thing is another freak down.
100 million more to go.
And stop voting for these people you people. Start voting for people with a brain rather than the (fake) moral crusaders.
“When Schneiderman wasn’t busy – allegedly – “choking, beating and threatening” women, …”
I clicked on the link and learned he threatened to kill one of his abuse victims if she left him! I think this guy would pop out of an FBI profilers report as a potential developing “serial type”. I have tried to temper thoughts similar to those of Delingpole about caracature “liberal-progressive warriors” and their over the top goodly quests. I’ve used the term ugly but I see that was exercising great restraint.
I think it’s a reasonable proposition that this noble cause preoccupation is a pathological symptom of deeply flawed character traits. Probably a quick end to global warming and ‘companion’ abuses would be if journalistic probing of the main characters was done. It would definitely turn up darkly unsavory secrets of many of these paragons of virtue. Virtue signalling itself is a protesteth-too-much sleight of hand to hide the opposite of vitue, especially when the person doing it is a hypocrite exempting himself from his prescriptions for everyone else.
Schneiderman’s quick exit suggests some terrible stuff. Liberal ‘strategists’ are rueing the day they started advertising for women to come forward re Trump. A smarter, more introspective Liberal (if that’s not an oxymoron) would have foreseen that their ‘entitled’ brethern would most likely be the worst hit by such a strategy. Soon the Stormy Danielses will be bringing down droves of the virtuous left if things go true to form.
SJWs always project. Since so many of them are vile scumbags, they assume the right must be the same. Clinton colluded with the Russians, therefore Trump must have too. Left-wing politicians abuse women (or kill them, in Ted Kennedy’s case), therefore Trump must do too.
I know the adage of calling a spade a spade, and I agree with James that these are not upstanding people. However, must we lower ourselves and wrestle in the mud with these folks. Other than preaching to our choir, is anything actually being accomplished?
I smoke. I told my kids not to start smoking. Does that make me a hypocrite? Only if I pretended I don’t smoke.
Attorney General Schneiderman pretended he was against “stroking” women yet ….
hyp·o·crite
[ hip- uh-krit]
NOUN
1.
a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
2.
a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
OOPS!
I forgot the point of my reply.
If pointing out such opens the eyes of some of the sheep so they can pull themselves out of the “mud”, then; yes, something has been accomplished.
We gotta go where the fight is.
The mud and the blood and the beer.
My name is Sue!!!
Well, we can try to bring attention to their faults – I’m personally thinking the dogs of the press will go for the juggler, especially when it is tangential to the “me too” movement. Calling enemies names or pointing out their personal faults makes us look cheap and petty. Rather we should stay the course and discuss climate, working on showing our credibility.
Rolling in the mud with pigs makes us dirty, and the pigs enjoy it.
I believe we’re seeing Sociopaths grabbing a free ride
to power and entertaining themselves with a MSM
that enables them to easily manipulate and destroy whatever and whoever they choose. That’s a Sociopath’s heaven. Global warming/envirowackism as popularized by the watermelon left is just their chosen disease vector of the moment. When something better (worse for us) comes along they will jump on that new flavor of poison without regret or a backwards glance.
Suzuki vs. Tyson in battle of the finger
http://politicalblindspot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/tumblr_m72ct3TAYj1rnxsmao1_1280.jpg
In Trump’s defense, I must say that not being Hilary is a virtue.
Liberal Privilege
Why is it that so many rabid, ratbag right-wing blogger toadies turn out to be such scumbags, sleazebags, hypocrites or frauds?
Dellingpole is another.
I see that zazove is engaging in his favorite recreational drug again.
Really unpleasant people see a gap in the market and will say ANYTHING as long as there is a great deal of MONEY to be made. That is all it boils down to. “follow the money” and all of us idiots keep paying up (via taxes) to keep these morons in the money. There should be an uprising to string them up on lamp posts !!
Eh, the hair shirt asceticism is a stretch. There are those in any population that are drawn to a rigorous lifestyle, audience or no. Certainly, there are those who tried it as a cover or scam, and some even succeeded for a while.
The actual religious equivalent to this greenwash strategy is pretty obvious: see Judas Iscariot. Social justice, hypocrisy, betrayal, he is the patron of the Socialist/Green/Etc. Movement.
My favorite part of the story: “We stand ready to defend the next president’s climate change agenda, and vow to fight any efforts to roll-back the meaningful progress we’ve made over the past eight years,” said Attorney General Schneiderman …”
That statement from 2016 presumed a President Hillary. Ha ha.
This has become a war of your scumbag is worse than mine. Straw dogs anyone? Fact is, I never watched the Donald’s idiot show, I was a state delegate for Cruz but now love the Donald for what he is doing, not so much for what he says. But the world is full of assholes, we all qualify at some point. It is also full of idiots for which designation we do not all qualify. His actions are in the right direction, in my nonidiot mind. And maybe it takes an asshole to get things done, particularly in DC. I do wish he’d get rid of the orange Frisbee hairdo, though, but what the hell.
I think it’s an age-old issue — power corrupts.
The list of these losers is starting to sound like a cast of action figures .
Let’s see who are the following ;
Mr . Pretend
Mr. Happy Ending
Mr. Perv
Mr . Hide Decline
Mr Salsa on the Side
Mr. Dress Up
Mr . Bossy Pants
Mr . Maggot Man
An industry that draws creeps like no other .
Mr. Mafia
http://kirbymtn.blogspot.com/2013/01/paul-gaynor-forgets-to-mention-mafia.html?m=1
I reject the premise.
It is hardly surprising that one can find examples of hypocrites — people who loudly espouse one position but whose personal actions don’t live up to it, but listing a few such examples is hardly proof of anything.
Short of a well-designed, scientific study (which this decidedly is not), this is nothing more than a few anecdotes masquerading as, well what?, some insightful truth?
Kudos to Bellman for getting it right (and probably a few others I missed).
We can do better.
No one mentioned the parallel with Antifa yet ?
If you find a street demo and there is an angry group of people, some armed with black masks, some with sticks, some with smoke bombs and all aimed at stopping some other groups march by shouting extremely HATEY things at people, and under UK NUJ journalism union rules it will not be reported…that will be Antifa
in the UK led by Brendan Coxes ironically named Hope not Hate.
ie they come up with an image of their political opponents as MONSTERS
and thus take that as LICENCE to behave like monsters themselves.
ie the characteristic PROJECTION behaviour.
Renewables bribery
https://www.google.com/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5722327/amp/Tory-donor-embroiled-43m-fraud-allegations-accused-bribing-Caribbean-politicians.html