The Environmental Multinationals have lost their Way.
By Viv Forbes, Chairman,
Many groups have much to
lose as the theory that humans are driving dangerous and accelerating global
warming is progressively exposed as science fiction.
Those in most danger are
the multinational environmental empires and the politicians who have supported
them.
Once upon a time the World
Wildlife Fund was mainly about saving wildlife – now its pre-occupation seems
to be how to destroy the coal industry in order to reduce emissions of carbon
dioxide. Carbon dioxide is the gas of life, and the additional carbon dioxide
is known to be fuelling the green revolution which has caused increased growth
of all green things. WWF is thus now anti-green.
Greenpeace also has
forgotten the green bit and is now more interested in saddling us with a tax on
carbon, the key element of all life.
And instead of working for
refugees, Oxfam was prominent among the dozens of “charities” acting more like
stop-work agitators at the climate grabfest in Warsaw. (Yes it was a grab-fest
– most of the attendees were there hoping to grab a big heap of cash from a few
western bunnies for “Climate Compensation”.)
And how do Friends of the
Earth and the Sierra Club accept the massive environmental destruction caused
by thousands of bird-killing bat-killing wind turbines with their spider-webs
of roads and transmission lines? The wind mania will collapse as soon as its
subsidies disappear. Who is then going to clean up their mess? Will we see volunteers
from FOE dismantling derelict windmills and rehabilitating their access tracks
and transmission lines and towers?
And why should these
economic vandals be assisted by tax concessions while they spend much of their
time and energy locking-the-gate on activities that could generate tax revenue
such as exploration, mining, grazing, land development, irrigation, fishing,
tourism and forestry? Green extremists have lost sight of their once-worthy
aims to now become forces of pointless obstruction and destruction of all human
activities.
And why should the CSIRO
be funded lavishly by tax payers while they waste billions trying to prop up
failing climate theories, models and scares?
The ice caps have not
melted, the oceans are not overheating, sea levels are just fluctuating, the
polar bears are thriving and the Sahara is regaining vegetation. It is foxes
and cats that are destroying native wildlife, not drilling for gas. And real
human pollution of the oceans, rivers and atmosphere gets little attention
while green dreamers in parliament are focussed on maintaining the carbon tax.
All manias unravel, and the
climate mania has started down this road. Already supporters are jumping ship
as the reaction accelerates.
Politicians too have played
a dangerous game with energy supplies.
The icy tentacles of yet
another cold winter are once again sneaking down from the ice-covered Arctic
and causing shivers on the northern plainsof Europe and America.
Sometime soon, on a still
winter night in Northern Europe, snow will drift down silently, covering the
German solar panels with a cold white blanket, and quietly surrounding the
motionless British wind turbines like skirmishers ahead of the invading
vandals. Green power will fail, the lights will flicker, the heaters will go
cold, and some people may start to recognise that reliable heat, light and
power from coal, oil, gas and nuclear is humanity’s greatest asset after all.
Next morning, the BBC will
report the record high temperature reached at Marble Bar in summertime
Australia.
But later in the day,
awkward questions will be asked in Parliament.
And, at the next election,
heads will roll.
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