Greenpeace spoof
"How many trees died in vain?" is a half-joke, half-cliche which always makes me grit my teeth, but it did flash through my mind as I read a spoof editon of the International Herald Tribune.
With the headline "Heads of state agree historic climate-saving deal" it's Greenpeace's vision of what the paper might look like on 19 December, after a successful end to the climate change summit.
It's imaginative, with other headlines on Sarkozy renouncing nuclear power and the Earth's atmosphere being declared a world heritage site. It's witty: "Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was rushed to hospital late today and treated for confetti inhalation and minor hug-related injuries".
But was it really necessary for this environmental organisation to send me 44 copies?
Given I was handed one as I left the metro this morning I now have 45.
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greenpeace is the elites, the cup game
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if you accept climate change, you accept greenpeace and the the elites orders of science..
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The Brits would be crazy to allow the ECB to effectively control the City. The UK is not even in the Euro.
Brussels sees the crisis as an opportunity to emasculate the City and take business away from it. The liberalleft elite who, despite Barrosso,dominate the Commission hate the Anglo-Saxon economic model see this as revenge time.
Anyway the problem was not regulatory in the banking crisis, the FSA had the powers, but the people in charge and the political culture meant they were not used.
Finally it must be more than obvious by the UKIP vote that the British people do not want more bureaucratic controls from Brussels.Or do they not count?
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If Greenpeace and others who said they were concerned about climate change had made the issue one of serious scientific concern twenty years ago instead of a political football trying to bash the US forcing it to either destroy its economy to bring it down to the EU's level or look like "the bad guy" then we might have actually made changes that mattered. Now it is too late.
Greenpeace as far as I can tell never demonstrated concern about gross overpopulation of the earth which is at the root cause of climate change, never insisted that the EU expend its scientific resources on new technologies for producing energy in the kind of quantities we need to sustain our level of comfort instead of wasting it on redundant jumbo airplanes and space programs, and never bashed the EU for not living up to any of its commitments under Kyoto. It has all but ignored China, the world's largest producer of GHGs. All these words ring hollow now since we must surely be past the tipping point as the polar ice caps and the glaciers melt. It's almost certain to be too late but if it isn't, these people are still barking up the wrong tree.
If the carbon cap and trade energy tax ever becomes law in the US, expect massive worldwide famine as an unintended consequence. (Zimbabweans didn't think they'd face famine either when they wrecked their agricultural economy.) Then it will be too late to avert that disaster too.
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