Category Archives: Environmentalism

Warmist Catch-22: Must fix economy to get climate action

But wrecking the economy is the point of climate action. Continue reading

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This is crazy — Eco-psychiatry

Nature Deficit Disorder. “Climate refugees” with PTSD. Solastalgia, or grief for the changes in one’s home environment (in contrast to the nostalgia of leaving home). Continue reading

Facebook CEO on enviro sh*t list for supporting Keystone XL, fracking

“It’s great that Mark Zuckerberg is promoting immigration reform. Too bad he has to do so by echoing big oil’s agenda,” Daniel Weiss, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, told POLITICO. Continue reading

John Kerry: We must ‘safeguard our God-given natural resources… for future generations’ — So who gets to use them and when?

Answers: No one and never. Continue reading

Joe Romm: ‘I don’t worry about the earth… Concern over the earth is elitist’

“…something people can afford to spend their time on when every other need is met.” Continue reading

Navigating the American Carbon World (with the UN)

There is much activity in the UN climate arena at the moment, as they push for yet another “Global Agreement on Climate Change”

At the moment, UNFCC executive secretary, Christina Figueres is boasting that they have an agreement to come to an agreement by 2015. Whilst it is to be hoped that this agreement to agree goes the way of previous ones, it highlights that they haven’t gone away and are determined to keep pressing on, no matter that the AGW paradigm is collapsing.

She gave a speech this week in San Francisco, entitled Navigating the American Carbon World
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A New Take on Earth Day

This Earth Day, the Center for Biological Diversity is celebrating endangered species at 20 events in 13 states across the country. More than 15,000 condoms will be distributed in colorful packages (with artwork by Roger Peet) that feature species threatened by unsustainable human population growth, including the Florida panther and leatherback sea turtle.

They must be expecting an interesting day…

Celebs on the enviro sh*t list

“The green movement has seen its share of celebrity support… However, there are still a few holdouts in Tinsel Town and across the nation.” Continue reading

Enviro writer in meltdown after Senate gun vote; Tweets ‘F*ck Max Baucus’, Calls Mark Pryor a ‘colossal a**hole’

Grist.org’s Dave “Nuremberg-Trials-for-Skeptics” Roberts has rude comments about Democrat Senators voting against the gun control bill today. Continue reading

Ex-UK Science Advisor: Environmental safety rules have reached ‘mad’ levels because of a failure to understand the difference between risk and hazard

Environmental safety rules have reached “mad” levels because of a failure to understand the difference between risk and hazard, the Government’s former chief scientific adviser has said. Continue reading

The Nation: ‘So difficult to mobilize a climate movement’ because ‘it is antithetical to our normal ways of thinking and acting’

Roger that! Continue reading

Eco-Imperialism Joins Vulture Environmentalism

“Vulture environmentalists hijack environmental laws to further the venal interests of eco-activists, bureaucrats and wealthy elites, who covet private property but don’t want to pay fair prices.” Continue reading

Top activist says environmental movement is failing

“We don’t have a movement. We have a niche. It’s mostly mono-chromatic in culture, in political belief, and in socioeconomic status.” Continue reading

Greenpeace offers photos of poverty + central planning…. you know, the future under ‘progressivism’

For those that missed the 20th century, the consequences of central planning and poverty are on display today in China. Continue reading

WaPo: Green groups a little too white — histories full of ‘racist and exclusionary practices’

We reported on this (“NRDC not for whites only — but almost“) about a year ago. Continue reading

Earth Hour: Vain Symbolism, Environmentally Unfriendly

For 60 minutes Saturday night, those living in the shallows of our culture will kill their lights during Earth Hour to increase awareness of climate change. Some will feel self-righteous. Nothing will be achieved. Continue reading

Marc Gunther: ‘In defense of environmental extremism’

Would this include the genocidal anti-DDT campaign? Continue reading

Prager: Progressive Green Movement Has Morphed Into A Death Cult

“The answer is people who are more devoted to nature than to human life. And who might such people be? They are called environmentalists.” Continue reading

Continued scares about lead in children

A study of Detroit children blamed dust from the soil and carried by the wind during the summer months for higher seasonal lead levels in children. Parents do not need to worry about letting their children play outside! Continue reading

Getting Gored: Michael Mann’s Apocalyptic Prophecies and Al Jazeera’s Green Jihad

Mark Musser spotlights some real “deniers” and their ties to radical environmentalism. Continue reading