Maybe Americans don’t trust dodgy computer models, on which the predictions of global catastrophe are based? Or maybe polar bears just aren’t cute enough? Either way, it can’t be for lack of “awareness”, as the mass media goes on about little else. As Gallup shows, green groups have moved away from reflecting the everyday environmental concerns of citizens, onto an agenda largely been driven by a handful of scientists, expensively backed by powerful quangos. Perhaps if you’re an NGO, this ensures a better Darwinian option for funding survival - but is this what citizens’ groups are supposed to be about?
Today’s climate warrior will have performed a 180 degree turn from twenty years ago: rainforests are now being felled in the rush to create biofuels, a strategy which is causing the world’s poorest people to go hungry, and toxic substances banned from the home are creeping back in. The justification for each move is CO2. No wonder Greenpeace’s co-founder Patrick Moore wrote recently that “the environmental movement I helped found has lost its objectivity, morality and humanity.” Moore frowns on using the term “environmental” for the Global Warming campaigners. I can see his point.
Perhaps it’s time to hear from “traditional” environmentalism for a change, instead of its successor, the Carbon Cult?
