After hackers liberated emails, research and source code from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, we have to ask ourselves if the whole environmental movement is about to be derailed at a political level. I’m not talking about grass roots activism as seen at the Climate Camp protests, but the gravy train faux environmentalism of Corporations and career politicians. Since the early nineties, grass roots direct actions groups like ‘Reclaim the Streets’ sprung up in Britain. Green politics started to move from the fringes and into the mainstream as both Labour and Conservative politicians could almost smell the votes of the ‘caring’ middle England middle class. Corporations knew that by wrapping their resource raping businesses with a thin layer of Green social responsibility, they could ease the guilt of those consumers.
In to the 21st Century and the political and corporate language started to change. CFC’s and Global Warming were replaced with Carbon Footprints and Climate Change. The emphasis was being shifted away from global capitalism for CO2 production to the individual. Forget mass unessential Air Travel, Fossil Fuelled Power Stations and the Company Chairman driving to his 10 bedroom mansion in his 6lr Range Rover, the carbon enemy was now you and me and don’t you forget it. So with nearly six billion of us on a polluting rampage all over this planet, the politicians, well Western politicians have been harbouring a dream. Like a Corporate businessman, politicians like a takeover and the chance to upscale. So they hatched a plan, instead of legislating against resource raping at a national level, they decided to oppress the individual and the only way this could be done is for a worldwide carbon tax and ultimately a world government.
This is where we at now and the politicians have been doing a good job at pacifying the public and selling us their dream of a brave new world, what politicians are now openly calling a New World Order. However, scepticism has been slowly growing. It has been quite obvious that the British government has done very little to hit its CO2 targets and tinkered at the edges of commerce so ineffectively, it has almost been a joke. Their investment in renewable energy has been equally flaccid. Leaving the whole thing to the free market would never work. Now we have a growing percentage of the general public who are waking up to the fact that we are going to be in the firing line and to achieve their targets, we are going to suffer. Our quality of living will drop and our freedoms will be eroded, while corrupt politicians like Al Gore et al all get rich in the process. We can stop this. Climate change may or may not be man-made, but we all know that improving our environment is an absolute necessity if we are going to leave a planet fit for our children. We can do this, we need to wrestle back the environmental movement from global business and corrupt politicians and back into the hands of the people.
We ARE ruining the planet there is no doubt. Over population will probably get us first.Food water land is all running out or being destroyed. The global warming thing is being discredited by the multinational chemical companies etc. There is so much misinformation from them. Why is it that climate change scientists are being targeted for negative treatmnet? Why is it only they are having there theories targeted? Why is it only they are having their computers hacked. They have nothing to gain but the multinational chemical companies have an awful lot to lose. Which side do you believe. We cannot pump billions of tons of chemicals into the atmosphere and think it will have not effect on climate. Man has evolved over thousands of years to thrive in the chemical mix of basically 75% nitrogen 21% oxygen with other gases making up the rest. We are bring about our own ends with pollution and over population these facts cannot be denied by all but the dumbest or super rich. I fear we have gone to far the human race is deservedly finished.Greed, irresponsibility, ignorance and illiteracy has got the better of us.
I agree that we are ruining the planet. My fear over the climategate hack was that rednecks in the UK and the USA would then completely dismiss the environmental movement and think its fine to drive an SUV and consume like there is no tomorrow. To say that it is just the multinational chemical companies that question the theory of man-made global warming is a little blinkered and dismissive. You also can not deny the fact that some politicians are definitely using the cloak of green politics to advance other political agendas. Which side am I on? The side of the environmental movement, the real activists, not the politicians bending over backwards to let their corporate friends trade carbon. Finally I would not worry yourself about overpopulation, I think you’ll find that is all in hand, academics like Obama’s science tsar John P. Holdren have a plan, a plan that Greenpeace subscribers and people who unquestionable watched and assimilated Al Gore’s ‘A inconvenient truth’ probably don’t know about.
We ARENT the cause of ‘Climate change’ we may speed up the process , ye, but we are not the CAUSE, climate change is natural.