Global Warming - the Final Word
Once, just once, wouldn't it be a joy to pick up a newspaper or turn on the television to find a complete absence of anything to do with global warming? The problem is, if there's newsprint or airtime available, the global warming brigade think it is their divine duty to fill it, even at the expense of boring us all to distraction. Not a day goes by without some new crackpot scheme being hatched. These people wake up each morning determined to find fresh ways of intruding into our lives.
The 'climate change' hysteria has proved a godsend for prodnoses. I doubt there is a single country on earth where entire groups haven't completely taken leave of its senses over alleged global warming. It has been seized upon as an exciting new weapon with which to inflict more taxes, fines and regulations.
When it comes to banging the climate-change gong, some of these people areobsessed to the point of mental illness. Britain's latest plan is to put £2,000 on the price of a family car and ban plasma TVs.
Brilliant.
Why pick on plasmas? Are we supposed to go back to cumbersome cathode ray sets? It's not so long ago we were told they were destroying the Earth's crust in landfill sites. Are we supposed to stop watching television altogether?
What about all those people who make a living manufacturing, selling and servicing televisions? What are they to do - go and work in a windmill?
Yet here they are making common cause with 'zero growth' eco-loonies who knit their own toilet paper.
The answer to any problem lies within it's market.
I have faith in the market. We are delivering cleaner petrol and cars which pollute less & motor manufacturers such as BMW are taking the lead in recycling old vehicles. It's the market which is unveiling a whole new generation of fuelefficient, low-emission airliners.
By the time the oil runs out, science will have come up with a viable alternative.
These loons rail against the ludicrous amount of packaging which suffocates everything we buy these days. Given the choice, super-markets would gladly flog you potatoes straight from the ground or loose talcum powder, come to that, but the health & safety nazis won't let them, so stop going on about it. They have even set their sights on scrapping the standby button on computers and TVs.
Frankly it's all none of their business. How we choose to live is entirely a matter for us.
If they were really determined to tackle a looming energy crisis, they'd sanction the building of new nuclear power stations, which have virtually unlimited, renewable capacity and won't harm the environment.
Once again, the market will see to that. Babies with three heads are bad for business, so safety would be paramount.
People are running scared of the weird beards. B&Q are selling £50 windmills that you can put on your house so you can proclaim your "green" consciences. Even though they wouldn't power a hairdryer.
There is a 'save the plebs' attitude, which targets family cars, big screen televisions and short-haul holidays.
And don't get me started on the recycling racket.
We pay to drive on roads we have already paid for several times over.
This is a class war dressed up as concern for the planet.
Needless to say, I would recieve the the thumbs-down from Friends of the Earth, who say "Tackling climate change is the biggest challenge we face." No, it isn't. That would be Islamist imperialism and global terrorism.
People are aware of their responsibilities to the planet, and most try to conserve energy and recycle as much as possible. But they resent lectures about individual behaviour from interfering hippies. An extra two grand on a Mondeo may not matter to a multi-millionaire, but it's a huge chunk of change from the average family budget.
Already 'green' taxes raises the thick end of £30 billion a year - virtually none of which gets spent improving the environment.
Even the BBC has been forced to concede that it's not its job to save the planet.
It is not your job, either & the sooner you realise that, the better.
