Greens as environmental vandals

[erudito]

Tuesday night, went to an extremely lucid presentation by a forest scientist of great experience which showed, in a quite matter-of-fact way, what an environmental disaster the green take-over of environmental management in Victoria has been. A discussion at another meeting the next evening added further and better particulars

Comments

[pearl]

read: ‘most influenced by the Horrible Green Religion Just Ask Andrew Bolt'

I'll agree about being the 'most influenced.' I grew up listening to TV and radio talking about the coming dangers of acid rain, followed by the legislation of CFCs because of the hole in the ozone layer, and then the greenhouse effect (which is a phrase you very rarely hear any more) and now, global warming.

So, when it suddenly seemed like the world was paying attention to the environment because it was a good thing to do, I had to wonder what took so long for it to become such an important focal point in legislation and social activities.

But to say it's a religion, is like saying that people who grew up during the cold war were trapped in the cult of capitalism, as they listened to media that warned about impending nuclear war, brutality of communist dictatorships, and the Star Wars strategic defense.* If all you heard while you were growing up, was about how the planet was going to hell in a handbasket, it will shape your worldview.

*Note, I'm young enough to not even remember the Berlin wall coming down (such things do not interest preschoolers), so this is from high school history class. I might be right off the mark about what was scary about Communism.

[catsidhe]

Well, acid rain and CFCs were also real, important problems, which were, through great effort, addressed and to large degree have been brought under control. Not completely, but they are not as bad as they have been, and we have a good handle on how to fix them.

The Greenhouse effect was dropped from the scientists' discourse, in my understanding because it is only one part of what is turning out to be a large, complicated and interconnected series of effects, feeding into each other in previously unknown ways.

[pearl]

Yes, I know that as an adult. (And was wrapping my head around it through VCE.)

But before as a child and teenager? Not so much.
Hence the environmental doom and gloom.