Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore is shown saying: "Environmentalists have romanticised peasant life, but this is anti-human. "They are saying the world’s poorest people should have the world’s most expensive form of form of energy – really saying they can’t have electricity."
The programme shows how the global warming research drive began when Margaret Thatcher gave money to scientists to ‘prove’ burning coal and oil was harmful, as part of her drive for nuclear power.
"At the moment, there is almost a McCarthyism movement in science where the greenhouse effect is like a puritanical religion and this is dangerous."
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5 comments:
I hate peasant life, poverty sucks ass.
don't hate the peasant hate the game.
Spits the game?
Part of the trouble of course is that there are financial challenges for people with low incomes trying to do the "right things" by the earth. Even if you have the thousands laying around for a solar power system, who is going to fix it if it gets damaged? Do you know what it costs to get a geothermal and solar repair person or windmill technician in a rural or poor area? You have to fly them in.
And poor people, waiting to bid on a hybrid? Having to drive twenty miles to recycle because there is no system? Converting their engines to ethanol, or getting a green architect to design their eco-home? Built from sustainable forestry wood? Its not realistic.
Hopefully demand leads to more options.
I see nothing wrong with educating people about energy so they want to buy an efficient washing machine- and that doesn't hurt capitalism. Education creates the demand that makes production increase, leading to cheaper prices so renewables are available to more people.
I agree there's nothing wrong with promoting energy efficiency and i'm all for it. In fact they should incentivise it more. like tax breaks etc. That would do more than just having hollywood stars and ex-vice presidents telling us what to do with our money.
For more on the producer of this show:
http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=39
An excerpt:
"In 1997 television producer Martin Durkin from the TV company Kugelblitz made a series for Channel 4 called Against Nature, which targeted environmentalists, presenting them as 'the new enemy of science' and as comparable to the Nazis. They were responsible, the series argued, for the deprivation and death of millions in the Third World."
Apparently you global warming deniers are now reduced to claiming that it's all a plot of some sort.
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