Batshit Crazy Eco-Luddites

The police have treated these eco-loons with kid gloves and the public has had enough of it.

Finally, Insulate Britain has raised a good point. Why aren’t we in prison, the protest movement is asking itself? Apparently the road-blocking middle-class irritants are in a state of ‘absolute disbelief’ that they have been allowed to cause so much disruption without being banged up. You and me both, lads. ‘We assumed that we would not be allowed to carry on disrupting the motorway network to the extent that we have been. We thought that people would basically be in prison’, a gobsmacked spokesman said. That sound you can hear is millions of people murmuring in agreement that it is truly bizarre that these eco-loons have been able to break the law and inconvenience vast swathes of the population without spending so much as a night in the slammer.

Embedded in the 657-page report of the public inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns by commissioner Steve Allan is excellent advice for green activists.

If they want to be seen as credible, if they want the public to believe they’re fully on the up-and-up, it’s best they be completely transparent about who is giving them money and pulling their strings.

The Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns on Thursday delivered a massive report that is guaranteed to reignite debate and conflict, denial and dismissal. However the inquiry’s commissioner, Steve Allan, provides all the evidence needed to conclude there is something disastrously wrong with Canada’s charitable system.

What we once perhaps dismissed as the fringe fear of a few activists is now a force in world demographics

For much of the last century, people had good reason to wonder whether it made sense to have babies. Millions of young men had died or been maimed in the trenches, and then along came the risk of being pulverized by an atom bomb.

Nonetheless, men and women continued to have children and after both world wars there was a baby boom. As C.S. Lewis wrote in 1948: ‘It is perfectly ridiculous, to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances.’

Climate-change activists are not ready for the changes their rhetoric would impose on this society

At the end of October, tens of thousands of people will descend on Glasgow for COP26 — the 26th “Conference of the Parties” to the UN Climate Convention since the first in Berlin in 1995. Will anything positive come out of it?

A report produced by Cambridge University academics has called for foods with so-called high carbon footprints, such as dairy and meat, to be made more expensive in order to save the planet.

The Cambridge University-led study published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) says that “education” alone on changing diets towards more plant-based habits and abandoning car ownership is not enough.

Insulate Britain activists have staged three morning roadblocks in central London, leading to dozens of arrests and confrontations with drivers stuck in heavy traffic at the height of rush-hour.

The climate activist group said 54 supporters had blocked Hanger Lane in north London, the Blackwall tunnel in south-east London, and Wandsworth Bridge in south-west London, as they began a fourth week of their campaign for government action on home insulation.

Frustration at the road blocks led to confrontations with drivers. In a video shared by LBC one woman cried as she pleaded with protesters, telling them she needed to get to her sick mother.

BREAKING: Furious motorists and a paramedic crew have pulled Insulate Britain activists out of the road at Wandsworth Bridge. More follows… pic.twitter.com/Ph6mxKiZTF

— talkRADIO (@talkRADIO) October 4, 2021

It’s not just internal-combustion the true environmentalist wants banned, but all cars

If you think someone is out to get you, does that automatically make you paranoid? It’s a question I asked myself repeatedly as I wrote last week’s “Is the anti-car movement winning?” column. In writing about something as controversial as Paris banning privately owned automobiles from its streets, the important thing was to determine the depth of the anti-car movement without heading down some conspiracy theory rabbit hole. Is there really a movement to rid the world of cars? How evolved is it? And how far should I go in decrying its toxic psychology?