“Environmentalists”

“There was living space for thirteen families in this one SUV!” – Comrade Mallick Comes For Your Vehicle

Comrade Kaprugina delivers a scolding

SUVs are Toronto’s dinosaurs headed for extinction

How big does your car have to be? Do you really need an SUV?

Those behemoths you see bearing down on you in Toronto, high, heavy and wide, with a tow hitch and lots of cargo space, aren’t all owned by people with three children and a cottage and sports gear and a boat.

They’re also owned by urban people, possibly singletons, who bought big sport utility vehicles in preparation for bigger lives that may not have worked out that way in the downturn. Gas prices were low then. Superficially at least, there was no downside.

More communism is always the solution.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", WTF?

PROTECTING NATURE, DESTROYING LIVES – The chemist vs. the Dutch farmers

Johan Vollenbroek is accustomed to threats on his life. On a cold January day, as he was opening his mail at his home in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, a fine powder spilled from an envelope.

With the calmness of a trained chemist, Vollenbroek closed the package, washed his hands and dialed the police contact number he’s been told to use to report death threats. The police arrived in full protective gear. It turned out to be silicate, a benign chemical sent with malign intent, but it was not the first time the 73-year-old had received a menacing letter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

‘Unprecedented’ Rise in Whale Deaths Along East Coast Prompts Calls for Moratorium of Offshore Wind Farms

At least 18 whales have washed up dead on the U.S. east coast in recent months, prompting concern from a group of mayors in the state of New Jersey who have called for an “immediate moratorium” on offshore wind farms.

In a letter to New Jersey congressional lawmakers, the mayors said they stand “united” in their concerns about the “unprecedented” number of whales that have washed ashore recently.

They called for an immediate moratorium on all offshore wind activities, a key part of New Jersey’s climate change strategy, until federal and state agencies can investigate the deaths and “confidently determine” that offshore wind activities are not contributing to them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

Climate protesters who squashed cake into King Charles waxwork told to pay damages

The climate protesters who threw cake into the face of a waxwork of King Charles in Madame Tussauds have been ordered to pay the London tourist attraction £3,500 in compensation.

Eilidh McFadden, 20, and Tom Johnson, 29, were found guilty of criminal damage at Westminster magistrates court on Tuesday for each smashing a vegan chocolate cake topped with shaving foam into the waxwork on 24 October last year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

Liberal ‘Green Energy’ Plan Adding to Inflation: Bank of Canada Paper

The most persistent trend adding to inflation is the transition to “green energy,” which “raises costs,” according to a new Bank of Canada staff discussion paper.

“The 2021–22 Surge in Inflation” says that Canada has undergone the most pronounced surge in inflation in the 2021–2022 fiscal year since the 1970s.

A dollar in 1970 was equivalent to about $7.44 in purchasing power today, according to the Canada Inflation Calculator, based on Statistics Canada consumer price index (CPI) data.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Climate Activists Receive Funding for Cultural Destruction

They glue themselves to streets, block traffic, occupy airfields, and sully precious works of art: climate activists have caused havoc in many major European capitals over the past few months. They call themselves ‘The Last Generation’ and defend the sticky character of their protests as a strategy for bringing attention to the ‘climate catastrophe.’ They demand drastic actions against ‘climate change,’ including a cessation of oil drilling operations in the North Sea, an end to all fossil energy consumption, and new ways to limit food waste.

However, what’s taken place over the last few months, indeed, what looks like a passionately sincere—albeit loudmouthed—generational trend is actually a well-funded plan executed by a well-organised association. The ‘Last Generation’ is no exception. Recruiters and NGOs for climate activism advertise lucrative ‘jobs’ as protestors, offering €520-1,300—plus benefits. The jobs are “part-time” or “full-time,” as reported by Welt am Sonntag.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", Green-Scam

Michael Shellenberger: No, humans are not causing a ‘sixth mass extinction’

On CBS’s “60 Minutes” earlier this month, scientists claimed that humans are causing a “sixth mass extinction” and that we would need the equivalent of five planet earths for all humans to live at current Western levels.

“No, humanity is not sustainable to maintain our lifestyle — yours and mine,” claimed Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich. “Basically, for the entire planet, you’d need five more Earths. It’s not clear where they’re gonna come from.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", WTF?

Meet the Green Energy Group Behind the Study That’s Driving Calls To Ban Gas Stoves

Rocky Mountain Institute partnered with China to implement ‘economy-wide transformation’ away from oil and gas

The green energy group behind a study cited in Consumer Product Safety commissioner Richard Trumka Jr.’s call to ban gas stoves has partnered with the Chinese government to implement an “economy-wide transformation” away from oil and gas.

Colorado-based nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute, which published the December study that attributes 13 percent of U.S. childhood asthma cases to gas-stove use, is hardly staffed by an objective group of scientists.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "Environmentalists"

Have we reached ‘peak meat’? Asks The Guardian.

Meat, guns and liquor

Ingrid de Sain is one of thousands of dairy farmers in the Netherlands who says she sometimes lies awake at night. Since a court ruling in 2019 which found the Dutch were breaking European environmental law, her farm of 100 cows in north Holland has been illegal.

Like the other 2,500-plus farmers whose environmental permission was suddenly invalid, she wants a future where she can earn a living and farm legally again.

The Netherlands is first to face questions scientists believe will soon come to all intensively farmed areas: how can we balance the needs of the environment with the way we farm and grow? Have we reached “peak meat”, like peak oil: so much livestock, so much local pollution, that the only sustainable future is in reduction? They’re questions the US, the world’s largest producer of beef, will also soon have to answer.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Eat Government Bugs", "Environmentalists", WTF?

Sounds like the most awful neighborhood in Toronto …

Agents of change

A small neighbourhood in Toronto has built a program to help residents reduce their household emissions. Could their grassroots approach become a template for the rest of the country?

On a snow-flecked Sunday afternoon in mid-December, Paul Dowsett gathered a group of neighbours in his backyard for a toast.

Although the event featured mulled wine and a crackling bonfire, this was no holiday party. Rather, it was an event to celebrate homeowners in the Pocket — an east Toronto neighbourhood — who have committed to an energy retrofit to reduce their carbon footprint.

A Pocket resident since 1997, Dowsett is an architect by trade and a local sage on matters of sustainability. Dressed in a striking green lumber jacket, the 61-year-old extolled his neighbours’ climate consciousness, and after a breezy explainer on the environmental harms of natural gas, related some breaking news.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Dystopia At Last", "Eat Government Bugs", "Environmentalists", "Experts", WTF?

Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie

The downfall of capitalism will not come from the uprising of an impoverished working class but from the sabotage of a bored upper class. This was the view of the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. Schumpeter believed that at some point in the future, an educated elite would have nothing left to struggle for and will instead start to struggle against the very system that they themselves live in.

Nothing makes me think Schumpeter was right like the contemporary climate movement and its acolytes. The Green movement is not a reflection of planetary crisis as so many in media and culture like to depict it, but rather, a crisis of meaning for the affluent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

What climate alarmism about polar bears gets wrong

Canadian government scientists created headline news worldwide just before Christmas when they told the media Western Hudson Bay polar bear numbers appear to have declined by 27 per cent between 2017 and 2021, according to a survey report that still has not been made public. This is called “science by press release,” a practice that is actually anti-scientific, since real science proceeds by publication, criticism, debate and either replication or refutation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", Green-Scam

Lützerath: Protesters, police clash near German coal mine

German police clashed with climate activists at the village of Lützerath on Saturday, as the standoff between authorities and activists dragged on for a fourth day.

Police had been working to clear activists from the site to make way for the demolition of the village.

Lisa Neubauer of the Fridays for Future organization told the German Press Agency that police had used pepper spray on activists in isolated occasions.

German police also sent a water cannon to disperse protesters at the site.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

Environmentalism will be the ruin of Germany

The green elites are sabotaging Europe’s most powerful economy.

Good news at last? Europe has managed to replenish its gas reserves. In the first week of the new year, all over Europe, daily gas-storage rates were higher than they were at the same time in 2022. In Austria, for example, the gas-storage rate was over 80 per cent, compared with 33 per cent in 2022. In Germany, it was even higher: 91 per cent compared with 54 per cent last year. This comes as a relief. Especially given that just a few months ago, there was a very real possibility of crippling gas shortages.

Also … The road to eco-serfdom

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", Germany, Green-Scam