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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Quote of the week?
Oct 23, 2014 [The green movement]
excels more in preventing than in proposing: it closes factories, blocks projects, forbids the construction of super-highways, airports, railway lines. It is the power that always denies.
Pascal Bruckner The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse
Reader Comments (15)
I enjoy Donna's blog, but I do not like it when she says she has "begun" reading this "brilliant" book and declares that she will continue to read it. How does she know it's brilliant if she hasn't finished reading it? We criticise reviewers on Amazon for not having read a book.
Obviously, I'm a bit more Grumpy than usual, this morning.
The green-movement is a GI infection in the bowels of The Enlightenment.
It attracts those who think humanity can best progress by interdiction, ignoring the works of scientists and engineers who raised us up this far.
There's nothing to worry. For every factory that shuts in dear old Blighty another 5 will open in India and China.
Americans should stop complaining about the loss of the middle class. Here they are, Chinese tourists shopping till they drop in New York
http://mandarincommunicationsgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Chinese-tourists-Hornblower-cruises.jpg
- I disagreed with Donna, cos Greens don't forbid the industrial construction/mining for inefficient "magic solutions" that suck OUT subsidies like wind/solarPV/electric cars .. at the same time as they oppose efficient industries that PAY-IN taxes.
They are the knights who say "nie!" and nothing else.
@stewgreen: "Greens don't forbid the industrial construction/mining for inefficient "magic solutions" ".
Bullsh, they know damn well how polluting the concrete industry on which their edifices to 'green energy' are literally built on and the rare earth mining industry that makes them work. They just ignore it as an inconvenient truth, or in the case of rare earths, try to blame it all on the IT/comms industries.
It will be interesting to see how they react when the closure of most of the UK coal-fired power stations, leads to a shortage of pulverised fly ash for breeze block production, and a subsequent increase in new house prices.
Mike Jackson: "No shortage of wattle and daub, is there?"
Mike, you are forgetting that daub is a mixture of clay, animal poo and animal hair. But the greenies want to ban animal farming in order to grow more beansprouts and veggies, so how can you then make daub?
Big green is a parasitic enterprise, far more so than the worst days of the church.
Salopian / Mike / SG - the greens won't care if there are no materials for building new houses; they want us all live to in caves.
lapogus - nooo they won't let us live in caves because that's where their trolls live.
Comparing greens to trolls is to insult trolls.
"they want us all live to in caves"
Please do keep up: they don't want us to live at all.
Bruckner's The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse and his other book The Tirany of Guilt are very good analyses of what's wrong with our (Western) societies. Wrong at least from a proudly selfish, liberal/libertarian perspective (or my point of view whatever it is)
@ lapogus - there'll be no need for new houses once they have completed the cull.