It is a bright, sunny Sunday morning and I refuse to allow Green predictions of impending doom dent my optimism.
The Greens – no doubt – mean well.
Earnest, self-righteous, Malthusian, smug, often sanctimonious but rarely rational, the Greens of today are always ready to tell others what to do and what is best for them. From being – once upon a time – a constructive movement with practical and laudable objectives of improving local environments, it has developed into an authoritarian, arrogant, dogmatic, semi-religious and mildly fascist ideology. It has been perverted by scenarios of catastrophe and subverted by delusions of grandiose global ambitions. It is more concerned with forbidding behaviour it considers undesirable and of coercing people to comply. It has forgotten that humanity is an integral and necessary part of the environment.
I take the view that our descendants will be smarter than we are, that human ingenuity will meet the challenges to come and that change is the essence of humanity. Adapting to change is what has powered human evolution and it is in designing the changes to come which will drive our future evolution. Stagnation and maintaining a status quo in the name of conservation is essentially backward looking and an abdication of responsibility. I prefer to focus on what to do and not on what others should not do.
We can’t keep increasing energy use – Yes we can
We can’t keep using nuclear power – Yes we can
We can’t keep using gas – Yes we can
We can’t keep burning coal – Yes we can
We can’t burn fossil fuels – Yes we can
We can’t feed the world’s population – Yes we can
We can’t eliminate war – Yes we can
We can’t eradicate poverty – Yes we can
We can’t fight disease – Yes we can
We can’t maintain growth – Yes we can
We can’t use gene modified crops – Yes we can
We can’t use stem cells – Yes we can
We can’t adapt – Yes we can
We can’t depend upon human ingenuity – Yes we can
Without change there is no time and all is stasis and dead. The essence of humanity lies in meeting the challenges of change and not in futile attempts to stop change.
Green is also the colour of decay.
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