Useful idiots blinded by environmental spin
Too many have bought the lie by climate extremists that you have to kill nature to save it because climate change is a problem that trumps everything else.
People who live on the land have been ridiculed by city elites when they have tried to blow the whistle on what endless kilometres of wind turbines and solar panels actually means for birds, biodiversity and wildlife.
It is no joke that politicians and renewable energy advocates liken the climate change response to the Industrial Revolution. They are talking with their wallet.
Departing Wilderness Society campaign chief Amelia Young is telling the truth when she says the great similarity with the Industrial Revolution is the impact it will have on nature.
Ironically, it will have few of the benefits of the Industrial Revolution because unlike the steam engine and factory floor it makes things more dispersed, less efficient and more expensive.
This probably won’t disturb newly appointed Australian Conservation Foundation chief executive Adam Bandt, whose line is: “People are sweltering through hot summers and worse bushfires while coal and gas corporations make massive profits and pay no tax as they destroy this beautiful country we love.”
Environment leaders such as Bob Brown and Christine Milne have finally woken to the threat of unchecked renewable energy because it is happening in their back yard. Tasmania is destined to become an avian slaughterhouse to supply power to Victoria and beyond.
How did anyone think this was going to end? The impact so far of the billions of dollars spent on renewable energy developments has barely budged the needle on what we still need from coal and gas. To meet the government objectives, planning laws are being changed to deny due process. The latest scheme to redraw the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act to prioritise areas for renewables is not about protecting the landscape. It is about opening up the national estate and agricultural land to industrial development on the unrealistic assumption it will change future weather.
One thing is certain. Nature will outlast the renewable energy fetish. But at least some environment leaders are finally waking up to the fact there are trade-offs in every revolution and they have been sucked in to losing sight of what they were supposed to be all about.
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The environment movement has been used as useful idiots by a climate industrial complex that has run roughshod over individual rights and the natural world.