Are The Greens Really Green?

The greens talk a lot about the environment and climate change, but are they themselves green? We already know that Al Gore has his mansions paid for with carbon credits, and Suzuki has two houses on the beach (thought beaches were going to disappear because of global warming?) paid for by taxpayers because of his CBC shows and appearances, so the two head honchos in North America are not green, but how about green organizations?

I started thinking about this because of this article:

The price is fright

OTTAWA -- While the world has slumped into recession, taking the price of oil down with it, the sudden rise in the cost of food is hitting Canadians when they can least afford it.

And experts predict there will be no sudden drop in prices at the grocery store cash register like there was at the gas pumps at the beginning of the economic downturn.

A comparison of food prices tracked by Statistics Canada shows that from January 2008 to January 2009 food bought from Canadian stores rose by almost 9%. Fresh fruit went up by 16%, vegetables by 20%, breads and cereals by as much as 11% and non-alcoholic drinks by 12%.

"Food prices rose dramatically around the world last year and there is no one simple answer to it," said John Scott, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers.

Isn't this what the little green guys have been warning us about? Are we not supposed to buy our food within a 100 mile radius? Are we not expected to spend more and buy organic food? I expect the greens to be on this like wheat in Alberta, it's right up their alley, right? Well a google search turned this up:



No Pembina Institute, no Suzuki Foundation, just one guy who wants Obama to grow his own food. So, what are the greens doing?

Well, Pembina is sucking up donors money and getting in the media to ....well blast politicians. They do have clients (not revealed), who I suspect pay them money, and they talk a lot about sustainable development, but they do not DO anything. They tell us what we should DO, but greenies don't seem to be organizing any projects, just protests. Earth4Energy wants to SELL you the secrets of creating your own solar panels, saving you hundreds of dollars, nothing about growing your own food.

Could it be that there is NO money to be made in organizing community gardens? I did check out this promising site, Grow Your Own Organic Vegetables, all of their external links are to universities, oh, and they have some books to sell you too! Environmentalists, appear to be in it for the money, not the earth, not to improve our lives, but to improve their bank accounts.

We hear about wind power, as if that is a new concept.



We also hear that we shouldn't flush unless it's brown. Do they want us back to this?



Environmentalists are not forward thinking, they want us to go backwards. They do not start programs, other than those that brainwash our children, they do not actually show those children have to plant a garden, weed it and harvest it, that would be too much work. They are not over in Africa, helping the people there to grow their own food? Nope they are protesting genetically modified food, that seed that produces more, can be made drought and disease resistant, it's a seed, how can modifying it be bad? We couldn't grow wheat in Alberta if we didn't modify the seeds for our shorter growing season. Don't even mention nuclear energy to these nuts.

From the Pembina website:

Research to date concludes that no other energy source combines the generation of a range of conventional pollutants and waste streams — including heavy metals, smog and acid rain precursors, and greenhouse gases — with the generation of extremely large volumes of radioactive wastes, that will require care and management over hundreds of thousands of years. The combination of these environmental challenges, along with security, accident and weapons proliferation risks that are simply not shared by any other energy source, place nuclear energy in a unique category relative to all other energy supply options.

So is Pembina outright lying about the EXTREMELY LARGE volumes? It appears so:

Almost all activities, from making dinner to driving cars,
produce “waste”, i.e. undesirable material left over. The
use of nuclear energy is no different, except that the
amount of waste is small and, while potentially hazardous,
it is very well managed........

In contrast, toxic heavy metals such as mercury and
arsenic, which are emitted from coal-fired plants and
various industrial processes, last forever.

So, you know those energy efficient squiggly light bulbs that contain MERCURY, ask your favorite environmentalist about that environmentally friendly "waste" product!! While you are at it, ask them to explain how CO2 is so bad if plants need it to grow, and ask them how to plant a vegetable garden. I predict you will get blank stares and you will be told that "the science is settled".

Personally, I like CO2, it keeps my plants happy and my house gets fresh oxygen, even in winter. Oh, and if you greenies need to learn how to grow vegetables, come on over to my house this spring, I'm planning an edible front yard!!