According to Shellenberger, the co-founder of a think tank called Environmental Progress, becoming a vegetarian actually reduces one’s emissions by less than four percent while “free range” beef — usually claimed to be more eco-friendly than the intensively farmed variety — requires 20 times more land and produces 300 percent more carbon emissions.Gets more and more interesting . . .
As for starvation fears, we produce 25 percent more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter. Meanwhile, switching to 100 percent renewable energy is unfeasible — the U.S. would need to devote between 25 and 50 percent of its total land to energy generation, compared with the 0.5 percent it takes up now.
He also attacks the “myth” that plastics linger for thousands of years in the ocean, saying they’re broken down by sunlight and other forces. As for the whales, they were saved not by Greenpeace as many believe, but by industry switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil, he says.
Again and again, says Shellenberger, the Greens have actually made things worse rather than better with their misguided views. …
“At 17, he lived in Nicaragua to show “solidarity” with the Sandinista socialist revolution. […]”
I hope.he grew.out of that.
WOW! I’m shocked the book even got published. Maybe they published it based on his earlier reputation, and didn’t actually read it prior to printing.
I'll pass on the frankenfish. Fish straight from the sea or river is so much tastier.
The Green movement and it’s originating epicenter ‘Green Peace’ were, are and always will be money making operations.
The problem is that people will only donate so much money... So how do you get even more money? You convince politicians to levy a ‘global warming carbon tax’ with funds going exclusively to green movement organizations and companies.
Green Peace, the Grand Daddy of the global warming movement started out saving seals in Newfoundland Canada. There was formerly a seal hunt there every year to hunt seals for their meat and desirable fur... The hunt had another benefit as well... It culled the sea of an animal that eats enormous amounts of fish. Each adult seal eats about 8,000 pounds of fish every year. During the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s the seal population off Newfoundland stood at about 1.5 to 2.5 million seals. This steady population of animals was a result of the yearly hunt.
With that amount of animals they were obviously not in danger of extinction, but Green Peace managed to convince the world (and mostly Europe, the main buyer of seal furs) that the population was dwindling and of course, they had gruesome pictures of Newfoundlander’s killing baby seals with clubs... The clubbing of a seal with a spike on the club isn’t much different than the typical method to kill a cow.
Green Peace was successful in their efforts to end the bulk of the hunt in the 1980’s, it still occurs on a limited bases and typically it is only done for the meat of the animal.
The awesome result of ending the hunt... The seal population now stands at 7+ million animals and that number grows each and every year. Another result... Growing amounts of seals eating fish stocks and essentially destroying COD stocks. COD fishing ended in Canada in the 1990’s... See the correlation?
Another odd and more recent result... More and more sharks heading to Northern latitudes for an endless supply of seal food. The global warming movement would say sharks are heading north because it’s warming in Newfoundland... That is total bunk.
The Green movement went on to save whales and other animals after their seal hunt funds dried up, but then they stumbled upon this new thing called ‘Global Warming’ and they discovered a new and endless supply of money by saving the future... And the great thing about the future... It’s always in the future, so there is no end point to their campaign. Suck in enough liberal and leftist politicians and Bob’s your uncle and the gravey train never stops.
We are we worried of global warming when Russia and China are storing up grain in fear of solar minimum glaciation?
Thanks for the post. It’s a highly interesting development. And the guy seems like a realist, not a fake “scientist” or anxious to preserve his or her job.
The Whittaker Chambers of the environmental movement.
We really have become pagans, sacrificing virgins to appease gods who don't exist all to stop a natural phenomenon.