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.
Too many seals eating too much fish is also the reason why the populations of Orcas and whales near Oregon and Washington are dwindling — the seals are eating most of the fish! Meanwhile, the lefties blame it all on river dams.