Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 08/06/2008 11:11:13 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Julie Burchill can't stand them. According to her new book, Not in my Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy, she thinks all environmentalists are po-faced, unsexy, public school alumni who drivel on about the end of the world because they don't want the working classes to have any fun, go on foreign holidays or buy cheap clothes.
Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair, agrees. In an interview with Rachel Sylvester and me, he told us that the “nutbag ecologists” are the overindulged rich who have nothing better to do with their lives than talk about hot air and beans.
So the salad days are over; it's the end of the greens. Where only a year ago the smart new eco-warriors were revered, wormeries and unbleached cashmere jeans are now seen as a middle-class indulgence.
The vast new organic Whole Foods Store on Kensington High Street in London is so quiet you can hear the cheese breathe in the specially designed glass room. Meanwhile the demand for takeaway pizzas and McDonald's has risen as people find the cheapest way to eat.
When David Cameron became leader of the Conservative Party he said that green issues were at the top of his agenda. His slogan for the local elections last year was “Vote Blue, Go Green”. But in the past few months he has realised that voters have lost the appetite for their greens.
He has only given one environmental speech since Christmas. Once he used to talk about putting a £3,000 windmill on top of his house. Now the message is not about conserving the planet but preserving his bank balance. He wears catalogue clothes, grows his own vegetables and holidays barefoot in Britain because it is less extravagant, not because he is trying to reduce his global footprint.
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I saw the writing on the wall a month ago when a poster on a rather liberal british parenting website I lurk on started complaining about all the eco-propaganda on children’s television- and everyone started agreeing with her!
Well done.
“Besides, WholeFoods and the rest of organic are way overpriced.”
The hippy leftists go to these hoity-toity glorified barns to be seen as hip and politically correct.
I go there for a free lunch and eat up the give-away samples of roasted wild salmon, organic steak and handfuls of French cheese.
Okay, I admit it - I’m cheap. So what - my stomach makes no judgements between free stuff or food I pay for.
I think you are very smart.
Never thought of that but you are right. LOL
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The only thing ‘Green’ about the environazis is their envy.
I love Whole Foods. When I was in Austin I would have gone to the store if I had known it was their headquarters store. I think I saw it down by a big record store? Anyway, we have a new Whole Foods right by my house, and I pretty much do all my shopping there and Costco.
I never really got my kid presents at those times, either. He got so much stuff from everyone else, more than he could ever play with or wear, that it didn’t really seem important to get him another toy. During the year if there was something he really wanted I would buy it for him, and he seemed to appreciate it more when it was not lost in the mass of toys and Christmas and his birthday. I think he ended up fine.
True enough, but the good stuff was read by Limbaugh this morning. Editing can work both ways.
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She was raised in Nipsey Russell's house?
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