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Too late to save environment, says Green Party co-founder
BBC News ^ | March 2, 2023 | By Helen Catt & Thomas Mason

Posted on 03/05/2023 5:12:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

One of the founders of what would become the Green Party of England and Wales has declared "it's too late" to save the environment.

Michael Benfield, who helped set up the new political movement in the 1970s, said he believed the "battle for the world's environmental survival" was "at this moment, lost".

"I think we have succeeded in helping to educate... but we have failed in dealing with the battle for environmental survival.

The scale of the solutions which he believed were necessary would be simply too unpalatable for any political party to propose, he argues.

The focus now, he thought, would have to be on mitigation.

"It doesn't mean to say that we can't perhaps do other things to put things right, but it's a very dire situation that we have," Mr Benfield said.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: carbonpropaganda; climatehoax; fakescience; globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 03/05/2023 5:12:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Uh-huh, so sayeth the group that’s been wrong around...100% of the time.


2 posted on 03/05/2023 5:13:21 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

failed in dealing with the battle for environmental survival.

Then by all means, just commit suicide en masse.

For the good of all.

Live your dream.


3 posted on 03/05/2023 5:15:01 AM PST by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s too late
To fall in love with Sharon Tate
But it’s too soon
To ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb

— Jim Carroll


4 posted on 03/05/2023 5:15:37 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: Adder

Meanwhile, the rest of us can build more coal power plants.


5 posted on 03/05/2023 5:16:10 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (There is lots of money and power in Green Communism and we all know where Communism ends.)
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To: Adder

Nah in this case it’s let’s do communism anyway. Or maybe suicide for thee but not for me.


6 posted on 03/05/2023 5:17:18 AM PST by xp38
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And the sky falls once again!


7 posted on 03/05/2023 5:18:47 AM PST by albie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yep, all the trees are dead. All the animals are extinct. All the data claiming the contrary has been deleted.


8 posted on 03/05/2023 5:19:34 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Damned imbeciles.

9 posted on 03/05/2023 5:20:01 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

From what? Hard to believe there are that many fidiots out there that have bought this crap. The last ice age wasn’t that log ago assclowns. Why did it end? SAF wasn’t friggin’ SUVs. Fookin’ idjits! My head hurts. 🤔😵‍💫🐂💩


10 posted on 03/05/2023 5:20:07 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Great… so then maybe you can STFU?


11 posted on 03/05/2023 5:22:38 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The first rule in politics is the same as the first rule in sales. Create a sense of urgency. Act now as supplies are limited! This deal valid only for the next hour. Coupon valid only through the fifth. Or, in politics, if we don’t act now, we’ll all drown in less than ten years! The situation will be irreversible! (I’ve been hearing this hysteria since grade school in the sixties. Total death and disaster, or peak oil, or over population, was always just ten years away. I can’t tell you how tired I am of it, but I guess it still serves to create hysteria in the young or ill-informed.)

Saying the situation is already too late is pretty much admitting that the sale has failed. It’s also stupid for sales. It’s saying, in effect, hey, you could have saved the world, but it’s too late.

I guess we should all go to our mountain redoubt and close the door after us. Incidentally, the premise behind many movies and TV shows is that global warming happened, and the story is as a result of that. As soon as the narrator says something to that effect, I click it off.


12 posted on 03/05/2023 5:26:26 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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declared “it’s too late” to save the environment.

***********

Well may have to just move on to outer space or another
planet/star/universe.


13 posted on 03/05/2023 5:26:39 AM PST by deport
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Unscientific mental illness.

There are more trees in the US now than there was 150 years ago,

The air in the US is cleaner now than 100 years ago.

The “environmental crisis” is in shit hole countries with non white people. When will the greens realize this and go full eugenics?


14 posted on 03/05/2023 5:26:42 AM PST by UNGN
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ok, then, lets stop all this green energy alarmism nonsense and get on with out fossil fuel lives.


15 posted on 03/05/2023 5:28:04 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yeah!! So if it is too late party like it's 1968!!!


16 posted on 03/05/2023 5:29:01 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: metmom

our fossil fuel lives.


17 posted on 03/05/2023 5:30:42 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: deport; All
Well may have to just move on to outer space or another planet

These space cadets are already there!
18 posted on 03/05/2023 5:31:06 AM PST by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: LibWhacker

Nice chart—if it was bigger 2020 could have gotten a mention:

https://nypost.com/2020/01/10/the-telling-tale-of-glacier-national-parks-gone-by-2020-signs/

This is one of my favorites because not only did .gov get the prediction massively and totally wrong but they tried to hide it like thieves in the night.

Then they doubled down with vague gloom and doom predictions.

You can’t get much scummier than that.


19 posted on 03/05/2023 5:31:39 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ok, so shut up about it since it’s too late.


20 posted on 03/05/2023 5:31:46 AM PST by EastTexasTraveler
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