Dear David King,
Your interview with the Guardian this morning has left me with a sense of anger that I specifically reserve for annoying environmentalists who ruin the debate over climate change time and time again.
Green activists are a serious problem and they risk damaging the whole environmental movement through their ignorance and stupidity. I am convinced that something is not right with the global environment and I’m therefore happy to listen to suggestions for the best way forward in protecting the planet, although I don’t think the situation is as disastrous as some people make out. Having said that, I very much agree with you that idiots calling for us to “just use less energy”, as you mentioned, is pointless and totally unrealistic. We cannot expect people to stop using their cars or stop flying, which is what the ‘green’ movement seems to be suggesting. Any solution to climate change must be fair, realistic, effective and preferably on a global scale - which some ‘greens’ don’t seem to understand.
I don’t know how much success you’ll have with fighting off these stupid extremists, but I certainly wish you all the best in trying - it’s very very important that they either start making sensible suggestions or get excluded from the debate altogether.
Regards,
A.Tory
5 responses so far ↓
Andrew Allison // January 12, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Well said. I have linked you on my blog.
Terrible Tory Girl // January 12, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Brilliant - thank God someone (bonus points for being a Tory) is not bowing down to the rubbish spurted out of these environmentalists’ mouths.
Keep up the angry letter writing - it does achieve results
That Annoying Environmentalist // January 13, 2008 at 10:56 am
There is one fundamental flaw in your argument: Whilst politicians were discussing the nicities of Poll Tax - environmentalists and scientists (sometimes people are both!) were trying to highlight the plight the planet will face as the atmosphere heats up due to anthropogenic increases in carbon dioxide emissions. This was over 25 years ago and had more of these self-centered money grabbing politicians paid attention we might have been able to do something a little sooner.
However, as time has passed and emissions have increased of course the changes that have to be made will become more drastic and more urgent. Even the IPCC is now starting to issue dire warnings.
I’m not one to say we should all stop travelling anywhere as that wouldn’t help but as for those using the economy argument, I direct you towards the ‘New Scientist’ that explains the original calculations are all flawed. And the more realistic calculations really do support the use of mucho money now to save mucho money later!
The main point of my argument is that politians need to stop blithering and wasting time and actually set down strict rules and infrastructure to allow the population to reduce their own emissions.
Letters From A Tory // January 13, 2008 at 11:25 am
I agree that it’s time politicians get something serious done, but at the same time my point that the debate is no longer a scientific one is presumably still valid - even though the debate may have begun as a purely scientific matter.
I’m only interested in carefully researched scientific evidence and realistic solutions to how we might go about addressing the problem of climate change - nothing else is relevant, in my opinion.
DK // January 13, 2008 at 11:58 am
You might also point out to That Annoying Environmentalist that it was Thatcher who raised this issue on many occasions including a speech to the Royal Society Sep 27 1988.
The Greens aren’t a united front in themselves which leads to perverse contradictions in their arguments. We must remember that they are lobby groups, no more no less and do not have sole rights to the truth and in my experience no more honest than the industrial lobby.
I am particularly annoyed by the talk of an energy gap and that because nuclear takes so long to build that it is therefore irrelevant. The problem is that we could have started building new nuclear and long-term underground storage facilities if the green lobby hadn’t been blocking it every step of the way. You can’t fault them for a winning strategy I suppose but it is deeply irresponsible. For once I’m grateful that Blair and now Brown has the balls to stand up to the green lobby. Let’s hope that Brown (and Cameron) have the same balls to get tough when the greens start invading nuclear power station building sites to protest.
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