Green Backlash

Global Warming Politics 

The Green backlash has started in Britain with a vengeance. It was inevitable, and the Green movement has largely itself to blame. The priggish and often patronising tone, the elitism, the abuse of science and risk theory, the peddling of trumped up ‘scares’, the desire to make everything cost more, and the authoritarian, anti-libertarian politics have all come together in these difficult economic times to cause folk to say that they have had enough. The media have also played a part in generating this reaction, especially the BBC, by adopting an often uncritical and over-indulgent attitude towards Green issues and Green political activists.

But people are now fed up to their waste bins with it all, and especially with being lectured to day-in-and-day-out.

Interestingly, the media are at last sensing the change of mood, and this is permitting the commentariat of all shades to start to turn on the Greens in one way or another, witness, for example, the following three articles, which have all appeared this week...