Not for greens : he who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon / Ian Plimer ; with a foreword by Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace.
Publication details: Ballarat, Vic. : Connor Court Pub., 2014.Description: 275 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781925138191 (paperback)
- Green Party (Australia)
- Environmentalism
- Green movement
- Renewable energy resources
- Sustainability
- Renewable energy sources
- Climatic changes
- Global warming
- Green movement -- Australia
- Political parties -- Australia
- Australia -- Politics and government
- Australian
- Environmentalism
- Green parties
- Climate change (Anthropogenic)
- Climate change science
- Attitudes
- Electricity generation
- Carbon dioxide
- Iron and steel industry
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The processes required to make a humble stainless steel teaspoon are remarkably complicated and every stage involves risk, coal, energy, capital, international trade and finance. Stainless steel cutlery has taken thousands of years of experimentation and knowledge to evolve and the end result is that we can eat without killing ourselves with bacteria. We are in the best times to have ever lived on planet Earth and the future will only be better. All this we take for granted. Greens may have started as genuine environmentalists. Much of the green movement has now morphed into an unelected extremist political pressure group accountable to no one. Greens create problems, many of which are concocted, and provide no solutions because of a lack of basic knowledge. This book examines green policies in the light of established knowledge and shows that they are unrealistic. Policies by greens adopted by supine governments have resulted in rising costs, increased taxes, political instability, energy poverty, decreased longevity and environmental degradation and they don?t achieve their ideological aims. Wind, solar and biomass energy emit more carbon dioxide than they save and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions does nothing to change climate and only empties the pocket. No stainless steel teaspoon could be made using green “alternative energy”. This book argues that unless the greens live sustainably in caves in the forest and use no trappings of the modern world, then they should be regarded as hypocrites and treated with the disdain they deserve.