Why Environmental Extremism Is Failing

If I may quote the environmental extremists who utter it whenever any of their positions is challenged, "The evidence is in and the issue no longer open to debate". That is, environmentalism is a failing movement. And the reason for it's sickness is that the environmental crazies shot themselves in the foot and several other places while propagandizing untruths or misrepresentations they posit. Crying wolf too often leads to a deaf audience.

Surely protecting the environment is a worthy goal, and humans benefit when that is done. Yet what we have today in the world is a kind of charletanism that represents the worthy goal of keeping a clean environment and replacing it with doom and gloom scenarios of "it's global warming and we're all going to die!" Good grief!. We can't take the environmental cause seriously anymore because it has been so perverted by agendas and deception that we mistrust much of what the environmental "save the planet" (I hate that phrase, how arrogant to think humans can either destroy or save it. We are neither divine nor, all powerful) adherents promote. Every time I hear about my "carbon footprint" I just want to vomit.  I am human, not God. I can not personally destroy the vastness of what God has created.

In my view, here is where the environmental crazies lost most of us.

- Mistake number one goes back about 15 years when a phony snake oil salesman named Al Gore was selected to present the "global warming" theory (since changed to "climate change" due to the fact that too many people laugh when "global warming" is even uttered. But then, phonies always change the language when trying to force bad ideas on others). Gore so badly distorted and lied about his "facts" (well, we should forgive him since he has books to sell!) that the movement became identified with the mouthpiece of it. The result, no credibility.
- Mistake number too is the widespread use of fudged statistics and data by the global warming crowd. Saying that "all the scientists agree with them is a lie. Also, using non climate scientists to support their stats is dishonest. Uh, moving temperature reading instruments into the sun to raise the readings is not a nice thing either. And the fact that so many climate scientists that promote global warming have been bought and controlled by the governments that like the global warming agenda (pushing the  global warming agenda is good for the politician who wants to be re elected and for rewarding financial backers with those expensive tax payer contracts politicians like to award to their buddies) means the public suspects their "research".
- Mistake number three is the over emphasis on CO2 s a driver of earth warming.  There is NO scientific proof that man made Co2 has anything more than a tiny influence on climate. That notion is an unverified theory, not a fact. Yet, global warming nuts continue to focus on that dubious claim. People world wide are now beginning to doubt the whole man made CO2 global warming scenario. Instead of focusing on a real environmental crises....say the only real one that could imperil humans, overpopulation....the global warming movement still pushes the CO2 ruse.
-Mistake number four is the idea that developed nations can "save the planet" while underdeveloped nations continue to pollute and abuse resources (China is the worst polluter in the world, by far. It is not concerned about global warming). If the leaders of the world think so little of the green "save the planet" movement that they ignore it, why should the world's citizens also take it seriously?

So I think the environmental movement has now dropped the ball on what was at first a noble idea- trying to  promote a cleaner environment for we humans. It has now morphed into a lying, mean spirited, arrogant, holy war against anyone who dares to operate an automobile or use heating oil for his or her home. It's a shame that environmentalism did not focus on the real environmental problems that have and always will exist (and global warming is not one of them) and do so without threatening us with histrionic scenarios of world destruction.

While environmental activists ramp up the rhetoric to a war, ordinary individuals get on with their lives because they have a headache from constantly hearing the rhetoric. Let's face it, the environmental movement has, in a way, declared war on everyone. That's a war it can not win.