National Post: 'For some environmentalists, nothing is more important — not industry, not employment, not national security, and certainly not national economies. Anything that “contributes to global warming” must yield to their first dogma — that if we do not obey their alarms and edicts, subscribe to their millenarian nightmares, we face nothing less than the end of things. It is the green version of the Bible’s Revelations.
'Radical environmentalists are imperious. You must “obey” their science. You must degrade your economy in the service of dystopian visions. You must dismantle the energy systems of the world, the 21st-century communications and commercial systems sustained by oil and gas. The negative consequences which will ineluctably flow from this are unimportant, as to not submit to environmentalist scripture is to bring on the end of the world and the life upon it....
'...It is under this environmentalist banner, to bring this matter to particular illustration, that the continent of Europe tied its economies and energy to the ruler of Russia, Vladimir Putin. The armies now invading Ukraine were financed by Russian oil. Germany built windmills so that Putin’s treasury could grow fat, and the dictator could pursue his cruel war.
'The logic of “Greenism” led to the fallback to so-called renewables, and the predictable failure of the latter in the countries that closed energy plants, banned coal, closed pipelines and fought against any other form of energy, leading inescapably to the acceleration in the price of oil and gas, and the necessity of buying from Russia, and feeding Russia’s economy. All to the benefit of Vladimir Putin....'
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