It turns out we've missed a trick in our articles about the fashion for what we have called 'pastiche politics', the phenomenon by which environmentalists attempt to muster non-existent public support by comparing themselves to world-changing political movements of...
Make Us Let You Eat Less Cake
We've flagged up Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband's relationship with climate activists before. When he's not snuggling up to Franny 'Age of Stupid' Armstrong, he's egging on airport protesters and comparing them to past popular movements: When you...
The Age of the Age of Stupid
It is telling that parts of the environmental movement attempt to ram home their message by telling the rest of the world that they are stupid for not getting it. As we have shown here on Climate Resistance, some argue that psychological mechanisms might be to blame...
Only Four Years Left to Save Environmentalism
Another sure sign that environmentalists are struggling to sustain a rational basis for their influence emerged last week. The pages of the Observer featured the opinion of NASA activist/scientist James Hansen in two articles [1 , 2] and an editorial. Barack Obama has...
The Pastiche Politics of the Runway Rush
Following the Plane Stupid protest group's day in court recently, another climate group, Climate Rush is planning disruptive action at Heathrow and Manchester airports next Monday, according to activist media portal, Indymedia. Hundreds of anti-aviation protesters are...
Branding Environmentalism
Another day, another expensive advert from the environmental movement. Not Oxfam this time, but Greenpeace, who must spend a significant portion of the $hundreds of millions they make on their campaigns. [youtube J8dLHZ6jKFc] We have noted before that the...
Under the Moon: Gore's Giant Limp for Mankind
Al Gore announced his strategy for powering the USA entirely from 'renewable' resources -a mixture of solar and wind - by a decade from now. (Are the sun and wind 'renewable'? How?) [youtube dt9wZloG97U] The ten-year time-span, and the 'big project' are borrowed from...