A TRUE Example of a Watermelon Environmentalist - your stuff belongs to ME! - Granite Grok

A TRUE Example of a Watermelon Environmentalist – your stuff belongs to ME!

Watermelon EnvironmentalismMy friend Chan over at Weekend Pundit was the guy that introduced me to the term Watermelon Environmentalist years ago when we first started the ‘Grok.  Watermelon Environmentalist – Green on the outside, Red on the inside.  I had to think about the for a moment – the Red standing for the classic Socialist / Communist color

Sidenote: I still haven’t figured out how the Democrats stuck the Republicans with the color red…still not amused

Often, those named folks don’t like being called that.  For some, they are enviros first but have gotten frustrated that the rest of us don’t take them seriously.  However, those that are well described as Red get ticked as the rest of us now understand that the Green was just a front, they were always Red – not just on the inside but also on the outside.  Turning Green was just a way to hide – but sometimes that full on Red comes roaring out; exhibit Naomi Klein &  Global Divestment Day! (reformatted, emphasis mine):

To spearhead these activities, the interested parties have tapped the talent and resources of author Naomi Klein, perhaps best known for her book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate. (The title alone should tell you all you need to know about her.) She took part in a web chat for the true believers recently where she explained the importance of divestment from energy stocks and their associated profits. But the goal, as she explained it, involves doing a lot more than just getting the trust funds to dump their Chevron stock. That’s not going to solve anything. The real purpose is for the people to rise up, seize control of the companies and take all that dirty money away from them.

Confiscation.  Social Justice Warrior.  With the emphasis on SOCIAList.  Who else wants to take other peoples’ stuff from them except Progressive Socialists?  But the above is just the words of Jazz Shaw from Hot Air- here’s Klein’s own words at Grist:

This comes back to one of the most controversial parts of This Changes Everything, about how so many of the big green groups have partnered with fossil fuel companies, based on the false idea that we’re in this together. No, we’re not. I think people really get this, and young people get this most of all. It all comes back to that research. Every time you explain it to somebody else, you are part of the solution, because these are illegitimate profits.

Sorry, this is just lying (see here) by another Progressive.  That “illegitimate profits” phrase?  To her and her ilk, it’s not illegitimate, its a sin.  This is not about capitalism but about control.  It’s about a religion – the Righteous versus the heathan, and she’s not of the heathen variety and she is evangelizing her orthodoxy – and like the Islamic Jihadis, you will either submit or die.  Their Law is absolute – just like Shar’ia Law.  Cross it, you will get beheaded and that is EXACTLY what she is talking about doing; first the retake on the religion:

Not only are institutions destroying the planet, but they are also taking unnecessary risks with their endowments.

And then the scapegoating – those HEATHENS!!!!

Another point I would make, [about] carbon pricing, is that when we make the argument that this is a rogue sector, that their business plan is at odds with life on earth,

Apparently, she has not thought through the process of what happens when modern industrial societies are stripped of energy – it is not pretty.  Oh sure, things will go OK for a couple of days, but does anyone remember a couple of weeks back when NYC was supposed to get hit with the storm that DID hit Boston?  Grocery stores stripped of pretty much everything – how does she expect them to get restocked with no trucks.  And trust me, it is doubtful that battery operated snow plows are gonna get the job done.  But she does go full Commie at last:

we are creating an intellectual and political space where it becomes much easier to tax those profits, to increase royalties, and even to nationalize these companies. This is not just about the fact that we want to separate ourselves from these companies, it’s also that we have a right to those profits. If those profits are so illegitimate that Harvard shouldn’t be invested in them, they’re also so illegitimate that taxpayers have a right to them to pay for a transition away from fossil fuels, and to pay the bills for a crisis created by this sector. It’s not just about dissociating ourselves from their profits, but potentially getting a much larger piece of them.

So, not only take their Private Property (their money) but even to take their Liberty (their commercial life).   In fact, from this Watermelon Enviro is SO intent on this that, well, these companies are just the Spoils of War. The taxpayers are oppressed, mere pawns of the folks that allow them (at least in NH) to stay warm at night, drive to work in the morning, and make food for their families.

The problem is, Socialists never stop.  They always have the next “crisis” (did I mention that satellite temp readings are showing no increase in surface temps for the last 18 years, 3 months?) for the next thing to control.

Take away energy – then what’s next?

 

 

 

 

(H/T: Hot Air)

 

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