Environmentalism Archives

For Free Speech or Extremism?

April 10, 2025 John Klar

First Amendment liberties for free speech vs criminal action teeter in the litigation balance for the international environmental organization Greenpeace. The 501(c)(4) nonprofit just incurred a massive jury verdict exceeding $660 million for allegedly defaming and inciting illegal behavior against Energy Transfer, the corporate developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The activist entity’s fiscal survival … Read more

Redux: “Conservatives Believe That The Best Form of Welfare Is A Job. Govt Thinks Otherwise.”

May 6, 2023 Skip

It was true back in 2011, and it is still true today. Conservatives believe in the honor and dignity in work. Progressive don’t believe in a hand-up and are willing to supply a hammock forever.

Biden Executive Order Creates “The Office of Environmental Justice”

April 27, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The US Justice Department has a new cudgel with which to beat America into submission. The Office of Environmental Justice will “protect overburdened and underserved communities from the harm caused by environmental crimes, pollution and climate change.”

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Promises of Disappearing Ice from Biden’s Enviro-Ambassador: John “Live Shot” (Or Lurch) Kerry

February 19, 2023 Op-Ed

Formerly known in the Boston I once inhabited as “Live Shot,” John Kerry regularly dragged himself in front of every local camera crew he could find.

Beyond The SoundBite Lecture series – Vivek Ramaswamy Part 2 & 3

February 10, 2023 Skip

Part 1 is here. This past Wednesday night at St. Anselm’s Institute of Politics, Vivek Ramaswamy gave an address to a packed (actually, “standing room”) crowd. I’ll tell you, it was well worth spending the travel time down and back to listen to him. Smooth, problem domain knowledgeable, and spoke from a point of view … Read more

Greenpeace Admits That Recycling Doesn’t Work and is Probably Worse for “The Environment™”

November 3, 2022 Steve MacDonald

When lefty green meanies issue mea culpa’s, it makes for good blogging, but I always remain skeptical. Take Michael Moore, for example. Planet of the Humans made it clear that neither wind nor solar was viable or capable. A fool’s errand, yet the Left has tripled down on the agenda. So, what’s the point?

Zero Emissions: Pretend Locally, Emit Globally

September 13, 2022 Steve MacDonald

The American Left’s zero emissions climate goals are not much different than shipping all your plastic garbage to Asia. We do it and pretend it’s recycling, then try to ban straws or bags here when they throw them in the ocean. It’s offshoring, and with Electric vehicles, we are just offshoring emissions, but it’s worse.

Let’s Go Nuclear

July 16, 2022 Steve Earle

We hear those on the Left admonishing us frequently to “follow the science”. We hear it regarding global warming (very much debated), homeopathy medicine (the debunked theory that ultra-small doses of poisonous substances are actually healthy), men can get pregnant and give birth, there are multiple genders and other such nonsense then push us to … Read more

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Watch Commuters Drag Environmental Protesters Off The Road so They Can Get to Work

April 25, 2022 Steve MacDonald

It isn’t being green. Think of all the other ways to spend your time. Instead of blocking bridges in protest, you could get a job and join the commuters you keep pissing off. Drivers who, on this day, decided they’d had enough.

Eco-Socialists vs Conservatives vs Constitutional Republic vs the Administrative State

February 20, 2022February 20, 2022 Skip

The Eco-Socialists are getting upset as more Conservatives offer alternatives to and criticism of the “Government is GREAT!” fallacy they all share. The ad hominem attacks are increasing.

Science or Scam

November 27, 2021 Steve Earle

Panic! The sky is falling and all our coastal cities will be under water in ten years! Wait, that was predicted twenty some years ago wasn’t it? Now, though, yet another environmental group decided to block morning traffic coming to work in NYC because the “city will be under water by 2200.” So is the … Read more

Group Wants Offshore Wind Investment Mandated by Executive Order

August 18, 2021 Steve MacDonald

If a governor can issue an order to declare a business essential or unessential, why not energy? Why not this? “Petition Asks Sununu For Exec. Order Telling N.H. Utilities To Invest In Offshore Wind Energy.”

DISQUS Doodlings – They Have No Idea of the Consequences and Ramifications…Part 2

July 7, 2021 Skip

Yep, back to Treehugger and the end of shopping. Pretty much, places like Dollar General and the like would be toast – can’t buy cheap stuff (gosh, would that mean the end of Chinese manufacturing? Jus’ spitballing here)? Recap: reformatted, emphasis mine:

Data Point – Climate related Deaths decreasing

March 13, 2021 Skip

Wait, WAIT! Are we all supposed to be dying off FASTER???? Why aren’t the Democrats FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE???? They keep yammering that they have to change our entire way of life because CLIMATE CHANGE? Er, not so much, it seems… (H/T: Powerline)

‘Green Leap Forward’

February 2, 2021 Steve MacDonald

In the book Mao’s Great Famine, author Frank Dikötter describes in vivid detail the period between 1958 and 1962 where an estimated 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved, or beaten to death in a mad rush to overtake the Western world as measured by agricultural and industrial outputs.

Cambridge Mass Warning Stickers on Fuel Pumps

ICYMI – Cambridge MA Put Big Yellow Climate Change Warning Stickers on All Their Gas Pumps

January 1, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Twenty-Twenty wasn’t a bad year; people made it that way. People, letting people if you catch my drift. Mostly left-wingers regardless of the side from which they were winging it. And while most of the attention went to viruses from China (Flu and Election), there were other stories to tell.

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Michael Moore’s New Documentary: Green Energy is a Scam and We’re All Fools (Video Added)

November 30, 2021April 22, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Last October, in this very space, we announced Michael Moore’s new moment in time. A documentary on how the green moment is not green. It’s dirty, dangerous, another corporate swindle, and we (The Left) all fell for it. It’s not only not green, but it’s also bad for the earth.

Lying Lizzie Is Going Carbon Neutral

January 9, 2020 Percy Blakeney

Socialist broom rider Lying Lizzie says; in her reign, America will build no new buildings unless they are carbon neutral. That should be very reassuring to no one. There are no industry standards for carbon-neutral construction. This is political posturing, first last and always.

The Party of “blue collar workers” no more? Thanks, Democrats

December 23, 2019December 23, 2019 Skip

I don’t think that Biden’s answer was all that well thought out – but very much in line with how Democrats feel about fossil fuel regardless of its importance to our economy now. After all, there is that old saying “you can’t make omelettes without breaking a few eggs”; Biden made it clear that even … Read more

NH Vape Sales up 76% Since Massachusetts Banned Vaping in the Bay State

January 6, 2020December 5, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Charlie Baker is a registered Republican in Massachusetts. Even real Republicans know what that means (Democrat) – and Democrats surround him. So the knee-jerk 4-month vaping ban in the Bay State was not surprising. Nor was the massive uptick in sales in New Hampshire.