Yes, its your and my favourite rancid stale old rabid shit-gobbler of the year: Melanie Phillips! And she's attacking Jonno's tirade against the overly fecund. Poor work, Mel. Poor, reactionary drivel stuffed with straw men and non sequiturs. Never one to be blinded by facts and evidence, Mel doesn't seem to know- or care- that the modern environmental movement (her hated greens) didn't exist as an ideology before the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962. A few years after Hitler's abortive attempt at DIY brain surgery, yes?
I've returned to Mel's article and read it through again. I freely admit that the first time I visited it I read as far as the title quote and no further. Morbid fascination with this woman's detachment from reality forces me to contemplate it once again. Take this phrase:
I've returned to Mel's article and read it through again. I freely admit that the first time I visited it I read as far as the title quote and no further. Morbid fascination with this woman's detachment from reality forces me to contemplate it once again. Take this phrase:
Does anyone else get a stabbing pain in their truth cortex when they read this line? The reference to "resources" sustaining humanity is a ridiculously broad term encompassing things like iridium as well as fresh water. Resource dynamics is just another of those subjects that Mel knows fuck-all about but is somehow allowed to expound on in a National Newspaper.
"Despite the fact that the world's population massively increased and resources expanded to sustain it"
Is this the same Daily Mail formerly owned by one Viscount Rothermere who sucked Hitler's balls?
ReplyDeleteIndeed it is! What a coincidence. I can only take this to mean that the Mail approves of the green movement and would like to see it achieve dominance over more short-term, destructive ideologies.
ReplyDeleteHitler was green? What's green about shelling and bombing the shit out of a whole continent?
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you ask Melanie Phillips exactly that.
ReplyDeleteI guessed Brendan O'Neil...
ReplyDeleteOoooohhh good guess- someone just as rabid and deranged as Mad Mel. Brendan is a little savvier than Mel though and wouldn't have validated Godwin's Law in his opening salvo. No, he would have called greens 'bleeding-heart elitists' or 'well-to-do moaners'. It takes a really spicy wingnut to compare environmentalists to Hitler. Like Frothing Mel.
ReplyDeleteHe was a vegetarian and a dog lover. Is that what passes as 'green' these days? I fucking hope not.
ReplyDeleteThe la Rouchies seem to be the main propagators of the 'environmentalism is nazi race science' meme. Those whacky ex-SWP guys...
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