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The greens are anti capitalism and pro marxist leftism. True greens are very strange people, they should live in communes...


THE GREEN CULTā€™S HOLY WEEK
The Left's religion of destruction on full display.
April 24, 2017

Bruce Thornton
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Hard upon Passover and Easter Week comes the two high holy days for the Green Cult, last Saturdayā€™s Earth Day, and next Saturdayā€™s Peopleā€™s Climate March. This two-bit nature-worship calls itself ā€œenvironmentalism,ā€ but like another pseudo-science that ravaged the modern world, Marxism, this ā€œismā€ is definitely a ā€œwasm,ā€ its contradictions, hypocrisies, and cognitive incoherence patent. But just as Marxā€™s poltergeist lives on in various collectivists ideologies, environmentalism exacts a huge cost from those who can least afford it.

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Industrial capitalism, of course, and its soul-killing technologies are the villains responsible for a modern world that pollutes for profit and ravages mother earth. This stance is blatantly hypocritical, since most of us today would not last five minutes without the technologies that have given us clean water, abundant food, and protection from natureā€™s fury. Idealizing nature is a luxury of the well fed who donā€™t have to wrestle sustenance from a harsh indifferent environment.

Worse yet, environmentalism has become the ally of post-Marxist leftism, since both find an enemy in free-market capitalism. Raymond Aron explains why: capitalism ā€œhas succeeded by means which were not laid down in the revolutionary code. Prosperity, power, the tendency towards uniformity of economic conditionsā€“ā€“these results have been achieved by private initiative, by competition, rather than State intervention, in other words by capitalism.ā€ Thatā€™s why at every G8, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank protest, the Greenpeace flag can be seen waving side-by-side with the hammer and sickle. Anything that undermines the politico-economic order that kicked Marxism into the dustbin of history is collectivismā€™s ally.

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But the greater irony is that for those who truly care about the environment, making people prosperous is the proven path to taking better care of nature. We improved our environment when we didnā€™t need all our wealth just to eat another day. The developing world can do the same thing. We just need to stop letting selfish, self-indulgent, well-fed enviro-cultists determine policies whose costs they donā€™t have to bear.

The Green Cultā€™s Holy Week
 

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