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First, the cult leaders inspire the KoolAid drinkers: Suzuki, gore inspire atlantic reinforcements
CARL DUIVENVOORDEN
GrEEN IDEAS
Published Monday April 14th, 2008
Appeared on page D1
If you're among the many who believe our planet needs urgent help, meeting someone like David Suzuki would be pretty cool. Meeting someone like Al Gore would be downright exciting. And spending a weekend with both of them? Priceless!
I had that opportunity last weekend in Montreal, as 250 Canadians from coast to coast to coast were inspired by Suzuki and trained by Gore...
Then the koolAid drinkers do stupid stuff : Canadian anti-sealing 'activist' and founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Paul Watson was kicked out of Greenpeace in 1977 because of his violent tactics. He was known for carrying a bowie knife and keeping AK-47's aboard his pirate ship the Farley Mowat which he routinely uses to threaten to ram other ships with if they won't bend to his demands....
This turns the KoolAid drinkers into KoolAid-drinking-martyrs and gives them some sort of credibility in the eyes of the lib-left media. Farley Mowat bails out crew and namesake ship after N.S. arrest
By Keith Doucette, The Canadian Press
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SYDNEY, N.S. - Canadian writer Farley Mowat put up bail money Monday to free anti-sealing activists arrested on the waters off Cape Breton, saying the seizure of a ship named after him was a totalitarian act.
Mowat, 86, said he was deeply honoured when the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society named their vessel the Farley Mowat, and was ashamed of the Canadian government when he saw it being towed under arrest into Sydney on the weekend.
"A gross miscarriage of justice has been perpetrated by Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn and any Canadian with any conscience would try to rectify it," the animal rights activist said in an interview from his home in Port Hope, Ont.
"I have some conscience - not much - and a little money - not much - so I'm putting both to use and I'm doing my best to rectify a wrong."...
With their newfound (lib-left media) credibility, the KoolAid-drinking-martyrs encourage the politicians to do stupid stuff : Biofuels are used globally. Biofuel industries are expanding in Europe, Asia and the Americas. The most common use for biofuels is automotive transport (see Liquid fuels for transportation). Increased demand for biofuels, particularly in America and Europe has led to deforestation (see deforestation) and food shortages (see 2007-2008 world food price crisis ). This is increasingly making biofuels into a political issue throughout the world.[1] Locations such as Indonesia are subject to deforestation and the accompanying displacement of indigenous peoples. In some areas use of pesticides for biofuel crops are disrupting clean water supplies.[2]
The rest of us have to suffer the consequences : EU defends biofuel goals amid food crises
Mon Apr 14, 10:39 AM ET
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The EU Commission on Monday rejected claims that producing biofuels is a "crime against humanity" that threatens food supplies, and vowed to stick to its goals as part of a climate change package.
"There is no question for now of suspending the target fixed for biofuels," said Barbara Helfferich, spokeswoman for EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas.
"You can't change a political objective without risking a debate on all the other objectives," which could see the EU landmark climate change and energy package disintegrate, an EU official said.
Their comments came amid growing unease over the planting of biofuel crops as food prices rocket and riots against poverty and hunger multiply worldwide.
UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food Jean Ziegler told German radio Monday that the production of biofuels is "a crime against humanity" because of its impact on global food prices.
EU leaders, seeking to show the way on global warming, have pledged to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent by 2020.
As part of a package of measures the 27 member states have set a target of biofuels making up 10 percent of automobile fuel by the same year.
"We don't have an enormous danger of too much of a shift from food production to biofuels production," said Michael Mann, spokesman for EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel.
Mann, like Helfferich speaking to reporters in Brussels, stressed that the 10 percent target would in part be achieved through higher yields and increased production.
Ziegler also accused the European Union of subsidising its agriculture exports with effect of undermining production in Africa.
"The EU finances the exports of European agricultural surpluses to Africa ... where they are offered at one half or one third of their (production) price," the UN official charged.
"That completely ruins African agriculture," he added.
WTF? "We can't change a political objective without risking a debate on all the other objectives"??? What the hell are the other objectives? Here's a smack of the reality-bat for the members of the EU: If you're in Italy and you want to go to Denmark but your car is traveling toward Africa, you need to stop the damned car, turn it around and get moving in the proper direction...
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