Thread: The New Dark Ages of Britain & The U.S.

Environmental movement, particularly in America, is quite literally an internal enemy

The New Dark Ages of Britain & The U.S.

By Alan Caruba
Sunday, August 16, 2009

I have long believed that the environmental movement, particularly in America, is quite literally an internal enemy, no less insidious than the efforts of the former Soviet Union to infiltrate spies and agents of influence into our government to affect policy,

I know that sounds harsh, but one needs only look at Great Britain where environmentalism has turned that once great nation into a virtual police state where every bizarre and insane environmental policy is culminating in a nation that will soon be experiencing blackouts and brownouts to its entire system of providing electricity.

“In the frigid opening days of 2009, Britain’s electricity demand peaked at 59 gigawatts. Just over 45% of that came from power plants fuelled by gas from the North Sea. A further 35% or so came from coal, less than 15% came from nuclear power and the rest from a hotchpotch of other sources.â€

Oh, horsecrap!
Doesn't this guy like breathing clean air? Wonder if he has ever visited China, because the smoke from coal-fired plants is making visibility difficult. And does he have a solution to cleansing the radioactive spent nuclear material?
Whining about Socialism and Nazis comes easy. Providing a solution is apparently beyond the scope.

Some conservatives boast about the viability of nuclear power. I used to work at a nuclear power plant--and ours was very safe--but it was opposed by environmental groups on a lot of ill-founded "knowledge."

However, I don't want to see nuclear technology exported to unstable regions of the globe where it could fall into the wrong hands. Yet, how will the nations of Africa, Central Asia and Latin America modernize and lift people out of poverty without cheap, reliable power? This is where alternative energy systems and green energy come into play. If we had been designing those systems over the last several years we would now be exporting products, and making our economy strong at the same time. Instead the democrats seized upon that reality, and promised jobs to America's heartland, much to their own advantage.