On enviromentalism

During the past week or so I feel like I have been bombarded with propaganda about environmentalist events. Much of it about the upcoming Earth Hour this Saturday evening.

Personally I will do the opposite during this hour and celebrate human achievement by using as much energy as I possibly can.

"The lights of our cities and monuments are a symbol of human achievement, of what mankind has accomplished in rising from the cave to the skyscraper. Earth Hour presents the disturbing spectacle of people celebrating those lights being extinguished."
These thoughts (found in an article here) are key to what is so disturbing about this event.


The worst-case scenario for man made climate change that have any scientific reasoning behind it states something along the lines that man could, over long periods, slightly affect the climate. In some places it would become better and in some worse but one can not say that it would be destroyed or call this change a disaster of any kind.

There are several problems with environmentalists, for one they are completely lacking in cost-benefit analysis. We take our abundance of energy for granted but I am pretty sure if you think about it you are no way near to be willing to use somewhere close to 80% less energy, this is what they are demanding, only to avoid a possible future cost of some minor climate changes.

One other thing is that they are simply anti-capitalists. The environmentalist movement have had a lot of people joining from earlier communist and socialist movements. They just don't want people to be free, rich and comfortable cause they think stuff like equality is more important then people actually being comfortable and happy.

The environmental scare is a very effective tool to impose restrictions on capitalism.


There are however many other organisations that carry messages just as bad or worse. The difference is that none of those have managed to get this kind of mainstream support for there anti-liberty agenda. Everything from city councils to multi-national banks are joining Earth Hour to extinguish the very light of civilization.

The environmentalist message becomes even worse since it is more or less impervious to rational criticism.
I have managed to get politicians to agree that the argument to abolish the state hold some form of intellectual merit on a philosophical level. When it come to environmentalists I can however not even make them listen to the simplest arguments about the effectiveness of there methods to achieve there own goals.

Things like nuclear power being more environmentally friendly or pointing out how capitalism will drive development towards a less wasteful society.
One can only guess the reason they ignore even arguments like this is because they don't really care about the environment, they just want to destroy capitalism and liberty.

If one was to come with a really radical notion such as claiming that nature might not have any inherent value one will not just be ignored but marched to the stake and burned.

Environmentalism have (along with democracy) become one of the dominant religions of this age. That, I think, is what makes it downright offensive to any rational thinking individual.

We need to keep the light of reason burning. Eventually people will hopefully get fed up with the propaganda and become more susceptible to a different point of view. That will at least make them abandon this foolishness for the next one...