Now Dominant, the Green Movement Is Gobbling Its $pinach, With Few Blutos Left to Clobber | RealClearInvestigations

It s no longer just an ideological fight where one group of people may have the better view, she said. This has become a matter of theological importance, they see this as a matter of good vs. evil.

For now, the role of scrappy opponent, once held by environmentalists, has switched to opponents of massive green energy projects. Small players like Protect Our Coast NJ take some solace in the rising costs of such projects which has delayed the launch of Ocean 1 until 2026. The group drew more than 100 people but only one reporter to a recent event marred by a downpour. Shaffer, pointing to polling that shows support for the project has plummeted in New Jersey, vows to keep up the fight.

Despite obvious attempts by the Fourth Estate to ignore the efforts of thousands of New Jerseyans to protect the marine ecosystem and the Jersey Shore, our message is getting out, he said.

That message will win in the end even with the lopsided nature of the debate, Happer predicted. He compares the current landscape to what prevailed with the eugenics movement a century ago.

Every little town had its Eugenics Society, decent white ladies got together to drink tea and discuss it, the presidents of Harvard and Princeton, the scientific journals the whole Establishment believed in eugenics, Happer said. It was all nonsense, of course, and ended when Germany took eugenics to its logical conclusion. Now, some unfortunate county or state will implement all this and the people will rise up in fury, the policies are so crazy people will simply rebel. It happens again and again in human history when something seems invincible.

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There so much green money that it has now long since reached critical mass and beyond. It doesn’t really matter what the effect on the environment is. I see this as a mismatch between our intellectual theories and aspirations and the actual world we live in. All powered by human ambition (one might say greed). I sense it would not be difficult to make probable-seeming the idea that future climate is highly unpredictable, but this idea is washed away in the tide of money sloshing through the system. It’s largely, mostly, surely the product of institutional capture by (call it) Big Green and all the Medium and Little Green hangers on.