Posted on 08/06/2008 11:11:13 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Julie Burchill can't stand them. According to her new book, Not in my Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy, she thinks all environmentalists are po-faced, unsexy, public school alumni who drivel on about the end of the world because they don't want the working classes to have any fun, go on foreign holidays or buy cheap clothes.
Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair, agrees. In an interview with Rachel Sylvester and me, he told us that the “nutbag ecologists” are the overindulged rich who have nothing better to do with their lives than talk about hot air and beans.
So the salad days are over; it's the end of the greens. Where only a year ago the smart new eco-warriors were revered, wormeries and unbleached cashmere jeans are now seen as a middle-class indulgence.
The vast new organic Whole Foods Store on Kensington High Street in London is so quiet you can hear the cheese breathe in the specially designed glass room. Meanwhile the demand for takeaway pizzas and McDonald's has risen as people find the cheapest way to eat.
When David Cameron became leader of the Conservative Party he said that green issues were at the top of his agenda. His slogan for the local elections last year was “Vote Blue, Go Green”. But in the past few months he has realised that voters have lost the appetite for their greens.
He has only given one environmental speech since Christmas. Once he used to talk about putting a £3,000 windmill on top of his house. Now the message is not about conserving the planet but preserving his bank balance. He wears catalogue clothes, grows his own vegetables and holidays barefoot in Britain because it is less extravagant, not because he is trying to reduce his global footprint.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
“The vast new organic Whole Foods Store on Kensington High Street in London is so quiet you can hear the cheese breathe in the specially designed glass room. Meanwhile the demand for takeaway pizzas and McDonald’s has risen as people find the cheapest way to eat.”
I’ve been on an “organic” phase of my life. It makes you feel good about yourself then the hunger for a double melt, bacon cheeseburger sets in.
It was never cool on FR.
We’re so ahead of the curve, we’re behind the times.
Now if they would stop paying the dole and giving council housing (very reduced cost) to men with two wives and zero jobs, the Brits might be back in business.
Julie Burchill is a hilarious columnist for the Guardian. This book sounds like a must-read.
When you lie; it’s gonna backfire on ya.
Besides, WholeFoods and the rest of organic are way overpriced. You would think without all the perservatives not in them they would be cheaper. That would make sense since they aren’t suppose to have anything in them but the real thing.
Wow! They have Michael Moore and the rest of the Democrat Party nailed.
The depressed, therapy-addicted, self-loathing, faux-trendy wealthy (and their children) and the lazy, responsibility-averse poor constitute the worst of the eco-tards. Individuals in these strata a generation ago were the most likely to identify with communism too. Guilt for success and pride in failure.
“Julie Burchill is a hilarious columnist for the Guardian. This book sounds like a must-read.”
She was doing pretty good until the end when some lingering guilt pangs overcame her. It’s a good start though.
It reveals some serious incipient problems for the greenies. The constant hammering of the green propaganda about global warming and saving the planet is not going to sit real well with the “youts” of the world. As the greens become the establishment, the “youts” will naturally rebel, as it is their nature to do so.
I expect the pendulum to start reversing itself.
Come on! Those guys are armless!.
(for the pun impaired, soliton has just scored a double. he not only made an allusion to the radical imam who is in fact armless and polygamous and lived on the dole, but also did it in such away as to mimic working class british slang by dropping the "h" in harmless"!)
Not my fault. My GF was into this organic crap and dragged me into it. BUT I will stay on the reality side which tastes so much better.
That must be what you sophisticated college boys call double entendre?
(At Obama’s suggestion, I am learin me some parlez vouse).
Double entendre usually involves a veiled sexual reference. Glad to give you a hand, if you know what I mean. ;-)
“I’ve been on an “organic” phase of my life. It makes you feel good about yourself...”
And that is where the problem of the “eco-warriors” kicks in. The main motivation for all too many of them is “to feel good about yourself”. If they were truly in favor of “saving the whales, the world or whatever” from Human selfishness and greed, that is a noble task that would stand on its own merits. But whenever I meet any one of these people, I feel neither humbled by their morals or challenged to change my lifestyle. All I feel is repulsion and a faint guilt. It’s the insufferable air of smugness they give off.
Fnaar Fnaar!
...all environmentalists are po-faced, unsexy, public school alumni who drivel on about the end of the world because they don't want the working classes to have any fun, go on foreign holidays or buy cheap clothes... "nutbag ecologists"......more.
An elegant riposte, sir!
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