It takes a special kind of creep to celebrate a global pandemic that’s cost the lives of some 200,000 people. But then, we already knew that greens are special kinds of creeps. And they’re not holding back in celebrating death and misery in the name of holy
Every now and then, I pick up a book which slaps my mindset into a new paradigm. No seed flowers on barren soil, of course, so in it’s true that in some ways I might be mentally primed to receive the message such books impart. Nonetheless, I am lucky
It is very interesting to watch the ‘single-use’ plastic bag becoming a warrior in the war on COVID-19. Here among the sensible folk at The BFD it has always been a given that reusable shopping bags were a health hazard. Never more so than now. New York San
O’Sullivan’s Law states that “any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right-wing will become left-wing over time”. This is in part because leftists tend to only tolerate other leftists. Multiple surveys have shown that conservatives are twice as likely as ‘liberals’ to tolerate different opinions.
In the late 70s and early 80s, race hustlers in the United States discovered a new – and lucrative – tactic: lawfare. It was so simple: just level an accusation of racism at a corporate target and watch them rush to settle. After all, with ambulance-chasing lawyers willing to work pro
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As I’ve written before, the Morrison government’s plans for a royal commission into Australia’s bushfire disaster this summer is fraught with potential problems. Not least is that unscrupulous climate activists will turn it into a bully pulpit for their hysterics. Another potential roadblock is that those with
We’ve already seen how Greta Thunberg and her little pals reduced an historic village green to a muddy wasteland when they gathered to shake their little fists and screech “how dare you!” at all and sundry. Well, how dare they? The residents of Bristol are angry at popular eco-
Dave Pine The beautiful state of Colorado is known to be a Millennial Greenie hipster’s paradise. Their environmental policies are usually a good indication of which direction the rest of the US will head. “Wind turbine blades won’t be buried in the Logan County landfill any longer. Although
What is electric cars’ dirty little secret? Is it the batteries made with minerals dug up by children in dirty, dangerous, slave-like conditions? Is it the greenhouse gas 1,400 times more potent than CO2 which is used as a coolant by Chevy, Nissan and Tesla? It’s something
The government has released a Draft National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity. It seems to be trying to right all the wrongs out in the environment and is going to be very costly for Local Authorities (read ‘Ratepayers’ – you and me) to implement. As drafted, it goes well beyond the
How much petrol is consumed lugging around the copious, now slightly grubby, jute grocery bags that litter my car boot, travelling where I do? I yearn for the old clutter free boot days. How will we feel about hauling them through Coronavirus infested supermarkets? “People do reuse tote bags, but
No matter how many times they get it wrong, climate alarmists make the same mistakes over and over again.
Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Viv Forbes has first-hand experience of noisy smelly flying fox colonies, mouse plagues, grasshopper swarms, livestock predation by wild dogs and foxes, and pasture predation by kangaroos, wallabies, hares and wild pigs. He is Executive Director of the Saltbush Club. Every Species Needs a Predator
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has studied geology, physics, chemistry, maths, meteorology, cycles, industry economics and commodity markets. Two green-dream fantasies are heading for a massive and costly collision. Firstly they dream of generating all grid power from wind/solar propped up by battery storage (such as lots of giant
The Ihumatao issue has not yet been resolved, but one of the biggest concerns over this particular matter is the thorny issue of private property rights. The fact that a bunch of thugs can occupy a piece of privately owned land and make demands that the land be gifted back
