The War on Plastic isn’t Working – Recycling Myths Exposed
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Environment
18 Breathtakingly Wrong Environmental Predictions
The first Earth Day was in 1970, and back then, many ‘apocalyptic’ predictions were made about the environment. Mark Perry at Carpe Diem AEIdeas blog has gone back and looked at them in order to present us with all the predictions that they got so spectacularly wrong 49 years ago.
Wednesday Nightcap
Copenhagen Consensus Centre Director Bjorn Lomborg says the world is getting “virtually nil” impact from the $240 billion spent subsidising green energy every year.
UK Suffers ‘Worst Blackout in Decades’ Days After Renewable Energy Boast
Britain suffered its worst blackout in a decade on Friday just days after the “green-left” media had been bragging about the UK’s renewable energy grid makeup. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
In 2019 It Feels Like Agriculture Is Under Attack.
On an NZ Facebook page about farming this week I came across an interesting post written by a Veterinarian from the Wairarapa. […] Fast forward to 2019 and it feels like agriculture is under attack. It feels like a small number of anti-farming activists have dominated the media in such
Climate Change Activist Yacht Trip Saved ZERO Carbon
She rode a boat to save carbon but her crew will fly on planes to retrieve the Yacht. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
Face of the Day
Today’s face of the day is National MP Matt King who caused Green party and MSM heads to explode when he posted the following on his Facebook page: Some words ( not all ) of wisdom taken from NZCPR website. If I wanted New Zealand to fail … To suffer, not prosper;
The Greens Care More For the Environment than For Us
In 2016 naive millennials lapped up the Greens’ environmental policy, and they continue to congratulate themselves for saving the environment. “We love Aotearoa and we want to protect it. Our kids have a birth right to swim in clean rivers, fish in the sea, and walk in pristine forests. “Our
Things That Make Me Go Hmm
Sources: Climate depot: Boat materials; Crew flying; https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com Trip facts: https://phys.org/news/2019-08-greta-thunberg-world-youthful-climate.html
#FEELTHETEAL Why I’m Backing Sustainable NZ (Contains Some Swears)
the Greens are not a real environmental party. i’m so ready for a movement that puts the environment first, without the stigma and idealogical lunacy. sustainablenz.org.nz a few of the media clips are lifted straight from C Mccoy’s channel:
The ‘Architecture Critic’ Who Hugged a Tree
BFD readers no doubt belong to that vast majority of happy folk, greatly to be envied, who neither know nor care who Elizabeth Farrelly is. So I must apologise for bursting your bubbles of blissful ignorance. If there was a pictorial calendar of watermelons, Farrelly would be its cover girl.
Forest & Bird are Gunning for the Proposed Coromandel Marina
It was most disconcerting to see grown men on the west coast crying because Eugenie Sage and her minions have threatened to shut down recreational white baiting – a family tradition. With support of the Greens, Forest & Bird (F&B) are throwing their weight around far more than they
Face of the Day
Today’s face of the day is upset by proposals to change the management of whitebait. The Indigenous Freshwater Fish Amendment Bill is currently going through Parliament, which some worry could eventually spell the end of whitebaiting in New Zealand. The bill aims to give better protection to native species,
Real Vegans Eat Whale Meat
The Skepchick blog is mostly a sadly typical example of bien pensant left-“liberal” orthodoxy trying to pass itself off as “skepticism”. In a rare fit of common-sense, though, the blog acutely observed that “Food is for white liberals what sex is to the religious right”. Ignoring that the