Green Party: Protecting the environment or just another left wing movement?

 

The British newspaper The Guardian gave away the reality of the Green Party. This is not about the environment or saving the planet. This is about yet another grouping that has the intent to erode the foundations of our way of life. 

If the idea is to protect the environemnt - I am sure that people right, centre and left of politics are concerned about the planet - there is no need to mix ideological stances with measures to protect the planet. 

If we look closely at China - for example - the whole issue of the Sea of China is about mineral resources including oil. It is the presumed existence of vast deposits of fossil fuels that led to a more assertive Chinese position in the Sea of China. Therefore, whatever is said in public speeches, it is reality that counts and reality tells us that oil is the bone of contention between China and India and coal mines continue to be created to reach an energy resources that is readily available. Whoever has access to readily available sources of energy has the competitive advantage. What was the idea behind Japan's expansion in Asia in the early Twentieth Century? The aim was to get energy to support Japan's industrial development.

Whatever is said about the environment, the essence is that countries need energy. When it comes to nuclear energy - there is the choice between fusion and fission, between a risky option and a safer option, but in the end we need to have access to radioactive raw materials to be able to use them as fuel in nuclear reactions and later we need to have safe ways to dispose of spent radioactive materials. 

We could cover the entire planet with windturbines and solar panels and still we would not have enough realiable energy to meet growing needs.

The environmental discourse is about what would be ideal and about what is feasible, and even what we see as better options - windturbines and solar panels - need to be produced and such production is also detrimental for the environment. 

They tell us that electric cars are better for the environment How could the production of tens of millions of electric cars with batteries made using lithium be so beneficial for the environment is a mystery. Lithium would have to mined and processed using - most probably - fossil fuels.

We are being presented with false choices and slogans. More than 7.5 billion souls that inhabit the planet at any given time will need massive amounts of energy, energy that cannot be produced with gimmicks and slogans.