Kingsnorth: a camp of uncritical conformity
Rob Lyons
The ‘climate campers’ pose as radical – yet their disdain for consumerism and love of sustainability makes them little different to Gordon Brown.
Environmental activists have built a climate camp near a power station in Kingsnorth, south-east England, to protest against plans for a new coal-fired plant. Yet Britain’s energy infrastructure is heading rapidly for obsolescence, and the British authorities need to start building coal-fired plants now if we are to avoid a shortfall in energy supply. That is of little concern to the climate campers, however – they would positively embrace a fall in energy supply, and the austerity that would follow.
Read on at Spiked-Online
For another excellent examinations of the Climate Camp and the unpleasant bunch of toffs, aristocrats and green hypocrites who inhabit it, see Climate Resistance:
Hypocritic Oaf
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