Comments on: Green Hypocrites?

By: OBloody Hell

OBloody Hell — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:14:29 +0000

I’m put in mind of India’s Vandana Shiva, who, while obviously never short a few meals herself (see picture), carries out a pogrom against technologies which would feed starving people:

http://www.fumento.com/shiva.html

By: syn

syn — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:50:31 +0000

Fair Trade=Eco-imperialism.

By: Quilly Mammoth

Quilly Mammoth — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:01:14 +0000

Some pigs are more equal than others. Still true today.

By: terrence

terrence — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:05:44 +0000

We can hardly expect "the world’s most important people" to drive a Pius (aka Prius). After all, the car is uncomfortable!

This whole global warming and carbon/greenhouse gas movement is a complete farce. As H.L. Mencken said, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence, clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblin, all of them imaginary.”

BTW, a year or so ago, I saw an article awhile ago that trashed “Fair Trade” coffee. It included interviews with coffee growers. They said if they used new tools (like long handled hoes), “Fair Trade” would not buy their coffee beans. Too bad, if the old tools caused extreme back problems and permanent stooping, it was done for “pure” coffee.

By: Mwalimu Daudi

Mwalimu Daudi — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:04:33 +0000

I wonder if this is the same organization the the Evangelical Church in America is involved with? The whole "fair trade" shtick has been pretty seedy.

A brief aside. I was an ELCA missionary in Tanzania for almost six years (it was where I met my wife). The hard-Left political activism of the ELCA forced me to leave. Much of what the ELCA does in its "advocacy" seems to be an effort to push a politically-motivated narrow-minded brand of Christianity that considers disagreement with leftist orthodoxy as apostasy.