Comments on: What’s Left About Green?

By: editors

editors — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:24:00 +0000

Hi Harry,
We missed your comment at the time. We’ve posted a reply here: http://www.climate-resistance.org/2008/04/left-right-and-wrong.html

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:29:00 +0000

The editors here say that they would define the Global War on Terror as one based solely on fear. If so, (and I certainly dont buy into that), it’s a fear based on actual evidence or occurrence of global terrorism.

Balance that against the current global warming evidence and tell me which one is more likely.

By: editors

editors — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:09:00 +0000

Hi Doug,
You seem to be saying that we must be Conservatives because you find yourself agreeing with us when it comes to Environmentalism and climate change. We obviously have a lot in common with many who call themselves Conservatives. But we suspect that we would differ on other matters – the War on Terror, perhaps, which we believe has its roots (like Environmentalism does) in the Politics of Fear. Likewise, we’re not against big government or taxes – it just depends on the kind of government and what it does with which taxes. Our point is that the Left-Right distinction is becoming increasingly blurred/redundant, and that Environmentalism does not partition neatly between the two. In which case, it stands to reason that we are unable to position ourselves on any L-R axis. We would prefer that people judge our arguments on their own merits rather than their superficial alignment with the legacies of long-since dead political movements. So we maintain that we are not Conservatives. But feel free to classify us how you like.

By: Doug Halsted

Doug Halsted — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:34:00 +0000

Like talisker, I think that your last sentence is incongruent with the rest of the article which spends it’s time talking about political movements. Of which you don’t identify your beliefs.

However, I put you in the Conservative section based on your 17 statements along your sidebar and the fact that you like to use facts in your arguments rather than polls.

By: notgreen

notgreen — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:37:00 +0000

I am afraid the notion of directionless politics is totally wrong. If politics lacks something currently, then it is the ideology the crowd would follow like a sheep herd. Politics never loses its direction, which is more regulation, more tax, more power.

By: talisker

talisker — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:09:00 +0000

I see. Readers interested in finding out more about the network of former RCP / Frank Furedi acolytes and the cynically dishonest means by which they pursue their agenda might want to take a look at http://www.lobbywatch.org/lm_watch.html.

By: Editors

Editors — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:07:00 +0000

It didn’t look like a straight question to us.

There are plenty of posts on this blog that express our political views if you want to know where we are coming from. Your comments, criticisms or questions about any posts are welcome.

By: talisker

talisker — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:25:00 +0000

It was a straight question. How about a straight answer?

By: Editors

Editors — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:03:00 +0000

Talisker is mistaken.

We are in fact ideologically aligned to a race of ex-terrestrial amphibious lizard-like space Jews who make up an interstellar conspiracy to dominate the blood-lines of the ruling classes on planets throughout the universe to form a one-universe government and to raise taxes… by blogging.

By: Talisker

Talisker — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:24:00 +0000

“In summary, we are not Conservatives”

Hmm… Would you care to expand on this at all? Am I right in thinking that you are in fact ideologically aligned with the cadre of Trotskyites that once made up the so-called Revolutionary Communist Party and then, having failed to inspire mass revolution, went on to set up various front organisations (Spiked, Institute of Ideas…) through which to promote the thinking of former RCP Chairman Frank Furedi?

For people who place such stress on the primacy of politics over science, you seem to be strangely coy about making your own political position explicit.