Last week, the Guardian reported that the U.K. Government had appointed a new “Special Representative for Nature”. The representative, Ruth Davis would, according to Environment Secretary Steve Reed, help to “to put climate and nature at the heart of our foreign policy”. Davis joins the newly re-established position of “Climate Envoy” that had been closed down under the previous Government, now occupied by Green-Blobber Rachel Kyte. Kyte’s appointment followed a controversial £4 million donation to the Labour Party from the hedge fund where Kyte has a position. Both appointments have won much praise from the green movement. But what does it mean to “represent nature”?
One might think that the body that ought to be at the “heart of our foreign policy” is the British public. But Environment Secretary Steve Reed believes differently, telling the Guardian that “We depend on nature in every aspect of our lives – it underpins our economy, health and society”. No doubt, human society has not yet wholly separated itself from natural processes, but the idea haunting this claim overstates both the degree of dependence and the vulnerability of such processes to the point of ideologically-driven madness.
Nature does not, has not, and never can “underpin our economy, health and society” in anything more than a prosaic way. Prehistoric society – and human populations that live outside of the economy – are not characterised by good health, wealth and even “society” as such, but isolation, high levels of infant mortality, short, cold and malnourished
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If she will “put climate and nature at the heart of our foreign policy” then she will undoubtedly promote the creation of CO2 as the ‘Oxygen’ of plant life, especially since atmospheric CO2 values are currently so low.
Hope dies last.
If the public had wanted all these Green policies, they would have voted for the Green Party, which would have a large majority in Parliament. But the public DIDN’T vote for the Green Party or its crazed, destructive policies.
For years the Green Party had only ONE MP in Parliament. Now they have FOUR.
And yet every political party is carrying out Extreme Green policies WITHOUT A MANDATE from the voters, without permission from the voters, without the consent of the voters.
It’s a travesty of democracy.
“In fact, why not abolish Parliament – do away with the pretence that there is any form of representative democracy in Westminster?”
This is the problem. Our ‘representatives’ are not interested in representing ‘the people’. There is too much at stake for them to give up the lucrative gravy train they have embarked on as a career choice. Somehow the selection process for candidates has to be on the basis of their commitment to the community/nation rather the the tribe/party they choose to represent. Government has become an organised dodgy cartel full of rent seekers and revolving door grifters. Perhaps a system that selects people at random like the Jury service, selecting candidates from a pool of people of a certain age and experience and other criteria would work better? And also, limit their term of office to one parliament or a maximum term of four-five years to eradicate career politicians milking the system.
Does this mean that all foreign aid will be dependent on receiving countries agreeing to turn their backs on cheap energy (i.e. carbon-based fuels) and stifle their emerging economies so that they can join the UK on the descent back down to poverty in a net-zero world?
Can I assume that a ‘Special Representative for Nature’ will campaign ferociously to stop our green and pleasant land from being covered in solar panels and to prevent our skies being infested with bird killing windmills? Also will this Nature representative fervently make representations to the Foreign Office to speak out against the lithium mines which are devastating the environment in some areas of our planet in order to save the planet by pushing us all into EVs?
Will she be looking into why there has been a big increase in strandings of whales, dolphins and porpoises around the UK shores that seems to correlate with the increase in the off shore windmill industry….no, thought not.
Well said but I don’t think it will happen.
Not a chance!
Such weakminded thinking, that says
Natural == Good
aridet aridum, was the motto of the Leeds man who drained the Norfolk Fens of their natural sogginess. Yet the Green Blob goes into overdrive whenever the waters reclaim their place, screaming that “man-made climate change” is causing flooding which in turn, they say, is robbing the poor nesting birds of their homes (and the nimbys of their back yards).
You can’t fix ignorant and stupid.
Correction, arridet aridum