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European Commission Cut from Reality? PR from Bellamy and Duchamp

April 20, 2008 By jennifer

Three cheers ! At last the peddlers of doom have seen the light : bio-fuels do displace food crops and rain forests !
Starving the poor and destroying biodiversity to give us good conscience as we pour cereal-based ethanol into our tanks is not a smart thing to do. Even Greenpeace admitted it, while avoiding to mention they had much to do with that fiasco.

But Eurocrats are not as smart : “there is no question for now of suspending the target fixed for bio-fuels,” said Barbara Helfferich, spokeswoman for EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas (1).
– In other words, they’d rather cause starvation, and destroy rain forests, than admit they goofed.

Their rationale boggles the mind : “you can’t change a political objective without risking a debate on all the other objectives,” which could see the EU climate change and energy package disintegrate, an EU official said (1).
– It is all very clear : allowing a debate on public policy is what the European Commission fears most ; more than starvation in poor countries, more than widespread destruction of biodiversity, and more than economic havoc caused by their cherished “climate change” policy.

Will we, Europeans, tolerate this neo-stalinist behaviour ? It is not just a matter of bureaucratic arrogance : this time it has become obvious that we are dealing with dangerous lunatics.

The Eurocrats have everything to lose if they stick to their smoking guns any longer. A debate is dearly needed on everything they’ve been doing wrong, from bio-fuels to carbon trading, and from climate change hysteria to the destruction of peat and designated areas by expensive and redundant windfarms.

(1) http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080414/sc_afp/euunfarmpovertyenergypoliticsbiofuel_080414143918

European Commission cut from reality ?

Co-signed on April 20th 2008 by :

Professor David Bellamy
and Mark Duchamp

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Energy & Nuclear

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  1. Arnost says

    April 21, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    And of course the Eurocrats can’t be voted out and replaced … brave new world in the making.

  2. J.Hansford. says

    April 23, 2008 at 1:25 am

    [It is all very clear : allowing a debate on public policy is what the European Commission fears most ; more than starvation in poor countries, more than widespread destruction of biodiversity, and more than economic havoc caused by their cherished “climate change” policy.]

    Ecological Socialists believe ideology is more important…. As did the National Socialists with their belief in just the same thing….

    http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/germany/sp001630/peter.html

    ….Fascism is fascism… They are one and the same creature…. It’s amazing how Europe repeats it’s mistakes time and again.

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