Greenpeace and Other Ecofascist Organisations Destroying 2-3% of India's gdp, Far More Here

     I saw this today regarding India's decision to stop Greenpeace using money raised in developed countries to act to prevent development in India.

The Indian government last week banned direct foreign funding of local campaign groups, after a report by its Intelligence Bureau warned that organisations funded by Greenpeace and other international institutions were growing throughout the country and "spawning" mass movements which now pose a "significant threat to national economic security."

The decision was revealed after the Indian government indicated it was ready to further exploit its large coal reserves and asserted its right to increase carbon emissions for economic development. Prakash Javadekar, the environment minister, said India had a "right to grow" and that it could not address climate change until it had eradicated poverty.

 

According to the Intelligence Bureau report, Greenpeace and other environmentalist groups had stalled the development of new coal mines, challenged its plans for more coal-fired power stations, and delayed other vital infrastructure projects in campaigns which had reduced India's GDP growth by two to three per cent. Much of their work, it said, is funded by the US-based Centre for Media and Democracy, which the report described as a Democratic Party-oriented group supported by liberals like George Soros and "multiple far-left foundations".

 

     2 or 3 per cent a tear is a lot. A country's gdp would be half its potential after 28 years. Maybe, since India HAS been growing at near to China's 10%, they are exaggerating a bit.

 

    But  the influence of "environmental" groups here is far greater. Several times greater. Which suggests we are losing at least 4-6% annual growth.

 

    Here are 2 comments and a reply on Spiked on an article pointing out that, even if there were to turn out to be some truth to the claims of Russian gold funding ecofascists, western government gold is orders of magnitude greater:

 

 neilcraig • 2 hours ago

What does not get media coverage is the extent to which western governments are funding alarmism. ( of the top 10 "environmental charities" (Greenpeace being, allegedly, the exception) get 70% of their dosh from the EU (the EU originally suggested 50% but they said they could not work with such stingy funding). There are also grants from UK government, councils quangos and "N"GOs. All in all it looks like the eco "charitable" movement is almost entirely funded by western governments to promote scares. Of the dozens of world destroying eco-scares, obviously, not 1 has proven truthful. On the other hand every one has allowed government to enhance its power.
There may, or may not, be some truth to the attack on Putin (the lack of any actual evidence being produced suggests not) but the unreported but undisputed facts about our own government's totalitarian scaremongering is clearly far more important. The fact that it is being censored simply proves its importance

gscales631   No one bats an eyelid when renewables companies invest in these protest groups. We almost seem to think that it is expected. They stand to make millions upon millions if fracking goes ahead though so there is still a clear conflict of interest. Now imagine if energy companies invested in protest groups outside wind farms, or Greenpeace HQ.

I am a geologist. I have drilled about 115 wells including many in the UK. I know for a fact that the protesters mostly know nothing about drilling. It is easy to tell by what they say.

What bugs me most though is that if an energy company makes a leaflet about fracking it is pretty much guaranteed to be sent to the ASA with a list of things they disagree with. Yet somehow they can stand in the middle of the street with posters and banners or in the middle of town centres with giant canvases saying things to scare people which are not accepted by the majority of scientists and they get away with it time and again.

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  neilcraig  
  • Indeed. Those in power are always conservative in the small c sense since who wants change when you are at the top.
    Without massive government funding, massive support from the state owned BBC and the rest of the government influenced media and perhaps a certain amount from dead billionaires, there would be no Luddite movement. I don't say no environmental movement because it was there, passing Clean Air Acts and the like, long before the ecofascists came along and grabbed their flag. One way to tell real environmentalists is whether they would rather have clean nuclear or polluting coal and landscape destroying windmills.
    Government should be absolutely forbidden to fund scare stories that enhance their power. This is positive feedback and is virtually always destructive.

     I have previously called for that legal ban on state funding of ecofascist (or other) organisations being funded to raise scares which lead to the increase in government power. It is inherently totalitarian as well as being economically destructive.