Clarity on Green

Rereading my last post after the glow of initial enthusiam passed I realized that, to my chagrin, I wasn't clear on 'Green'--what I meant by 'Green'.

I am for trees, more and more of them, to replace the lost balance of great forests long since gone. I am for chimney filters, clean manufacture, control of waste disposal, all that and more.

I want to see solar panels everywhere, and an orderly advance to vehicles that do not directly or indirectly require fossil fuels. Windmills in deserts are dandy; keep them out of the coastal waters. Instead harvest wave energy, it is constant and strong.

Those are not the 'Green' I am discarding.

Green, as a tool for political and/or economic gain is what is gone. The exposure of the fraud at East Anglia and elsewhere makes that essential. There is no legitimate way to commit the sums involved for the proposed projects in the light of these disclosures. Man has always exaggerated his importance in the world, and that's what I see here now. Let us not let this vanity play into the hands of those who would use it to our serious disadvantage.

Green, that Green, must be over.