Another extremely well written article by Elizabeth Nickson. This one sad and disturbing, but not surprising. Eco Fascism is a cult for most, led by narcissistic megalomaniacs.
It is said by the ultra brilliant Ivy League schooled environmentalists here on the New England coastline that Casco Bay (think the city of Portland, Maine north through Midcoast Maine) is the Saudi Arabia of off shore wind development. Let that absolutely ignorant stupidity of an illiterate statement sink in. The cost and burden to be borne by the local lobster and fishing community, rate and tax payers of the New England Independent System Operator. Miles of acre feet of ocean to be cordoned off from generations of sea faring people. Best get to “Red’s” in Wiscasset, before they are forced to sell you a “Beyond Lobster” roll. It used to be chic to have a “save the whales” sticker on one’s rusting out Finnish Tractor blowing blue smoke engine oil, aka a Volvo station wagon. Now? Screw the whales, it is all in the wind and it is all codified by a carbon capture number. Green eye shaded and shirt gartered accountants keeping score. Pale aristocratically thin, skin so thin we see their blue blooded veins pulse as they look down on us peasants. The busiest part of the day chatting over their latest feats of bravery with their check books as teacups balance neatly on their boney knees or the new warriors with billions of private equity money now in charge, sip Chablis and eat soft cheese, talking Maine politics as self made “experts.” Don’t like the view shed of Camden Harbor from your new LEAN McMansion build out?? Literally poison and kill your neighbors trees so they have to be cut down. The Hell with the fact that the poison leeched into the local water sources and down to the little public town beach. Take heart though, when you kill the trees of a relative of the founder of LLBean even the dull and low IQ members of the Maine legislature sit up and take notice. It takes a village! We’re all in this together! Sure you are, artificial sweeteners are good for you, there were WMD’s in Iraq, and Anna Nicole married for love. You have it until you don’t. People either wake up and resolve to stop the grift or don’t. It’s not quite as crazy as BC, but give New England time to catch up, generations of successful Brahman inbreeding takes a while to infiltrate with enough NGO horsepower to really turn things upside down.
And now the blown to shreds fiberglass blades of the turbines, as big as the schooners of previous centuries, litter and poison the very “eco-system” they purport to cherish. Square miles of these sand colored shards on the beaches! It. Is. Purely. Evil.
My husband just returned from Portland, having helped his brother, niece, and nephew clean out the apartment of his now-departed sister. He loved Portland as a kid. He says now if he never goes back, it will be fine with him. The whole place overbuilt, wealthy folks from Boston who are remote workers living in newly-built hideous-looking hotels while they wait for housing, the city as crowded as can be. I'm glad I saw it before it became this way.
Well my sister retired there yrs ago. She had lived in N Va and above Berkley. All areas were wealthy we grew up normal for the time. She acted uppity from living amount the “upper class”. Well she retired to Portland before Covid.We had a falling out so no communication. My kids visited.
I saw these folks in Telluride in ‘78 at the Telluride Bluegrass festival. It was still pretty local but the trust founders fucked it up just like the rest of the mountain towns. These people believe that money and a fancy toilet paper degree makes them wise. I still can’t figure out where Elizabeth is coming from. She needs to live in the trenches with the dirty masses.
The coming financial collapse will be a shock to slot of people which says alot about the uneducated masses
Leftist are terrible people… You just read their BS in black and white… they operate on emotion… Reason, fairness, empathy and INDIVIDUAL Rights is are not choices on their color pallet. It’s is true they are not only a cancer pretending to be a solution but true to Marxist doctrine, they ignore due process, Property Rights and equal justice under the law. Did I mention that Leftists make terrible Americans?…
It is a tribe. There is no reasoning with them. Their posture is upright, their heads back, jaws set firm, and their eyebrows raised high at any peon who would dare question their dogmas.
Reminds me of those who are vegetarians/vegans, use only eco-friendly products, refuse to kill a weed, get upset over uprooting a tree, fight to preserve the local bog (that has been bought for construction of a single family home) because the “eco structure” of the neighborhood will be compromised, not to mention peril to the green-striped, red-spotted stink bug native to that bog —- and yet —- and yet, will think nothing of popping chemical-laiden birth control pills that will play havoc with the natural function of their bodies.
Acquired high-minded tribalism meets personal convenience.
I loved RFK Jr’s recent explanation of the difference between greens, and conservationists, which he considers himself and his family to be. Per RFKJ, greens are godless, reducing everything to a number, an inhuman metric, to “carbon” and of course, the “science.”Whereas conservationists embrace the complexity of the creation as a glorious reflection of the creator.
Elizabeth, your book, Eco-Fascism, is a wonderful read.
This hit close to home as my in-laws spent many years living on Vashon Island across from Seattle. The island vibe and people are just as you describe. One random thought that kept coming to mind as I was reading this, is the current development in Maui. I imagine a similar story can and will be written about the displacement of the natives and replacement by the ultra wealthy in this majestic, once untouchable and well preserved piece of land. I shudder to think of what New Maui will be. Sigh….
Born and raised in the PNW. The vignettes are so spot on that it took me home immediately and also why I remain forever saddened by the necessity to leave. It confirms why I always leave after every annual visit gritting my teeth. The disease however is not limited to my old home state but has spread far. The fight for reason, decency and dignity must be waged everywhere.
I develop renewable energy projects. People feel that, as Kong as the lights come on when they flip the switch, thar they are entitled to fight whatever they want. There is no comprehension of where that light comes from when the flip the switch. Willfully.
I reminded of the California Coastal Commission and how when it was proposed 52 years ago it seemed like such a great idea to this naive teenage mind….
I used to attend the Brentwood College High School on Mill Bay, Vancouver Island, and Saltspring Island rose up almost like a round topped Rock of filtrates overlooking Saanich Inlet. Very sorry to hear about your friend and her husband!
One thing I found very very strange about attending an elite boarding school was that in spite of it being an elite and upper class sort of institution still most of the teachers were raving leftists who succeeded in brainwashing many of their students. Of course this seems to be true across education in the West.
Whisper "Highest and best use" softly at the next Trust meeting, and see if you get out alive.
This article proves again the wisdom of buying remote and not overly-lovely acreage in a place like Montana or West Virginia or Arkansas. Life is too short to squander energy fighting preening greenshit artists who live off their multi-million dollar inherited portfolios.
Interesting how all this crap started with the Dave Barrett NDP government. After the great W.A.C. Bennett hade built the economic powerhouse that was B.C. it took the Socialists only three years to collapse the whole system and destroy the most vibrant province in Canada. They know what they're doing. It is their intent to destroy enough lives to eventually own it all for themselves. It is far past time to wake up! This was one of the main reasons I left the Island and Lower Mainland behind so long ago.
They know what they’re doing & they mobilize fast - it’s their religion, their higher power ( regular people call that higher power God). Eco terrorists have the same mo as liberals with tds. Fix on your target, dehumanize it & relentlessly attack until it is destroyed. Forget reason, truth, basic humanity, or even attempting to find some common ground & compromise. Only truly evil people can live this kind of life & be proud of their hypocrisy & power.
You are correct…evil exists and there is such a thing as pure evil. The God revealed to us in the Bible calls all who know and love Him to repent. Let us do so by rejecting confidence solely in political parties and, instead fall on our faces before the living Creator of Earth and all its inhabitants. He made it all for his glory. Let’s return to that fundamental understanding and let Him lead us through the Marxist miasma.
As part of a large land owning family, who loves nature but who also believes that Gods given dominion to us people -made in His image- over the earth & all living things, I’ve seen this story from both sides. To whom much is given much is expected. Your writing of this is so beautiful as to both bring a tear and to cause me to remember some painful times fighting the good fight…it’s still a fight only now in Montana instead of Florida, & I’ll be watching and taking notes at the upcoming Town Hall meeting in Missoula County to discuss the upcoming Flood Plain changes and the FINANCIAL impact it will have on the 1,850 residents in the new zone, hosted by my church-Crosspoint, on September 5 @ 6p. God bless us all, and may my writing about it be as lively & lovely as yours. May those of us who love this land and its PEOPLE, be fruitful and multiply 🙏
Thoughtful article. Thank you. Your writing touched me on a personal level as I sadly learned in the early 1980s as a young Civil and Environmental Engineer that the environmental movement was conceived in the early 70s, not "for saving" our precious environment, but was "about using" environmental concern as a lever to destroy private property rights, among other things. I am still an environmentalist despite the deceit, am a huge Edward Abbey fan, and faithfully reread Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac every few years for inspiration, maybe in part because I grew up in Portage County, Wisconsin and Professor Leopold was a beloved instructor at my alma mater till his passing in 1948. In 2013 my partner and I were issued U.S. Patent 8,381,523, B2 for an innovative geothermal energy technology, so I am vested in a few green bones of my own. After all these years, since I graduated from UW-Madison in 1980, I find propagandized environmental activism more dangerous today than back then as my eyes slowly opened. Thanks again for your hard work. Much appreciated.
Another extremely well written article by Elizabeth Nickson. This one sad and disturbing, but not surprising. Eco Fascism is a cult for most, led by narcissistic megalomaniacs.
Such exquisite writing for a tough subject.
Yes! Well said.
It is said by the ultra brilliant Ivy League schooled environmentalists here on the New England coastline that Casco Bay (think the city of Portland, Maine north through Midcoast Maine) is the Saudi Arabia of off shore wind development. Let that absolutely ignorant stupidity of an illiterate statement sink in. The cost and burden to be borne by the local lobster and fishing community, rate and tax payers of the New England Independent System Operator. Miles of acre feet of ocean to be cordoned off from generations of sea faring people. Best get to “Red’s” in Wiscasset, before they are forced to sell you a “Beyond Lobster” roll. It used to be chic to have a “save the whales” sticker on one’s rusting out Finnish Tractor blowing blue smoke engine oil, aka a Volvo station wagon. Now? Screw the whales, it is all in the wind and it is all codified by a carbon capture number. Green eye shaded and shirt gartered accountants keeping score. Pale aristocratically thin, skin so thin we see their blue blooded veins pulse as they look down on us peasants. The busiest part of the day chatting over their latest feats of bravery with their check books as teacups balance neatly on their boney knees or the new warriors with billions of private equity money now in charge, sip Chablis and eat soft cheese, talking Maine politics as self made “experts.” Don’t like the view shed of Camden Harbor from your new LEAN McMansion build out?? Literally poison and kill your neighbors trees so they have to be cut down. The Hell with the fact that the poison leeched into the local water sources and down to the little public town beach. Take heart though, when you kill the trees of a relative of the founder of LLBean even the dull and low IQ members of the Maine legislature sit up and take notice. It takes a village! We’re all in this together! Sure you are, artificial sweeteners are good for you, there were WMD’s in Iraq, and Anna Nicole married for love. You have it until you don’t. People either wake up and resolve to stop the grift or don’t. It’s not quite as crazy as BC, but give New England time to catch up, generations of successful Brahman inbreeding takes a while to infiltrate with enough NGO horsepower to really turn things upside down.
And now the blown to shreds fiberglass blades of the turbines, as big as the schooners of previous centuries, litter and poison the very “eco-system” they purport to cherish. Square miles of these sand colored shards on the beaches! It. Is. Purely. Evil.
My husband just returned from Portland, having helped his brother, niece, and nephew clean out the apartment of his now-departed sister. He loved Portland as a kid. He says now if he never goes back, it will be fine with him. The whole place overbuilt, wealthy folks from Boston who are remote workers living in newly-built hideous-looking hotels while they wait for housing, the city as crowded as can be. I'm glad I saw it before it became this way.
Well my sister retired there yrs ago. She had lived in N Va and above Berkley. All areas were wealthy we grew up normal for the time. She acted uppity from living amount the “upper class”. Well she retired to Portland before Covid.We had a falling out so no communication. My kids visited.
I saw these folks in Telluride in ‘78 at the Telluride Bluegrass festival. It was still pretty local but the trust founders fucked it up just like the rest of the mountain towns. These people believe that money and a fancy toilet paper degree makes them wise. I still can’t figure out where Elizabeth is coming from. She needs to live in the trenches with the dirty masses.
The coming financial collapse will be a shock to slot of people which says alot about the uneducated masses
Another great, not-so-funny profile here! 🤪
Leftist are terrible people… You just read their BS in black and white… they operate on emotion… Reason, fairness, empathy and INDIVIDUAL Rights is are not choices on their color pallet. It’s is true they are not only a cancer pretending to be a solution but true to Marxist doctrine, they ignore due process, Property Rights and equal justice under the law. Did I mention that Leftists make terrible Americans?…
It is a tribe. There is no reasoning with them. Their posture is upright, their heads back, jaws set firm, and their eyebrows raised high at any peon who would dare question their dogmas.
Reminds me of those who are vegetarians/vegans, use only eco-friendly products, refuse to kill a weed, get upset over uprooting a tree, fight to preserve the local bog (that has been bought for construction of a single family home) because the “eco structure” of the neighborhood will be compromised, not to mention peril to the green-striped, red-spotted stink bug native to that bog —- and yet —- and yet, will think nothing of popping chemical-laiden birth control pills that will play havoc with the natural function of their bodies.
Acquired high-minded tribalism meets personal convenience.
Love your profile of the ultra-righteous trogs here! 🤣🤣
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I loved RFK Jr’s recent explanation of the difference between greens, and conservationists, which he considers himself and his family to be. Per RFKJ, greens are godless, reducing everything to a number, an inhuman metric, to “carbon” and of course, the “science.”Whereas conservationists embrace the complexity of the creation as a glorious reflection of the creator.
Elizabeth, your book, Eco-Fascism, is a wonderful read.
Excellent, sad piece… I suppose this will come to a region near us in the US. Actually it already has to a lesser degree.
Reminds me of a book I read over 40 years ago… “That Hideous Strength” by CS Lewis.
And here we see the strength behind this environmental movement…. The devil comes only to kill, steal and destroy.
This hit close to home as my in-laws spent many years living on Vashon Island across from Seattle. The island vibe and people are just as you describe. One random thought that kept coming to mind as I was reading this, is the current development in Maui. I imagine a similar story can and will be written about the displacement of the natives and replacement by the ultra wealthy in this majestic, once untouchable and well preserved piece of land. I shudder to think of what New Maui will be. Sigh….
Maui was a deep state/Gates fire. Sooo many obvious signs of a high-tech igniting.
Did they not imagine people would pick up on this?
They failed to burn the trees between the houses…. Bet they won’t let that happen again…
Born and raised in the PNW. The vignettes are so spot on that it took me home immediately and also why I remain forever saddened by the necessity to leave. It confirms why I always leave after every annual visit gritting my teeth. The disease however is not limited to my old home state but has spread far. The fight for reason, decency and dignity must be waged everywhere.
I develop renewable energy projects. People feel that, as Kong as the lights come on when they flip the switch, thar they are entitled to fight whatever they want. There is no comprehension of where that light comes from when the flip the switch. Willfully.
willfully. yes. an arrogance underpins it
I reminded of the California Coastal Commission and how when it was proposed 52 years ago it seemed like such a great idea to this naive teenage mind….
It is now a monster.
I used to attend the Brentwood College High School on Mill Bay, Vancouver Island, and Saltspring Island rose up almost like a round topped Rock of filtrates overlooking Saanich Inlet. Very sorry to hear about your friend and her husband!
My dad went to Brentwood!
One thing I found very very strange about attending an elite boarding school was that in spite of it being an elite and upper class sort of institution still most of the teachers were raving leftists who succeeded in brainwashing many of their students. Of course this seems to be true across education in the West.
Rock of Gibraltar I meant
Elizabeth - you are Queen of the Complex Sentence. Many thanks for your advanced and NOT dumbed-down use of the English language! :>)
It hurt to read this.
Agree…but also exhilarating to read my own opinions and visceral sense of justice being articulated with nobility and nuance.
Whisper "Highest and best use" softly at the next Trust meeting, and see if you get out alive.
This article proves again the wisdom of buying remote and not overly-lovely acreage in a place like Montana or West Virginia or Arkansas. Life is too short to squander energy fighting preening greenshit artists who live off their multi-million dollar inherited portfolios.
Interesting how all this crap started with the Dave Barrett NDP government. After the great W.A.C. Bennett hade built the economic powerhouse that was B.C. it took the Socialists only three years to collapse the whole system and destroy the most vibrant province in Canada. They know what they're doing. It is their intent to destroy enough lives to eventually own it all for themselves. It is far past time to wake up! This was one of the main reasons I left the Island and Lower Mainland behind so long ago.
They know what they’re doing & they mobilize fast - it’s their religion, their higher power ( regular people call that higher power God). Eco terrorists have the same mo as liberals with tds. Fix on your target, dehumanize it & relentlessly attack until it is destroyed. Forget reason, truth, basic humanity, or even attempting to find some common ground & compromise. Only truly evil people can live this kind of life & be proud of their hypocrisy & power.
You are correct…evil exists and there is such a thing as pure evil. The God revealed to us in the Bible calls all who know and love Him to repent. Let us do so by rejecting confidence solely in political parties and, instead fall on our faces before the living Creator of Earth and all its inhabitants. He made it all for his glory. Let’s return to that fundamental understanding and let Him lead us through the Marxist miasma.
As part of a large land owning family, who loves nature but who also believes that Gods given dominion to us people -made in His image- over the earth & all living things, I’ve seen this story from both sides. To whom much is given much is expected. Your writing of this is so beautiful as to both bring a tear and to cause me to remember some painful times fighting the good fight…it’s still a fight only now in Montana instead of Florida, & I’ll be watching and taking notes at the upcoming Town Hall meeting in Missoula County to discuss the upcoming Flood Plain changes and the FINANCIAL impact it will have on the 1,850 residents in the new zone, hosted by my church-Crosspoint, on September 5 @ 6p. God bless us all, and may my writing about it be as lively & lovely as yours. May those of us who love this land and its PEOPLE, be fruitful and multiply 🙏
Godspeed Tiny Dancer Brave Heart!
Thoughtful article. Thank you. Your writing touched me on a personal level as I sadly learned in the early 1980s as a young Civil and Environmental Engineer that the environmental movement was conceived in the early 70s, not "for saving" our precious environment, but was "about using" environmental concern as a lever to destroy private property rights, among other things. I am still an environmentalist despite the deceit, am a huge Edward Abbey fan, and faithfully reread Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac every few years for inspiration, maybe in part because I grew up in Portage County, Wisconsin and Professor Leopold was a beloved instructor at my alma mater till his passing in 1948. In 2013 my partner and I were issued U.S. Patent 8,381,523, B2 for an innovative geothermal energy technology, so I am vested in a few green bones of my own. After all these years, since I graduated from UW-Madison in 1980, I find propagandized environmental activism more dangerous today than back then as my eyes slowly opened. Thanks again for your hard work. Much appreciated.