Comments on: Britain’s New Protected Minority: Tree-Huggers

By: Wil

Wil — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:21:28 +0000

British tree huggers are a minority? What?

Surely at least 95% of all men, women and children in the U.K. are fervent tree huggers.

The protected minority in the U.K. should be the 6 or 7 non-tree huggers that are still around.

By: Andy Gates

Andy Gates — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:52:44 +0000

It’s the consequence of a weird, badly-drafted law that says any bunch of coherent beliefs that isn’t universally offensive is afforded protection.

Make-it-up-as-you-go-along-ism isn’t protected, because it’s not coherent. And the ‘offensive’ tag is there to stop Satanists claiming protection for their baby-eatin’ ways (not that they do, but the established religions needed a sop thrown their way).

Of course, ‘greenism’ if it’s an -ism at all would be an ideology and not a religion. It shares more with capitalism and socialism – a response to and method for improving the world – than it does with christianity and islam, which are inherently supernatural.

There’s nothing supernatural about looking at the latest GRACE ice figures and thinking “oh crap, we need to do something” after all.

By: Marion Delgado

Marion Delgado — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:25:31 +0000

Nice, I have to follow the National Front commenter??

Nonetheless, this is crap. Environmentalism is a combination of science and ethics. Not a faith.

Bad show, UK court.

By: Dave English

Dave English — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:47:00 +0000

I feel sorry for the Brits, they are so messed up with big government intruding on every bit of their lives, but we may not be too far behind unless we can dump the Kenyan.