From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
The descent into wokeness has infected many of our national institutions in recent years, particularly those involved in heritage and nature, such as the National Trust and RSPB.
We can now add the Wildlife Trusts to the list:
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/cop28
One reader has received this load of propaganda from his local trust:
On the eve of COP28
2023 is likely to be the hottest year in history, following the warmest June, July, August, September and October on record globally. Hundreds of people and millions of animals have perished in wildfires, floods and heatwaves on land and at sea.
The Wildlife Trusts believe the UK Government must raise ambition on emission reductions, nature recovery and climate adaptation at COP28. With the international climate conference starting tomorrow, The Wildlife Trusts have three priorities for negotiators representing the United Kingdom in Dubai.
Our priorities
⛽ Faster action to reduce emissions: Climate change poses monumental threats to communities and the natural world. Lack of progress to reduce emissions means the goal from the 2015 Paris Agreement to stop global temperature increasing by more than 2 degrees hangs in the balance. COP28 must catalyse greater action to phase out fossil fuel use globally, including in the UK, this is a code red+ for humanity and our natural world.
Put nature recovery centre stage: The UK was visible and vocal at the Montreal UN biodiversity negotiations in December 2022. We want to see the same level of ambition for nature recovery brought to the table in Dubai. Nature recovery and food production must be viewed through the same lens and all parties should pledge to increase high-quality nature-based solutions for climate mitigation and adaptation, including in the UK.
Champion global goals on adaptation and the loss and damage fund: COP27 promised support for developing countries through a ‘loss and damage’ fund. We expect details on the size and structure of the fund at COP28. There must also be significant progress on climate adaptation, an area where the UK has been consistently weak. The UK Government’s latest National Adaptation Programme, published in June, does not go far enough to help the country prepare for climate change and is now subject to a legal challenge.
Quite what a loss and damage fund has to do with British wildlife eludes me.
The Wildlife Trust, of course, never used to concern itself with political matters such as climate change. Its website in 2018 could have been written a century ago:
Why we’re here
We need nature and it needs us. We’re here to make the world wilder and make nature part of life, for everyone. We’re helping to make life better – for wildlife, for people and for future generations.
Who We Are
The Wildlife Trusts is a grassroots movement of people from a wide range of backgrounds and all walks of life, who believe that we need nature and nature needs us. We have more than 800,000 members, 40,000 volunteers, 2,000 staff and 600 trustees.
Each Wildlife Trust is an independent charity formed by people getting together to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations, starting where they live.
What We Do
For more than a century we have been saving wildlife and wild places, increasing people’s awareness and understanding of the natural world, and deepening people’s relationship with it.
We work on land and sea, from mountain tops to the seabed, from hidden valleys and coves to city streets. Wherever you are, Wildlife Trust people, places and projects are never far away, improving life for wildlife and people together, within communities of which we are a part.
We look after more than 2,300 nature reserves, covering 98,500 hectares, and operate more than 100 visitor and education centres in every part of the UK, on Alderney and the Isle of Man.
We work in partnership to have a bigger impact for wildlife. closely with schools, colleges and universities, with hundreds of farmers and landowners, fishermen and divers; with thousands of companies, big and small; with community groups and other environmental organisations; with lotteries, charitable trusts and foundations; with politicians from across the political spectrum; with local and national governments; and more.
Our vision
Living Landscapes
Our work to create and reconnect habitats to make whole landscapes that work for wildlife.
http://web.archive.org/web/20180712182754/https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/about-us
As with the National Trust and others, this going woke has been forced onto members by a new breed of management at the Trust.
A new CEO was appointed in April 2020, Craig Bennett self described as an environmental campaigner, who had previously led climate campaigns. His previous role was as CEO of Friends of the Earth, which tells us all we need to know.
His predecessor, Stephanie Hilborne OBE, had been in the post for fifteen years. She was remarkably successful in her campaigns to create Marine Conservation Zones and restore wildlife habitats. In other words, exactly the sort of things hundreds of thousands of members had worked so hard for over many decades.
Worse still, in 2022 they appointed Kathryn Brown as their first director of climate action. Craig Bennett applauded her new role:
“As The Wildlife Trusts work to tackle the twin nature and climate emergencies Kathryn Brown’s experience will be invaluable – we’re absolutely delighted that she’s agreed to join our team.
“Too many climate records are breaking as the world warms, and though the natural world should be our ally in the fight against climate change, too many of our natural habitats are now so degraded they are unable to store carbon. We need to get serious about tackling these environmental crises by putting nature in recovery across 30% of land and sea by 2030.”
Kathryn Brown just so happens to have arrived from the Climate Change Committee!
The outcome is that the Wildlife Trust no longer has much interest in the concerns and ideals of its ordinary members.
To those running it, the Trust is just another means to push their warped, extremist agenda.
Nature needs us ??
No, it doesn’t, never ever.
“Too many of our natural habitats are now so degraded they are unable to store carbon. We need to get serious about tackling these environmental crises by putting nature in recovery across 30% of land and sea by 2030.”
I wish they would elaborate; do they honestly believe everyone will just take their word at face value?
Sadly many do. It’s the reason this hoax has gone on this long
““Too many of our natural habitats are now so degraded”
Particularly the ones in the care of the “greenies”
Zero maintenance, they become a haven for future bushfire, rampant weed growth and feral animals.
It has been obvious for quite some time now that all the institutions, charities/NGOs (especially) and bodies of the state have been captured by the new woke belief system.
“Over the next five years, The Wildlife Trusts will:
Work to understand the current diversity of the organisation, noting areas of underrepresentation, and taking a proactive approach to ensuring The Wildlife Trusts is a diverse organisation with representation from minority groups.
We will work with internal and external networks to address all areas of underrepresentation and to adopt best practice. We will be actively anti-racist and will have a suite of training materials for trustees and staff to embed EDI across the organisation and ensure each person knows their responsibility.”
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/about-us
This just confirms it; yet again.
Some time ago there were reports of the numerous wildlife, conservation and nature activist groups working together as a ‘Green blob’, sharing money, resources and key staff organised by 2 or 3 hub networks across the world. This ‘Climate Action Network’ organises and controls the work of thousands of local and international activist organisations, also providing training, support, legal teams and advice, ensuring that the same message is being pushed by all groups in a coordinated effort. It’s a way of circumventing the laws on political lobbying and funding caps as well as various other legal niceties that were set up to prevent any one group having too much influence in the political process.
This is part of that network, a ‘local’ group used to push the same message in a slightly different format.
In essence almost all activist groups are now part of an international conglomerate that thinks the same and uses coordinated efforts to influence political and public thinking.
They do have a tendency to centralise. That means they all sinfg from the same hymn sheet. They can block out those who do not or will not toe the narrative line. They can even organise an online burning at the stake.
How many people know how much Carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere? Next time an activist or believer starts telling you their credo, ask them….
I recall when Senator Kennedy had several EPA and other agency leaders at a hearing. He asked each- what % of the atmosphere is CO2. Not one had a clue. I think one said 5%, another 8%. Off by several orders of magnitude. I bet not one had a clue what the ECS is- probably never heard of it.
Yes, I saw that.
2nd hand car salesmen. That’s what they are.
I watch many of Kennedy’s video clips on YouTube. He’s awesome. Many recent ones were about extremely lame appointments for judgeships. His way of taking them down is brilliant- he just quotes things they’ve said in the past. It’s fun watching them mumble as they try to get out of his trap.
It might be passable theater but has any of it made even the slightest difference? I’m guessing not.
it can’t if the Dems run the Senate- but good theater can have an influence- Kennedy is good at making people look bad- it’s hard to believe that anyone would vote for such appointments
just watched another one where several Senators grilled the president of Harvard, a black woman of course- she’s not looking good
In Wokeachusetts now, almost all top government, media and academic jobs are filled by wokesters- mostly female which is why I say it’s now a feminocracy
I like to point out that the difference between current levels and pre-industrial of 140 ppm shows that the composition of the atmosphere has changed by less than 1 thousandth of 1% per decade. Their reactions can be quite entertaining.
The increases in CO2 are almost all natural.
When human emissions dropped by 6% during the start of the COVID-19 2020 epidemic, it didn’t make a bit of difference in the rate of CO2 increases in the atmosphere.
https://www.co2.earth/monthly-co2
The real and absolute killer would be to ask them how much water is in a tree, both in the tree itself and in the ground under it.
To twist the knife, ask them how it got there and what the tree does with it – depending whether the sun is up or not
And that patently, a Wildlife Trust is completely vacant on such things underlines absolutely how much sh!t we all really are in.
Because everything they do and propose to do, will make the observed changes even worse.
♫ ♪ They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
“to prevent any one group having too much influence in the political process”
I think we have failed in this. Radical Leftwing billionaires are running the show now. We will be in trouble until we break their grip on political power across the Western World. They are undermining Democracy and freedom at every turn in their efforts to consolidate power for themselves.
Left wing billionaires…
One of Margaret Thatcher’s economic gurus saw what was coming
“This concern was articulated by American liberal economist Milton Friedman in a long essay – ‘The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits’ – which was published in the New York Times on 13 September 1970. The target of his ire were capitalist entrepreneurs who declared that their concern was not merely profit, but also the promotion of desirable social ends.
These ends included ‘providing employment, eliminating discrimination, avoiding pollution and whatever else may be the catchwords of the contemporary crop of reformers’. Friedman warned that ‘businessmen who talk this way are unwitting puppets of the intellectual forces that have been undermining the basis of a free society these past decades’.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/06/25/the-tyranny-of-woke-capitalism/
Prophetic even.
According to the leftwing believers, it is Republican billionaires that are running most everything in the US.
The Right and the Left billionaires are planning on making trillions from “climate” change spending.
Bloomberg estimates it will cost $200 trillion to stop warming by 2050, and other estimates are similar.
Yes, I know that’s what the Left says but where’s their evidence? They always accuse their political opponents of doing what they do themselves, as a means to distract people from the truth.
I don’t know of any rightwing billionaires that are trying to undermine Western society.
The rich who own the media and have brainwashed more than half the country, liberals and conservatives alike are planning on making trillions from so-called “climate change.” They also own the politicians through their campaign contributions, and the universities through their grants.
The Machiavellian psycopathic narcissists are not even pretending to care about us anymore-
The global elites are not even pretending to care about climate change anymore: Michael Shellenberger | Watch (msn.com)
So who was responsible for these appointments? Presumably Bennett had a hand in appointing Brown, but who chose Bennett?
I find this sad but inevitable. I’ve subscribed to Yorkshire Wildlife Trust for about 15 years and their communications have gradually become more strident about climate. The only way of fighting back seems to be to withdraw my support. When they stick to what they were set up for they do some good work.
story tip [ridiculae]: “Is Israel’s War on Gaza Also a War on the Climate?”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/5/is-israels-war-on-gaza-also-hurting-the-climate
The Islamic world have sound allies in the western woke. It has learned their language…
“2023 is likely to be the hottest year in history, following the warmest June, July, August, September and October on record globally.”
But not in the US. The Climate Reference Network clearly shows that the surface temperature for 2023 in all of the lower 48 States is clearly in the mid-range, neither hotter nor colder than average. More American exceptionalism?
It is cold across most of the US and it looks like an early winter.
The Grand Solar Minimum has started and even the last solar cycle was low.
COP is a perfect time to mention wildlife–because the global warming hysteria aims to KILL all the wildlife on Earth. It all depends on photosynthesis, which depends on carbon dioxide.
Note: Carbon dioxide is also vital in animal physiology.
Agree 100% – we need trace amounts of carbon isotopes which we can only get from vegetarian animals that have processed it from photosynthesizing plants, we can’t process it ourselves, all animals need the same. So bugs or a vegetarian diet will not work, killing off the plants will kill all life on earth. I don’t know if they really are that stupid or if they have some plan to kill 3/4 of us off and build golf courses on the rest.
“The hottest year in history”. No – the hottest (maybe) since we started taking records. Recorded history goes back a lot longer than that and we have ways of estimating the climate back even further. We know the Romans had vines in the UK 1800 years ago and that there was a medieval warm period likely warmer than now.
It gets worse than that – for most their ‘history’ starts with satellites and computers, obviously nothing can be trusted before then!
Hannibal couldn’t cross the Alps with his elephants in today’s colder climate..
This one is gorgeous, I had to share:
In a discussion on MSN concerning heat pumps in the UK, A Mr Know It All told me point-blank that a UK ground source heat pump requires ⅙ of an acre to abstract its heat.
What a challenge: I took it to task, assuming the ground is dry and the heat-collecting pipes are buried to 3 metres depth
Then, taking a home heat demand of 10kW heat, that means that that ⅙acre of ground will be cooling at a rate of 1° Celsius every 4⅟₂ days
Someone had better tell this to the ‘Wildlife Trust’ – somehow I don’t imagine the Wildlife Critters (and plants) are gonna take kindly to that
That heat has to go somewhere.
How much of an acre does it take to extract its heat then?
And you can bet they all use lots of fossil fuels every day! THE SHAMELESS HYPOCRITES
Imagine you are one of these woke leftists. And I have spent many hours discussing these subjects with “ them”. The vast majority of them have little real world experience in any thing technical. They are engineering, economic, illiterates. They immerse themselves in an echo chamber of emotional rhetoric . They never subject their theory to alternative view points or expertise in the practice of physics.
And worst of all they have convinced themselves that the crisis is so severe that the ends justify the means; which is a centrally controlled economy and government. Fascism to start then a transition to communism .
Two-thirds of Republicans under thirty support the climate change agenda as well as 61 percent of Americans. Even 40% of Republicans overall support finding alternate energy sources.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/09/what-the-data-says-about-americans-views-of-climate-change/
These kinds of quasi-governmental organizations, and huge NGOs, should really consider polling their members directly on critical questions:
1) Climate Change: Should we, as an organization, involve ourselves and spend our resources, both financial and effort-wise, in this issue?
or
2) Stick to our core mission as described in our long0term mission statement?
I no longer support U.S. National Audubon because they are fighting the wrong fights and wasting money raising money with propaganda. Audubon didn’t ask me, a long-time supporter and a friends of the birds, or the other millions of members, if I or we thought OUR organization should fight the Climate Change fight with Audubon money and effort.
Any sensible enviro org will eagerly insist on a place at the looting table of COP 28. Preferably at the head of the line. ‘Please, sir, may I have some more?’
Sensible?????????
O’Sullivan’s First Law: All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing. I cite as supporting evidence the ACLU, the Ford Foundation, and the Episcopal Church. The reason is, of course, that people who staff such bodies tend to be the sort who don’t like private profit, business, making money, the current organization of society, and, by extension, the Western world. At which point Michels’s Iron Law of Oligarchy takes over — and the rest follows.
The Right has been brainwashed as well. Two-thirds of Republicans under the age of 30 support the “climate change” agenda.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/09/what-the-data-says-about-americans-views-of-climate-change/
The degree of success of such organisations merely reflects the success of the activists in persuading school kids that fluffy little animals are worth more than humanity. I’m sure that most of us like fluffy little animals, but most adults like humans even more! It seems that we need to reach adulthood to understand priorities!
A great many of those “school kids” being influenced are 40, 50, and 60 years old.
True but some of them have never learned to be adults even at that age.
Yes the Climate Trust appears to have become “woke”. Woke, a state one might be excused for confusing with insomnia and all the mental turmoil that goes with that. But this form of insomnia is weirdly different. While visibly awake and presumably aware, the woke view a world unrecognizable in comparison to what our own senses and natural exploration reveals to those of us who get a good night’s sleep. And yet, a key part of their misperception is their belief that their vision is clearer and more real than that of everyday folk with five senses and critical thought.
Where you and I see marine blue waves gently lapping a sandy beach, the woke see a boiling ocean that rises perpetually before them like the incoming tide never ceasing. We see a mild warming after an age of challenging cold, but the woke see Armageddon. We see rising food production, greening of desserts, falling hunger and a general increase in life in Earth’s biosphere but the woke see imaginary crop failure, starvation, mass extinction and a post-apocalyptic landscape. What we don’t see is the invisible life-giving CO2 in the atmosphere but the most woke can even see that as per the mumblings of Greta Thunderpants.
In short, the woke are not awake in the usual sense. They are more like the unfortunate street addicts who spend half their time committing petty crime so that they can spend the rest in a frenzied state of euphoria from methamphetamine, or in a state of unaware stupor from opioids, or both. In either case their mission is to be as unaware of reality as drugs allow. And so they cannot see what is right in front of them. What they see is a world akin to the most outrageous fantasy or science fiction novel. They hallucinate continuously and so cannot make decisions about their or our own best interests.
We need an effective cure for wokeness before the woke destroy modern society. It will have to be some form of sobriety that removes the veil of drug-induced delusion and brings the woke back into the real world of decisions and consequences. It won’t be a sleep aid, or a few counseling sessions that does the trick. It will have to be something much more powerful and widespread. My fear is that nature will cure this scourge before our leaders and policy makers even make it a priority. Nature’s cure as always will be the ultimate penalty for ignoring physics, economics and natural processes. It could be as if the reel of human history is run in reverse taking human society back to the caves, to poverty, hunger, conflict, brief painful lives and perpetual loss. If only we could find a few leaders who know what to do.
Before 1900 when aspirin was invented, everybody used opiates for pain relief.
In the 1920s and 1930s when opiates were still legal, smoked, and available there was only an average of 35 deaths in the US from opiate overdoses.
When the government made opiates illegal the price skyrocketed and people couldn’t afford to just smoke it and had to use needles to inject it, which made the number of deaths skyrocket from dozens of deaths per year to around 100,000 deaths in the US per year.
I am glad to hear they are concerned about nature recovery, I am sure they will now campaign for the UK to stop burning biomass, you know in an effort to save America’s forests.
I see they are also using the 2.0C instead of the 1.5C, another indication that the 1.5C is a lost cause.
My question for them is how much has global CO2 concentrations gone down as a result of the trillions of dollars pissed away on that cause?
In 2020 when COVID became worldwide, human emissions of CO2 dropped by 6% according to the International Energy Agency, yet the rate of increase of CO2 didn’t change a bit.
That is a natural experiment that shows human emissions of CO2 aren’t causing the continuing rise in CO2.
https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2020/global-energy-and-co2-emissions-in-2020
https://www.co2.earth/monthly-co2
They don’t mention that CO2 increases, probably from natural causes, have caused an area the size of France and Germany combined to turn green, and that can support more animals as well.
…to turn green in the Sahara desert..