The environmental movement needs to change

The environmental movement.

I'm an environmentalist. I love nature. It breaks my heart how we are destroying our plant mostly for profit.

So why aren't I marching and protesting ?

Because I genuinely believe that the environmental movement, to many times, is making things worse.

I come from a working class background. Council house and state schooling system. I don't class myself as working class, I don't class myself as anything really. I care deeply about the planet as I'm sure many others from my background does. So why don't I and these others not march and protest. Because we feel no connection with the school teachers, and social workers or the kids of school teachers and social workers who are. These people far to often come over as sanctimonious and condescending and it turns many of us away from them.

I can give an example; the green party.

A few years ago I joined the green party, and I went to a few meetings to get to know them.

Very nice people, lovely people indeed. But the kind of people I could socialise with , not really.

I knew of two events that I considered attending. The first was protest against a nuclear waste suppository in the area. I knew the greens had a information table up so I went to support them.

As I turned the corner into the square where they were I was met with -white boys in dreadlocks, playing the bongos and a pretentious hippy woman dancing in front of the table...I kept walking. No way was I embarrassing myself by standing with them.

The other time the local party had an information stall in town centre. Again I thought I would support them. 

Nope, I kept walking again. Just as their table came into view they had decided to have a -mass dying- to show people what was happening in Gaza. 

Again a good cause but , no way was I going to be associated with a load of social workers laying on the pavement with their arms and legs akimbo. Far to embarrassing.

As I have already stated I come from a working class background but I'm not working class.

No tattoos, hate football. Own my own home. I'm not patriotic; the only time I feel pride for my country is when it does something worth being proud of. I couldn't give a damn about what's gone before, its in the past, its history. Likewise neither do I feel shame for what has happened in the past; its history.

Too many times though these same protesters are the same ones who display white guilt or shame for Britain history. These are usually the same people who will defend peoples backwards cultural practices just because they aren't white British.

And these are too often the same people who tend to come from the regressive left.

Also far to many times they have the following kind of mentality to the answers to combat climate change.

If we all had an allotment the world would be fine.

If we all ate organic the world would be fine.

If we all burnt wood -because its carbon neutral- the world would be fine.

Well no we wouldn't. There are too many people on the planet. That's the big issue there that no one talks about. There are too many human beings.

European birth rates have plummeted. That's why we have had mass immigration. Our political leaders don't let people migrate here on humanitarian grounds. We need more consumers. Our capitalist societies need ever more consumers.

But 'as I say' the green movement tends to left leaning and will not wake up this very real fact, and until they do the world is fxxxxd