Green meanies.

When people with extreme mindsets cannot win an intellectual argument in the first instance, they tend to resort in exasperation by throwing their own bodies against their perceived grievances. When you marry such a mindset with the underlying world view that any productive activities which add value to natural resources is sacrilegious you have an army of committed anarchists just waiting to be thrown into battle against the forces of ‘evil’, thus the legion of 'protesters' chaining themselves to bulldozers, sitting in parks making a virtue of doing nothing, or the newest and most disturbing trend...telling lies and masquerading as someone else in order to urge disinvestment in companies you think are 'immoral'.

That the Green politicians would support such financial anarchy only goes to prove that these people are little more than totalitarian hypocrites masquerading under a 'democratic' banner until such time as they achieve their goals. Which dictator was it that said: "I believe in democratic voting, at least until I gain power."

If you believe coal is an existential threat to civilization then no revolutionary behaviour is too extreme, because you are doing it for ‘the good of the people’ and how can that be wrong? There are few worldviews more destructive than the religious one which maintains that what you do is not only to save yourself but the whole world.

Unfortunately in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king and most eco-fanatical motivations are one-eyed at best.