Green Weenie of the Month: Seattle

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Power Line:

Steven Hayward

March 14, 2015

 

If you never needed confirmation that environmentalism is more about moral preening and self-congratulation than it is about the environment, look no further than Seattle. The New York Times reports today that Seattle is up in arms about a plan by Royal Dutch Shell to bring two offshore oil drilling rigs into Seattle harbor.

 

Now I can certainly sympathize with Seattleites who don’t want to see oil drilling going on in the heart of Puget Sound . . . wait, what? They’re not actually bringing the rigs in to drill for oil there? They just want to park them at the dock for repairs?

 

As Kirk Johnson reports in the Times story:

 

 

“You have signed a lease that will amount to a crime against the planet,” said Zarna Joshi, 32, a Seattle resident who was first to speak at a raucous three-hour public meeting this week before the port’s commissioners. The meeting was packed mostly with opponents and punctuated by the occasional dissenter, pointing out the hypocrisy of protesters who had arrived to denounce Shell in vehicles running on gasoline.

 

 

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Of course, if Seattleites were serious about protecting the environment from fossil fuels, they should close down the whole port of Seattle (perhaps greenie Seattleites think all their precious fair trade coffee and fancy Chinese-made iPhones are brought in on ships that sail the seas in 19th century rigging for wind power only?), and certainly they must stop Boeing from making any more airplanes, which have enormous carbon footprints.

 

 

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Seattle This Ones For You! I think you know where to put it.