The  environmental movement is beginning to turn many people off, including myself.

I do not have a problem trying to be green. I am an environmentalist.

Is it possible to be one, but doubt things like global warming, the banning of plastic bags, question the expense and carbon footprint of municipal recycling projects, and wonder if hybrids are really good for the environment, without being dammed and labeled as a heretic?

I do have a problem with being goaded and constantly reminded to be green and drive a small car or hybrid or take public transit, while I see wealthier ilk flying off  on exotic vacations and the environmentalists say nothing about the massive carbon footprint of air travel.

I do have an issue with the environmental organizations harassing our politicians into making car manufacurers produce cleaner vehicles while any Joe can drive as much as he likes. What is the point of a manufacturer producing an expensive  environmentally mandated vehicle that produces 2 grams less emissions per mile while the public has unrestricted access to gasoline?

And really what is the point of  driving a small vehicle while I see huge mansions going up in the suburbs and the environmentalists say absolutely nothing about the huge carbon footprint involved in the building and maintaining of these monoliths?

It is starting to become evident to many that environmentalism has really just  become social elitism. Al Gore, Scharzenegger and the Hollywood crowd can do as they please,while pointing the finger at lesser mortals and moralizing about the need to save the planet. The jaded public is just starting to say “you hypocrites” in return, and smirking at the downsizing of thier Hummer fleets, the selling of an extra mansion etc.

And to put a tax on emissions from smokestacks and tailpipes is just plain ludricous. Silly and irresponsible because the majority of nations who gleefully signed Kyoto are failing  socialist states who were streetsmart enough to see Kyoto as a good blame game and a never ending source of funds via carbon taxes to prop up the failed myth of socialism . If these leaders simply do not care about thier own people and keep them repressed, what makes the naive western politicians think they even care about the environment? Kyoto was seen by the socialists as a clever blame game, a tool for blaming all the ills of their backwards nations on the “greedy” west.

And could have the rise of environmentalism come at a more opportune time? With the collapse of Communism in the early 90s, there needed to be something to prop up socialism in the world. What better way to deceive the west than by using Kyoto and  the hype of global warming to do it?

And the idea of  blaming European colonialism to blame all of Africas ills on the west was starting to wear thin after 60 years of no progress.Was there a  better way to keep the blame game going than by using environmetalism and the “polluting” western world to keep the myth of developing nations alive, just in the clever form of another myth like global warming?