Fair trade for thee, but not for me

Posted: August 23, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

BRILLIANT must read from Paul Driessen on the environmental hypocrisy and double standards of the ideological Left and its eco-warrior elites.

AND, how could anyone forget the “Kayaktivists” protesting Shell’s Arctic petroleum drilling operation, in kayaks made from…petroleum!

https://twitter.com/jwspry/status/694907264197525504

Watts Up With That?

 Imagine what a Tesla or wind turbine would cost if the Left followed its own “principles”

Paul Driessen

“Nobody wants to buy something that was made by exploiting someone else,” Ben & Jerry’s and Fair Trade co-founder Jerry Greenfield likes to tell us. Let’s hope he doesn’t drive an electric vehicle, doesn’t use a laptop or cell phone, and doesn’t rely on wind or solar power.

We’re constantly confronted with slogans and lectures about fair trade, human rights, sustainability, environmental and social justice, little people versus Big Corporations. Most of these subjective terms reflect perspectives and agendas of the political left, and are intended to advance those worldviews and stifle any discussion about them. But most of their self-avowed adherents never look beneath the surface of their own purchases. Indeed, they would have no standards at all if they didn’t have double standards.

Just imagine what a $35,000 to…

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