I always enjoy a hearty guffaw when American enviro-mentalists claim that they are warring against big business and ‘greedy’ corporations. Those guys should just go over to Europe where they can enjoy working hand-in-glove with corporations in a real partnership for a ‘greener’ Europe (not to mention a more expensive one).
Don’t believe me? Well, take a look this latest ‘triumph’ of green ideology as the EU has passed a law requiring all electrical goods to be recycled
“The new rules, which would come into force in 2005, would require individual companies to pay to recycle their electrical products once the family home no longer had use of them
Mais Naturellement it all got rubber-stamped through the EU parliament without so much as a hitch nor a blink and is being roundly welcomed as a tool for ‘changing behaviour’. That’s what these guys love more than anything on earth; changing behaviour. They get a swelling in their loins at just the thought of it. Our behaviour is very bad you see. We’re all naughty children despoiling the earth and ruining it for future generations of EUnuchs. We must be smacked firmly across the backs of our chubby little legs.
Well, we have been smacked; smacked with the bill for paying for all this recycling which Europe’s state-backed monopoly giants will simply pass onto us consumers. Thankyou, chaps. I wasn’t paying anywhere near enough for my washing-machine. But what is my comfort when compared to the happiness of the greens, the Eurocrats and, above all, Europe’s quasi-state corporations
“The Parliament’s decision was applauded by Electrolux, the Swedish white goods maker, which called on EU Governments to adopt a similar approach. “What MEPs have done is good news for producer responsibility and is constructive,” Viktor Sundberg, a director, said.
Certainly its ‘constructive’. Its helping to construct a wall of protection for the likes of Electrolux from competition both domestic and foreign. Smaller non-state backed companies will not be able to handle the regulatory burden and non-EU suppliers will fall foul of the new laws.
This is why greens were invented; as a ‘black op’ for corporatists who need to protect their patch while fooling the public into thinking they are defending themselves against a ‘radical’ anti-corporate opposition. Still, you’ve got to admit that it works.
