John O'Sullivan on 'Green' Europe

"If you could divide Europe’s nations and regions into "red" and "blue" states on the American model, very few would be colored "red" — Poland, some other East European countries, rural regions across the continent, etc. Most nations would be cheerfully "blue." But all Europe would be "green."

Green is the universal sign of conspicuous virtue, of concern for planet, of a new paganism that worships the goddess Gaia and treats the Earth as itself a single living organism.

Anyone who questions this newly fashionable faith is regarded as a dangerous heretic to be cast into the outer darkness. A minister in the British government suggested to the BBC that it should not allow air time to any scientists who doubted "global warming". Other high priests of the creed have called for "Nuremberg trials" of "climate change deniers."

continued: National Review