Critics not silenced: The 'green' movement is a very popular topic this year in the hospitality and tourism industry -but do we have a critical eye on 'environmental concerns'?

As we start making practical changes and consciously looking for ways to improve our practices - can we see that many solutions are in fact simply good management principles? 

In this article Barry Napier questions whether in fact the planet needs 'saving' at all, and states that there isn't any real competition of ideas on this topic, in the publishing market place, at present.

Earth Day was featured on 2nd April in an industry website. Then it was repeated in Hotel Interactive, on the 22nd April, as a top story. The latters front page on that day referred to another two green items as a top feature. Other industry websites feature many green articles on a daily basis. This is because, as one hotel group said about its own involvement in green things, that they would be fools not to. Why? Because they can boost sales.

Theres nothing wrong with boosting sales. And nothing at all wrong with featuring articles about green items. But there is everything wrong with silencing those who oppose what is happening.

Earth Day, until fairly recently, has been a great failure. The difference was made by Al Gore. No, this is not ranting or a diatribe. I have been researching this subject for the past two years and we have every reason to question not just his science, but also his real aims. We should also be aware that the media are refusing to deal with the truth. It is not that opposition to Gore is minor it is that the media refuses to publish anything against global warming. Industry publishers who do publish articles against the green onslaught are now rare and to be commended.

The Oregon Petition has been signed by close on 25,000 US scientists who oppose global warming and the IPCC.  The Scientific Alliance (to which I belong) does the same in the UK, My arguments are checked by genuine scientists. The IPCC scientists are not all scientists; many are just green activists. Since the IPCC report came out in 2007 several articles have appeared showing that vital aspects of that report are proved to be false, if not fraudulent. Yet, hotels and resorts continue in their headlong rush to implement what they call 'green policies' based on IPCC hysteria. They really have no idea what is going on.

As I have insisted several times, their policies are not green at all, but simple good management. To pretend they are green for the sake of gaining income is just as bad as foisting the IPCC report on the world. It certainly places a question over their ethics.

Now we have Ten Ways for Hoteliers to Celebrate Earth Day 2008 Again, nothing wrong with that. What bothers me is the element of silencing amongst hoteliers who pretend to be green, to shut-up critics who do not accept Gore's fraudulent claims. At first I thought the bigger groups were just ignorant of the facts. But, it turns out that ignorance is not an issue. Rather, money is.

A glance at the ten ways to celebrate Earth Day (previously the province of whackos) reveals a confusion. As I have said before, hotels think that good management equals saving the planet, which is very sad indeed.

Just look at the 10 ways to celebrate Earth Day - plant a tree!! This is next to useless. It makes a garden look nice, but has no relevance to the planet. If greens meant it, they would stop cutting down whole forests to make even more polluting biofuels!

Encourage staff to bike, walk, etc. The thought behind this is untenable, because manmade CO2 does not affect anything at all. Offer menus for vegans, etc., using local resources. The idea behind this is already causing havoc for Third-World farmers who rely on exporting their foodstuffs. Did you wonder why the cost of rice, and the cost of food in general, skyrocketed so suddenly recently? You should, because powerful greens are behind it all.

It is claimed that food should come from as close to you as possible to reduce CO2 caused by shipping and airfreight. Yeah, right. The fact that increased CO2 is created by a rise in temperature occurring 200-300 years previously, seems to have slipped by the scientific claims made by greens.

What about serving organic coffee and tea? Not bad. Nice taste. But based on hidden scientific claims that do not hold water. The real issue is not organic, but denying poor farmers the right to live. Are green bandwagoners aware that genocide and denial of energy to poor countries is behind this one? No, this is not scaremongering. Nor is it guesswork. It is in green policies, from the Sierra Club, to Prince Philip, to Gore, down to grassroot greens.

Use of electric cars, etc. Fine if you have one. But do not think for one minute that an electric car will change anything. The increasingly high cost of fossil fuels is man-made, in order to push everyone into alternative energy, the kind Al Gore refuses to use himself. These cars do nothing to 'save the planet'. It is all one big con.

How about cleaning a river, or beach, or park? Good idea. But it is just common sense and public-spirited activity. After all, people have become used to dumping their fast food cartons on the floor for a long while. About time we brought back civic pride. It has nothing to do with CO2 however.

Recycle what you do not want? Another good idea. It is a shame and a disgrace that we buy goods and dump them just because we want something more fashionable. It is a waste of money and space. The re-allocation of goods is another aspect of good management, but on a personal level. It does nothing to save the planet; it just saves waste-site space.

Another idea is to change one SOP (standard operating procedure) for a GBP (Greener Business Practice). Honestly, I cringe when I read things like that. GBP is OTT!! (Over the Top). This substitution of GBP for ordinary, everyday good business practice is unnecessary. It is a marketing ploy rather than a genuine business activity and it annoys me that hotels are playing to the green gallery just to make more money.

Hotels are free to play on twee social fashions. But, the green issue is very different and dangerous to us all. Hotels are picking out the green bits they want, without considering the wider implications to the general public. That is why I am annoyed.

Green camp-followers are clueless when it comes to the science behind green, so they actually believe hotels that tell them their ordinary operations are green.

The penultimate way to celebrate Earth Day is to offer carbon-offsetting credits to guests. Do they know what these credits are really all about? I doubt it. They are a fairy-story, a delusion that removes your money and gives it to Al Gore and his pals. Offsetting does not do anything about CO2 today. It allows richer folks to continue living as they do and makes offsetting companies wealthy. Ask yourself a serious question: how does a computer credit stop global warming (which does not exist)?

Then, in an effort to make it all seem joyous have fun! For goodness sake, there is nothing funny about Earth Day! It is just one part of the whole scam known as global warming/climate change/CO2 danger. They are delusions, and the science does not exist, except for very bad science used by those with an hidden agenda.

I would remind hotels that a British court pronounced Al Gore's film a fraud. Since it came out scientists have proved that human-caused CO2 does absolutely nothing to the planet or to temperature. And any temperature rise is below one percent. There is no rise in the southern hemisphere. It has also been proved that climate changes are quite normal and cyclical.

On the 22nd April this year ABC News revealed that the dramatic crashing ice-plates in Gore's film are computer-generated images taken from the 2004 block-buster film, The Day After Tomorrow! Other shots in the film have a similar pedigree. What does it take for this whole global warming thing to cool down?

Sadly, as my researches proves, the real deal is not green but gold. The green scene is a manufactured problem to gain big bucks. Hotels that play along for higher incomes are not just disinterested players. They are buying-in to a much more sinister movement than mere 'having fun on Earth Day!'

Look behind this green movement and see the truth and before you are hit in the face by what is actually happening increasing, crippling levels of taxation; destruction of jobs and freedom of speech; enforced use of alternative technology (or else); grave reductions in the ability to travel or even drive a car; closing of oil, coal and other fossil fuel companies; reduction in food and much higher food costs; ongoing hardship for Third World people, many of whom will starve; refusal to allow them to use industrial processes; spread of diseases caused by stopping chemical solutions to problems such as malaria, and much more. Genocide is on the cards of green movements. Think not? Just do the research. And discover that Al Gore has his finger in every one of those pies.

By pretending to be green, hotels are joining a vast movement that intends us harm. Greens love mother earth more than they love people! I have respect for hotels that push for good management. But I have no respect for hotels that deliberately pretend to be green and use green for everything, if they know what is truly behind environmentalism Marxism and fascism. Yes, some will shout that I am myself deluded. But, the modern green movement is rooted firmly in them. Read the facts. Do the research.

So, I urge all readers with brains unaffected by the greens, to start resisting the hotels and resorts that are into 'saving the planet'. For them it is just a means of increasing profits. But for the rest of the world it is compliance with a very nasty movement that hurts people everywhere.

Those who know I am right, try to say this has nothing to do with hotels and resorts. Excuse me? Then why are they filling the pages of industry journals and websites with green? How come greens can say whatever they like, but those with authentic data are silenced? There is nothing fun about Earth Day or any of the green initiatives, unless genocide is the latest fun activity.   

And note something else. Green hotels are starting to penalise all other businesses that do not go green. They stop using local suppliers who are not green. That is called blackmail; it is worthy of Al Capone (or is it Al Gore?) and his gun-backed protection rackets, not high-class hotels.

The article on Earth Day encouraged customers to only stay at green hotels. That is a very clear message that non-green hotels are to be shunned because they do not care about saving the planet. More blackmail. Customers who go away are told to turn down their thermostats another con trick that does nothing at all to affect global temperature.

Hoteliers are told that it is smart to be sustainable and profitable. Do hotels know the real deal behind 'sustainability' and that its basis comes from Gaia paganism? Overall, the recent article on Earth Day is nothing more than propaganda. And it should frighten any human being who loves freedom.

Again, I warn hotels that the green movement is far worse than you can imagine. You might gain a few extra shekels by 'going green', but you are also helping Gore and others to bring in massive behavioural changes that will damage the economy, control people, and cause many to die. Remember good management is not 'saving the planet'. It is just good management.

(Copies of previous articles on this subject are available on request.  My book on the subject will be out this year)

April 2008, Barry Napier
barry.napier@ntlworld.com
Hotel and Travel Journalist