Another look into the enviroweenie mind

Friend sent me a link to Depleted Cranium, which had this on the front page: "Green" groups are giving me Deja Vu. Interesting piece, pointing out that a lot of the enviroweenies sound an awful lot like the Unabomber. Including idiot statements like this:
“I would argue that it’s entirely possible to close the nuclear plants, close the vast majority of fossil fuel plants, and use renewables and energy efficiency to meet our energy needs to reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050, and nobody’s lifestyle has to change,” says Mariotte of theNuclear Information Research Service.
and
When asked whether energy conservation would require Americans to change their manner of living, Josh Dorner of the Sierra Club was careful to distance his organization from any suggestion of discomfort: “I think it’s about changing the backdrop as opposed to changing the fundamentals. Instead of people having a ton of lights on in their house that are wasting a ton of energy, they will have a lot of efficient lights on that are wasting less energy. … People will be able to continue living their lives without having to make big sacrifices.”

Please note the 'careful to distance his organization' crap; fancy way of saying "We want you to change your whole lifestyle, but we're not honest enough to say it out loud." Also, there's
I do think we are coming back to the old celebration of self-reliance and alternative technology at the local level. If we have a future with less oil and less nuclear, we will live differently, with less stuff and less energy consumption, but with more joy and more security. But we will have to rethink the McMansions and the two SUVs in the garage.”
Translation: "We want you to lose all the electrical appliances that can't be fed by energy from a composting toilet and windmill and solar power. And no transportation for individuals except a bicycle."

More?
Energy Justice Network organizer Reitman agrees. “I think we are going to have to face some kind of cultural shift,” he says. “I think the culture we have created for ourselves, a society based on a lot of excess and consumerism, really has let a lot of people down. I think the prospect of getting together in a serious way as a country [to stop climate change] is a great opportunity to get back to the roots of what it means to be an American, which is to be neighborly. It’s a great way to re-energize our culture, as well as our economy and our power grid.”
Translation: "We want you to stop buying anything you might be able to make yourself or buy from a neighbor: if you can't get it that way, do without. That's neighborly." And don't you love that name? The Energy Justice Network. Gee, I wonder what kind of government they'd like us to have?

There's also a piece on The Top Ten Things Enviromentalists Need to Learn. I also like a line from one of the other posts:
So I was on the Greenpeace website today. I had been looking to find out how I could get them to send me a donation mailer with a prepaid envelope (which I intended to send back to them full of lead shot and a letter telling them it was a donation of material to help shield them from the scary radiation.)