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NYSlimes: The Right’s New Rallying cry in Finland is “Climate Hysteria”…….


 

The Slimes is, of course, a proponent of the bogus man-made global warming hysteria, but the article is balanced when you consider the paper in question…

 

The Right’s New Rallying Cry in Finland: ‘Climate Hysteria’

By Ellen Barry and Johanna Lemola

 

HELSINKI, Finland — When they really wanted to rile up conservative voters this spring, the politicians from Finland’s nationalist party made a beeline for the rawest subject in this year’s general election.

 

No, not immigration. Climate.

 

As Finland’s other parties competed with each other to offer ambitious climate goals ahead of Sunday’s general election, the Finns Party has seized on climate as a new front in the culture wars, warning its conservative, working-class supporters that they are being betrayed by urban elites.

 

Aggressive environmental measures will “take the sausage from the mouths of laborers,” warned a Finns Party politician, Matti Putkonen, in a recent televised debate. And, more important, from dogs and cats, whose food, he said, would increase in price by 20 to 40 percent.

 

“What are you going to say to the little girl or boy who cries when Mom and Dad say that they can’t afford it any longer?” he said. “And take the lovable pet to be put down?”

If that was not enough, he suggested contemptuously that, if the liberals got their way, dogs and cats would have to accept vegan substitutes for meat.

 

Read it all here.

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