David Bellamy died on Wednesday at the ripe old age of 86. Anyone in Britain of my age will have grown up watching him on television as he explained and explored the natural world in his typically exhuberant style that very much appealed to kids. According to the Express, Bellamy died of dementia, although this may be paper talk; Bellamy, after all, did not endear himself to the media in recent years. Bellamy was often outspoken, showing his disdain for wind turbines on BBC flagship children's programme Blue Peter back in 1996; but it was his heresy on climate change that really made the establishment turn against him, which Bellamy referred to as a scam. That said, many on the Right have again been all too hasty to hold him up as #ourguy, for Bellamy, despite his dissent from the establishment line on certain subjects, has always been very much left of centre.
David Bellamy was born into the affluent Carshalton town once famous for its lavender that was later subsumed within Greater London. Bellamy was always interested in the natural world and the sciences, and his first job as a laboratory assistant gave him practical experience before he completed a BSc and PhD in botany. He was then employed by Durham University as a lecturer in botany. His credentials when addressing scientific matters pertaining to the environment are therefore credible. Appearing on Ireland's Late Late Show with Pat Kenny in 2009, he exposed the CO² emissions and climate change scams for what they were. The environment is in Bellamy's interest, as he was an active conservationist for most of his life. It ought to be obvious that if more CO² is pumped into the atmosphere, more plants will grow and more quickly, converting CO² into oxygen in the process. Equally, any alleged man-made impact on climate change can never be measured with any degree of accuracy, and the climate changes naturally constantly, but his argument that sun spots are one of the greatest causes of climate change is true, as one can readily research by the fact that the Maunder Minimum coincided with the middle point of Europe's 'Little Ice Age'.
During the interview, he was candid about how he and other climate change sceptics were sacked by the BBC. He also lost several posts for his non-conformity, such as his presidency of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts in 2005. Bellamy was indeed a natural on television with his odd and instantly recognisable way of speaking that made him the subject of many impressionists. and the experience as a lecturer put him in good stead for this. Interestingly, the Durham University website has not bothered to mention his death, which suggests he had become persona non grata there too. Yet if he was dismissed by the BBC for political incorrectness, does it not also follow that he was first recruited for his political correctness?
When it comes to people, Bellamy toes the politically correct line. The fact is that Bellamy had the same Leftist dissonance when it comes to humanity that comes from post-Chistian thinking: Man apart from Nature and not a part of Nature. For all his conservation work of various flora and fauna, he thought nothing about the conservation of his own people. Bellamy, to his credit, was married to the same woman until her death last year, yet when Rosemary could no longer have children after the complicated birth of their first child, they adopted children from Guyana, Kashmir and an Afro-Carribean, as well as one White British, giving them the very European names Brighid, Eoghain and Karen, as though the names would change their very nature.
His case is comparable to that of Bill Oddie, another BBC employee and environmentalist, who expressed his unbridled hatred for Whites a few years ago. While Bellamy was not quite to that level, Oddie and Bellamy share another characteristic besides the separation of Man and Nature and working at the BBC. They both come from all-too-comfortable backgrounds. Their distanced view of Nature comes not only from the culturally Christian legacy, but also from the fact neither have been at the cutting edge of Nature. Ironically, this is why such people often see Black Africans or Brown Indians as being more natural than White Europeans. Yet instead of living a more natural lifestyle, they continue their creamy bourgeoise ways and invite said Africans and Indians to Europe to lead such lifestyles. One might be tempted to see David Bellamy as a big-hearted useful idiot, and there would be a lot of truth in that, but there is also a cancer at the heart of people like him which threatens the conservation of our species.
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