"...one doubts they ever had any genuine eco-related convictions at all. Indeed, an elite takeover of all nominally green organisations seems to be in evidence..."

Job opportunities for the talentless middle classes with apparently a wider spectrum of acceptable "belief" than the other parties...so near anything can be "Green".

-I reckon most of them are fundamentally elitist Malthusians of the Prince Phillip stamp who himself zealously expressed his desire to be reincarnated as a deadly virus so he could thin the human population down somewhat.