Quite interesting piece

I must take issue with this assertion though – “The bulk of environmentalists draw from the left wing and academic sections of society, where conspiracy theories are not generally entertained”

The left is just as susceptible to conspiracy theories as the right and religious fundamentalists – it’s a characteristic of all extremists and “true believers”, religious and secular.

Try googling the following phrases and you’ll find, amid some sensible stuff, a wealth of red and green conspiracy theories:

Big oil
The military-industrial complex
Blood for oil
the rich get richer, the poor get poorer
race to the bottom
peak oil
greenwash
greenhouse deniers

Ow dear, here I go again about to get a mouthful from folks that get upset when a threat to their comfortable slumber arises.

Put the word "theory" in ya pipe and smoke it.

You all know whom David Rockefeller is I assume? Those that don't, he's pretty much the head chief CEO of America! (and the Bilderberg, CFR, Trilateral Commission, ect)

David Rockefeller's book 'Memoirs' in Chapter 27, pages 404 and 405; Printed by Random House, New York, 2002...go buy a copy, prove me right!

"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure--one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

Dealing With The Mob. What you are describing is a process and a set of procedures that supports an age old culture. The fact that the process has been designed and developed by people in the system qualifies it as a conspiracy.

There is definately a conspiracy to ignore and cover up allegations of bias, bullying and misconduct in education and to ignore and cover up allegations of child abuse/neglect in general.

There is also no doubt that the paperwork that is relied upon by the system is prepared by them. The process has been finetuned so that matters are only ever handled one way and so that privacy and rights prohibit anybody from asking questions or seeking answers. It is all one sided and so that there can only ever be one outcome.

Of course the problem is that the way it is now, our children are not protected.

Education - Keeping them Honest
http://jolandachallita.typepad.com/education/
Our children deserve better.

It would appear that Duncan M. Roads, editor and owner of Nexus Magazine (an international bi-monthly alternative news magazine covering geopolitics; science; the unexplained; health; human rights; environmental issues; and history) may be a bit of a conspiracist himself.
This is an announcement on the home page of Nexus:
"NEXUS email and server problems - PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT MANY EMAILS TO AND FROM THE USA AND AUSTRALIAN OFFICES ARE GOING ASTRAY. WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT THIS IS DUE TO THE DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY PERIODICALY 'SAMPLING' OUR EMAILS. (It seems we are deemed as "subversive" or something.)"
Or am I missing an elaborate hoax?

I see that admission from Rockheadfella's quote "working against the best interests of the United States" unquote didn't ruffle your "it's just a theory" pillow feathers...ok, so now I gotta put this old Torana into first gear....Prince Philip admitted during his interview with People Dec. 21, 1981 titled ``Vanishing Breeds Worry Prince Philip, But Not as Much as Overpopulation.''

'People' Q: What do you consider the leading threat to the environment?

'Prince Philip' A: "Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival ...If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war."

Using "war" hey? Rings a bell....no Bin Laden, no WMD in Iraq, and now '"Bush sanctions 'black ops' against Iran"...which is all called a "war against terrorism"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=E3KMWW5VVIXZNQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/05/27/wiran27.xml

Anyone still snoring?

Funny thing about conspiracy "theories".

Over time, many are found to actually be true or are never properly debunked.

Often this is due to Government stonewalling or their tendency to withhold vital information from an interested public (for reasons only known to themselves).

Something has to fill this void and it's usually a mixture of fact and speculation.

The only thing that everybody can be sure of is that we are seldom told the (whole) truth and the only choice we get is to decide what version of reality we want to live in.