Too threatening to handle?

The Big Green Gathering, a peaceful summer festival held in Somerset, England, where green people come to celebrate nature, promote green initiatives, spread the green word, and recruit for future green events and manifestations didn’t happen this year. 

What’s more, the festival, which has been going on since 1994 and was supposed to run from July 29 to August 2, has gone bankrupt, so it is unlikely to ever happen again.

Reporting in The Guardian, George Monbiot, went through the dénouement leading up to the cancellation, and found an “odd” succession of events amounting to the suggestion of somewhat of an anti-green conspiracy.

Indeed, the organisers allege a deliberate attempt to bankrupt the Big Green Gathering: they say that the authorities left their new bureaucratic objections about proper road signals until the last minute. This meant organisers  carried on spending right up to the eve of the festival, and that by then it was too late to get legal advice and mount a challenge.

If this speculation is true, one might wonder why.  Are authorities becoming weary of the recent spread of the green appeal?  Is the green movement too much of a threat suddenly?  

The Greens: traditionally overlooked as mad and dreary hippy treehuggers, have managed to gain in credibility in recent years thanks to overwhelming scientific evidence supporting their main arguments.  A movement which has become too much to handle?