Climate protesters block roads
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amusingduck said:
Looks like a thoroughly miserable way to spend 2 weeks. Surely that can't be doing her mental health any good? It's disgusting the way she's being used
The weaponising of children is an act of desperation due to democracy not overthrowing itself and capitalism too when faced with hyperbolic environmental doomsaying. Not that it will, hence the increasingly extreme protests, in which there's a silver lining as they will kiss off more and more people who were previously passive-sympathetic.
'Capitalism - as if the world matters'
Glandular stuff but it goes down well with the useful bipeds and anarchists/marxists.
Edited by turbobloke on Wednesday 14th August 09:43
https://www.thejournal.ie/greta-thunberg-4764828-Aug2019/ said:
“It just shows how impossible it is to live sustainably today — it’s absurd that you have to sail across the Atlantic Ocean like this to get there with no emissions,” Thunberg said in the English port of Plymouth.
But I feel like since I’m one of the few people in the world who can actually do this I want to take that opportunity to do it.
Actually no. Its not surprising at all. For thousands of years the only way to get across water has been rowing/paddling or sailing. Then we invented burning things to make things go. That hasn't changed. You might put a wind mill on a ship rater than sails, but its still the wind that makes it go. You might cover the whole surface in solar panels but the drag is enough they won't get you far.But I feel like since I’m one of the few people in the world who can actually do this I want to take that opportunity to do it.
Basically, shes going and all the other celebrity faces are because they want to go and because they want to be seen to be there. It she wanted to talk at it, isn't that what video conferencing is all about? We can hear them just as well that way.
mcdjl said:
https://www.thejournal.ie/greta-thunberg-4764828-Aug2019/ said:
“It just shows how impossible it is to live sustainably today — it’s absurd that you have to sail across the Atlantic Ocean like this to get there with no emissions,” Thunberg said in the English port of Plymouth.
But I feel like since I’m one of the few people in the world who can actually do this I want to take that opportunity to do it.
Actually no. Its not surprising at all. For thousands of years the only way to get across water has been rowing/paddling or sailing. Then we invented burning things to make things go. That hasn't changed. You might put a wind mill on a ship rater than sails, but its still the wind that makes it go. You might cover the whole surface in solar panels but the drag is enough they won't get you far.But I feel like since I’m one of the few people in the world who can actually do this I want to take that opportunity to do it.
Basically, shes going and all the other celebrity faces are because they want to go and because they want to be seen to be there. It she wanted to talk at it, isn't that what video conferencing is all about? We can hear them just as well that way.
Give up luxury goods, mechanised transport, go vegan and regress to a localised medieval lifestyle then we'll be fine
Just in case anyone thinks that the alarmists' aim of returning society to a localised medieval existence is fiction:
Attendee report of a Tyndall Centre Emission Reduction Conference in 2013 said:
Given the academic reputation of the Tyndall Centre and of course the credentials of the Royal Society, I was hoping for a useful discussion on rapid deployment of technologies such as CCS, how the world might breathe new life into nuclear and other such topics, but this was far from the content of the sessions that I was able to attend. Rather, this was a room of catastrophists (as in “catastrophic global warming”), with the prevailing view, at least to my ears, that the issue could only be addressed by the complete transformation of the global energy and political systems, with the latter moving to one of state control and regulated consumerism. There would be no room for “ruthless individualism” in such a world. The poster papers that dotted the lecture theatre lobby area covered topics as diverse as vegan diets to an eventual return to low technology hunter-gatherer societies.
Much to my surprise I was not really at an emission reduction conference (despite the label saying I was), but a political ideology conference.
No ecological fruits there, just ideological nuts.Much to my surprise I was not really at an emission reduction conference (despite the label saying I was), but a political ideology conference.
Europa1 said:
....How was the boat built?......
My understanding is that this is a racing yacht so something like the sea-going equivalent of a Lear Jet. I would imagine the carbon footprint building it is massive and in its lifetime it will probably only be used by a few dozen people at most. turbobloke said:
amusingduck said:
Looks like a thoroughly miserable way to spend 2 weeks. Surely that can't be doing her mental health any good? It's disgusting the way she's being used
The weaponising of children is an act of desperation due to democracy not overthrowing itself and capitalism too when faced with hyperbolic environmental doomsaying. Not that it will, hence the increasingly extreme protests, in which there's a silver lining as they will kiss off more and more people who were previously passive-sympathetic.
'Capitalism - as if the world matters'
Glandular stuff but it goes down well with the useful bipeds and anarchists/marxists.
Edited by turbobloke on Wednesday 14th August 09:43
over_the_hill said:
Europa1 said:
....How was the boat built?......
My understanding is that this is a racing yacht so something like the sea-going equivalent of a Lear Jet. I would imagine the carbon footprint building it is massive and in its lifetime it will probably only be used by a few dozen people at most. A Winner Is You said:
Maybe we should go back to cutting down forests to make ships......
It's a good idea, especially if the trees are planted for that purpose. We'd have lots of new forests.In other news, Thunberg has been named by GQ (UK) as their "Game Changer of The Year".
(No, I don't know what that means either.)
Cold said:
It's a good idea, especially if the trees are planted for that purpose. We'd have lots of new forests.
In other news, Thunberg has been named by GQ (UK) as their "Game Changer of The Year".
(No, I don't know what that means either.)
Mousetrap is now fatcat trap because of the blatant unrestrained victimisation of mice. In monopoly the players all get houses and then throw paint on the banker. In other news, Thunberg has been named by GQ (UK) as their "Game Changer of The Year".
(No, I don't know what that means either.)
Europa1 said:
Cold said:
As I've said before: cold, dead eyes of a killer.She was interviewed the other day and was asked what we should be doing to stop climate change.
She hadn’t one suggestion. According to her, it’s her job to protest against what we have now but you can’t expect children to come up with solutions.
Given that even a basic understanding of what the issues are very quickly leads to myriad ideas for change, in even the simplest mind, I’m convinced she has not the faintest clue of what’s going on, whether it’s an issue or not, what’s being done or could or should be done.
I do hope she turns out to be a poor sailor.
Cold said:
It's a good idea, especially if the trees are planted for that purpose. We'd have lots of new forests.
In other news, Thunberg has been named by GQ (UK) as their "Game Changer of The Year".
(No, I don't know what that means either.)
She's now on the front of a magazine. A magazine probably made using lots of printing machines, paper based products and inks. Then the magazines are transported using fossil fuels to various locations. In other news, Thunberg has been named by GQ (UK) as their "Game Changer of The Year".
(No, I don't know what that means either.)
Such a good climate activist.
To be fair, I don't know what is worse. The agenda of the people pushing her or the agendas of all the luvvies her take her s
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