Literally millions of people have had their lives turned upside down this week by the great and the good who know best. They are the liberal elite who, if you dare to argue, if you dare to point out that they are just not quite right, will call you every name under the sun.
They will denigrate you as a non- believer and a philistine: be prepared to be shouted down, remonstrated with and, in order to prove they are right, screamed at fully in your face.
The whole of London has been brought to a stand-still, hundreds of arrests made by the Metropolitan police force, already stretched to the limit. Criminal damage was caused to the Shell offices with graffiti and superglue.
Supergluing themselves to buildings, railings and barriers seems to be the new way to chain yourself. Of course, for the fear of injuring demonstrators or of further claims in court, the police are reluctant if not incapable of dealing with this phenomenon. Why should they, too! For me, I would just pull them off, skin and all but yes, in any civilised society you cannot do that.
Camping in Oxford Circus has been allowed. This is a main thoroughfare right in the heart of London, so you just have to ask why this has been allowed. If it had been a pro Brexit encampment, I would bet a mortgage that they would have been moved on or arrested already.
Street parties with slightly odd, if not a tad mad dancing on bridges over the Thames are a spectacle. With other bridges closed for repairs it won’t be long before beleaguered Londoners will have to go to Reading to get across the Thames. Chaining themselves to the DLR trains is downright irresponsible and puts emergency services in danger.
Encouraging kids to skip school and go “on strike” is also a silly, pointless thing to do as they miss valuable education time for no purpose. One thing they won’t do is throw away their mobile phones with batteries in them, or stop eating takeaway foods with non-biodegradable boxes and drink cartons.
The last demonstration by these entitled children of the future resulted in tons of placards and rubbish being left behind for the workers of Westminster council to clear away. So much for protecting the climate!
At the end of this three-day protestation what will be the outcome? Will it have changed government policy, will it have changed the narrative of world leaders towards a cleaner green world? No is the answer! China is building coal fired power stations at an alarming rate, dancing across Oxford Circus, stopping traffic and trains in London won’t halt that.
The destruction of the rainforest in the Amazon delta has to be a worry but what if anything is being done to stop this? Mining of Lithium, from the lithium triangle of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile is causing its own environmental disasters. China’s search for this magical stuff fares no better. Children being used to mine the main ingredient of batteries have a terrible life – why on earth don’t the London protesters pack up and go there!
I tell you why: it is because this demonstration in London is nothing more than virtue signalling. If they were really properly angry, disturbed and worried they would go in their thousands to those parts of the world that really contribute to the malaise they claim exists. It’s all too easy to satisfy your conscience with minimal effort by going to London and have a dance on the bridge over the Thames. Giving up your jobs and moving wholesale to another part of the planet is just a stretch too far, isn`t it!
No, the great and good will disperse, call their Ubers to the train station via their mobile phones, get their takeaways on route and go back to burning logs on their woodburners and keep the heating on whilst it is still chilly on an evening. For sure they will have several bins and containers for their recycling! Conscience sated they can sleep well for now.
Until the next climate change bugle call sounds all will return to normal: nothing changed, no new environmental policies, nothing accomplished apart from millions of people, trying to go about their business of living in the now, working and shopping, who have been totally inconvenienced to sate the conscience of a few thousand of the great and the good.
I kep repeating over and over again. THE KEY TO THE ENVIRONMENT LIES WITH THE MANUFACTURER. Shopkeepers and shop assistatnts know nothing but price. and cannot be expected to. Whereas manufacturers and raw material producers/ extracters are totally awareof every teeny tiny ( POLITICAL SPEAK.) nuance.of everything affecting his product from digging the stuff out to thru shaping to the final disposal and life.
Ted Heath , Phillip Green and the EU were badly wrong in forcing through the ABOLITION OF RETAIL PRRICE MAINTENANCE ACT . Designed to destroy Brit Manufacturing, competition. and promote SHOPPING ( The 24 hour search for a penny off ) and consumerism and fashion. So, successive gov’ts of all types of ignorance have.promoted supply chains ( WRONG ), Packaging ( WRONG ) , Just in time ( WRONG ), consumerism ( WRONG ). getting the public to read the ingrediaents and other stuff on labels ( IMPOSSIBLE ).
And ON and ON and ON.
I Normally have a little ( Interminable. ? ) story featuring ‘Young Jimmy’, and normally aimed at owners of failing businesses, Which highlights this basic stuff and covers whole swathes of stuff of importance at various levels from cleaning , to Banking. Where lobbying and changing the minds of foolish, Foolish, FOOLISH politicians. has messed us up.
Almost 20 years ago, my son told me that his physics teacher had said to the class that Sir Alexander Fleming was just a ‘dirty biologist’.
I have never forgotten this slur on someone who helped millions of people to avoid suffering and death over the past 100 years or so.
It seems to me that the major scientific discoveries in the latter part of the last century were made by ‘dirty biologists’ and the like,
and has led me to wonder if the lack of a recent major discovery in the field of physics has led to the invention of a major discovery.
I’m proably out oftouch,but no one seems to know much about gravity orFTL or brain power or even time. We just use them . There’s something for the Echoloons to worry about. Are we using up time.?
I have been told by those who have benefitted , that Silicon Valley was wall to wall bankers looking for claim jumpers.. Money certainly oils the wheels as to a tiny degree with North Sea Oil. But in that case the political response was by then old schemes, and was taxed and fleeced before it really started. Our old Socialist policies had already spent the bonanza.That they stole from Scotland..Aided by EU interferance, in the form of Highland and Island Developement board ….Another way of spenting money into pockets.
For those who live in the real world, the antidote to last nights appalling BBC nonsense:
https://www.thegwpf.com/was-this-the-bbcs-worst-climate-show-ever/
I believe Mr Attenborough is merely reading someone else’s script, I doubt he wrote much of it himself. He is merely being used as a ‘frontman’, considering how much of a viewer’s favourite he is, and people will listen to what he says.
I suspect Climate change is a subject so complex and hence dangerousto the the , a bit like DNA and/or the Hitch Hikers Guide, Only by the most rarified centres of learning should even start… A mere knowledge of basic statistics gets us in the mire and that all 99 % of most scientists have. They all have their specialities.Politics must stand back from climatechange. But
So, we are reduced to knocking off the obvious and possible first.
Has politics done this?.. Well ?
The clean air act 1960 ish….. Congestion charges ?……..Well I ask you.
Possible lines of attack to at least stave off affects. EG :–
Heavily, TAX RAW MATERIALS
Using any old formula ( To replace tax on priofits on non consumerables or some such ) Otherwise there will be too much tax .Our modern Civilisation is powered by consumerism.in part. But Deep State is powered by Tax. So be careful.
Nuclear is now cleaner,and can be improved.Plenty of opportunities.
5 G may or may not be a step toward the future.What it will actually be is just a giant race for more consumerism. The Americans are annoyed that Private enterprise in another culture will benefit . ( Another moon race ), for such a piffling advance, ” It might not be much but there’s nothing else yet. Has anybody yet noticed electromagnetic pollution .That’ll be fun.
Consumerism is one of the necessary steps towards being civilised. Politics is a temptation.
David Attenborough and the “Population Matters” movement have been pointing out for ages that the best way to combat climate change is to reduce the number of changers. If the UNO and green groups were to appeal to people globally to limit themselves to 2 kids (under normal circumstances), we could far better tackle ecological problems. Not a lot to ask, but the subject is taboo, hardly ever mentioned in the Climate Change debate, because it upsets the growth fetishists. I left the Greens a long time ago because they abandoned their sensible population policy, and now wish UKIP would come out in favour of “two will do”, plus the phasing out of parental subsidies. But somehow i can’t see it happening 🙁
‘Only if all the inhabitants of the planet realize that they are facing immediate and common dangers, can a universal political will be generated for united action to secure the survival of humanity. This is why we call for the creation of world solidarity.’ –page 4;
‘The need for enemies seems to be a common historical factor. Some states have striven to overcome domestic failure and internal contradictions by blaming external enemies. The ploy of finding a scapegoat is as old as mankind itself–when things become too difficult at home, divert attention to adventure abroad. Bring the divided nation together to face an outside enemy, either a real one, or else one invented for the purpose.’ –page 70;
‘In searching for a common enemy against whom we can unite, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.’–page 75;
‘…By far the most urgent of these is global warming which threatens the world’s economic and social system.’ –page 95
— from “The First Global Revolution: A Report By The Council Of The Club Of Rome” (Alexander King, Bertrand Schneider) 1991.
OLBN-0-00116-032-X
Be sure to pass it along now, won’t you. Incidentally, the last of those extracts is the most bare-faced bunk of the entire selection if these are to be believed:
https://www.worldtribune.com/settled-science-growing-petition-of-31487-u-s-scientists-reject-global-warming-hypothesis/
2017
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2053842/Scientists-sign-petition-denying-man-made-global-warming.html
2008
“universal political will” aka World Government.
Great piece! But it does seem as though we are banging our heads against a wall. There is so much info crying out doubt. I like this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFbUVBYIPlI
I know I’ve posted it before, but I like it! So there.
Does anybody remember “The Tripods”? It was a trilogy of books written by John Christopher, and became a BBC TV series in the 80s – although only the first two books were dramatised, the show was cancelled without revealing what happened in the end.
It told a story of a near-distant future, where humans had been enslaved by alien creatures who used giant robots called ‘Tripods’ to travel around and keep the human population in check. Human civilisation had been reduced to pre-industrial levels, where people lived simple rual lifestyles.
When children reached their early teens, they went through a process called ‘capping’, where they had a skull-cap attached, which was used by the Tripods to mind-control the people and keep them in servitude.
Whenever I hear these ‘climate-change activists’ bleating about ‘Green New Deals’, or reducing carbon emissions to ‘zero-levels’, the first thing I always think of is the future described in The Tripods books. Because the only way to achieve what they ultimately are setting out is to revert human civilisation back to medieval times, pre-industrial revolution and all that.
The books make for interesting reading, and the TV shows (if you can find them) are watchable, if dated somewhat now – it didn’t enjoy big budget levels of production, and was aimed at children, originally broadcast in the early Sunday evening slot on BBC1.
But this is the thing, all these schemes, plans and ‘agendas’ to ‘save the planet’ are designed to enslave the population and only allow a select few (the “Elites”) to manage and control (and profit from) the planet’s natural resources.
“When I am King, you will be first against the wall”
Some people will do anything to get out of working for a living, but of course most of them don’t have to. I blame the authorities who have allowed it and fail to punish those responsible including charging for all costs incurred. What a joke!
Nasty little self righteous anarchists – in collusion with the worst Mayor of London in history – he should be sacked and made to pay the bill for the damage caused!
Little diff to the CND…Some were Greeenham Common obstructers, now grannies . No doubt in 1938 Peace Pledgers-like the genus Corbyn-.
Commies or Commie dupes , who cares? As with the liars in Parliament , anything but democrats
If one wants to identify a scam then just follow the money, A good illustration may be found here:
http://joannenova.com.au/2011/10/map-the-climate-change-scare-machine-the-perpetual-self-feeding-cycle-of-alarm/
I have a copy on the wall above my desk lest I should forget. (unlikely I know)
Pollution of course is a different matter and probably increased by green policies especially in shifting our traditional industries to China, with other downsides too.
These climate change anarchists are little different to the great and the good who were CND members in the 1960s, same message ‘we’re all doomed’ rings out.
Of course people like David Attengough do not help with is “10 years to save the planet’ doom and gloom. Deniers like David Bellamy who actually question the ‘climate science’ data are nowhere to be seen or heard.
Measures are being taken to appease the green lobby, at great cost to the economy and not necessarily proven as beneficial at all. What the current ‘rent a mob’ demand is not feasible in the timescale they want, even if it was it would make no difference whatsoever if the major palyers like China, India and the USA refuse to play. Why is cliamate change a new phenomenen? How did the climate change during the industrial revolution when pollution was not even considered to be a problem.
The UK can legislate itself of the face of the earth and destroy the economy but the world will still be here in 10/20/30/50…….1000s of years time as it always has been with the climate always going through periods of change.
Watch my lips – CARBON DIOXIDE IS NOT A POLLUTANT IT IS PLANT FOOD. Now go and deal with the pollution for which we really should hang our heads in shame – hormone disrupting chemicals in the water system, the plastic in the ocean travesty, PM10 particles. The planet’s climate will go on changing, as it has always done and there is precious little we can do about it. The sooner the next ice age comes the sooner we can point a finger at the fools and say ‘bet you wish your global warming theory had been proper science’
‘Climate Change ‘, First apparently discovered by University of East Anglia, believes is apparently apocalyptic. This means our slobby MPs don’t have to bother upsetting Trade Unions Activists not picking up rubbish from West Midland Streets. It means they don’t have to consider, think about, and solve the blatantly b***dy obvious….Freeloading ( all ) politicians.
Odd too how, we can import wood chips from south america to burn on wood stoves to show how middle class we are living on a housing estate and cause pollution, use a never serviced ( ask the service breakdown engineers to run an
oilfired central heating boiler throwing out diesel fumes and turn the gas heating up in the evening, but that’s alright. As far as the West Midlands (the region )is concerned every town in it is looking overcrowded dirty and run down. And people either don’t care or can’t be bothered and still vote for more of the same from the same troughers.
This is all part of the plan to make our Nation look weak when[not][drones -Gatwick] dealing with things IMO. So by default we cant possibly leave the EU because we all too puny and disorganised to cope out there in the real world. Drip, drip, drip.