There’s been a lot of hullabaloo in the UK over the Balcombe fracking protests. WUWT reader Eric Worrall writes in with this comparison photo.
Original picture source: http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-08-16/anti-fracking-activists-camp-without-permission/
Here is a tagged version of the same picture of all the plastic high tech synthetics used by anti fracking protestors in England, captured in a single photograph.
![frackpic[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/frackpic1.jpg?quality=83)
It really makes you wonder – do anti-fracking protestors think nylon tents, PVC groundsheets, and plastics grow on trees? No doubt the tents also contain high tech synthetic fibre sleeping bags, and gas powered camp cookers.
Do these hypocrites actually think about what sort of world they would have to endure, without the cheap hydrocarbons, and cheap plastic synthetics, the petroleum source of which they oppose?
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short answer – NO
For them to see the hypocrisy would mean that they have an open mind. Their minds are as closed as a rusted trap.
You missed the sign. It was written on using a marker. Every marker I’ve ever seen is made of plastic.
We really shouldn’t be surprised–as a society we enjoy plastic Christmas trees, plastic fruit baskets, and plastic foilage through office buildings and many municipal settings.
With so much plastic foilage and the undeniable evidence they produce fruit, it wouldn’t be surprising to expect nylon trees that bear nylon fruit, and metal trees that bear metal fruit.
Just pick a lot of the appropriate fruit off the tree (plastic, nylon, aluminum, steel, etc.), get some factory to form it into a useful item, and voila`!–we get all the useful “environmental” items seen in the picture above!
Sad thing is, that’s the current state of our educational system–and trying to convince these people otherwise is probably a lost cause. Just show them where a carton of milk actually comes from, and they practically swear off the beverage. Can you imagine how they’d react if they found out how highly carcinogenic crude oil can be? Any bets they’d swear off plastics and nylon forever?
Hmmmm…. I sense a Josh cartoon in the making…
Dont make hippies like they used to
Lets posterize these people for all to see. Nicely done.
As I told the “Bobbies” protecting Stonehenge on June 21st, 1989…from the “hippies” who wanted to perform some ritual ceremony there, “Why not simply put up Hippie repellant?” They asked, “What would THAT be Yank?”
I said, “Simple, soap on a rope strung up all around the monument!” The usually staid Brit Coppers, actually cracked a smile and said: “That’s a good one Yank.”
Same here, only I’d use water cannons with Dove or New Dawn (dish soaps)…probably the first time these protesters would “come clean” in all their lives!
Ha,,, don’t forget the poncho, and nail polish, and other required,,,,,, you know what I mean. Let alone the bug spray and ,,,,,nough said.
How about the components of the necessary smartphone, and how did she get there, or find out about the whole thing anyhow?
Oh the horror of hypocricy!
Consumers of plastics have their concerns with fracking mute by their consumption? Cool.
So as a meat eater i can have no objections to the way animals are grown and harvested for food. That’s brilliant!
As i use electricity, likely generated by nuclear power stations, mum is the word…shhhh
As an anonymous coward hiding behind a pseudonyn, I really liked the quotation from Oscar Wilde.
Trevor H says:
You missed the sign. It was written on using a marker. Every marker I’ve ever seen is made of plastic.
Good point, thanks – and the sign itself looks like plastic coated cardboard.
You might almost think that this protest is a form of satire, but the humor would be lost on them.
97% certain she has an iPhone under that poncho, too.
And they probably got there in a car made in and shipped from a factory halfway around the planet.
Nothing is as it used to be, not even plastic people.
In the good old days The Plastic People of the Universe were an anti-totalitarian dissident Czech rock band.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_People_of_the_Universe
http://havel.columbia.edu/glossary/plastic_people_of_the_universe.html
These newfangled anti-something-or-other protesters seem to be just a bunch of cheap plastic collectivists.
Yep, their protesting would take on more meaning if they lugged a moldy canvas Coleman bell tent out to their dung-fired steam wagon for the trip, purposely avoiding all paved roads.
….not to mention, that there is always more protest when hypcrisy is pinned on the protest donkey. “we had no CHOICE! I mean, like, where can you even GET a bell tent these days?”
We shouldn’t apply names like hypocrite inappropriately. Hypocrite implies basic knowledge of the surrounding materials, the more accurate term is idiot. You might say that ignorant is a better word, however, these people truly “feel” they are qualified to lecture to the rest of the world on how to behave.
Odds are some or all of their clothes include fabric derived from petroleum.
Ha, that’s not a protest…
Lovely!
At a science fiction convention many years ago I happened upon one of these hypocrites spouting off about the evils of plastic. This was just after the anti-polystyrene campaign had shut down five factories in my state and I had been ‘let-go’ the week before. Needless to say I was not in a good mood. So here stands this overweight hypocrite dressed in polyester and nylon with her expensive running shoes made of various co-polymers. I asked her for her house and car keys stopping her in mid tirade. She sputtered HUH? I said put your money where your mouth is, your car and your house are made of plastics and so for that matter are your clothes, Take them off. While she stood there sputtering her rapt audience sniggered as they slunk off.
Nothing like pointing out their hypocrisy to take the air out of the wind bags. Too bad it has never worked as well on the Goricle. You would thing his large carbon foot print and his beach side home would penetrate the thick skulls of his worshipers, and even some of his detractors.
A person in a mask will tell you what they want unfettered by morals; that is not the truth, that is immature and irresponsible thinking.
It is the unmasked person who has to mediate what they say with morals and ethics, as they will be identified with what they say.
The masked persons are the ones most likely to throw stones, not those without masks. As long as protesters in the Mideast wear masks, they have absolutely no credibility except as targets.
Kajajuk
Consumers of plastics have their concerns with fracking mute by their consumption? Cool.
I see, your assertion is the group in the photo are pro fossil fuel climate skeptic anti fracking protestors…
A little bit of old Frank Zappa:
A fine little girl she waits for me
She’s as plastic as she can be
She paints her face with plastic goo
And wrecks her hair with some shampoo
Plastic people
Oh, baby, now you’re such a drag