Some days you just have to wonder about the sanity of environmentalists, today is one of those days. The photo below, Twittered by PBS station KQED in San Francisco, would be considered “not safe for work” not only just for the content, but for the facts these lunatics used a child to further their goal. Use of children by unhinged environmentalists in protests is something we are seeing more and more of these days, such as we recently saw in Canada when Ezra Levant was asked by a parent to interview their child holding a sign. The parent then went on an online rant about it.
As for Berkeley, the Daily Caller writes:
Activists at the University of California at Berkeley got naked on Saturday to show their love for nearby trees that authorities are planning to cut own.
About 50 people showed up at a grove of eucalyptus trees on the campus of UC-Berkeley, stripped off their clothes, and began to intimately interact with the trees in the grove for the benefit of photographer Jack Gescheidt.The nudity was organized by Gescheidt as part of his Tree Spirit Project, an effort to create fine art photographs by, well, taking pictures of naked people while they cavort about in nature. The project’s website describes it as an attempt to “raise awareness of the critical role trees play in our lives, both globally and pesonally [sic].”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/20/tree-huggers-at-berkeley-get-naked-with-trees/#ixzz3gpYKvK3h
https://twitter.com/KQED/status/622901409361604608/photo/1
Gotta love the grandma type who didn’t think getting naked was such a good idea, but hugged the tree anyway. What these clueless enviros seem to miss, is that eucalyptus trees are non-native to California, and are considered invasive:
Since the 1850s,Californians had assisted a continuous introduction of eucalypts punctuated by two frenzied periods — one in the 1870s,the other from 1907 to 1913.Planters believed variously that eucalypts would provide fuel,improve the weather,boost farm productivity,defeat malaria,preserve watersheds,and thwart a looming timber famine. First and foremost,however,Californians planted the trees to domesticate and beautify the landscape,to make it more green.
California has been trying to get rid of them for years, due to their extreme fire hazard which ironically, KQED has also reported on:
A bit like this bunch,
http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2015/07/achieving-collapse.html
Dangerous….Very dangerous…..
Sociopaths. Sadly it recalls to memory the disturbing similarities between Gore’s writing and Unabomber’s manifesto.
Shame it wasn’t Poison Oak that they were hugging.
I’m shocked at the lack of tolerance this site’s denizens are showing toward hortisexuals. You’d think it was the dark days before Obergefell v. Hodges.
Yeah, this site just don’t got no horti culture.
Ancient saying (not attributed lest called racist- look it up) “A woman for duty, a boy for pleasure, but a melon for ecstasy”.
For a true naked greeny tree hugging environmentalist California offers endless opportunities:
http://images.kw.com/agent_photos/2/3/0/230439//library/cactus_1281551109547.jpg
They won’t do it. Hugging them might bring them back to reality.
Looks more like Arizona.
Why is it when it comes to stripping naked, the ones you want to peel don’t, and the ones you would rather not see in the altogether are the first in line.
Regardless, one of the participants appears to be a juvenile, wouldn’t that be contributing to the delinquency of a minor?
‘Treehugging’ is but the foreplay…
Gummy Bares!
India has had enough
http://www.businessinsider.in/Greenpeaces-days-in-India-are-almost-over/articleshow/48185874.cms
It’s complicated (but not nearly as complicated as the climate wars). http://www.economist.com/blogs/feastandfamine/2014/03/gm-crops-indian-farmers-and-suicide There are lots of big lies on all sides of the debate.
I’m not sure if I support Greenpeace or not on this particular issue. We know that GM seeds will spread to other fields. If Monsanto finds any of their patented crop in your field, they will sue you for a bunch (no matter how it got there)(and the lawyer fees will break you anyway). There is the danger that farmers will give up trying to save their own seeds and have to buy Monsanto’s product. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Schmeiser Adam Smith never imagined that kind of crap when he described capitalism.
On the other hand, how can it be bad to produce more food for people who need it?
bob: you might find it interesting to research how many times Monsanto has sued farmers for patent violations (think small). The one example always raised involved a nutty guy who did everything but dance on Monsanto’s genitals in an attempt to draw a suit.
They also never implemented terminator gene technology. Also, hybrids which don’t produce fertile seed were around before GM. And many farmers buy new seed each season regardless of Monsanto.
I don’t care either way about large corporations, but I almost feel sorry for Monsanto when I think about how wrong the common perception is, based only on propaganda…
We need the ‘special’ people to do things that other people won’t. For instance, during WW2, the French resistance was made up mostly of folks who didn’t fit well in society. IMHO we owe our liberty to folks the sheeple would call nutty. (I use WW2 as an example because it’s living memory. 1776 is a bit far back to make judgment about most of the people involved.)
The only reason he didn’t dance on Monsanto’s genitals was because he couldn’t find them. 🙂 I see both sides of the issue and sit firmly on the fence.
They look like magnificent trees been there for a long time making shade for people to enjoy. Haven’t burnt the university to the ground. Unless felling them is part of a bona fide eradication program I don’t see much point in chopping them down. People with no clothes on is not a problem unless they disrobed under duress. People need to be able to make a distinction between natural skin that everyone has and what sex is. Hugging a tree isn’t a sexual act and that aspect of the story is just wowserism. Eucalyptus leaves oil content does make for very hot and short duration burn (explosive in a crown fire) but university looks well watered and extremely improbable event in that locale to get a crown fire. Still if eradication is a serious goal let no eucalyptus stand!
“Hugging a tree isn’t a sexual act.” Thanks, James.
So you get to decide what is and is not a sexual act?
Do I need your approval before I jump the knot with my knotty pine, for whom I am pining?
The University looks “well watered”? Isn’t this the University of California at Berkeley? Isn’t California in the middle of a drought with severe water restrictions?
Maybe they stripped down to help water the lawn? (Naturally, of course.)
Here is another Friday Funny. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary has put out a Missing Person Report for “Summer”.
http://globalnews.ca/news/2125157/royal-newfoundland-constabulary-puts-out-search-for-missing-season-summer/
Please imagine that
Steve P
July 24, 2015 at 7:32 pm
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/07/24/friday-funny-tree-hugging-taken-to-the-extreme/#comment-1992808
really appears here.
Sanity?
These are enviro-Mentalists.
Emoticons in other words.
‘We are so good because we care.Ignore our acts,worship our concern.”
I cannot doubt their sanity as they have offered no evidence of being sane.
Eucalypts certainly burn, if there is enough under story fuel load the canopy pretty much explodes. The picture was taken from our verandah in early 2009, a bad fire season. But to the worrying Gaia crowd in the Golden State, relax guys they ain’t in no danger, trust me they’re safe with us here in Ozz.
The trees in the WUWT picture look like eucalypts from high rainfall zones such as Messmate or Black Butt not the Box forests we have in our locality. But be assured they all burn very well in bushfires. Box is also an excellent fuel for home fires as is Red Gum and many other types of eucalypts.
Interesting picture. Did someone say Eucs don’t burn? That would be a dumb thing to say.
In C19th Germany, the ‘Friends of Nature’ adopted the slogan ‘Free Mountains, Free World, Free People’. This sort of idea was also promoted by the ‘Wandervogel’, the ‘wandering birds’ movement after its foundation in 1895. They sought ‘communion with nature’. As a result, amongst regular activities, the wandering birds also liked to go swimming with no clothes on. Boys and girls together. Cor!
Only a little more. The ‘wandervogeln’ invented something called the ‘leader principle’ (fuhrerprinzip) and ‘volkskultur’ (folk culture). These ideas became very handy later on, when ex-members of the wandervogel took charge in Germany. Their rule included killing Ukranian farmers en masse to punish them for their industrial farming methods (sadly, there were to be less Ukranians to kill than predicted. Stalin gor there first). They had a key slogan, too: ‘sustainability’. So, fewer Ukranians meant more (human) organic fertiliser. All that naturally-produced calcium!
But the best news is that what was once denigrated as alarming and revolutionary about these naturists is now ‘mainstream’.
Keep it up lads and lassies! (in both senses.)
It’s funny how environmentalism can lead to the destruction of trees, the UK Drax power station being a perfect example….
Complete and unadulterated lunacy.
Chris
+1
Isn’t it INSANE?
People are so endlessly, creatively, passionately stupid…
🙂
In reading an essay by Gary North I ran across this bit of history that I had forgotten. Interesting.
“… This was openly admitted in 1990 by Robert Heilbroner, the multi-millionaire socialist economics professor, author of the best-selling history of economic thought, The Worldly Philosophers. He wrote an obituary: “After Communism.” It was published in The New Yorker (Sept 10, 1990). In it, he wrote these words: “Mises was right.” Right about what? About the impossibility of rational economic calculation in a world without private property and capital markets. He then called for the next phase of socialism, one which will be based on environmentalism, not economic theory. He said that only by mobilizing the masses behind the idea that the government should intervene in order to save the environment, could socialism once again gain a hearing. Otherwise, the movement was dead.”
Note: Essay not really about the green blob. It is about the left itself.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/07/gary-north/why-the-left-always-gets-capitalism-wrong/
To protect a feral, dangerous, environment-destroying tree is a great example of modern climate/environmentalist extremist thinking.
moderator, please excuse my previous post- I didn’t see that the farcical name I used yesterday meant that oaf’s name had become default on this computer.
In Oz we grow northern hemisphere, deciduous trees in and around our towns because the eucalypts and acacias are such a fire hazard being fire adapted. They NEED fire to open their seed pods. The eucalyptus oil vaporises and the forest explodes. We don’t have winter snow to set the annual pattern of life so they hitch a ride on the likelihood of summer fire. Clever plants.
The other thing about them is that the upper branches will break and fall without warning. Our pioneering people referred to them as widow makers because so many workers in the bush were killed in their sleep by falling branches, typically speared by the heavy end of a 6″ branch falling 100 ft to ground.
Don’t get me wrong, Aussies love eucalypts as a defining element of our landscape but we are realists to our core. Why the Californians are so obsessed with them is beyond me.
“..got naked on Saturday to show their love for nearby trees..”
Treesome? – them hippies are weird..
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/aktivisten-doku-fuck-for-forest-a-905362.html
I never knew the Earth had multiple moons.
I hoped the men checked for squirrels.
Why is everything center justified in Firefox? Oh, and great comments!
Yuck.
Should I worry about Google tracking me to an article with that photo?
PETA and now these guys. Someone should start a group called People for the Ethical Treatment of People. The group should call out and shame activists who exploit naked young people to publicize their pet cause.