Guest essay by Eric Worrall
A message to French Yellow Vests that greens and EU supporters can field large groups of demonstrators. But half the pro-climate action marchers were school children.
70,000 March to Demand Belgium, EU Increase Efforts to Fight Climate Change
By RAF CASERT / AP January 27, 2019
(BRUSSELS) — At least 70,000 people braved cold and rain in Brussels to demand the Belgian government and the European Union increase their efforts to fight climate change Sunday, the Belgian capital’s fourth climate rally in two months to attract at least 10,000 participants.
The event was described as Belgium’s biggest climate march ever, with police estimating slightly bigger crowds than a similar demonstration last month. Trains from across the nation were so clogged thousands of people didn’t make the march in time.
Some 35,000 schoolchildren and students in Belgium skipped classes Thursday to take their demands for urgent action to prevent global warming to the streets.
“Young people have set a good example,” protester Henny Claassen said amid raised banners urging better renewable energy use and improved air quality. “This is for our children, for our grandchildren and to send a message to politicians.”
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Read more: http://time.com/5514197/belgium-climate-change-protests/
I’m disgusted by how greens seem to think it is OK to use children as political pawns in their nasty game.
The school children, half of the climate action marchers, have no idea about the real world. They have never experienced the misery of watching their meagre weekly pay packets taxed away by distant green politicians who have no empathy or concern for the problems of ordinary people.
The far left Greens/Socialists have always used children as their pawns. Look at the anti-nuclear protests of the 60’s. Numbers propped up with ignorant children, every one of them.
If it’s like the “Green Protests” In the U.S. the adults were getting paid to protest.
Child abuse can take many forms.
Very impressive, 70’000 of 400 million about 0.0175% ??
What’s that now? They convinced thousands of students to skip class? Amazing. I’ll have to ask them how they managed that.
Kym Dumb: https://www.rtl.be/info/regions/bruxelles/marche-pour-le-climat-des-dizaines-de-milliers-de-personnes-a-nouveau-attendues-a-bruxelles-1095229.aspx
Watermelons
We want action on Climate Change and Socialism! Shouldn’t citizens of Belgium be focused on uniting their failing state.
The Greenish Brown shirts are marching.
Since The Lancet study on mortality shows that we die 17 times more of cold than hot weather,
I guess this “Marche pour le climat” purpose was to claim more global warming.
“Give me a child until age ten and I’ll show you the man.” Compare the kids out marching to the band of Millennials worshiping the various groups of Al Gore and The Stomp Out Energy bands.
It will take the return of glaciation and the mile high ice sheets they’ll be buried under to convince them human caused global warming is a myth. However, as the last of them freezes to death in the cold, imho, they will curse CO2.
What an achievement, getting adults and children to march to impoverish themselves. Do I have to write sarc.
I wonder where all the “colder is better” signs are?
Thanks for proving my point, Kym Not-so Smart.
Shame they held the march yesterday. Today it would have been impossible due to the snow!
Jordan Peterson would have a “hay day” trying to figure out your logic..
So the kids get a day off from school while the adults can hook-up oh and … Climate.
There are more holes in Warmunist “science” than in a stack of Belgium waffles, but True Believers don’t care. Bandwagons are fun, and so is getting to play hooky for a day.
+1
Those 70,000 protestors should have been marching on the Chinese and Indian embassies to protest their increasing CO2 production, and should be marching on the EU protesting the EU agreeing to allow China and India to produce unlimited amounts of CO2 until at least the year 2030.
If you don’t protest China and India’s unlimited CO2 allowance then you are not serious about reigning in CO2. China and India will offset any reduction in CO2 by the EU, so the EU, by itself, is just spinning its wheels. As are the protestors.
Good to know school and work mean zip while marching for some political movement is all that counts. Farmers—take note. People don’t need food. Hospitals—give everyone the day off. Airlines—shut down for a day and everyone can walk (at least that reduces CO2). Etc, etc, etc. No one need work—just march.
“YUP”, an organized “march” works wonders.
Marching for breast cancer has cured it.
Marching for LBGT has made it acceptable to everyone.
Marching for equal rights has been 100% successful.
Marching for women’s rights insures those rights are given.
And marching for “open borders” and non-arrests of illegal immigrants gets Democrats cheering.
2017 Brussels population = 1.199 million
assume fraction under 18 = 24%
assume marching age about 13-18 -> fraction under 18 = 6/18
multiply 1.199 million times 24% times 6/18 –> 95 thousand children available to march
35,000 seems like reasonable penetration of the child march potential
You should base your calculation on the population of Belgium, not just Brussels. It appears to have been a country-wide fantasy-fest.
I suspect that many, if not most of the demonstrators, are doing this to 1.) feel significant and 2.) experience camaraderie with the rest of the bunch.
Brussels is feeling the squeeze of Trump pulling out of the Paris accord that would have funded those non-elected politicians’ Champagne, Caviar and Foie gras
that’s why they are “commanding” to their mindless robots (ie; useful idiots) to go out and protest something they don’t understand, but are willing to obey…..
Belgium faces winter blackouts amid nuclear reactor shutdowns. Some of this capacity can be replaced with renewables. But Belgium’s dense population limits the amount of land available to develop wind and solar farms. The electricity is generated in Belgium and in the neighbouring countries (France, Germany, Switzerland, etc.) in different types of power stations. In Belgium, seven nuclear reactors generate 55 % of the electricity. This is followed by natural gas, the share of which is constantly increasing. Some of the electricity used in Belgium is imported from neighbouring countries (France, Germany, Switzerland).
Somehow I’m reminded of other historical events using the youth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7u5Knj5Uj4&fbclid=IwAR084SFsmOPKrzusO7R2F0Kx9yrhh-XsacAKICvG8yEh8NJzxXwVegDU8Ss
“I’m disgusted by how greens seem to think it is OK to use children as political pawns in their nasty game”.
Nothing new, do you think most of the people in trenches in WW1 were high flying bureaucrats?
Same as its’ ever been, the young get sacrificed for the benefit of the elite few, usually over some dodgy ideology.
Climate activists are simply the new Khmers Rouges : they use schoolchildren to do their ugly propaganda ! And then, to kill their opponents ?