Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The Guardian has published an open letter from the leadership of the student climate change strikers.
We, the young, are deeply concerned about our future. Humanity is currently causing the sixth mass extinction of species and the global climate system is at the brink of a catastrophic crisis. Its devastating impacts are already felt by millions of people around the globe. Yet we are far from reaching the goals of the Paris agreement.
Young people make up more than half of the global population. Our generation grew up with the climate crisis and we will have to deal with it for the rest of our lives. Despite that fact, most of us are not included in the local and global decision-making process. We are the voiceless future of humanity.
We will no longer accept this injustice. We demand justice for all past, current and future victims of the climate crisis, and so we are rising up. Thousands of us have taken to the streets in the past weeks all around the world. Now we will make our voices heard. On 15 March, we will protest on every continent.
We finally need to treat the climate crisis as a crisis. It is the biggest threat in human history and we will not accept the world’s decision-makers’ inaction that threatens our entire civilisation. We will not accept a life in fear and devastation. We have the right to live our dreams and hopes. Climate change is already happening. People did die, are dying and will die because of it, but we can and will stop this madness.
We, the young, have started to move. We are going to change the fate of humanity, whether you like it or not. United we will rise until we see climate justice. We demand the world’s decision-makers take responsibility and solve this crisis.
You have failed us in the past. If you continue failing us in the future, we, the young people, will make change happen by ourselves. The youth of this world has started to move and we will not rest again.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/01/youth-climate-change-strikers-open-letter-to-world-leaders
The global coordination group of the youth-led climate strike
What do the school strikers plan to do to “make change happen”? I guess if they knew, they wouldn’t still be demanding their parents sort out their lives.
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I wonder how many are getting paid to protest?
All of them are paid. By their parents.
And by the taxpayers.
And get subsidized by taxpayers.
When they buy tickets for personal transports they get the discounts that people with minimum income are entitled to.
this is how they finance their big ecological footprint.
Every new Friday.
They all need to read the real science.
https://rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com/2018/05/09/ever-been-told-that-the-science-is-settled-with-global-warming-well-read-this-and-decide-for-yourself/
Some school teachers they have!
Will some of you please put this link on twitter, facebook and others and others as you see fit.
Im afraid that I don’t patronize any of the social media.
Thanks
Cheers
Roger
http://www.rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com
They get to skip school gratis. What child wouldn’t exchange sitting in class to be outside having fun, for any reason?
Hair on fire IS fun to watch!
Just wait until the twin towers of debt come crashing down on their future. When the $70 Trillion in unfunded liability for social programs and the perpetual growth of a $21 Trillion discretionary spending debt collapses on them they will be wishing for heavy doses of global warming because they will all be living in tents along with their parents.
These adolescents are following the Pied Piper into the deep woods, like a story straight out of fairy tales, little aware that their government intends to drown them like rodents.
Well, it likely won’t end well for childless old age dependents either. To the extent paper and electrons lose “value”, the next generation sounds like it is not going to extend old socialist promises very far.
It’s training the young to blame others for everything they perceive as being wrong.
Just think what damage to society this mentality will have for the future society.
Sorry climate-striking kids, and children of all ages, but you’ve got it wrong – yet again:
There is no credible evidence that climate is highly sensitive to increasing atmospheric CO2 – NONE! There is ample evidence to the contrary, and that any resulting warming will be mild and net-beneficial to humanity and the environment.
In fact, atmospheric CO2 is not too high, it is too low, alarmingly low for the continued survival of carbon-based life on Earth.
Most food plants (which are C3) die at about 150ppm due to CO2 starvation. During the last Ice Age, only 10,000 years ago, atmospheric CO2 dropped to about 180ppm – only about 30ppm above a global extinction event – not just for one or two obscure species, but for ALL advanced terrestrial carbon-based life forms.
Barring massive human intervention, that is the probable outcome during one of the next Ice Ages – and THAT is your next big extinction event.
You hit the nail on the head, Allan.
Those, the young, don’t know what they’re talking about. Those, the teachers, who have incited them with falsehoods, need to pay a price.
But there is plenty of evidence that rising CO2 levels causes uneducated people to believe and spout off jingoisms / propaganda that have nothing to do with science. Not a one of these children have ever heard of the Scientific Method… or have heard that correlation is not causation… especially when the hypothesis is missing key variables such as solar variability, smog/particulates, volcanic activity, shifting earth magnetic core, … and of course changing the data sets downward (cooler) for pre 1979 NOAA data to exaggerate the future correlation rise in millennial temperature projection.
“I guess if they knew, they wouldn’t still be demanding their parents sort out their lives.”
What could we expect? Their parents still feed them, house them and provide them with iPhones. They have no idea how the world works. They probably think that their food comes from the supermarket and that there would be no consequences if they told all the miners to stop digging, farmers to stop raising cows and power companies to stop using fossil fuels.
Yes, why do they not stop their own sins and allow others to choose for themselves?
Riding up a chairlift yesterday in fantastic cold snow conditions, a gentleman began lecturing me about how global warming would end skiing. And yet, skiing itself is a luxury. It’s not necessary and the industry uses tremendous amounts of fossil energy to maintain facilities, not to mention all of transportation of riders to get to the slopes. Here he was.
I said that we are doing the experiment in any case and because of the importance of fossil fuels to modern society, there is not much we can do anyway until perhaps advanced nuclear or fusion or other technologies can make significant contributions economically. He asked me if I were a fatalist.
I said no and that the climate today is well within natural variability and the natural trend is for technology is to make things better not worse, and every problem is over exaggerated. I threw in that I was a chemist PhD with graduate level training in atmospheric chemistry. I asked what he did.
He said he was a solar panel salesman for an energy efficiency company. As we reached the top of the lift I just said enjoy the snow.
This is sooooooo perfect. Thank you.
Was that a threat by the kiddies? Are they going to hold their breath to stop exhalation of Co2 till their faces turn blue?
Toss em out on the streets without ANY fossil fuels whatsoever, and let em freeze to death … or become rapidly e-d-u-c-a-t-e-d and more circumspect in their … opinions.
They are not strikers, they are truants. The only person you affect with truancy is yourself.
Students/Be the Führer’s propagandists. Has a contemporary version of the Hitler Youth Movement arrived? When will we ever learn?
No need to use godwins
Hans – thanks
The authoritarian elite are trying to set young against old in order to increase their move towards absolute power globally.
The truth about the lack of evidence for any significant divergence from natural variability needs to be put out there as soon as possible.
Lies get around the world faster than the truth can get its boots on.
The Pol Pot regime (amongst others) did that – all such child abuse has ended very badly.
Those egging them on should be called out and prosecuted.
Who would have thunk it, ….. the beginning of an American Third Reich is beginning to amass.
Gordon Bennet.
I’m guessing that mummy and daddy drive them to these demonstrations. I expect they think that we get the electricity that powers all their gadgets by just pushing that switch on the wall
Those gadgets don’t use “power”. They use batteries. Silly man.
And no-one except the leftist media cared, as they desperately tried to beat up another story.
Snowflakes can be so fragile….
Is senescence death a kind of schadenfreude?
I am so going to miss being able to point the finger and “told ya so!” Why do they think I should care about how they’re gonna screw things up?
Democracy requires an informed citizenry. These products of our failed public education system, liberal indoctrination centers, tell of our future. These poor brainwashed children are more worried about another 20 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere than another $20 trillion of national debt. Sad and very scary.
The Founding Fathers rightly feared democracy – mob rule. Perhaps because they were well read in the Classics, to know that only the Forty Tyrants of Ancient Greece practiced majority rule, while the citizens elected volunteers using a lottery, Voter ID pinakia, in a lottery machine kloterion, sortition just as we elect juries.
Those ‘Founding Fathers’ who feared democracy so much would probably feel right at home in Brussels then. The way you describe them they sound a lot like a Ruling Elite.
WXcycles,
You missed the point. Complete democracy is mob rule and doesn’t work beyond small homogeneous groups.
Yep, 5 people voting on where to eat usually ends up with 2 going Chinese and 3 going to the wing bar with the well endowed waitresses.
But the children have parents, don’t they talk to them ?
If we arere going to win this battle, or perhaps better to really call it what it is, a War. then we must make sure that we have a better PR exercise. Call it what it is Propaganda, as it was with Dr. Gobbles. Its time for the gloves to come off, far too much Mr. Nice Guys on our side.
We must first convince the businesses that they too are facing a great danger, and its time that they started to support us financially. Because if these kids, who will have the vote in a few short years, carry on thinking like this, then our way of life will be over.
True when they, the little darlings see the power go off and their electronic gadgets not being able to be charged, they will finally wake up, but its too late by then, and the mess will take a long time to clean up.
The politicians will to the last try to survive, and will blame whatever to keep their well paid jobs. So wake up “Western World Countries”. .
MJE
Michael March 2, 2019 at 2:27 am
Michael, of course the parents talk to their children, ….. and they agree with and encourage what their children are doing …… simply because the parents are the “product” of the same public education system.
Some of these ‘kids’ will be living under bridges within a decade. Asking them how they arrived at this state of life, they will respond that the world is a mighty unfair place.
“Some of these ‘kids’ will be living under bridges within a decade.”
In Freeattle.
With the deserving attitude they have and the quickness they are to strike and complain about how unfair it is. They’ll quickly be tossed from the work force. They will learn the hard way what things really matter in the world.
DEMAND!
Arrogant, Stupid, Obnoxious, Ignorant and Brainwashed little B*****ds, who the hell do they think they are.
They have done and achieved Nothing and have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.
My challenge to them is.
Give up everything to do with Fossil Fuels.
No Flying.
No Driving or being driven.
No Technology.
No Medicine.
No Central Heating.
No Air Conditioning.
No mass produced Food, they have to buy from home grown local produce.
No Plastics of any kind.
No Synthetic Fabrics of any kind.
And the first people they MUST DEMAND to do the same are their Parents, lets see how they get on.
Oh, and they can show us all the dead bodies of the 6th Mass Extinction as well.
No problem, that sounds like ‘No Deal Brexit’, one lunar month to go.
Excellent comment. You should apply for a job as Green Party manifesto writer!
Come on. The Jesuit saying (modernized) applies to these kids: Give me a child until they’re 10 and I’ll show you the adult.
They’re just indoctrinated, brain washed if you will. The first issue is why the parents and the adults that have done this are not tarred and feathered. The second issue is whether even an intervention will save these kids from their brain washing. But note: the fault lies with their parents.
And, perhaps, a bigger issue is will parents and the adults be allowed to continue this indoctrination and brain washing. I.E. the real ire should be laid upon their heads with the goal to eliminate this socialist indoctrination.
“They’re just indoctrinated, brain washed if you will. The first issue is why the parents and the adults that have done this are not tarred and feathered. The second issue is whether even an intervention will save these kids from their brain washing.”
Yes, the kids were not born fearing the climate. They were taught that fear.
As for what will save the kids, the alarmists have shortened the doomsday timetable down to 12 years, and by the end of that time, if not before, these kids are going to realize there is not going to be a catastrophy and they will also realize they have been duped, and will not be happy about it and will question everything they have been taught then. It’s just around the corner. Although to the kids, it will seem like forever, but one of these days their eyes will be opened.
Hang in there, kids. It’s not nearly as bad as you have been led to believe. In fact, it’s not bad at all. We should be so lucky as to have the kind of benign weather we have had over recent years, all the time.
And watch that global temperature gauge, kids. It has been cooling for the last three years, down about 0.6C (UAH). So the temperatures are not correlating with the CO2 in the atmosphere. The CO2 goes up and the temperatures are going down. You can breath a sigh of relief, at least for now.
Here’s the UAH satellite global chart:
February is out now.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2019/03/uah-global-temperature-update-for-february-2019-0-36-deg-c/
Tom, the long term trend is up since the start of the record in 1979 Cloud cover variation, volcanoes, El ninos, PDO, etc are invoked to explain the ups and downs. What have you got other than CO2 that explains the long term trend?
The short-term trend since 2016 is cooling. Short-term trends many times become long-term trends. We are now at about the same level as in 2007 and 2010. That demonstrates cooling, not more warming.
If you take out the last half of 2016, 2017, and 2018 the linear regression would have us at about +.75 C and not back to the +0.5 C we are now at.
How much longer will the current cooling trend continue? I don’t know, you don’t know, and more importantly the climate models don’t know!
Unfortunately, many of these children will be voting well before 12 years are up, and they’ll vote in more like Ocasio-Cortez. And then then “history” will be rewritten, and that 12-year time limit will disappear, and there will be nothing to show the young adults that it was all a sham. Their parents have done a pretty good job of voting in milder versions of Ocasio-Cortez, which is why we are where we are. And they have, in the US, voted in school boards that allow, if not encourage, the teachers to indoctrinate the school kids.
Need to hit them a little closer to home:
No cellphones
No computers
No tablets or iPad
All of which means no social media or electronic gaming
No TV
No speakers
No music except that done live, locally
No hamburgers
No pepperoni pizzas, sausage pizza, bacon, or other meats
No vacations beyond walking distances
Nothing made with machinery that isn’t made completely by hand. In other words, you’ll need a 300 year old loom to make your clothing.
So on March 15 there will be demonstrations everywhere wherein these young people try to wrest control of the climate change control knob away from their elders? Stay away from traditional socialists gathering spots on March 15, looks like. I have two routes to the golf course and I will be utilizing Route B, which is longer but safer, and will put more CO2 (plant food) into the atmosphere. No pasa nada.
No comments on that Guardian article.
You the children,
You make up half the global population, but you are dependent upon maybe half of the other half for everything that you take for granted and selfishly believe are your rights; the food on your plates, the roof over your heads; your education, your safety and security, the entertainment and fashion trifles you believe you ‘need’, and the pocket-money you believe you are ‘entitled’ to.
Your generation grew up with no real problems to deal with and so you’ve hitched your slacktivist ‘likes’ and ‘hash-tags’ to an imaginary crisis to gratify your egotistical need to belonging to a fashionable cause. At no personal risk or effort on your part.
There is a very good reason you are not included in global decision making; in the innocence of youth you are naive and impressionable and you haven’t learned to tell the difference between sh!t and Shinola. You have made no contribution to the society that protects and nourishes you; therefore you have not earned the right to decide its fate.
People are dying right now because of policy pretending to ‘solve’ the imaginary ‘climate crisis’. By ‘starting to move’ in support of policies that threaten our entire civilisation, you are tacitly culpable for their premature deaths. How many likes do you expect to score on Facebook for man-slaughter?
Now shut-up your petulant, puerile whining and go back to school before a responsible grown-up puts your over their knee and gives you a spanking you cheeky spoiled brats.
Like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez none of them have a fully developed Cortex. And Alexandria isn’t that young anymore. And “all our lives” will be only 12 years more so enjoy it.
SC25, one long sunspot cycle and we had it.
According to the Met Office, the UK’s mean maximum temperature in February was at 3.5C above the average between 1981 and 2010.
…. maybe we are all dead already
Yes the maximum was above average, as maximums are.
However what they didn’t tell you was the CET average for the month was only 15th Warmest.
See
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/february-2018-only-15th-warmest-on-cet/
It’s 46 degrees centigrade in parts of north Western Australia today. No one will die from it. It’s like that most days in Summer (which is officially over), and 38 to 45 degree C temps in summer are a daily occurrences all over and almost no one dies from it because we’ve adjusted our way of living to deal it. We don’t even stop working most of the time, businesses don’t close, we don’t admit ourselves to hospital, we just carry on life as normal.
The idea that anyone in Europe might be thinking that a rise of 3.5 degrees from a European baseline would be dangerous to human life is simply laughable. It isn’t. Failing to adapt to the environment is what’s dangerous, but humans don’t have that problem.
+100000
well said!
that would melt a few snowflakes
Erny72 – March 2, 2019 at 2:41 am
Me thinks it is more likely that “you children” are ….. dependent upon maybe 1/4th of the other half for everything that you take for granted.
Senior citizens, politicians, public employees, non-profit employees, consummate “troughfeeders”, dope dealers, gang members, etc., etc. do not contribute very much at providing “goods” that children are dependent upon.
As a senior citizen, let me correct you. I am living off the proceeds of what I contributed back when I was working, and I pay thousands in taxes of all types, including school taxes.
But, but, jtom, ……. the question is, ….. during your pre-retirement years were you working as a “private sector” goods producing employee ….. or ….. a “public sector” goods consuming troughfeeder?
What a bigoted thing to say. Work paid through taxes is investment towards the nation’s well being. For example: Our founding fathers found it important to fund public services and the people necessary to provide them for the good of the nation.
“The Whole People must take upon themselvs the Education of the Whole People and must be willing to bear the expences of it. There should not be a district of one Mile Square without a school in it, not founded by a Charitable individual but maintained at the expence of the People themselvs they must be taught to reverence themselvs instead of adoreing their servants their Generals Admirals Bishops and Statesmen.”
I understand that extreme beliefs in public funded work leads to socialism, but a little of it was a good thing to such a young nation. And a bit of it now is just as worthy.
This direction, penned early in our nation, formed the great educational foundation that directly led to our prosperity as a productive nation. Like it or despise it, we are still a nation capable of a gross national product because of it.
Socialism is where the government owns the means of production, i.e. business and capital. Provision of public services is *not* Socialism. Never has been, never will be. Fire, police, sanitation workers, water system workers, etc. are providing a public service. They are not owned by the government they are owned by the people, even of the government manages the service. Public schools, teachers, and administrators fall into the same category.
“This direction, penned early in our nation, formed the great educational foundation that directly led to our prosperity as a productive nation.” Yes, and since the late 1950s the “educational elite” have steadily undermined America’s public education system. Good job!
Pamela Gray – March 3, 2019 at 7:23 pm
Don’tja just luv the “troughfeeding” Democrats. They HATE the “truths” that they try to hide, and if you out their hypocrisy they immediately become irately irritated and start calling you badmouthing names such as, BIGOTED, RACIST, SEXIST, etc., etc., etc. They are so poorly misnurtured that they actually believe that ….. “Badmouthing names will break your bones, …. but sticks and stones will never harm you”.
That was shur cute. Shur cute of you to intentionally forget to stipulate the above as being “public works”, …… meaning roads, bridges, borders, military,
And that little “bit” you claim is necessary is the “bit” that you and/or yours get, right?
“DUH”, with more than 52% of the US population receiving a government “check” of one form or another, its no wonder you want to claim that that 52% is just “a little bit”.
FYI: I am a registered Republican, constitionalist, color blind, orientation blind, job blind, and believe in a republic form of fiscally conservative government. The comment I replied to was clearly a bigoted statement and degraded the original comment simply based on a job type.
If we want to argue against these liberal, placard carrying, uninformed groups, the least we can do is use better argument tactics than they use.
Re: the 52% of the US population receiving a government check, cite that source. It will make for an interesting conversation.
constitutionalist…damn bug
Maybe you are also clearly ”bigoted blinded”, …… meaning you subconsciously “see” bigoty in any and everything that you were nurtured as being unacceptable and dislikable?
Anyway, ……………………..
OOPS, …. sorry bout that, …… my rememberer wasn’t quite accurate, ….. but close enough to “make for an interesting conversation”, to wit:
And ps, ….. that 2011 figure of 49.2% increased to over 52% in 2013 or 14.
Like Social Security payments? And the population is aging so it stands to reason that % would go up? Ok fine. End Social Security. Do you think that is a good idea? That is a program. For some it is an entitlement, for others they will never get back with interest what they put in.
Pamela Gray, ……. GETTA CLUE, …… forcing the FEW “producers” to not only pay for their needs, but also pay for the needs of the MANY “troughfeeders” …….. is a recipe for anarchy.
As more n’ more “producers” begin to realize that ….. “Why be a producer if being a troughfeeder is more rewarding”, ……… then more n’ more will join the ranks of the “do-nothings”, ….. and thus very little to nothing gets done.
Your “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” is in dire danger of being “cancelled” … if you cannot field a sufficient number of patriotic citizens to repel invasive “forces” attacking US Boarders.
Me thinks the “Rise and fall of the Roman Empire”…… has become the “role model” for most of the US population.
+100
I wonder, who wrote this letter for them?
The language used makes it clear they didn’t write it themselves.
Brainwashed kids asking for a cure for a disease that doesn’t exist. The only problem being the cure is a life sentence of permanent poverty and desperation. By the time they work out this is a big lie it will be too late. We need a Trump 2.0 to follow Trump, to keep these poeple from jumping off the cliff.
Serge,
I’ll admit that I love my kids and will do what I can and then some to prevent them jumping off a cliff.
If a bunch of precocious brats want to jump off a cliff then they have my thanks for leaving fewer dole-bludgers living a life of Reilly off my tax lliability. Hopefully their ‘progressive’ parents will go along to cheer them on as they plumet to oblivion. Even fewer parasites to feed.
Of course the problem is if they adopt the typical left-tard’s attitiude of ‘my way or the highway’, they’ll be doing their best to drag the rest of us over that same cliff and that really is a worry.
One thing they can do is walk to school. Anywhere you go around London at school start/finish hours streets are clogged up by mums’ cars delivering or collecting their ‘darlings’.
The rest are swarms with the free public transport passes, so forget it if you try to get on a bus at those hours.
And when you ask the mums why they are driving their kids to school they say it is to avoid the danger caused by the heavy traffic, which in turn is caused by these self same mums.
I always used to enjoy the drive to work during half term weeks because the amount of traffic was substantially reduced, and got to work in half the time.
When their demands are not met they will start killing people to make their point.
Ha ha.
They say they want to start a revolution but they can’t even start a lawnmower
Destroy modern civilization. Replace it with an amalgam hodege podge of cliches, slogans, bullshit, generalities, and shouting. Thinking things through is not important, it is how you fell. AOC told me so. Well, sounds like the freeloaders looking for government handouts to build a new world order are at the gates.
Western Civilization is already destroyed. It died in WWI, along with millions of the best and brightest Europe had to offer. After that, all the -isms rose from the ashes: Marxism, socialism, communism.
Since then, we’re just technologically advanced barbarians, ready to murder one another for pennies. It’s a long, slow, decline, just as Rome suffered, I imagine.
Where’s Hari Seldon when you need him
Raven, they called him.
He bumped into a mule, or at least his computer model did.
I wonder if Mr. Asimov was prescient considering that the symbol of one of the major political parties in his country of origin is a mule?
Luckily, the Second Foundation was there to adjust the model.
Or clean up their room.
Under their revolution, they wouldn’t have any lawn mowers except old fashion manual push mowers. Nothing to ‘start’. Silver lining’ or curse?
“they wouldn’t have any lawn mowers except old fashion manual push mowers.”
Nope. You need industry to make those.
Sickle.
Edged with chipped flint?
No metal, even from a blacksmith and manual labour (from Wiki):
Can’t have those pesky coal mines any more
And can’t be making charcoal either! All that nasty smoke, don’t ya know.
I doubt many of them could start a hand-mower.
Oh My! This is hilarious.
“We are going to change the fate of humanity, whether you like it or not. United we will rise until we see climate justice.”
Now where have we heard this stuff before?
Yes, here we are:
Workers of the world, UNITE! Rise up and cast off your chains. Down with the Bourgeois, smash capitalism!
Karl Marx, anybody?
At least we know where they get their ideas from.
Not from the USA darling Alexandria Ocasio but some French hot head written 150 years ago:
Stand up, damned of the Earth
Stand up, prisoners of starvation
Reason thunders in its volcano
This is the eruption of the end.
L’Internationale
At least they had something to complain about 150 years ago … these kids? … zip!
Work sets you free, baby!
OMG, finally after 2000 years, the End Days, Armageddon, Rapture, Judgement Days, and coming of Christ. Since he will rule for 1000 years, let him sort it out and fix things. I mean, he is a God, and I am not, so it is his ball game now. I am going outside now to listen for the trumpets and the breaking of the scroll seals…dammit.
That’s as much a fantasy as CO2 Catastrophic warming.
At least it’s a peaceful one.
I demand a cure for cancer now. It is our right. People are dying. Delays for the cure are not acceptable.
That one is actually useful, just has to be extended or reformed to emphasise the analogy to CAGW.
Cancer has a “C” in it. “C” is the symbol for “Carbon”.
Therefore, cancer is caused by “Carbon Pollution”.
End “Carbon Pollution” and we end cancer.
Sadly, that probably makes sense to these kids.
This is all that is happening. The propagandized generation of youth from the 1990’s are now the teachers regurgitating the same propaganda on another generation of youth.
It matters not whether it is true or not it is what they earnestly believe. There is no way that the diffuse energy from natural sources like wind and solar can power an industrial economy, there is insufficient power from these sources to replicate the wind generators, solar panels, and high tension cables, pylons and transformers and all the associated concrete.
It will not work.
“”Renewable energy ‘simply won’t work’: Top Google engineers
Windmills, solar, tidal – all a ‘false hope’, say Stanford PhDs”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/21/renewable_energy_simply_wont_work_google_renewables_engineers/
and more recently:
“Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet” by Michael Shellenberger
quillette.com/2019/02/27/why-renewables-cant-save-the-planet/
It is tempting to say this is a failure of education. However, as someone once said “Let me control the text books and I will control the state.” and as Lenin said above – he has had more than one generation of youth. This is a triumph of education – ‘anthropogenic global warming’ now ‘climate’ [sic] and diffuse power generation have been successfully taught and some without engineering training completely believe it – after all it is in all the text books (aka Internet).
There is only one thing that will turn the tide in the propagandized and that is nature. But it will be as difficult to eradicate as Lysenskoism one would hope it will not lead to as many deaths.
“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
― Adolf Hitler
I am NOT a young person.
Who will give ME climate justice?
Who will look after MY hopes and dreams?
Please, will somebody show me a list of species that have gone extinct, because of global warming/climate change?
Please, will somebody show me a list of people who have died, or are dying, because of global warming/climate change?
Young people have not been included in the local and global decision-making process. But how much money have they contributed to help solve the problem?
Have young people contributed anything to help solve the problem?
How many young people are helping to cause the problem, with their high tech iPhone/Starbucks/McDonalds lifestyles?
How many young people are driven around in gas guzzling SUV’s?
How many young people eat meat?
How many young people have pets, which increases their carbon footprint?
Young people need to learn a new slogan:
NO RIGHTS, WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITIES
That, is something that is worth marching for.
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How many young people know, that about 144 million people live in Russia?
How many young people know, what the average temperature is, in Russia?
Is Russia’s average temperature:
+20.0 degrees Celsius?
+2.0 degrees Celsius?
or +0.2 degrees Celsius?
When young people can answer that question, then people might start listening to them.
spoilt lil shits!
since when is any kid entitled to anything?
or to demand anything as a right?
damned lucky if they have a roof clothes and education
anything else is a bonus
bout time they all got a reminder of that maybe??