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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Indoctrination is a clever tool. It allows you to get other people to promote your products such as wind turbines for free. In this respect it is considerably more cost effective than bribery.
Beware the ides of March
The irony of this situation is that the children in wealthy western countries have been bainwashed into believing they are CC victims and yet they are the ones living in free and prosperous societies where their only limits of success and prosperity are the ones they place on themselves. Children living in 3rd world developing countries such as India and China have a compeltely diffierent outlook on the future and live in the hope of having such an opportunity.
It’s also interesting to note that the modern day socialist movement is entirely based on victim creation, where the perpetrators are generally politically conservative rich white heterosexual males of Christian or Judean religious beliefs. This group of pepole are even made responsible for crimes committed by their ancestors going back of hundreds of years or even thousands of years, such as in the case of the Crusades.
It’s hard to underestimate the level of hatred held by green left wing socialists towards this white skinned conservative cultural group. I can’t ever image having even 1% such hatred from myself twards another human being, but with all of our educations systems being taken over by these people, this is now what is being brainwashed into the young minds of our children. This is Nazism 2.0, but on a global scale.
Once you have a victim then you have a perpetrator.
There’s a reason why they block the streets on Fridays:
– no city would allow the busy streets and shopping malls be blocked on Saturdays.
– On Saturdays, the strikers themselves like to go shopping.
– On Sundays they like to drive to the countryside, to rivers, mountains and lakes.
There ought to be left money for that reason.
The Gilets Jaunes are currently on their 16th consecutive Saturday of city centre demonstrations,many retail businesses large and small are suffering severe financial losses.
Climates change, it gets hotter and then it gets cooler. CO2 makes a contribution to the warming but not much.
“Climates change, it gets hotter and then it gets cooler.”
Yes, and it’s called Summer and Winter.
“For people under 18 in most countries, the only democratic right we have is to demonstrate. We don’t have representation,” said Jonas Kampus, a 17 year old student activist, from near Zurich
Until age 18 their parents represent them. Unlike these spoilled brats, their parents pay taxes.
We, the old, are deeply concerned about your future. Humanity believes it is currently causing the sixth mass extinction of species and the global climate system is at the brink of a catastrophic crisis. It believes wrong. The devastating impact of this belief is already felt by millions of people around the globe. Yet we are far from reaching the goals of the Paris agreement. Of course! why could we care less, when the whole agreement is based on a false narrative and world leaders know it. Climate change is simply a convenient lie, like Al Gore told you (always reverse anything a politician says).
Young people make up more than half of the global population. Your generation grew up with the illusion of a climate crisis carefully fostered to control your political opinions, and you will have to deal with it for the rest of your lives. Despite that fact, most of you are not included in the local and global decision-making process. You are the voiceless future of humanity.
You will continue to accept this injustice. Your demands for justice for all past, current and future victims of the imaginary climate crisis, will be carefully vectored into more profits for pointless renewable energy companies, and so you are rising up for nothing. Thousands of you have taken to the streets in the past weeks all around the world, carefully directed as part of a global publicity stunt that has no relationship to reality at all. By shouting louder you will make your voices heard. But no one is really listening.
You finally need to stop treating climate change as a crisis. It is the biggest threat in human history, but not because the climate is changing. But because you believe it is to the extent that you are prepared to willingly hand power and money to those who are using it to institute a freedom-less totalitarian world order on you. You should not accept the world’s decision-makers’ action that threatens your entire civilization. you should not accept a life in fear and devastation.
Because that is what is in store if you let them foist renewable energy on you. You have the right to live your dreams and hopes. Climate change has always happened. People did die, are dying and will die because of it, but not in nearly such large numbers as will die if a world order that is democratically unchallengeable takes control, with your assistance: You can and will stop this madness.
You, the young, have started to move. You are going to change the fate of humanity, whether you like it or not. United you should rise until you see an end to faux ‘climate justice’. You should demand the world’s decision-makers take responsibility and stop pretending that this is a crisis, when it’s simply a global marketing initiative for profit and political control.
You have failed us in the past. If you continue failing us in the future, you, the young people, will find change happening that is beyond your control… The youth of this world has started to move and you will not rest again. The ‘global coordination group’ of the youth-led climate cult tells you one thing.
Why don’t you listen to us, who were here before you, and know far more about how little one should trsut ones fellow man, particularly when there is money and profit and political power involved.
– An old fart that built the world that allows you to be so stupid and naive, yet still be alive.
From Dec 2018 here :
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/12/12/shame-350-is-turning-children-into-climate-activists-by-encouraging-school-strikes/
There is a lot of good ol’ oligarchy money flowing there.
Alice in Wonderland ought to be required in all schools – the tale of the Walrus and the Carpenter should make it clear exactly what is going on.
As a pedant, I have to inform you that the Walrus and the Carpenter are not in Alice in Wonderland. Disney has much to answer for.
The only proper response to such nonsense …
“You are grounded for a month with no internet access”
It would be more difficult for them to complain if you said, “Ok, we’re going to start transitioning you to the ‘carbon-free’ (sic) world you demand. I’ve disconnected Internet service, WiFi, and electrical power to your room. You are now helping save the wotld.“
They could not complain if you said, “Ok, we are going to start transitioning you to the ‘carbon-free’ (sic) world you demand. We have cust off Internet, WiFi, and electrical power to your room. You are now saving the world.”
My suggestion is to set up a summer camp. It would be open to all children that believe in dangerous climate change. The would be dropped off at a collection point and then hike to the camp. They must leave everything behind with their parents. They must even wear clothing made of hemp with hand woven footwear. At the camp they will construct their own shelters out of raw materials. They will have to do everything without the help of anything that uses or is made by using fossil fuels. They will be hunter gatherers in order to eat. The camp would be 6 weeks long with a tap out at 2 weeks. My guess they don’t even make it to tap out.
Two trips to the outhouse would end it all.
I lived in a house that had an outhouse.
Using an outhouse is a scary and disgusting exercise. It’s even worse using one in the dead of winter, and when it’s raining. However, cleaning one out is the ultimate disgusting job ever.
They’d love the modern houses after living with an outhouse for a month.
The Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution set a precedent for young people being used as shock troops by politicians, with consequences that the Chinese are still embarrassed to report on.
Similarly, if I recall correctly, the Taliban translates as “the Students”. Need I really say more.
They were students until the CIA gave them $25 billion and MANPADS.
Now that ISIS, their post-doc graduates, is defeated another mob is being groomed, closer to home.
Not quite, bonbon. The Taliban organized to overthrow the actual anti-Russian guerrillas once the Soviets had left. The hard left blamed the US for defeating the communists, so by that logic, the Stalinists would have dealt with the Salafis, so it is ultimately the US’ fault.
That CIA Bush money flowed through Geneva BCCI, and Trump said Russia was right to invade Afghanistan because of these terrorists. It was polish aristocrat Brzezynski’s remake of MacKinder’s “soft underbelly” stunt. Same with Dagestan, Chechnya. The Taliban were re-created in 1994. Of course Afghanistan suffered collateral genocide.
All of this Great dirty Game produced 9/11, ISIS, the mass migrations over the Med.
The US played Britain’s Great Game, look at the result!
Trump says no more such wars, and look at the massive coup underway! Vet Gabbard is being called a Russian agent for saying exactly the same thing.
“…That CIA Bush money flowed through Geneva BCCI, and Trump said Russia was right to invade Afghanistan because of these terrorists…”
Bush was head of the CIA for 12 months, ending in January 1977. A communist coup took-over Afghanistan in 1978. Russia invaded just days before 1980. Surely you’re joking.
Trump has been skewered for his comment. Afghanistan was in turmoil internally, but it had no effect on the USSR or outside nations. Russia wanted it to stay communist.
9/11 was the result of a madman. Osama bin Laden should have been thankful his entire life for the support that the US gave Afghan rebels in their battle vs the Soviets. Instead he @ur momisugly#%# on us.
9/11 was a failed Reichstagsbrand. Predicted in January before as soon as Ashcroft got the job. The form and exact timing being unclear, but the scale and purpose very clear.
It was no joke at all. There was no way Obama would let Osama talk in front of any camera.
Shades of the Röhm putch.
Trump has pointed out the British Great Game with that comment. MacKinder’s arc of crisis, from Brzezinski, Wolfowitz and such educated criminals is suddenly visible.
Why is the US on a British leash? The House of Lords declared their little game would not survive a second Trump term.
Bonbon, your tinfoil hat is loose.
As if those pesky foreigners cannot have their own motives and politics. OBL had his own political goals, which only indirectly involved the US.
More like “We. the ‘educators'”.
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in classroom*. Children are now tyrants, they no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents.” Σωκρᾰ́της
The Athens Senate condemned Socrates to death or exile for “corrupting youth” – making them think. Phaedon is clear on that.
These rallying kinds are not thinking at all, they are actually following authority, from Prince Philip, Soros of Davos, all the way down to McKibben.
Maybe hydro generating facilities should go on strike for a few days. Give the little brats a taste of what they are demanding..
How about Mum and Dad ‘go on strike’ instead and demand their children attend school and shut the hell up about things they have no clue about. If not, lock them out of the house for 24 to 48 hours, they can poop in a hole, drink out of a bucket, no food, make a bed out of leaves, hope it doesn’t rain or snow and there are not too many mosquitoes.
Or how about the Parents go on strike from schools? Make the schools close for a week or two in the middle of term due to no students being present? Or just don’t turn up at the beginning of the next school year or term, empty the schools everywhere for a month.
Others can play the strike game.
Taking a close look at the picture of the protest event where bottom left there is a sign “SAVE OUR PLANT”, garnished with a sprig of marijuana. I don’t think there could be a better anthem for these education challenged, over entitled, recreational cannabis engorged lemmings
What really annoys me about the “young” is the sense of entitlement. This typifies there “woe is us” attitude
Our generation grew up with the climate crisis and we will have to deal with it for the rest of our lives.
It’s as though they are saying to the older generation ‘how dare you allow us to be born into a world which is less than perfect’. Arrogant little s**ts. Anyone in the UK who is around a decade older than me was born into a world with bombs falling all around them. Some lost the homes they lived in as well as mothers, fathers, aunts and uncles. Yet none of them complained anywhere near as much as our sad little snowflakes. What a pathetic bunch they are.
£50 fine to the parents for truancy in the UK. Lets get them in court and see what they say to their little darlings then.
A Crown Emissary will whisper in the Judge’s ear, and cases dismissed.
Let’s be realistic, Ivor. Those who showed up for classes are the ones most likely to suffer any consequences. They have outed themselves as, at best, insufficiently indoctrinated, and at worst, reactionary enemies of the socialist deep state.
Leo Smith:
An excellent post!
Unfortunately, they truly believe the hoax that the Earth is warming due to the accumulation of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, and that we have only a decade, or so, left to avoid global catastrophe.
As such, their actions are understandable, and completely reasonable. And they are CORRECT that the climate is warming.
However, the warming is being CAUSED by the environmentalists, with the mechanism simply being the reduction in the amount of dimming sulfur dioxide aerosol emissions into the atmosphere, primarily by reducing SO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
There has been no warming due to the accumulation of CO2 into the atmosphere, and hence no cause for any future concerns as it increases.
The climate crisis can easily be halted, and reversed, just by judiciously re-introducing SO2 aerosols into the atmosphere. A few large volcanic eruptions would be temporarily helpful.
“We demand justice for all past, current, and future victims of the climate crisis”.
This should be from all of those pushing and supporting the greenhouse gas warming hoax!
No. Re-introducing SO2, aka geoengineering is a bad idea. Plus, it is doubtful SO2 emissions are decreasing that much, with places like China still ramping them up. Finally, we can’t say that we are in fact, currently warming, or if we are, whether it is a problem. We may have already started a cooling cycle, and cooling is by far the least desireable.
Bruce Cobb:
Re-introduction of SO2 aerosols into the atmosphere is not necessarily a bad idea, if the introduction sites are chosen so that prevailing winds carry their aerosols away from populated areas, etc.
China is no longer ramping up its SO2 emissions, but is actively decreasing them, which was the cause of the 2014-2016 El Nino. Between 2014 and 2016 they reduced their SO2 emissions by at least 29 Million tons, and are continuing to do so (possibly the cause of the scorching temperatures in Australia and NZ this year)
See “https://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/91270/sulfur-dioxide-emissions-fall-in-china-rise-in-india
A moderate amount of cooling would be highly desirable, since our current average global temperatures are now equivalent to those of prior El Ninos, since around 2000. prior to around 2000.
” … (possibly the cause of the scorching temperatures in Australia and NZ this year) … ”
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As soon as you push that line your argument is in the toilet. Except your claims about el-ninos “around 2000” (i.e. 1998 was the only one) is even more delusional and thoroughly unsubstanciated.
WXcycles:
“as soon as you push that line, your argument is in the toilet”
?? I was not pushing that line, merely speculating that since China is in the process of reducing its SO2 emissions, the cleaner air in that part of the world will cause temperatures to rise, possibly affecting Australia and NZ.
My comments about El Ninos prior to, and after 2000 is based upon an analysis which I have done. I examined the average anomalous global temperatures during all El Ninos since 1850, and compared those temperatures with those of the 12 months prior to the start of the El Ninos. Up until 2000, the El Nino temperatures (with very few exceptions) were always higher than those of the prior 12 months. After 2000 (except for the very strong 2014-2016 El Nino) the temperatures have been identical.
Sulfur in transportation fuels, gasoline, diesel, marine fuels oils and especially jet fuel has been trending downward for decades for environmental reasons. Jet fuel is down by ~an order of magnitude and see little reason why it should be. It would be relatively easy to reverse the trend in jet fuel.
A side effect of reducing SO2 released into the atmosphere is the effect on sulphur levels in farmed soils.
Sulphur is leached from soils almost as easily as nitrogen.
Sulphur now has to be included in fertilisers to make up the deficiency.
Be sure they all sign the petitions to insure they can be punished for truancy.
History is littered with tyrants who rise to power by manipulating the untested minds of young people. The results are dimwits, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who pass their intellectual laziness on to the next generation. These children could be protesting real pollution and the harm it creates. Yet, the tyrants won’t gain power from that. Truly sad.
Climate is cyclic and the cycles are longer than these poor kids young lives.
It seems that a few loud kids protesting and getting headlines is also cyclic.
Anybody remember the 60’s?
Over the past 55 years the young have been protesting:
Parents and their discipline
Why can’t I use the car
Why must I be back home by 10 pm
Wearing academic gowns in Cambridge after dark
The Greek colonels
The Vietnam War
Save the whale
Ban the bomb
Greenham Common
Global cooling
Nuclear power, no thanks
Chilean generals
Argentine generals
Acid rain
Apartheid
Cape apples
Global warming
City fat cats
The capitalist system
Fossil fuel
Etc
Etc
Unfortunately, the Guardian article gives no specific arguments.
* Goals of the Paris agreement: “The Paris Agreement central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.” I think these aims have become obsolete.
Facts: rise of global temperature since 1900: + 1 degree C.
Preview: + 1.5 degree C by 2040; If global temperature increase would speed up, + 1,5 degree C by 2030.
CO2 emission: Worldwide, fossil-fuel use is projected to pump 2.7 percent more CO2 into the air in 2018 than in 2017. (https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/carbon-dioxide-emissions-will-hit-record-high-globally-2018)
Global Mean Sea Level Change: + 8 cm since 1990.
Preview by 2100: from + 26 cm (at current rate) to + 77 cm.
All nuclear plants near the sea have to be removed immediately. (Fukushima!)
Plastics in oceans: at this rate, plastic could outweigh fish in the oceean by 2050.
Other problems such as biodiversity have major consequences for us all.
Yes, the young have the full right to occupy the streets. WUWT has the task to check constantly the previous figures in order to prevent further disasters.
“Facts: rise of global temperature since 1900: + 1 degree C.”
There is no global temperature. Your “fact” is meaningless.
Your so called “facts” are anything but.
0.6C of your 1.0C rise since 1900 are due to “Adjustments” to the data as per NASA Menne etal 2009.
+8 cm sea level rise since 1990 due to adjustments to the data, actual values from tide gauges according to NASA is 5cm.
CO2 being pumped inti the Atmosphere is good as it is Plant Food.
Oh, just give them what they want. Tell them society needs time to transition to a ‘new workd’, but they can start today. Then proceed to take away everything they have that requires the use of fossil fuels or their derivatives, reminding them that they are making the sacrifices they believe are necessary to save the world. The protest would be short-lived if for no other reason than they could no longer communicate with each other.
Same thing with Socialism. Tell them the best way to move to such a system is to start in schools and transition to it. Everyone’s grade will be based on what everyone does. Everyone will receive the same grade, based on the average grade for the class. When their grades drop to levels that would deny them a good future, they would understand why Socialism fails. Tell the teachers that if they engage in grade inflation, they, too, will be transitioned to Socialism, with each person receiving the same salary, from the custodians, cafeteria workers and crossing guards to the principal.
That is a plan I have advocated for a very long time and applied to all types of “dogooderism”.
Give all the little climate tardos and tardettes Fs, and tell them it will go on their permanent record. See if that smartens the little bastids up.
If you want to see how this all ends just look to California. Ultimately there will be no change in CO2 but there will be two changes for certain…less reliability and 1000/month energy bill.