Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Actress Emma Thompson flew from LA to London, to give her support to protests demanding the end of mass air travel.
Police told to use ‘full force’ of law against Heathrow climate change protesters
Heathrow is “working with the authorities” to address any protests which could “disrupt the airport”.
By Ceren Senkul, news reporter
Friday 19 April 2019 07:06, UKPolice have been given the green light by the home secretary to use the “full force of the law” against climate change protesters who are planning to disrupt Heathrow airport.
Extinction Rebellion has been holding demonstrations over several days in key parts of London in order to get the government to take action on the “unprecedented global emergency”.
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Actress Emma Thompson joined the protests in London after taking a 5,400-mile flight from Los Angeles in the US.
She said: “I absolutely wanted to be arrested on my 60th birthday but I didn’t quite manage that.
“I’m so proud and thrilled to be part of Extinction Rebellion.”
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Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/police-told-to-use-full-force-of-law-against-heathrow-climate-change-protesters-11697820
Flying 5,400 miles to join an anti-flying climate protest.
The message couldn’t be clearer. People like Emma Thompson don’t want to shut down all air travel, they just want to shut down YOUR right to travel by air.
Did she bring her hairdresser?
And Hairspray?
5400 miles in First Class too, suppose its a step in the right direction as she has previously flown on Private Jets.
shes got as much cred as branson planning thousands more flights and planes to haul em while stating how green he is.
i dont support this crowd of utter fools but personally i see the masses flying as stupid needless crap in our atmosphere for some entirely un needed holiday they could well spend at home, and a massive disease vector for all.
and the money spent is disgusting.
Probably not entirely off topic.
This FB post from Craig Kelly.
https://www.facebook.com/CraigKellyMP/photos/a.117937578400885/1170516316476334/?type=3&theater
Before long you can only get to New Zealand by proa, if the wind is right of course else you must peddle. Those greenies better be at home when modernity disappears.
Did she pay 5,400 dollars worth of carbon credit taxes?
No, she just paid her first class ticket, as she is too old to fly economy, and then added something to buy her carbon indulgences.
Yeah, we might be criticizing Emma too soon. She may have contacted Al Gore and bought some Carbon Credits from him to offset the CO2 produced on the flight. Surely that’s what a responsible Alarmist would do.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-47991377/dame-emma-thompson-if-i-could-fly-cleanly-i-would
“Unfortunately some times I have to fly.” No you don’t need to, you choose to.
“Everyone has been asking for clean energy for decades…..and it’s been ignored for decades.” It can’t exist on the scale demanded with current technology.
“Where is the hypocrisy , I would fly cleanly if I could?” We’d all do that.
Tantamount to asking “Why don’t you physicists change the laws of Physics as that would meet our demands?”
Pathetic, out of touch with reality.
Charity, please, give her a break. She’s an actress for heaven’s sake, she is supposed to live in a make-belief universe, not live in the real world.
Yeah, OK, but why don’t they come with a mandatory mute-button, or else get heavily fined when they try to talk about the real-world and thus lower the IQ of the whole planet?
“Clean” energy has been available since before the dawn of man. The Phoenicians used wind power to cross the sea. Jewish slaves in Egypt made bricks from mud and straw, baking them in the sun Romans used aqueducts to carry alpine runoff to the lowlands. Mankind worked diligently for thousands of years to develop those sources of energy, with only modest success. Then fossil fuels began to be widely employed. The energy density of fossil fuels outclassed by orders of magnitude all other sources. It was this cheap reliable energy that created the affluence that built our modern world, fed the world, and doubled our lifespans over a period of only a few hundred years.
Why haven’t all students been taught this in elementary school?
I believe Emma Thompson was in a Shakespearean-play-made-into-a-movie called: “Much Ado About Nothing.” I guess she never left that movie set.
Jim
O/T but as they say hereabouts- it really mad oi larf….
Russiagate in 3 minutes
Another actress, but cuter than AOC…
https://mobile.twitter.com/SICKENLAW/status/1118873752031285248
Given her age, she will really give Greta Thunberg a run for her money.
Prospect for growing bananas business on my land at the northern shore of the Great Slave Lake, next to the Yellowknife airport is looking up
Headline from Paris in 1789:
“Marie Antoinette cuts short a spring holiday celebrated with pheasant & deer hunts and lavish feasting on cheeses, confections, rich desserts & champagne, to ride her gilded coach-and-four with ten-coach royal retinue into poverty-stricken villages to offer dietary advice.”
There is no hypocrisy here, because in the future she will take an electric high-speed train to Europe.
Wups, I didn’t mean to say “the future”, I meant to say “The Green New World.”
These people live in a bubble of money and self-righteousness. Note the link below to just one of many, many fossil fuel consuming tours run by a progressive organization.
Note that this trip leaves from D.C. How appropriate.
Remember: They despise us.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/expeditions/destinations/around-the-world/private-jet/central-and-south-america-by-private-jet/
It is hard to imagine the disconnect in these people. Emma Thompson probably flew first class (don’t want to mingle with the peons in coach). They have no scruples, only a desire for money and a want to feel important.
“Where you are going, Emma?” “I’m flying to London to protest flying.”
“GUN VIOLENCE IS WRONG! Now excuse me because I am the lead actor in a movie glorifying gun violence.”
I’m pleased that she got her incisors fixed.
Emma’s image comes from being an actor that evokes empathy. She seems willing to throw that away by acting peevishly, impulsively and stupidly in a way that cannot be ignored.
Emma (look at me, look at me!) Thompson joke – note she used to be married to a fellow luvvie called Ken:
Emma (returning home) : Darling, I’m ho-ome.
Ken: Welcome home darling.
Emma : Where are you darling?
Ken: I’m in the kitchen darling.
Emma : Ooh super darling. Can I be in it too?
Thompson just performed the equivalent of having sex to protest fornication.
Emma Thompson’s plane passes overhead,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ58xcKQTW0
I always thought Emma Thompson was the quintessential British name. (Whispers “Emma Thompson” to myself. Hears the peal of Big Ben in my head, striking thirteen) Still do!
I always think of Florence in the Magic Roundabout. (Conceived by her Father, Eric).
A real disconnect with logic here. Has anyone noticed that almost all climate and environmental activism has the goal of harming civilizations, groups or individuals. almost no effort is expended on actually doing something of benefit to the planet and its environment.
Rick – that is their INTENT. They are totalitarians and Malthusians. See
HYPOTHESIS: RADICAL GREENS ARE THE GREAT KILLERS OF OUR AGE
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/04/14/hypothesis-radical-greens-are-the-great-killers-of-our-age/
Extinction Rebellion?
Common Sense Rebellion is more like it.
You truly cannot make this stuff up.
But even worse she says ““I absolutely wanted to be arrested on my 60th birthday but I didn’t quite manage that.”
C’mon honey, anyone can get arrested anytime they want, the caveat is that you really have to want it.
To be fair, you should mention that she lives in England. She flew home after a job in California.
From the story it looks like she flee to England just to demonstrate against aviation.
The average annual temp in California is 21 Deg C. In England the average is 17 Deg C. (GIYF)
Emma Thompson, who
lives inhas a house in London, berates us with the alarm of having to live in a world where the average temperature will be 1.5 – 2 Deg C higher than now within 50 – 100 years.It makes me wonder how she survives the transition from CA to UK and back again; bearing in mind that she also berated the English for living in a cold and wet climate I assume she prefers the CA warmth.
Is she moving to London, or will she fly back?
She will be back to LA to play old wicked witch in the ‘Hansel and Gretel’ movie.