Guest essay by Eric Worrall
After heaping praise on saint Greta trashing Britain’s historical contribution, and praising activist efforts to raise awareness of climate change, British politician Michael Gove infuriated those same activists by stopping short of declaring a climate emergency.
Gove infuriates climate change activists by refusing to declare an ‘climate emergency’ and telling them to judge politicians on actions not words
By DAVID WILCOCK, WHITEHALL CORRESPONDENT FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 02:52 AEST, 1 May 2019 | UPDATED: 02:53 AEST, 1 May 2019Michael Gove was blasted today for refusing to ‘declare a climate changeemergency’, after meeting climate change protesters who brought London to a halt over Easter.
The Environment Secretary met members of Extinction Rebellion, who brought 10 days of disruption to the capital, in Westminster but they said he refused their demand.
They accused him of ‘a moral and political failure’ after prior meetings with Labour’s shadow John McDonnell and Sadiq Khan.
Mr told them climate change was a ‘grave’ challenge, but stopped short of calling it a climate emergency.
‘Politicians should be judged on actions not words,‘ he said.
‘We should show that we’re making a difference rather than simply telling everyone how important it is to change.’Extinction rebellion’s Clare Farrell, who was at the meeting at Defra headquarters, said it had been ‘less sh*t than I thought it would be, but only mildly‘
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Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6977303/Gove-infuriates-climate-change-activists-refusing-declare-climate-emergency.html
What can I say – trying to manipulate and appease climate activists is a bit like playing with a lit stick of dynamite.
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Deselection on the way?
If they dare hold an election it will be, Conservative voters are sick fed up with this fake Conservative party at the moment.
Their heading for a big fall, and their childishly transparent virtue signalling just drives away more of their voters.
Despite the Conservatives, the scary thing is the alternatives.
The shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (2nd most powerful person in the prospective government if they won an election, in charge of the money, for US readers) is on video record as being almost jubilant at the 2008 financial meltdown, that this might herald the downfall of capitalism so that proper communism might be installed.
It’s really very scary that people like this come even close to gaining political power.
The girl who hates the industrial revolution. Maybe she should live life like there was no industrial revolution.
-Join a no tech fanatical religion-as a child bride.
-Join a no tech collective farm-as a child bride.
-Join a no tech group of nomadic hunter/gatherers-as a child bride.
Before the industrial revolution, not a lot of other job prospects, other than child bride/slave labour. Many years ago, one of the most valuable possessions, was a female that couldn’t get pregnant, unless they were expected to pop out babies every nine months.
The politician agrees with her, I think I know what the creepy eyed fellow is looking for.
I miss the good old days of zeolots working hard in slave/drone conditions to build compounds out of sight and torture themselves behind the fences instead of today’s lot with extensive media stunt attention, glue, government sympathizers. Find them a Burning Man site with adequate sanitation facilities–like maybe the Prince Charles compound.
I wonder what Gove will do for power when all the coal and gas are removed. currently the UK is under a stagnant high pressure zone. The windmills are producing less than 2% of the rated outputs and we have very little solar power cause it’s cloudy. Perhaps we could burn a few of the extinction rebellion crowd in the wood chip power stations. Gove has no idea about energy, he’s only interested in politics. perhaps we could burn a few MPs of those as well! Useless lot
+1
Oh well, what would you really think wold happen, when the supposed House of Just and Fair and Leadership ends up to be no more or/and no less than a House of Whores and trickery and treason?!
cheers
I’m close to giving up. Rational thinking, reasoned debate and due process are disappearing faster than you can say “Lord of the Flies”. Mass hysteria and emotional (and literal) incontinence are winning the day. The grandest and most pathetic exercise in virtue signalling that I’ve ever seen is ongoing, with politicians and other mischief-makers everywhere falling over their tongues trying to say Climate Emergency before one another.
What does it mean? It means that science has well and truly left the building. Shrieking nincompoops are demanding that everybody needs to do Something, whipped up by Trotskyists who just want to destroy the economic system that has done more to improve the lives of the world’s poor than any other. Evidence? Pah, that’s for deniers.
It also means that in the current poisonous mood, reasoned sceptics just won’t be listened to (not that they had much of a fair hearing before). The ongoing EU farce has shown that our politicians respond to angry mobs and backroom lobbying by special interest groups far more than they listen to the expressed will of the people. If they’re ignoring the electorate and ignoring rational voices, prepare to hunker down until we can vote them out. Problem is, things are going to get a lot worse before they get better if we end up getting the heinous Marxist guy who’s even less popular than the current PM as her replacement, purely because of the 25-30% who vote for the metaphorical donkey with a red rosette.
Hold on tight, folks, I fear it’s going to be a rough ride.
Sadly, I think you’re right – we are in for a rough old ride. The hordes of swivel-eyed global warming zealots won’t pack it in, and they’ve got a second wind recently by co-opting the children.
}:o(
The only thing they don’t agree on now is, how best to tackle the problem of the falling sky.
Eamon.
Doesn’t the picture of Greta Thunberg remind you a little of Vladimir Putin 🙂