Reposted from the NoTricksZone
You think FFF kids are mad at their parents for trashing the planet? That’s nothing compared to their anger when you ask them to walk the talk.
Angry Greta. Image cropped here.
At FaceBook, two German parents of a young schoolgirl decided that if their daughter was going to skip school on Fridays and demand the rest of the world start being responsible for the planet as Greta and Fridays For Future prescribe, then she should begin to do so at home.
Well, that didn’t go over too well.
Here’s what the two parents wrote:
Thanks Greta…. thanks Fridays For Future!
Oh oh… doors slamming, loud screaming
Our daughter recently got back from more stupid FFF truancy. She was teed off because we didn’t pick her up (climate friendly) and so she had to tough it out in a bus and train for 3 hours to get home.
After having a chalky vegan soy cake (only for her – we had real cheesecake) there was a surprise. She now has to take the bus to school in the morning. But that’s a drag, because the bus only leaves every hour and she either arrives at school an hour early or arrives too late. We suggested to stop heating the bus, because it still uses oil. But she also doesn’t want to go by bicycle because of all the hills and grades – besides soon it’ll be winter and it’s too cold and windy. But she says she might consider the option if she gets an e-bike for Christmas.
“Christmas? But that’s totally anti-eco,” I told her. “All those lights and CO2 emissions from candles!” This sparked the first pre-pubescent protest, which was amazingly similar to her defiant phase between the ages of 2 and 3. ‘E-bike? Hasn’t our little daughter even seen the devastated areas that result from the extraction of rare earths for the batteries?’
Now she’s sitting upstairs in her room at 8°C (46°F), moping. We have already turned off the heat there to be ecologically conscious. Maybe she’s keeping her fingers warm typing angry mails about her “shitty parents” to her friends on her i-Phone. But here we’ve announced to her that she will be rid of this iPhone at 7 pm. After all, it’s irresponsible to keep wasting electricity to have more or less useful conversation and, secondly: again the lithium extraction and its ecological consequences.
In response to her protests against this expropriation, we assured her in a calm voice that we would either send the iPhone directly to needy children in Africa, or sell it and then donate the financial equivalent to help save the South American rainforest.
But the real fun starts on Monday. That’s when we swap out her trendy clothes for jute, wool and hemp fiber woven stuff. Her Nikes with the cool plastic soles will be replaced by Dutch wooden shoes. And if someone thinks this is satire: No, we are GOING THROUGH IT!
If she then still screeches on, she has two possibilities:
1) recognize what brainless eco-fascists she’s listening to
2) recognize what brainless eco-fascists she’s listening to!
Thank you Greta. You have inspired us, as no one else would have done in educational matters. Mommy and I have just shouted up to our daughter: ‘We’re going to Mc Donald’s, want to come along?’ We hope the hysterical screaming will stop by the time we get back.’”
Every parent should make their activist children really practice what they preach.
She’s just a Dancing Queen
https://youtu.be/OI81yqgRWGc
More like Lady Gag Gag.
It looks like she’s finally doing some normal teenager things like dancing, singing, and having a few laughs. Perhaps there’s hope for her yet.
I trust that everyone is aware of the true symbolism of the FFF acronym = 666
The preferred signature of the usual suspects.
MG
F is 15 in hexadecimal and 1 + 5 = 6 so I can see where you are getting 666 out of FFF, but frankly if you have to put that much geekery and effort into getting there, you can be sure you’re just seeing what you are looking for rather than any actual “hidden meaning”. Granted, it is a perfectly fitting “signature” for the usual suspects but that’s more by happenstance than design.
Rather than going through all those hoops, you could just count: F is the 6th letter of the English alphabet.
Should be FFS.
I wonder if this is real
I don’t think Doctors for the Environment Australia would approve of this treatment-
Hotter temperatures and extreme weather linked to mental distress, suicide (msn.com)
You reckon all the paid catastrophists and doomsdayers aren’t crawling out of the woodwork with COP26 in the offing-
How climate change is threatening Australia’s favourite fruits (msn.com)
Maybe they’re all trying to get tickets to the game as something is certainly affecting all these nuts and fruits at present.
Yes, this is a good example of why it is ridiculous to blame the fossil fuel producers for global warming. If you don’t like the results of fossil fuel use stop using it.
Sorry for piling on, but thank you so very much for this. Makes my week. Also highly recommend that doomsday prediction chart at extinction clock.org. Brilliant stuff. We need to start a Truth Thursday movement and make everyone walk the talk.
To be fair heating the bus is using waste heat from the engine. So they can keep doing that, however on a electric bus they would be trading warmth for range so definitely e-busses should not be heated.
Bernie never grew up.
Joe Manchin reportedly vetoed Biden clean-energy proposal, gets in public fight with Bernie Sanders (yahoo.com)
That’s how to do it! If only we could do this with the so-called “adults” too.
Wonderful! I sent this one on and it should be a guide for anyone that has an ecobrat trying to shame them.
The girls; no lipstick, nail polish, deoderants, hairdryers, soap, candles, shower curtains, shower-caps, eye-liner, perfumes, hair dyes, ointments, contact lenses, mobiles.
The boys; no xbox playstation type devices.
Should convince if applied at the correct age.
Age – let me count the ways …
I’m so old I can remember music
I’m so old I can remember raising potatoes in the garden, along with popcorn and squash of various sorts. And hand pumping water when the motorized pump needed repairs.
I’m so old it takes me all night to do what I used to be able to do all night.
Those utube comments LOL – Heavy Gretal is here to stay
Back about 1975, the ex and I lived in Idaho. Her 12 year old daughter came home from school and soundly castigated me for my failure to be ecologically aware. Oh…..
OK, so from now on, we would turn the heat down to 55 degress F. ( the coldest we saw while living there was -35, but only once. Besides, it was a DRY cold.). Also, drive the car only on Saturday for the weeks shopping. The little darling could take the bus to school, I took the bus to work, and we could walk to church.
That was the last time ever, I had to listen to that horse puckey.
This reminds me of a story I read about a Canadian POW when he was freed from a Japanese camp and returned home. When his children complained about food at home he put them on the kind of food he had in the POW camp and the complaints stopped pretty quickly.
An often overlooked aspect of WWII! Japanese treatment of Allied POWs was beyond cruel; the bushido philosophy rampant in their military saw surrender as a disgrace and dishonor; making prisoners less than human, to be treated as such!
In other words, the prisoners were deplorable.
Some prisoners were cannibalized by their captors.
One of my great uncles was an aerial photographer in WWII, shot down over Burma. He would never talk about what it was like in the POW camp.
£1 million per winner https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58948339
I copped similar lecturing from my nieces. I replied “Well, you can eat crickets then”. They wondered why I was so angry to wish that upon them.
Tell her that an E-bike will be useless since with no oil production there will be no more roads. Where does she think the tarmac used to surface the roads comes from? I don’t think E-bikes do well at all on dirt tracks.
Same for having a dry home. The same material is used to create roofing materials and to seal them against the weather.
Oh, hey! A properly thatched roof does not leak!
OT — if the Germans are so so concerned about fossil fuels and the climate, I wonder if they have reigned in the unlimited speeds on the autobahns.
But can she dance?
Greta can dance! Greta is human! Not puppet! See no strings!
Similar to this one slapped up here on WUWT earlier this year:
If you get the point and tire of reading, do at least scroll down to the last line (-:
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One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one in which there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks.
“What’s this?” she asked.
“Pulverized willow bark,” replied her fairy godmother.
“What happened to the carpet?” she asked.
“The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum,” came the response.
Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fiber bristles.
“Your old toothbrush?” noted her godmother, “Also nylon.”
“Where’s the water?” asked Greta.
“Down the road in the canal,” replied her godmother, Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it”
“Why’s there no running water?” Greta asked, becoming a little peevish.
“Well,” said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, “Where do we begin?”
There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it’s impossible to make all-electric earth- moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tires and how ore has to be smelted to make metal, and that’s tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat, and even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden’s energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tires and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . .
“What’s for breakfast?” interjected Greta, whose head was hurting.
“Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs,” replied her godmother. “Raw.”
“How so, raw?” inquired Greta.
“Well, . . .” And once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and in the end was educated about how you can’t have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore.
“But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes,” lamented Greta.
“Tilda died this morning,” the godmother explained. “Bacterial pneumonia.”
“What?!” interjected Greta. “No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin.”
“Not anymore,” explained godmother “The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum- based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there’s not an easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can’t really burn many bodies using as fuel Swedish fences and furniture, which are rapidly disappearing being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm.”
This represents only a fraction of Greta’s day, a day without microphones to exclaim into and a day without much food, and a day without carbon-fiber boats to sail in, but a day that will save the planet.
Tune in tomorrow when Greta needs a root canal and learns how Novocain is synthesized
You left out the part about no electricity, and no house lights because it is illegal to hunt whales for their fat, which was rendered into oil.
I’m not the author of that funny bit of mockery, if I know who it was, I’d have included a credit. After a short search, it appeared here on WattsUpWithThat posted by Anthony Watts and a h/t to Richard Courtney on Facebook LINK
Thanks for that info!
This is a beautiful narrative from the family in Germany. It is a modern fairy tale that all would-be ‘Green‘ children around the World should experience.
Priceless!
A loving but firm slap-up-the-side-of-the-head to wake up the “woke” daughter they love.
There’s still over 6,000 fossil-fuel derived products that could be removed from the FFF drones.
I predict a mind-change within losing 100 of them
well done
I wish more parents would educate there children to open there eyes and mind
Maybe we should do this with politicians.
Great parents. Perhaps they could also talk to the school and insist that the school also practice what it preaches so cutting off the heating in a German winter when the energy is not coming from sun or wind – most of winter I expect. i expect the next year to be a bit of a hilarious nightmare as systems fail all over the west. At some point, it islikly that the peasants may really revolt and perhaps we could start with stopping all unnecessary activity. At the universities I would start with anything that is not STEM. Alternatively we could announce what is effectively starting to happen which is that you can eat or heat but not both.