Essay by Eric Worrall
How do Alarmists cope when their partner inconsiderately brings home a loaf of bread wrapped in plastic, despite a freezer is full of home made bread?
Help! I Care More About Climate Change Than My Partner
When it comes to disagreeing about climate change, can there be a middle ground?
By Brianna Sharpe
Updated September 13, 2023One afternoon, I was cleaning up after lunch with my toddler balanced on my hip when I saw it: a Ziploc bag in the garbage. “Eric!” I shouted in frustration at my husband, who wasn’t even home. My daughter looked expectantly at me. “Dada home?” I shook my head, glad that he wasn’t. The words I was thinking of were not playground-approved.
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Eric thinks climate change is real and concerning. But my anxiety about the planet’s future is foreign to him. Recently, when we chatted about our kids’ lives 20 years from now, he described a future with things like careers, homes and families. All I could picture was a world they wouldn’t want to bring their own children into. How can we share so much, but diverge so drastically on this?
Caroline Hickman, a psychotherapist with the University of Bath and the Climate Psychology Alliance, says this kind of tension is increasingly common; she’s even seen couples break up over the strain of differing environmental views. “You’re not talking about whose turn it is to take the rubbish out; you’re talking about extinction and survival,” she says. While successful relationships are built on communication and compromise, “people are not willing to compromise on this.”
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This tension even led to a stalemate on whether to have children. MC worried about their child’s future and the ethics of bringing another person onto the planet. Her husband still wanted kids. After years—and lots of support and space for MC—they found a way forward, and she’s due any day. But when it comes to the big picture, their conversations still turn into a battle.
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Although he’s supported her since then, he’ll also bring home plastic-wrapped bread right after she’s stocked the freezer with homemade loaves. “It’s a lot of work to make bread, soap, canned vegetables and everything else,” Heather says, frustrated by her husband’s consumerism. She lovingly calls their relationship one of “comedic tension”; she likes to wag her finger at him in jest, “and he gives me all kinds of excuses to do that.”
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Read more: https://chatelaine.com/health/sex-and-relationships/climate-change-relationships/
Don’t forget folks, their vote counts as much as yours does. And no, Brianna is married to a different Eric.
Regarding home made bread, she could ask her partner how her home made could be improved. Maybe she is doing it wrong – getting bread right is a surprisingly subtle art, even small changes make a big difference.
In any case, I doubt home baking is the climate conscious choice Brianna thinks it is.
I love making home made bread, but the fact is heating up the oven just for a single loaf of bread, or a small number of loaves, likely takes lot more energy than mass producing thousands of loaves of bread in a production line oven. Surface area to volume ratio helps ensure the heat insulation on really big ovens is a lot more effective than small household ovens. And producing that biodegradable plastic wrap for shop bought bread is a lot less energy intensive than running a freezer to preserve a batch of home made loaves.
As for washing out the ziplock bags – Brianna, where do you think the detergent you use for washing ziplock bags comes from? Hint Brianna – they don’t make detergent out of thin air.
But I guess we’ve all come to expect this level of fundamental ignorance from our most zealous climate alarmists.
By the way, please keep using the detergent, or switch to using new ziplock bags every time. I know dish washing detergent is a petroleum product, just like the ziplock bags you re-use, but you need to think about the health of your young child. E. Coli infection from improper food handling can wreak havoc on the health of the very young. Perhaps you could switch to a brand of detergent which makes a big deal of their fake carbon credits.
The time may be arriving when those of us not taken over by the new Climate concern religion start to actively engage in bringing reality back into focus.
A couple of real natural disasters have taken place this past week in north Africa. The Earthquake in Morocco, has devastated communities with few resources to fall back o. A rising death toll of over two thousand is being reported. Other than building better quality, more technically capable structures for people to live in, there is nothing we can do to stop earthquakes and their resulting actual damage to communities.
The other major catastrophe and loss of life is in Libya. There inadequate maintenance of two dames allowed them to fail after heavy rainfall filled them and burst the capacity. The death toll from the resulting dam collapse will be around twenty thousand plus. The city of Dena all but destroyed, with areas uninhabitable for years to come.
The money we (humanity) have spent and wasted on pointless Climate Change activities over the past thirty years would have been better deployed looking at real issues and supporting real infrastructures that will ultimately fail, and cause massive loss of life.
The lady who bemoans her husband’s casual discarding of a plastic bag, then gets it reported is a great indicator of the gap between the nonsense mindset of Climate Alarm advocates and the real world. A world where a man in Dena is searching the rubble for his wife children and and extended family, all lost because the dam was left to rot. It would not be a good time to ask him what he thinks about wasted plastic bags.
Make that two dams, what has happened to the edit function?
Two dames was funny though 🙂
As they’d say in Italy, “That’s a big-a-mistake!”
“Make that two dams, what has happened to the edit function?”
It’s been edited to provide a bit more unintentional humor” 😎
“The Earthquake in Morocco“…. climate change…
“after heavy rainfall”… climate change…
“inadequate maintenance of two dames”… now that is FUNNY.. and disastrous. !! 🙂
ps.. very sad about the loss of life in Libya. 🙁
I am still suffering from just one badly maintained dame. and boy don’t they keep you informed about it…..
I like bread in plastic wrappers. I spin the wrapper shut and secure it with the little plastic clip that keeps it from unraveling. The bread stays fresher longer and doesnt mold as fast. Best invention since slicing. Since I was raised to waste not and want not at the same time dinner conversation still warned that children were starving in China, I think its a great invention. I doubt seriously that Brianna is using a wooden comb or toothbrush or for that matter, folded cotton sanitary napkins or diapers. I’ll bet Eric never says a word about that.
Those cotton napkins/diapers take a lot of sterilising.
We’re encouraged to wash clothes in cold water to save the planet. But that means additives to kill the nasties that boiling and hot washes used to deal with. Where do those products go? Through the sewage works back into the river or sea.
So not that environmentally friendly either
“ little plastic clip that keeps it from unraveling.”
Down here they are made of cardboard… They last about one slice… useless.
Another little thing destroyed by the green agenda.
Fortunately, I keep my used little plastic clips in a plastic bag for just such an occasion. Even when not banned, they behave like socks and disappear for some reason.
…. problems … problems … problems …
First world problems at that. “Oh where does one find ethically produced quinoa or avocadoes in Islington?”
Regarding comments about being hopeful the next generation could be smarter than these naive, brainwashed idiots: Well there is a saying that talent often skips a generation, and in my case that was true. My father was not very creative and worked in a factory all his life. His father was a master furniture builder. My grandfather was not only creative, but extremely talented in the time when being a master cabinet maker took real skill. He designed and fabricated (mostly by hand) all of my parent’s furniture when they got married and bought a house.
Not only elegantly designed with a bit of avant-garde flavor, but extremely solid. You could sit an elephant on the coffee and end tables. Me, I have excelled at both design and fabrication, in wood, metal, plastics, electronics, hydraulics, pneumatics and even laboratory apparatus and fixtures.
So yes, talent and skill does appear to skip a generation. However even if a smarter offspring or second gen offspring occurs, they have to deal with incredible burden of their brainwashing from the so called education system. Even with my own progress, part of the reason I excelled is I rejected the bullschist schooling that was thrusting upon me. Not finishing school, I self taught what interested me. Hence I accomplished things thought impossible, because I was not brainwashed into believing it was impossible……
I guess my point is yes, hopefully new generations could be smarter than the present herd of koolaid drinking numbskulls, but you also need a rebellious streak to be able to buck the party line or else being smart but susceptible to the brainwashing gets you more of the same!
From the article: “Climate Psychology Alliance,”
That made me laugh. 🙂
From the article: “Don’t forget folks, their vote counts as much as yours does”
Maybe they will be too busy making bread and soap to go vote. We can only hope! 🙂
Sounds like Brianna is a victim of CC indoctrination.
She’s been told that plastic is bad but never asked or thought about “why?”. Nor did she think it through.
Same thing happens when people are told to buy an EV to “Save the Planet!”.
IF their concerns were valid then they might realize such personal choices were doing more harm than good.
How many Gretas are there!?
How dare he buy bread!!!