Essay by Eric Worrall
Why would the nation which has benefited the most from green de-industrialisation pay for training the next generation of global eco-warriors?
Students learn life lessons in climate change debate
By XING YI in London | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-02-13 00:55
Students from 23 schools around the world took part in the third Model United Nations Conference ‘Good COP Bad COP’, organized by British educational charity Engage with China, or EWC, on Feb 2.
Themed around climate change and the COP, or Conference of the Parties, the Model UN saw more than 200 student negotiators using their skills to find consensus on dealing with issues such as single-use plastics, fast fashion, and food waste.
The event, running for the third year, gave pupils from different countries, including China, the United Kingdom and Brazil, an opportunity to come face to face with students their own age from different backgrounds and life experiences.
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Zhang Jin, minister counselor for education at the Chinese Embassy in the UK, said: “Facing global challenges, no country can solve it alone or remain unaffected; countries and peoples need to transcend borders and ideologies, work together to find common ground.
“I’m delighted to see you, young students from various countries, are trying to understand your peers from different backgrounds, respect these differences, and find solutions agreed and accepted by all.”
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Read more: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202402/13/WS65ca4d79a3104efcbdaeab9a.html
I’m not saying everything China pays for is automatically bad. China has splashed a lot of money over the last few years, winning hearts and minds, and perhaps this climate outreach effort is simply another Chinese effort to build bridges.
But regardless of China’s motivation, I don’t believe China’s sponsorship of these kinds of events will benefit Britain, or any other Western nations which participate. Britain already has more than enough climate obsessed children and adults, China pouring fuel on the fire of Western climate fanaticism is not an action which will benefit the nations which receive such interventions.
Fixed it for ya
Victoria’s socialist inspired weather dependent electricity grid succumbed to the weather yesterday. Who could have predicted that the weather could impact on a weather dependent grid!
An intense front moved through that took out solar panels due to cloud and wind turbines due excessive wind. This is the very nature of weather dependence. One coal fired station could not shed load quickly enough to stay connected so went off-grid. The end result was lots of blackouts. Some will last because power lines and transmission towers were also damaged.
I expect China is angling to educate the rest of the world into its way of dealing with people. Toe the government line or we will lock you up. Victoria under its current socialist regime is not far removed from those principles.
China is the poster child of the Government Class. It is what all socialists are aiming for. And you can bet that when nations give away their sovereignty to the UN, the UN will be an arm of the CCP.
Socialist talk about tolerance and inclusion but they are completely intolerant of anyone with a different view. Look at Mark Steyn. He was too busy with a court case to attend the Good COP bad COP even if he got an invite!!!!
Yes, Ric.
Over half a million people around Victoria lost electricity for many hours.
Ever since electricity was fed by grid to homes and businesses, weather has caused blackouts now and then.
This recent weather was far from the worst.
The damage to the grid, like broken transmission towers, was greater than before, as if engineers had forgotten proper design.
Here is how Jo Nova blog showed the events. The big drop after 1 pm was caused by broken transmission, leaving nowhere to go except shut down for a major, perfectly fine coal plant.
In the same way, electricity from renewables also had nowhere to go except blackout. What a mess we have made of the engineering of Australian electricity suply, an essential service that should not allow no green design influence.
More transmission lines for more green renewables caused more fragility and more green blackouts. We would have been far better off with coal and no renewables from the start of C21. Wake up, Australia.
Geoff S
Had a 5 minute blackout here a couple of hours ago.
We are a fair distance from a substation…. so it happens occasionally when storms roll through.
Look at that gas ramp up after the transmission loss..
… wind and solar can NEVER do that
It takes FOSSIL FUELS
bnice,
As the graph shows, wind and solar DID NOT do that. No speculation needed, there are the numbers.
Gas saved the system from worse.
Our Victorian govt has a policy to do away with gas.
When will they ever learn?
Geoff S
I thought the policy was to do away with gas and coal.
And have nothing left for a fair chunk of the time.
It really is very irrational and stupid, isn’t it. !
Apparently all British service personnel will need to attend mandatory Net Zero reeducation
trainingpropaganda to highlight the impact of AGW on war. This is on top of the 93 ‘diversity’ networks within the MoD and military and a raft of mandatory DIE reeducationtrainingpropaganda courses they must attend each year. I thought the purpose of the military was to maintain peace or fight wars. But no, it’s to virtue-signal apparently. You have to wonder why there is a recruitment problem. (You don’t really the destruction of the West’s manufacturing and military capacity is surely obvious by now.Which leads me nicely back to the topic. China is increasing it CO2 emissions almost exponentially, so this sort of funding, which appears to be targeted at increasing the de-industrialistion/de-enlightenment of the West, needs to be called out. [and before anyone says it, CO2 is a life giving gas and we’re living in both a drought and an interglacial period. NZ and AGW are scams of the highest order]
Britain already has more than enough climate obsessed children and adults
Perish the thought there’s any ulterior motives with saving everything-
Polar bears at greatest risk of extinction than ever due to climate change prolonging Arctic summers, study claims (msn.com)
After all-
Little was known about polar bear energy expenditure and behavior when confined to land, so researchers used collars fitted with video cameras and GPS to track them…
Overall, the researchers found a five-fold range in energy expenditure from an adult male that rested 98 percent of the time to the most active who clocked 205 miles (330 kilometers).
Some adult females spent as much as 40 percent of their time foraging….
Logical conclusion? The polar bears all doomed! (so send more grants)
“”The polar bears all doomed!””
They haven’t given up. I wonder what Dr. Crockford makes of this?
“”Polar bears risk starvation as they face longer ice-free periods in the Arctic
Polar bears in Canada’s Hudson Bay risk starvation as the climate crisis lengthens periods without Arctic Sea ice, despite the creatures’ willingness to expand their diets.””
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/13/polar-bears-risk-starvation-arctic-ice
I was pleased to see that the comments at the Mail were very scathing of the study, showing good awareness of the health of the polar bear population. Things like When Gore was born there were 15,000 polar pears. Now there are only 30,000 left.
Ordinary people are no longer being fooled.
Two words…
Belt and Road
And add in one acronym: BRICS
The Chinese, are being very astute. As we know, there are numerous global rumblings, which may lead to another WW. Meanwhile, the West, has steadfastly pursued a path, of energy unreliability, and paucity, to the point, where it is rapidly becoming incapable of producing anything other than trinkets.
What a better way, to indoctrinate your ‘enemy’s’ youth, and cement the suicidal mentality. Then, when appropriate, acquire your enemy’s territory with little, if any, bloodshed.
Just part of China’s tactic of making the dumb West believe that they take Climate Change seriously while doing what is best for their economy and their people. Working well so far.
Sun Tzu’s first art of war “The supreme art of war is to subdue your enemy without fighting”. While “dealing with issues such as single-use plastics, fast fashion, and food waste” appear innocuous enough, what else is hidden in the lesson plans, or, what do future lesson plans look like?
Western governments continue to weaken themselves in the impossible pursuit of nut-zero. Our only hope is that our enemies are also weakening themselves with other idiotic and economic destroying pursuits.
Rather like Gazprom sponsoring anti fracking groups?
“But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea.”
I have spent the past sixteen running a Childcare focused on getting small children out in the fresh air, and I am pained by the way “environmentalists” creep small children out, and make them feel to walk in the woods hurts nature.
Story tip: I write about how the truly infantile behavior may be on the part of Alarmists:
https://sunriseswansong.wordpress.com/2024/02/14/arctic-sea-ice-dealing-with-petulance/
I’ve worked in my church’s children’s fellowship for a bit longer. (The age group I currently work with 5-7 years old.)
We don’t just teach them “Bible Stories” but what they mean. (i.e. David and Goliath. We don’t just entertain them by telling them what happened but also how David could beat him. He grew in trusting God via the lion and bear incidents so that he faced Goliath, so much bigger than he was, he knew and believed God was was even bigger.)
I’ve seen kids grow until they taught the adults on a Sunday and/or continued to walk with God in other less out front functions.
I’ve seen some who’s walk with God led them to other churches.
I’ve seen some go “the way of the world” and stop walking with God. Sometimes that has meant drugs or worse.
But all we can do is give them the information that they can draw on later to make their own choices.
Teach them to think for themselves and information to consider that they won’t learn from the world (or the MSM).
“consensus on dealing with issues such as single-use plastics, fast fashion, and food waste”
Glad to see that have nailed down the real important issue of our day. I have been losing sleep over the “fast fashion” crisis for years.
I’m sure the kids will save us from ourselves through their efforts.
But, me and mine have solved these in our own lives: 1) Single use plastics — don’t use. 2) Fast Fashion : what fashion? 3) Food waste: all scrappings, peelings, and inedible leftovers go to the chickens, who turn it into eggs.