BY SALLUST
Anyone who might have doubted the zealotry of eco-warriors of our age and the depth of their totalitarian inclinations need only turn to a ‘Marriage Diary’ published in the Telegraph. It’s written by a woman who is now pregnant after 10 years of marriage to her “self-confessed eco-warrior husband”. Indeed, his climate credentials were why she married him in the first place.
While it had never been top of my agenda, I was happy to follow his example – swapping all our cleaning products for eco-alternatives, using our bikes to get around and then more recently swapping out the diesel car for an electric one. Now I’m pregnant with our first child and I’m sure we’ll raise our children with the same values.
However, at a recent antenatal class, when we learnt about baby delivery options, my husband announced that there was no way I would have gas and air during labour because of the impact on the environment.
I laughed out loud when he said it, assuming he was joking. The look on his face told me that he wasn’t. He shoved his phone at me to show me an article about the Scottish Government writing to the NHS about the impact of greenhouse emissions from Entonox, which is commonly known as “gas and air”.
He smugly told me that they were urging for greater awareness of the effect it had on the planet and wanting pregnant women to play their part in tackling greenhouse gases and climate change.
Needless to say you could cut the atmosphere in our antenatal class with a knife. Like me, people assumed he was joking at first. I tried to stay calm as I pointed out that, while I was in labour, I would do anything I needed, and indeed wanted to do, to make the whole process easier. He objected vehemently to this and didn’t back down. In fact he seemed insulted that I would put myself, and indeed our child, before the environment.
He claims Entonox use in Scotland is equivalent to 18,000 transatlantic flights. I lost my cool and stormed out, outraged that he won’t prioritise me, and that he embarrassed me in public.
Anyone fancy betting on how long that marriage will last? Is this a sign of the eco-utopian vision of the future? Not only no pain relief for women giving birth, but also no medical treatment? On the plus side, perhaps this sort of patriarchal ‘green’ Handmaid’s Tale stance will expose the sheer lunacy of the climate alarmist culture and the psychological and personal trauma it’s creating. It might also send a large part of the female vote elsewhere.
Definitely worth reading in full.
I would recommend grabbing his testicles at the onset of labor and squeezing with every contraction
Orchiectomy with needle nose pliers anyone?
That’s surely the funniest thing I’ll hear all day. 🙂
Excellent
In spite of her becoming pregnant, he clearly has no testicles.
Eco-warrior husband vs. wife in UK divorce courts. I’m not betting on him.
It’s just as well there are no children….
I’ve seen what happens when one desperately wants a child and the other does not…. And a child is born.
I presume she had sex with him without the aid of an anesthetic.
It’s the marital divergence problem!
There is a great lesson here.
Man hath no greater folly than this, that he lays down his wife for his delusions.
Wait until he tells his wife she cant use modern nappy/diaper products to bring junior up to potty training stage.
I would comment on the Telegraph that ran the story but I am banned, they don’t like my honest views and reflections for some reason?
Such is the ‘supposed’ democracy of the press
Lightweights, if they were serious about saving the planet they wouldn’t have kids.
I bet this guy freaks out over the CO2 outgassing from a bottle of Dr. Pepper.
That bottle is going to change the planet’s weather and climate! Don’t open it!
Too late. If it’s a choice between my Dr. Pepper and the Planet, it’s no contest. I’m drinking my Dr. Pepper and the Planet can fend for itself.
At 10, 2, and 4
Yep, the hypocrite (and her husband) could have stayed strong and aborted … for the environment and future generations.
Ten years???? That penny took a long time to drop.
She married him (partially) because he was the idiot. She knew it … it is simply the first his blatant, arrogant, stupidity caused her a direct harm.
It took them that long to figure out which was male and which was female. They might have gotten it wrong.
I’d like to post what I think of this bloke, however I’m sure I’d be banned. 🙂
Don’t worry, she’s already said it and worse a thousand times.
Google search on Gas and air:
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This is the Global Warming Potential GWP number nonsense.
GWP is based on concentration not the absorption spectrum. The relationship is inverse, the smaller the concentration the larger the GWP number:
CH4 1932 ppb GWP 86
N20 337 ppb GWP 273
CFC 4 ppb GWP ~8000
The numbers you cite are nonsense. They are the result of laboratory measurements made in dry CO2-free air with no other infrared active gasses present. If measured in real air like you and I breath all the time the “global warming potential” of these gasses are very much lower, near zero, because the IR windows where such gasses operate are saturated or nearly so.
Either way the GWP numbers are bullshit.
I don’t feel any need to help her find strategies for coping with her imbecile husband. But, as a father of three and grandfather of three more, I will give any expectant mother my unsolicited advice not to fall for the gas-and-air nonsense.
Demand something that actually works: an epidural. And if happens to tick his eco-box by accident, I don’t care.
Yes good idea, give him an epidural….preferably with a very long needle.
And via an alternate route.
If you’re a man responsible for the woman going into labor–keep your balls a safe distance away.
Assuming he has a proper job, the husband must be a nightmare to work with. But it’s more likely he is sucking on the public teat in some unnecessary job, surrounded by fellow zealots.
Sad it took ten years for her to discover that she had married the wrong man.
Having assisted at the births of all three my children I would happily give that excuse for a man a thorough and comprehensive hiding.
Her husband is not alone, this is part of a national trend. You notice how people have stopped thinking about how to deliver what they are paid to deliver, and instead start focusing on saving the planet, decolonizing. The classic case was Islington’s failing schools, full of anti-racist advisers. There wasn’t any racism in the schools, but after they got through, there was a lot less learning.
This is the same health service that has been telling its staff to use the term ‘chest feeding’ instead of ‘breast feeding’, because apparently some people find the second upsetting. And to stop talking about ‘mothers’, instead use ‘birthing parent’.
The following is from perplexity.ai
These people are innumerate idiots. According to the links in the article, the CO2 equivalent reduction by stopping the use of this anesthetic is 40,000 kilotons per year. Total UK carbon emissions in 2023 were 384 million tonnes. This reduction in UK carbon emissions is .01% of the total of the UK’s carbon emissions.
The entire UK’s percentage of global carbon emissions is only about 1% of the total. People in the UK are being made to suffer pain for an infinitesimally tiny reduction in CO2, which itself has an unmeasurably tiny reduction in global temperatures.
As any doctor will tell you, it’s the dose that makes the poison.
They deliberately emphasize the big scary number, 2,500 times greater than CO2, without putting it into context of the total.
The progress of the reduction of CO2 from the medical community in the UK is then written up in a scholarly article in the Lancet, when the reduction is too small to make any difference, even assuming that one buys fully into the belief that increasing CO2 causes increased global temperatures.
The entire premise is just insane, and completely counter scientific.
Thank goodness for that. I’m feeling the cooling effect already. But I don’t think I’ll be rushing to get an operation done by the NHS. Are private hospitals free of this nonsense or are they following the idiots in the NHS?
I think he’s had his last shag with her !!
Sounds like a case of coercive control to me, needs a visit from the domestic abuse police unit.
Let’s hope he falls off his eco-bike & dislocates his shoulder, then is refused pain relief due to the environmental impacts of sending an ambulance & the amount of plastics used in manufacture & application of pain relief.
Oh, & confiscate his plastic phone !!
and no anaesthetic if requiring surgery
I’ve long argued that the logical conclusion of the eco-fascist agenda of rolling back the 20th century would not be good for the lives of women. But I never considered this. This guy is going to make the world of “The Handmaids Tale” look like luxury.
It’s also a great example of one of my maxims, “Under modern Progressivism, it’s always up to someone else to make the real sacrifices”.
Yep. It’s not the right that should be the subject of the Handmaid’s Tale. It should be the left.
Exactly. The 1970’s and up have been full of SciFi tales written in horrible futures where *conservative* business moguls, oligarchs, etc are the Big Bad. Lording it over the downtrodden masses, controlling every aspect of their lives.
But in the 21st century the reality of those ‘predictions’ is it’s the leftist big business people doing all that.
All watermelons should commit to eco-birthing like this so they fizzle out and become sequestered carbon. Speaking of watermelons this is no laughing gas matter.
Cripes! How has she lasted 10yrs with this idiot? Well you can see how the WEF and totalitarian left political set keep their jobs.
Reminded me of this for some reason.
WOW!
That’s not what the link I put up! Not even close. (Mine was a YouTube link.)
One more try.
https://youtu.be/UEwPy31vWZ8?t=24
Now the original comment is back to the link I put up.
(What I saw was at first was the sidebars UAH Global Temperature Chart!)
The original comment is audio. The second is video.
Many years ago, attendance at a “prenatal class” was required for the father to attend the delivery. In the “psychosocial” section, the nurse looked straight at my husband and read from her script, “How do you perceive the changes in your wife’s body?” His reply: “I try not to think about it.”
All hell broke loose as the whole class jumped on him for not seeing the pregnant body as “beautiful”.
So after 10 years this Doofuss took time off from eco warrioring to have intercourse with his wife?!
You know it’s always the same with these libtards. It’s all fun and games while someone else has to suffer the consequences of progressive policies but let the swells on Martha’s Vinyard get 50 illegals dumped on their doorstep and suddenly it’s the end of the world.
Mr. right: My guess is that they used birth control, until he discovered that latex condoms are made from oil.
You will have nothing, but you will be happy?
NO2 in the atmosphere is plant fertilizer. Studies have shown that nitrogen poor soil improves with higher concentrations of NO2.
I sense a couch in this idiots immediate future with a strong probability of clothes on the lawn.
So long as next time he needs a major operation… no anaesthetic whatsoever.
I imagine, say, an appendectomy without anaesthetic would not be much fun.
While this stance will drive away some women, the demographic that most heavily supports ‘environmentalists’ (at least in the U.S.) is single females that have no one pointing out how they should be inconvenienced by their beliefs.
The last line, “It might also send a large part of the female vote elsewhere.”
In UK, there’s nowhere else to vote. Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat, nationalist parties in Wales and Scotland (oh, yes, and the Green Party) – all 100% signed up to the net-zero scam. A choice might be nice.