Climate Change Scam - Reality Bites

[AussieBob18]

I recently came across this in an email - and of course I thought TV was the ideal place to post it :)

 

'After our daughter of sixteen years of age was moved to tears by the speech of Greta Thunberg at the UN. She started to become more and more angry with our generation “who had been doing nothing for thirty years” and are destroying the planet.  

So after several weeks of complaints and abuse, being good parents, we decided to help her prevent what the girl on TV announced as “a massive eradication and the disappearance of entire ecosystems”. We have committed to give our daughter a future again, by doing our part to help her save the planet. 
 

As of one month ago, our daughter goes to school on a bicycle, because driving her by car puts fossil fuel emissions into the atmosphere.  It will be winter soon and she asked us about an electric bicycle, but we have shown her the devastation caused to the areas of the planet as a result of mining for the extraction of Lithium and other minerals used to make batteries for electric bicycles, and we told her how the disposal of old batteries was making the planet sick - so she will be pedaling, or walking - up to her.  After all, our parents and grand-parents used to cycle and walk to school when they were her age.
 

Since the girl on TV demanded “we need to get rid of our dependency on fossil fuels” and our daughter agreed with her, we disconnected the heater in her room. The temperature is now dropping but we have promised to buy her an extra sweater, hat, tights, gloves and a blanket. For the same reason we decided that she could only takes a cold shower, and although reluctant to accept that our daughter is bravely sticking to her commitment.  She also washes her clothes by hand, with a wooden washboard, because the washing machine is simply a power consumer. And since the dryer uses natural gas, she hangs all her clothes on the clothes line to dry, just like my parents and grandparents used to do. 
 

Speaking of clothes, the ones that she had were all synthetic, so they were made from petroleum. We took all of those designer clothing to the secondhand shop, and we found an eco store where the only clothing they sell is made from undyed and unbleached linen and cotton.  She was not happy about that, but she understood when we said 'save the planet'.
 

After a few weeks, we saw on her Facebook that she was very angry with us. This was not our intention, so we cancelled her mobile data and turned off WiFi - and now we only switch it on again after dinner for two hours. In this way we will save electricity so she is not bothered by the electro-stress and it destroying the planet.  The bonus is that now she concentrates on her homework and her grades have improved - win/win.
 

She has been told that she will no longer be joining us at our favourite ski lodge in winter, nor will she be going on anymore vacations with us, because that will help stop all the destruction to the planets from cars and planes. 
 

Our daughter fully agrees with the girl on TV that the CO2 emissions and footprints of her parent's and grandparent's generations are to blame for ‘killing our planet’. So that means that she will live like her great-grandparents, who never had a holiday, or a car, or even a bicycle - we have decided to tell her about the bicycle thing later. 
 

We talked to her about the carbon from making modern food and that a 'Zero CO2 Footprint' means no store bought meat, fish or chicken. That also means no meat substitutes that are based on soy, because soy grows in farmers’ fields, that use machinery to harvest the beans, trucks to transport to the processing plants, where more energy is used, then trucked to the packaging plants, and trucked once again to the stores.  It also means no imported food, because that has a negative ecological effect. And obviously no chocolate, no coffee and no tea, because the ingrediants are grown on farms, and they require fossil fuels for production, packaging and transport.  

Our daughter has been advised that only vegetables and fruit that has been grown in the back yard are truly organic and carbon free. We are teaching her how to grow her own food, and how to look after a few chickens for their eggs.  She now knows that bread is still possible in the future if she can grow wheat in the backyard, but butter, milk, cheese and yogurt, cottage cheese and cream all come from cows on farms, and they emit excessive planet destroying gases.  It was hard at first but our daughter has also accepted that she cannot have ice cream, soft drinks, and no energy drinks of course for similar reasons if she truly wants to save the planet. 
 

We have replaced her memory foam pillow top mattress, with a jute bag filled with straw, and her duck-down pillows with those made from horse hair.  That was not well received, but she really got angry when we told her she can no longer use makeup, soap, shampoo, cream, lotion, conditioner, toothpaste and most medications - because they are all made from or with fossil fuels.
 

Our daughter is now living just like her female ancestors did before our generation of 'climate changers' destroyed her future.  She is now doing her part to prevent mass extinction, water levels rising, and the disappearance of entire ecosystems. 
 

However, I must say that lately we both think that our daughter has begun to question if she truly believes that girl on TV anymore.  All her friends, while very supportive at first, are now questioning what she is doing, and despite her best attempts, none of them are also joining her in her quest to save the planet.  But perhaps this is just a 'phase' she is going through, and she will soon go back to accepting and embracing her new way of life, knowing that she is saving the planet.'

 

[ThaiBunny]

Saint Greta is also against consumerism, so no-one in our family who proclaimed themself a follower was given Christmas or (so far) birthday presents

[Nyezhov]

Brilliant!

[86Tiger]

6 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

Brilliant!

Every body wants to save the earth.  Until they have to give up their starbucks, cell phone and hot water showers......

[OneMoreFarang]

Climate change is real. Only a few idiots deny that.

 

And obviously people could have done better to prevent climate change in the last 100 years or so.

And now people should work on that real problem.

Obviously things won't change over night. And some people see things very extreme.

But to pretend all if perfect because our (old) generation will be dead before the climate on earth gets too hot is not exactly a good attitude.

 

Why don't we all admit there is a problem and we should work on that problem - without going into extremes?

[AussieBob18]

12 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Climate change is real. Only a few idiots deny that.

 

And obviously people could have done better to prevent climate change in the last 100 years or so.

And now people should work on that real problem.

Obviously things won't change over night. And some people see things very extreme.

But to pretend all if perfect because our (old) generation will be dead before the climate on earth gets too hot is not exactly a good attitude.

 

Why don't we all admit there is a problem and we should work on that problem - without going into extremes?

Unfortunately humans respond most when they are threatened or rewarded - just look at the wuhanvirus.  If we could all just be reasonable and rational, then what you are asking could happen - but as soon as it becomes personal (win or loss) the vast majority of people stop behaving and thinking rationally or reasonably.   Example:  What is the clear and obvious solution to the polluting of our atmosphere with excessive amounts of fossil fuel gases?  Nuclear Generated Power.  Cheap and Easy.  Massive capability and reliability and a huge scope for advancement.  Fission now but Fusion in the future. Obvious.  

[Dexxter]

I am surprised your daughter did not move out.

[Nyezhov]

1 hour ago, AussieBob18 said:

Nuclear Generated Power.  Cheap and Easy.  Massive capability and reliability and a huge scope for advancement.

Build them. Now that we have got the market cornered on fossil fules, lets go full bore on nukes and really get the economy moving.

[ivor bigun]

3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Climate change is real. Only a few idiots deny that.

 

And obviously people could have done better to prevent climate change in the last 100 years or so.

And now people should work on that real problem.

Obviously things won't change over night. And some people see things very extreme.

But to pretend all if perfect because our (old) generation will be dead before the climate on earth gets too hot is not exactly a good attitude.

 

Why don't we all admit there is a problem and we should work on that problem - without going into extremes?

You sound like a good man so i will leave it to you ,while i am not a good man and will carry on with my bad ways . well done.