Climate Change

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  1. Tom Galty

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    A LETTER FROM A CONSTITUENT ABOUT HOW HE ADVISED HIS TEENAGE DAUGHTER ON ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’:

    After our daughter of fifteen years of age was moved to tears by the speech of Greta Thunberg at the UN the other day, she became angry with our generation “who had been doing nothing for thirty years.”

    So, we decided to help her prevent what the girl on TV announced of “massive eradication and the disappearance of entire ecosystems.”

    We are now committed to give our daughter a future again, by doing our part to help cool the planet four degrees.

    From now on she will go to school on a bicycle, because driving her by car costs fuel, and fuel puts emissions into the atmosphere. Of course it will be winter soon and then she will want to go by bus, but cycling through the freezing builds resilience.

    Of course, she is now asking for 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, so she will be pedaling, or walking.

    Which will not harm her, or the planet. We used to cycle and walk to school too.

    Since the girl on TV demanded “we need to get rid of our dependency on fossil fuels” and our daughter agreed with her, we have disconnected the heat vent in her room. The temperature is now dropping to twelve degrees in the evening, and will drop below freezing in the winter, we have promised to buy her an extra sweater, hat, tights, gloves and a blanket.

    For the same reason we have decided that from now on she only takes a cold shower. She will wash 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 will hang her clothes on the clothes line to dry, just like my parents and grandparents used to do.

    Speaking of clothes, the ones that she currently has are all synthetic, so made from petroleum. Therefore on Monday, we will bring all her designer clothing to the secondhand shop.

    We have found an eco store where the only clothing they sell is made from undyed and unbleached linen and jute. Also can’t have clothes made on wool, because the emissions from farting sheep are supposedly causing bad weather.

    It shouldn’t matter that it looks good on her, or that she is going to be laughed at, dressing in colorless, bland clothes and without a wireless bra, but that is the price she has to pay for the benefit of The Climate.

    Cotton is out of the question, as it comes from distant lands and pesticides are used for it. Very bad for the environment.
    We just saw on her Instagram that she’s pretty angry with us. This was not our intention.

    From now on, at 7 p.m. We will turn off the WiFi and we will only switch it on again the next day after dinner for two hours. In this way we will save on electricity, so she is not bothered by electro-stress and will be totally isolated from the outside world. This way, she can concentrate solely on her homework. At eleven o’clock in the evening we will pull the breaker to shut the power off to her room, so she knows that dark is really dark. That will save a lot of CO2.

    She will no longer be participating in winter sports to ski lodges and resorts, nor will she be going on anymore vacations with us, because our vacation destinations are practically inaccessible by bicycle.

    Since our daughter fully agrees with the girl on TV that the CO2 emissions and footprints of her great-grandparents are to blame for ‘killing our planet’, what all this simply means, is that she also has to live like her great-grandparents and they never had a holiday, a car or even a bicycle.

    We haven’t talked about the carbon footprint of food yet.

    Zero CO2 footprint means no meat, no fish and no poultry, but also no meat substitutes that are based on soy (after all, that 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/canning plants, and trucked once again to the stores) and also no imported food, because that has a negative ecological effect. And absolutely no chocolate from Africa, no coffee from South America and no tea from Asia.

    Only homegrown potatoes, vegetables and fruit that have been grown in local cold soil, because greenhouses run on boilers, piped in CO2 and artificial light. Apparently, these things are also bad for The Climate. We will teach her how to grow her own food.

    Bread is still possible, but butter, milk, cheese and yogurt, cottage cheese and cream come from cows and they emit CO2. No more margarine and no oils will be used for the frying pan, because that fat is palm oil from plantations in Borneo where rain forests first grew.

    No ice cream in the summer. No soft drinks and no energy drinks, as the bubbles are CO2.

    We will also ban all plastic, because it comes from chemical factories. Everything made of steel and aluminum must also be removed. Have you ever seen the amount of energy a blast furnace consumes or an aluminum smelter? All bad for the climate!

    We will replace her memory foam pillow top mattress, with a jute bag filled with straw, with a horse hair pillow.

    And finally, she will no longer be using makeup, soap, shampoo, cream, lotion, conditioner, toothpaste and medication. Facewashers will all be linen, that she can wash by hand, with her wooden washboard, just like her female ancestors did before climate change made her angry at us for destroying her future.

    In this way we will help her to do her part to prevent mass extinction, water levels rising and the disappearance of entire ecosystems.

    If she truly believes she wants to walk the talk of the girl on TV, she will gladly accept and happily embrace her new way of life.

    Regards,

    (Name Withheld)
     
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  2. Beth Gallagher

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    Haha. Earlier I was looking at a documentary of a bunch of morons picketing a local refinery. Naturally they DROVE to the destination in a big van, all of them carrying plastic water bottles and their various plastic/manufactured rubber cell phones and technology. The irony totally escaped them.
     
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    The opening letter is so true. Whether or not humans are the cause of temperatures rising you will not stop people enjoying the luxuries brought about by technical evolution. Why do politicians and company leaders fly the world when video conferencing is available? Offices and political buildings are awash with lights day and night. TV programs highlighting the plight of threatened animals fly the globe, their programs are more and more dramatic to increase viewing figures. Unless worldwide leaders legislate an international hair shirt, creating vast unemployment nothing will change.It will always be somebody else at fault. Take our British Royals for instance.
     
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    What an amazing point!! Congress can stay home and skype. :D
     
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    Clever composition (name witheld).. Yes the younger generation must learn there is a price to pay for doing something to lessen the affects of climate change or global warming. The more adults that think it is a price worth paying the better chance it will become reality..
     
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    See nothing wrong, in fact sensible to do your bit to prevent the situation from getting worse
    All 'I know' is - our climate has definitely changed, its not 'freak' weather, it has changed year on year
    Going over the top with it all will only alienate people that's the big problem
     
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    Kinda hard to get that Bahamian tan via Skype
     
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  9. John Brunner

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    So savior of the planet Greta Thunberg criticized China for their climate emissions and received this in response from a state-owned newspaper:

    LOL!!!
     
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    This is a short talk by a Russian who apparently now lives in the UK, and he explains climate change in a very interesting way. He says that only 2% of the problem comes from the UK, so even if the whole thing sank into the ocean tomorrow, climate change would still go on the same as always.
    He said that most of the extra carbon emissions are coming from undeveloped countries, and that those people are so poor that they could care less about something like climate change, and only want to live a better life.
    He makes the point that most of us would not want to change the way we live to an undeveloped lifestyle (outdoor toilet, etc) if it affects our lives or our children’s future, and I believe that he is correct about this.
    Anyway, it is a short listen, if you want to check it out…..

     
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    As I understand it, the two biggest polluters, both CO2 and otherwise, are China and India. Both countries are exempt from treaties such as the Kyoto Accords because they are listed ad "developing countries". Somehow the second largest economy on Earth is a developing country. The Western nations are the ones making the effort, but they are all buying form China and India, which actually compounds the problem. China is also the biggest ocean polluter.
     
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  12. Mary Stetler

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    So is this climate change?

    Buffalo NY has this problem occasionally, but this is new.
    It kind of shows the need for some sort of prepping, even if just the minimal recommended by the gov't.
     
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    Maybe we are getting closer to the book by Art Bell called “The Day After Tomorrow”. It was turned into a movie, and had just about every catastrophe possible, except global warming, and ended up with places like New York covered in snow and ice.

     
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  14. Teresa Levitt

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    programs like haarp and source x....gives me the thought that climate change is not happening by their list of causes...but by their own hands
     
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  15. Don Alaska

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    Well, it IS possible that we are experiencing the results of some kind of weather war, but it is more likely that the climate is changing as it always does in cycles. They scientists seem to be getting worried about what the Sun is doing, as they don't understand what is going on there. Maybe goal-fired power plants on the Sun are causing issues...or maybe the SUVs.
     
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