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.
Reader Comments
much less, describe exactly how a 'heat-pump' works... if one knows nothing about heat or heat transfer... how can one have an intelligent conversation about this subject?
'heat' is a form of energy.. as such, is it really possible to 'pump' it?
your turn wise guy.
our Earth uses this method of heat transfer and is indeed effected by it. as it spins and is heated radiantly.
have a nice day!
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The genie was let out of the bottle when Eve took a bite out of the apple from the tree of knowledge.
Will we ever be able to put it back in?
BC
Good quiz. though. Got another?
R.C.
My quiz: If you see a small white long legged egret/heron in the US Southeast, it's all white, and its legs are black or very dark green, and its feet are bright yellow: what are you looking at?
RC
the being famous part is about her being relevant - or not.
lots of the comments about greta is about her being used as a tool by others. is that anything other than groundless personal views/speculations?
in the meantime, some "spam"; [Link] (just sorry about the non-english language)
Eventually we will give up food. At least those of us who will be graduating to 4D. Food=Death! By eating you are consuming life.
She also claims to be able to see CO2, which is totally impossible, so what does all this say for her credibility?
The deification of Greta is a sign that common sense is no longer common.
Well "I see dead people."*
R.C.
*But I work at a morgue. (Weak joke.)
RC
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P.s., a surefire Grammar Gestapo hint - it works EVERY TIME:
"Do I put an apostrophe there? You ask yourselve - as the shadow of a ghost of some teacher / nun / whatever long past passes by you.)
ANSWER: CAN I BREAK THIS DOWN INTO 'X IS?'
The nature of 'it', vs. it's vs. 'it is'
Same with They're.
If you CAN change the word to two words, leave the apostrophe. If you can not, forget about it.
"It was a creature which owned a dog.
If you ever saw its dog, you'd be scared."
OR
If you ever saw it's dog, you'd be scared."
Which to use? Easy: "If you ever saw IT IS dog." Does that 'sound right?> NO. Hence, use NO apostrophe.
RC
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hevreka! she is a kid!, and besides! a brainwashed one! (kid)!
hmm, well, that makes sense(?)
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Interesting reading.
Well Martin is a smart guy but these kids are as naive and gullible as those that preceded them, the same ones that these criminals now point at and say we are responsible for their crimes. These NWO stooges have learned the lessons of the communists and fascists, get em young, blame their parents, pretend that by criminalizing their own parents they are doing the right thing.
Keep sending those kids to the communist school system; see what it get's ya, a gullible brainwashed idiot.
Dude, You've been gone too long!
R.C.