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Friday, September 27, 2019

Misplaced priorities

So says Bjorn Lomborg, professor at the Copenhagen Business School about society's obsession with climate change (whatever that is?).  "If we prioritize climate change above our duty to tackle poverty, health, education and nutrition, most of the world's young will never forgive us," he writes in 'The Globe and Mail'. 

He also calls out the ridiculous Greta Thunberg, saying that her claims are fundamentally misguided.  "Yes, global warming is real and human-caused, but her vision of climate change as the end of the world is unsupported," he says.  "Plentiful energy, mostly from fossil fuels, has lifted more than a billion people out of poverty in just the past 25 years.  This is not 'evil' -- it is quite the opposite."

Yes, correct.  And we now know that Al Gore is financing the lost Thunberg, by the way.  Of course he is. 

"Ending global fossil-fuel by 2028 is a flawed plan because green energy is simply not in a place in its development where it can take over what fossil fuels leave behind.  A hard by-hook-or-by crook transition would cause a real, global catastrophe, sending most of us back into back-breaking poverty.  That's why developing countries, especially want more fossil-fuel power, not less; they want to lift more people into comfortable lives."

Are you listening Elizabeth May?  Definitely not.

For most of humanity, getting rid of fossil fuels is not an option.  So, once again, be quiet, Greta, and go home.  And here's a bulletin for our kids someone sent me via email (no idea who wrote it, but it's dead on):

To all the school kids going on 'strike' for Climate Change:
You are the first generation who have required air-conditioning in every classroom.

You want TV in every room and your classes are all computerised.
You spend all day and night on electronic devices.
More than ever, you don't walk or ride bikes to school but arrive in caravans of private cars that choke local roads and worsen rush hour traffic.
You are the biggest consumers of manufactured goods ever and update perfectly good expensive luxury items to stay trendy,
Your entertainment comes from electric devices.
Furthermore, the people driving your protests are the same people who insist on artificially inflating the population growth through immigration, which increases the need for energy, manufacturing and transport.
The more people we have, the more forest and bushland we clear and more of the environment is destroyed.
How about this...
Tell your teachers to switch off the air-con.
Walk or ride to school. Switch off your devices and read a book.
Make a sandwich instead of buying manufactured fast food.
No, none of this will happen because you are selfish, badly educated, virtue signalling little 'princesses', inspired by the adults around you who crave a feeling of having a 'noble cause' while they indulge themselves in Western luxury and unprecedented
quality of life.
Wake up, grow up and learn to research facts and think for yourself and not blindly accept the words and thoughts of others - I don't think you formulated this action plan all by your self - suspect you may have had some influence and  'guidance' from
those you trust ....a word of warning, be cautious of the influence of the 'left' because there may be a time in the future that you will be the ones left out...
 
Amen.

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