A friend just sent me this:-

"Our daughter of fifteen years of age was moved to tears by the speech of Greta Thunberg at the UN the other day, she's now ANGRY with our generation “because we are destroying the Planet.” So, we decided to help 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. We suggested that she should walk to school with her friends rather than have us do "the school run" twice a day, the car puts those nasty emissions into the atmosphere.

She thought about it for a moment then asked for an electric bicycle, but I pointed out 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 pedalling, or walking, that wouldn't harm her generation and will probably cut down on the epidemic of obesity in children, and be a great way to save the planet. It won't be long before winter sets in, no doubt she will want to ride on that big, warm diesel bus but that's just for 3 or 4 months of the year.

Since that scowling girl on TV demands that “we get rid of our dependency on fossil fuels” our daughter fervently agrees with her, so we have disconnected the heat vent in her room. The temperature is now dropping to twelve degrees in the evening, and will drop close to freezing in the winter, but wanting to be supportive 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.

Speaking of clothes, the ones that she currently has are all synthetic so made from petroleum. Therefore on Monday, we will take all her designer clothing to the second-hand shop. Thankfully we've found an eco store where the only clothing they sell is made from undyed and unbleached linen, wool and jute. It shouldn’t matter how it looks on her or that she is going to be laughed at dressing in colourless, bland clothes, managing without her chemically coloured "wear once and throw away" clothes, Oh, and tights, nylon is synthetic / made from petrochemicals isn't it !

But, no doubt that's the price she will be eager to pay to "Save the Planet", well at least until her boyfriend starts looking at the other girls.

By the way, cotton is out of the question for most folks on the planet, it's shipped thousands of miles across oceans and continents to get to finally get to J C Penny, Sears. Nordstroms, Walmart, Bimart, Costco and so on, add to that shouldn't we be concerned about the herbicides and pesticides poisoning the soil !!!

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 at the 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 totally agrees with the scowling girl on TV about CO2 emissions, that it wasn't the carbon footprints of our great-grandparents that are ‘killing our planet’, it makes sense to get back to that way of life. She might be right, her great-grandparents didn't have central heating, air conditioning, microwave ovens, washers & dryers, fridge/freezers, TV's, laptops, cell phones, steam irons etc and IF they had electricity they didn't leave the lights on in every room. Add to that, few if any of them had hot water taps, let alone curling tongs, hair driers etc.

To be honest I doubt that our great grandparents had a holiday that took them more than 50 miles from where they lived, if they got on a ship it was to emigrate rather than cruise the Caribbean !!!

We'll suggest that she quits using makeup, perfume, soap, shampoo, cream, lotion, conditioner, detoxifiers, toothpaste even some medications.

In this way we will help her to do her part to prevent mass extinction, ocean 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."

Excellent

Although I usually do not allow items received via email to be posted in the forum, I will make an exception in this instance, and I am most happy to do so.

Thank you.

I think what chaps me the most about the climate change religionists is that they are all.....ALL...hypocrites. The only one who lived what she taught without cheating (at least for the period she was vocal) was Darryl Hanna. She at least was willing to put her money where her mouth was. The rest of these tyrannical evangelists do not practice what they preach unless it is for show. Greta is no different.

After having her do all that, she will have to do MORE. The leaders of the Climate Change Cult will need her to help them to be carbon neutral, They need the cult members to sacrifice more so they can have their private jets, yachts, and mansions in places like Martha's Vineyard, Vail and Beverly Hills (insert international list). It's for the cause.

But but but.... She be WOKE!

I think they forgot she needs an outhouse in the back yard. We are running out of clean water don't you know?

It will be fun! Freezing temps at 3 AM, OR mid afternoon and 100°. Either way, it will be fun... I promise girlie.

In the 60's when the whole hippie/be-in/Summer of Love baloney was happening, the real hard-core types, embraced the Back-to-the-Land movement. They moved up into the forest of Northern CA, Pac NW, and TN with Stephen Gaskin. Full blown return to nature collectivism: natural fiber clothing, if any at all, agrarianism in it's most pure form. The vast majority got a slap of reality as the blisters formed on their hands from all the wood chopping and tool usage. Winters were a bitterly cold and wet experience. Vermin, pests, and various health conditions would become a contestant part of life. The discovery that certain people were leaches, not contributory to their little world, predators existed in two-legged form creating social fabric problems. All these things that mankind and modern age civilization had figured out but, these knuckleheads, knowing better, decide to reinvent the world by tossing the baby out with the bath water.

Hmmm, the lady behind me in line at the grocery store some time ago complained about all the plastic bags I was using, given they were not biodegradable. I simply smiled at her, turned to the kid bagging my stuff and asked him to double bag everything. Then I turned to her and mentioned, "No matter how many bags you may have saved today, I've completely erased your savings. How do you feel about that?" Let's just say she was not a happy eco-camper.

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We'll suggest that she quits using makeup, perfume, soap, shampoo, cream, lotion, conditioner, detoxifiers, toothpaste even some medications.

Better suggest strongly, most of those things are byproducts of cattle production.

Cold showers? Why showers at all? Don’t we realize how much energy is used to supply us with potable water in our homes?
The first thing is to cut washing one’s body back to no more than once a week, and less often during the winter. Then nothing more than scrubbing down with a nice coarse cloth and, ideally, water collected from natural sources like the nearby creek or the rain or the snow (snow melts pretty quickly when it comes in contact with human skin, so there’s no need to waste energy melting it first).

Yes, there are many ways we can work to make life better for some people’s grandchildren. (But not ours; having no offspring ourselves truly is the best way to eliminate more exploitation and waste than we could possibly accomplish in other ways short of checking out and ending our own burden on the planet sooner than later.)

I like it.

It points out a great way to have a discussion with any of these eco-ninnies.

In construction, you find people obsessed with "green construction" in various forms.

Guess what.

Unless you're making wattle and daub, with timber from the surrounding land, everything has "embodied carbon" from all of the manufacturing and transportation.

To be frank, I think that being energy conscious does have its benefits. The Sun is for all intents and purposes an unlimited resource. The oil and minerals here? They do have a limit.

We aren't ever going to "kill the planet." The Earth will be fine after we're gone.

As a species, we'll either die here, or find a way to eventually spread to other worlds. The only actual limits are our resources here on Earth, and the time limit is the death of the Sun.

So... we have some time.

There is some true to Climate Science. Unfortunately, it has been usurped by zealots and those who crave political power. The Useful Idiots are the hippies and environmental ideologues.

Put in a wood fired stove for heat in the winter and get some wood and have her have to cut and split it for the stove like I had to do on our farm at age 14 in the early 50’s.

Can’t mom and dad just pay more taxes.

No toilet paper for you, Greta!

I found that the only way I could listen to her was when they made a death metal version of her speech.

No newly manufactured bicycle, clothing or other items either. That takes resources and energy to produce and transport through the distribution system to eventually end up with her.
Shop only at the Goodwill and second hand store or repurpose other items.
No more tv, computers or other electronics. Get a slide rule to do the math and shop at the used book store for entertainment. Hand wash and dry dishes, no dishwasher. Hand wash clothes and hang up to dry naturally.
Need air in those bicycle tires? Get out the hand pump, no air compressors, they consume electricity.
And on and on.

Don't have kids.
Greenest thing you can do with little effort.

No daughter, no problems.

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Thankfully we've found an eco store where the only clothing they sell is made from undyed and unbleached linen, wool and jute.

I'm guessing animal fur, like our ancestors wore, is out???

Just think of the precious resources consumed and the environmental damage that went into building the neighborhood and home that the girl lives in. The least she could do is move into the back yard and condense her environmental footprint into a very small hemp tent.

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Originally posted by senza nome:
No toilet paper for you, Greta!

Put the Sears & Roebuck catalog in your outhouse. Oh shucks, they're bankrupt, no more catalogs. Grass or leaves work. Don't try the poison ivy though.