by Michael Shellenberger
Dumping milk onto floors. Hurling food onto walls. Refusing to eat. Gluing body parts. Throwing paint. Refusing to leave. Threatening to pee and poop in your pants. Screaming accusations. Are those the behaviors of a toddler’s temper tantrum? Yes. But they’re also the dominant tactics of today’s climate activists.
Consider the case of Gianluca Grimalda. On October 19, Grimalda, along with 15 other members of a climate activist group called Scientist Rebellion, glued himself to the floor of the visitors center next to a Volkswagon factory in Germany. The VW security guards brought pizza to Grimalda and the other activist scientists, but Grimalda felt disrespected and so he declared a hunger strike in retaliation.
Grimalda immediately expressed outrage at his treatment. “VW told us that they supported our right to protest,” he complained on Twitter, “but they refused our request to provide us with a bowl to urinate and defecate in a decent manner while we are glued, and have turned off the heating.”
Many were quick to point out the childish nature of the protest. “I’m a serious scientist protesting against fossil fuels,” wrote one user. “Now turn the gas heating on and bring me my potty.”
The activists say that such childish tactics were necessary. Grimalda tweeted that he and his colleagues are protesting “until our demands to decarbonise the German transport sector are met.” On Sunday, after climate activists in Germany threw mashed potatoes on a Monet painting, they screamed at the nearby museum-goers. “We won’t be able to feed our families in 2050” because of climate change, they alleged.
But Volkswagen already agreed last year to end the sale of vehicles with internal combustion engines by 2035, and the UN Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) predicts rising yields under even very high temperatures so long as farmers keep using fertilizer, irrigation, and tractors. That is, yields will continue under climate change so long as farmers don’t take the advice of climate activists.
The activists who keep degrading precious works of art, and themselves, claim to be concerned about food and energy supplies, but in opposing oil, gas and fertilizer production they are actively reducing both. Over the last several months, I have described the demands of climate activists as fanatical and pointed to a large body of evidence suggesting that nihilism, narcissism, and feelings of personal inadequacy are the primary motives.
But nihilism, narcissism, and personal inadequacy alone do not explain why climate activists have chosen temper tantrum tactics. After all, the greatest protest movements of all time engaged in far more grown-up and dignified tactics. Think of the Salt March led by Gandhi, the Montgomery Bus Boycott led by Martin Luther King, and the anti-whaling protests of Greenpeace.
This is aa new age pagan Cult of Earth Worshipping Extremists who demand the whole world must abide by their demand’s and they need to be avoided like with any cult who demands their Human Sacrifices
1 single volcanic eruption spews more CO2 than mankind could in 10 thousand years.
Germany is tearing down windmills for a coal mine. What we need to do is halt the geoengineering.
Sri Lanka called off an ill-conceived national experiment in organic agriculture this winter.
The babies had a win there, in that Sri Lanka gave it a try.
But the failure meant that this must be ignored and replaced by screaming tantrums….. so others will try what alrady is known not to work.
So, REMEMBER:
Sri Lanka’s nationwide ban on the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and ordering the country’s 2 million farmers to go organic was brutal and swift. Domestic rice production fell 20 percent.
The drop in tea production alone resulted in economic losses of $425 million.
Poverty is on the rise, too.
A wind farm is being dismantled in western Germany to make way for an expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine as Germany’s climatistas are mugged by reality.
Germany is prioritizing energy security over clean energy.
About time.
They were mugged by Putin. From The Guardian:
20 years of use, and the wind park’s operation permit was already expiring in 2023…
That wind park would probably have been “repowered” with new wind turbine technology if the Germans hadn’t needed ENERGY.
If the newest wind tech can’t do for the Germans what a coal pit can, why bother with wind at all?
Reality is, when the chips are down, wind falls thru.
During the first two months of 2022, wind and other renewable sources supplied over 50 percent of Germany’s national power needs. There are currently over 600,000 electric vehicles in use on German roads.
Putin can’t cut off the wind. Neither can the Saudis.
But Mother Earth can, greg.
Right now there is not enough lithium in the entire earth to even replace the electric cars we have using up older lithium batteries on our roads.
That means you are buying a car with a $26,000 battery that cannot be replaced when it gets old.
Just toss it in the trash in ten years, greg.
EVs run on electricity, not lithium. There are alternatives to lithium coming–highly efficient batteries based on sodium and magnesium, which are both plentiful and have low environmental impact. The future will be electric, and it’s arriving already. Proven global oil reserves will be gone in 50 years, even at current rates of consumption. Any nation that bases its future on endless cheap fossil fuels will have no future. Current events should be making that fact abundantly clear.
The Future was already going to be electric, because the Market was building it.
What you fools are doing isn’t market-driven, and doomed to fail.
Wind and solar can’t and won’t be able to replace oil, so even if you are right about 50 years (you’re not), it won’t matter.
What’s the play, son? I mean really? What are they up to?
Killing most of us off, for one. You pig.
Wind and solar will continue to expand as the technologies rapidly advance, building an electrical infrastructure that will be in place when fusion power eventually arrives. THAT’S the plan. It’s the only one that doesn’t involve mass catastrophe and the collapse of technological civilization.
What’s the GOP’s plan for climate change, water shortages, and rising fossil fuel costs? Higher costs are inevitable, and will spike with increasing frequency as the global rate of consumption rises. It’s not possible to pump our way to a prosperous and secure future.
Of course if one is a greedy, self-centered, short-sighted bastard who only wishes to maximize his own comfort and profits until his own allotted time runs out, what happens in 20 or 30 years doesn’t matter.
Often the powers that be are even worse. They only look ahead to the next election cycle, or the next quarterly corporate report.
There it is. I’ve long suspected the West has a new energy source (it’s not fusion though, junior…) and is waiting to roll it out, or just hide it behind wind and solar because no one really knows where the electrons are coming from at their house.
Glad you said the quiet part out loud.
Why does it matter? You people are rigging elections and throwing the GOP in jail. You don’t want anyone to fix it. You want control.
How many years in a “eventually arrives” ?
According to the world’s leading climate expert, AOC, we only have about 8 or 9 years left by now. So I doubt “eventually arrives” will fit in that window to save the day.
Lets review.
History is littered with failed climate change predictions.
Climate predictions are based on projections and models. When those fail to meet up with reality the bandwagon moves on to the next prediction.
When Katrina hit we were told that was sure evidence of climate change. We were going to see more severe storms, more often. Instead over the following decade we saw fewer storms and less powerful ones. The bandwagon of course moved on and didn’t inform the faithful of another failed prediction.
Go check out the climate gate emails they are still available.
What’s the Democrats plan for climate change? Meaning specifically how much will implementing their proposals change the climate in what timeframe and at what cost? Numbers please? I like to know what I’m getting for my money.
Looks like “green” isn’t so green afterall.
Wind and solar cannot meet base load energy demand now nor in the near future. Kooks who think we can switch today and eliminate oil, LNG, nuclear and coal are on a fools errand.
Those “alternatives” have been promised as “right around the corner,” since 2017, greg.
But they are not feasible when it comes to real world use.
They might seem to work great in a lab, in a vaccuum.
But on the road, not so much.
In fact, over 5 years not one has made it to production.
Oil is one of the fastest replenishing natural resources on the planet.
Every time we think we’ve come close to “peak oil,” new fields of oil are found, huge ones.
Like one-billion-barrel oil field in Tabasco, Gulf of Mexico;
150 and 200 million barrels of oil off Mexican west coast;
60-135 million barrels of recoverable oil in Balder area of the southern Norwegian North Sea;
9 billion barrels of oil off Guyana;
And others all in 2021.
The Saudis pump out 7 million barrels a day, but don’t worry. they had reserves of 268 billion barrels, so, 50+ years’ worth.
If you look you might find biomass a major factor included in that renewable figure. Which means burning something, like trees.
Good job commie double down on proven failure. 50 % and they have been doing this green weenie crap for how long? The infrastructure of green is now old and failing. Many are searching the woods for sticks and branches along with trash to burn in woodstoves, like your neighbor who will be able to heat his home while you cry opening your heat and electric bill.
Wind and solar are incapable of supplying continuous base load energy. The technology currently does not exist to store captured wind or solar for continuous base load energy.