Switch off those petrol engines, dump those EU emissions cheating German diesels, get your E-Bike charged up with the finest wind turbine energy, turn off that central heating, DON'T EAT MEAT!!!
Lay out your comfy middle class woke credentials for all to see! Revel in it!
It's Thursday, 22 April - World Earth Day.
Creepy Joe Biden and Boris are having a Zoom summit so it must be serious! :lol:
We are just burning up some fat juicy steaks on the smoking barbie .......
I just gunned my 2.5 litre diesel up to Tain & back today....I like to do my bit 👍🏻
Hoolet
Good on you George. :lol:
Greta would be proud Fred
Hoolet
Greta says we should all go to Ikea for Swedish meatballs. I think she said that, or very similar.
I always like to reflect on the predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970:
1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that "civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind."
2. "We are in an environmental crisis that threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation," wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.
3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, "Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction."
4. "Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make," Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle. "The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years."
5. "Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born," wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled "Eco-Catastrophe! "By...[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s."
6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the "Great Die-Off."
7. "It is already too late to avoid mass starvation," declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.
8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, "Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China, and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions....By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine."
9. In January 1970, Life reported, "Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support...the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution...by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half...."
10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, "At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it's only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable."
11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America's rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.
12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in 1970 that "air pollution...is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone." Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during "smog disasters" in New York and Los Angeles.
13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons "may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945." Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946...now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980 when it might level out. (Note: According to the most recent CDC report, life expectancy in the US is 78.6 years).
14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, "By the year 2000 if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate...that there won't be any more crude oil. You'll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill 'er up, buddy,' and he'll say, `I am very sorry, there isn't any.'" (Note: Global production of crude oil last year at 82.275M barrels per day (bpd) was just slightly below the record output in 2018 of 82.9M bpd, and about 50% higher than the global output of 55.7M bpd around the time of the first Earth Day).
15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.
16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look that, "Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct."
17. In 1975, Paul Ehrlich predicted that "since more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so, it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it."
18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. "The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years," he declared. "If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age."
I am resolved to put my money on my own predictions. :roll: :roll:
I'd put that money towards diesel
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I see Joe Biden is doing his bit for saving the planet.......................................he's flying over to Europe to meet Boris(amongst others on a whistle stop tour). Probably burn more fuel than all of us put together in all of our life times.
One set of rules for them, another for us Richard, all carefully monitored by a crazy Swedish Doom Goblin. :lol:
At least she went on a jolly in a sailing boat though, she seems to be a lot of things, but not a hypocrite/
How to save the planet for sure ! Ship yourself and following circus from Sweden to the UK and go onboard with a crew gathered in from various places. Use a non-recyclable carbon fibre boat costing millions. Get to the other side, the crew go on holiday and then all fly back to the UK later. In the mean time fly over to New York a replacement crew to sail the boat back to the UK !! Twelve transatlantic flights rather than one.
I was amazed yesterday at the jury in London clearing six XR activists from criminal damage to the Shell HQ with smashed windows, paint spraying, gluing to doors and other action. Told by the judge that they had no defence to the charges in law. What a daft precedent that has now set for future illegal activity.
The Doom Goblin's boat trips are farcical. The moving around of crews and support stuff produces far more pollution and carbon than if she just jumped on a regular flight. But try telling that to the lefty woke-dope-flakes. Of course the real agenda has little to do with climate and everything to do with promoting their miserable, doom laden, hating Marxism that no one with a brain is ever going to vote for so they have to use subversion.