Dear Greta,
Perhaps you’re wondering why some of us won’t listen to you.
I’m more than happy to explain why. That’s the kind of guy I am.
How much more than happy?
Delighted. Elated. Jubilant. Overjoyed. Thrilled.
Why? You ask.
Because it’s your turn. Your turn to shut up and listen. To cringe. To suppress your desire to throttle someone. To scream at the screen.
So, buckle up.
First, we know you’re reciting a script provided by your handlers, and those handlers don’t care one tittle about the environment. They care about power. Over me, and people like me. And over people like you who they can manipulate. You should be irate that your parents are using you as a political tool. To hell with your childhood, they’ve got a cause to promote, and if their daughter is collateral damage, well— omelet.
We know that every prediction made by so-called climate scientists turned out to be wrong, and in many cases, wildly off the mark. Al Gore promised us Lower Manhattan would be underwater by 2015. The ozone hole was going to fry us all. Regardless of all the scaremongering, I’m still al dente. So are you.
The next Ice Age, predicted in the 70s, never materialized. Next, was global warming. Upon realizing that their predictions were always mistaken, your team created the term “Climate Change,” which can mean anything they want it to mean and can be changed on a whim. “Climate is Changey” would be more honest.
Does it occur to you that this “crisis” might be a scam? When you had to delete your social media predictions that turned out to be wrong? When the Park Service needed to remove a sign that predicted the disappearance of a glacier that was supposed to happen by 2020? The glacier is still there.
Climate change activists completely ignore the horrific environmental effects and huge carbon footprints of producing, deploying, and disposing of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and other “renewables,” or of the devastating environmental damage done to the land where they are installed. Flora and fauna mowed to the ground. Apex predators pulverized by spinning rotors. Screw the critters, we need to feel good about ourselves.
You blithely ignore the brutal child labor employed in developing countries to mine the rare and often toxic materials for these technologies. In their bare feet, with no safety equipment. Screw them, we need Thorium.
You appear to be completely comfortable depriving people in the developing world of affordable and dependable energy and all the comfort, safety, and prosperity that can only be achieved by using fossil fuels. Screw them, they’re not enlightened like we are.
Some idiot activists throw soup on paintings, glue themselves to this or that, stage phony arrests (looking at you, Greta), block traffic, or disrupt the activities of people going about their business. These antics convince no one of your claims and garner negative sympathy for your cause.
The most important reason why we don’t listen to you is because your cure is always worse than the disease. That’s because whatever (often imaginary) problem you’re trying to solve, whatever calamity you’re hoping to convince us is imminent, whatever looming horror we’re oblivious to the significance of—the solution always requires people like you being in charge, and people like us following orders and making sacrifices you have no intention of making yourselves.
Most important, it’s always about money. For research grants. For renewable energy contracts. For campaign funding. The “green” in green politics is greenbacks.
And you’re always wrong.
So, blather on all you like. We’re not playing.
Agree completely. You are on it, JC!
thanks!! that is a reeeeely goood one.