Holding a flurry of personal pledges on pink card, families, celebrities and businesses celebrated the launch of the 10:10 campaign by promising to “turn my heating down”, “fly less”, “love jumpers”, “eat less cheese” and “learn to ride a bike”.
Eat less cheese to save the world! That’s bound to work.
Catharine Dooley, a learning support assistant from south London, said she had dug up her patio and started a vegetable garden and would be trying to walk more.
Sounds like the bloody “Good Life”.Trying to walk more. Is she disabled?
Zach Scott-Grey, 12, and his sister, Yasmin, 11, pledged to eat less junk food and more organic, local produce.
Zach and Yasmin - figures. Isn’t organic food less energy efficient?
Anna Post, a mother from Battersea, south London, hoped to persuade her church to sign up. She compared the issue of combating global warming to the slave trade…
I am speechless.
“I’d be quite pleased because I loath travel,” said Mike Figgis, the film director. “I could say, ‘I’m sorry, I’ve got to the end of my quota and I can’t come’ when I am asked to another pointless business meeting in America.”
Yeah, Mike and I’m sure they’d be quite pleased to tell you they up to their quota of your pointless films.
He [an "artist" called Bob and Roberta Smith] said 10:10 was an “important political movement” and called for political action to enforce compliance with a 10% emissions cut. “A night in the cells would be good for people who own a 4×4.”
Bob and Roberta if that’s your real name I hope you get run-over by a Humvee and the driver then very slowly reverses over your still living body.
As an open letter was sent out to all 1.3 million staff in the NHS, the biggest employer in Europe, Patrick Geoghegan, chief executive of South Essex Partnership University Foundation Trust, said all health trusts and hospitals should join them in signing up to 10:10.
“Health should sign up to this. If we’re looking after people we’ve got to look after the environment because it impacts on people’s health. It’s complimentary to what we are trying to do in the NHS.”
That’s just total bollocks.
After Reverend and the Makers finished their set, Kevin McCloud, the presenter of Grand Designs, pointed to St Paul’s and said: “Over there is a truly extraordinary building built 350 years ago. I pray that in 350 years our descendants are here to build things as extraordinary as that. If you all go out and get 10 people to sign up to 10:10 and get them to sign up another 10 people on Friday, then by next Tuesday the whole planet will have signed up and we will have won.”
Won what Kevin? A competition to see which is the stupidest planet in the Galaxy? Anyway, I seem to recall seeing McCloud as Top Gear’s star in a reasonably priced car recently. Hypocrite.
They are all barking mad. It’s a weird collective insanity. I really hope this idiocy stops some time soon and that 350 years from now there will still be social historians to compare climate alarmism to witch-hunting.
Well, if Ms Post can compare climate change to the slave trade then I can make a sensible analogy.
- From The Guardian, obviously.
“They are all barking mad. It’s a weird collective insanity.”
What’s that CS Lewis quote again?
Ah, yes:“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
I bet these people all eschew religion too, yet are perfectly happy to sign up to this, because ‘it’s science..’
“Ken Livingstone, former mayor of London, said the person he most hoped would sign up was Gordon Brown.”
If Gordon signs up, that should put an end to it then.
It really, truly is a religion isn’t it ?
Well, I can tell the twat McCloud that the whole planet isn’t going to sign up, not least because I have, after reading his idiotic statement, pledged to increase my energy usage by… well, as much as humanly possible, frankly.
And every hateful hands-across-the-world, we-are-the-people, one-big-happy-family campaign that occurs just hardens my resolve.
Put me in the cells, you with the stupid name(s), I dare you. “An important political movement”? Damn right. So were eugenics and back-to-the-land, and you know what they led to. This is going the same way, as so clearly demonstrated by your own chilling rant.
Oh it certainly is a religion alright.
Like the old ones, relatively fact free, but taken as Gospel by the born again greens.
Wooly minded new hippie types really get off on the privation and ritual of all this.
It makes them feel good.
I have watched my neighbours putting out and sorting their re-cycling, and observed the smile of smug satisfaction they wear when they have finished putting the glass here, the cans there the plastic…
They think that they have personally saved the Planet, or helped at least.
Well not round our way they havent.
The council picks up all the pointless different boxes and then tips the lot into a huge skip down the depot and sends the lot to China, or failing that to find a bit of landfill yet unused (what is the objection to landfill by the way, anyone know?)
But if I try to tell my neighbours that they should just chuck the lot in one bin and then let the Council take it away like in the olden days, thay get right shirty and go back to their pointless time consuming rituals.
Where is the scientific paper stating how many productive man hours are lost to the sorting of rubbish that promptly gets de-sorted again, when you pay a whacking amount each year in council tax to have this taken care of for you.
Oh and George Monbiot has signed up to 10:10
Nuff said.
“(what is the objection to landfill by the way, anyone know?)”
We’re running out of holes in the ground. I think it’s called “peak hole”.
I once whacked off to “Peak Hole”. And felt dirty afterwards.
So if we are running out of holes (I can think of quite a few old pits etc) where are we going to put all this CO2 capture that our Pols, with their hightened scientific knowledge, blithely say we will be doing, erm without it ever having been done yet, once even.
The AGW Religion is getting way beyond Alice in Wonderland already.
‘Anna Post, a mother from Battersea, south London…’ All the intelligence of the inanimate object she was named after. Her parents obviously hated her and she’s been living with the consequences of rejection ever since.
I once knew a couple that named their son Andrew and their daughter Annabel. No great shakes unless you knew their surname was Burden.
As for recycling, I’m amazed at how much people are drinking. When I walk the dogs on recycling day we pass loads of those green bins full to the brim with wine, whiskey and vodka bottles and bins overflowing with empty cans of every beer/cider. It’s a wonder a local health fascist isn’t monitoring the weekly intake and getting the gestapo to kick their door in and read them the latest Gilmour inspired directive, whilst doing some quick calculations on unit over-intake and fining them, or more likely publishing their details in the local rag in order to shame them.
And Rab, I’m in complete agreement with chucking it all in one bin or in my case bin bags. Usually they’re the black ones but when those nice clothing charidees drop some off, they’re white.
As for running out of holes in the ground why hasn’t anyone thought of digging dirty great big ones (for the inputting of rubbish) and taking the excavated soil to Mauritius to build it up to stop it being swallowed by the ocean? Thereby solving two problems in one go. I wonder if Al Gorge will go for it?
pledged to eat less junk food and more organic, local produce.
So where do they live? Brixton? Good luck on the local produce there.
And, WTF has organic got to do with it all? Or is this just another example of the fantasy that organic is in some way ‘greener’ than conventional?
All part of making God’s Kingdom on earth come about, waging war on sin and what not. Crazy fucking loons.
What scares me is there seems to be an endless supply of such loons eager to lap up the eco-wibble and associated bosh. Prohibition (and progressivism in general) in America was pushed by similar loons for similar reasons and motivations and was also compared to the fight against slavery.
For a great insight into the progressive movement (which is what this shit is a manifestation of) I commend World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals (Murray Rothbard)
Griblett,
Ain’t seen you in these ‘ere parts before… Come back soon because,
“‘Anna Post, a mother from Battersea, south London…’ All the intelligence of the inanimate object she was named after. ”
Is something I so wish I’d thought of saying.
Cats,
It’s not so much Greener as just more “natural”. Everything natural is good, everything artificial is bad. The idea in it’s modern incarnation probs goes back to that nutcase Blake and that charlatan Morris. Go to any supermarket and it’s “natural” this and organic “that” and there’s natural child-birth (as oppossed to supernatural ones - such as what happened in a stable c 2000 yrs ago in Bethlehem) and natural remedies (as oppossed I assume to supernatural remedies such as voodoo).
It’s just a rebellion against the modern world.
Rab and Pa…
I don’t think that we’re running out of holes - there must some of the 10,000 in Blackburn Lancashire still unfilled…
The problem with using landfill is that there’s some ludicrous piece of EU legislation that limits the amount (%age) of waste that can be buried, with the usual draconian “fines”, ie tax burden for the poor fuckers who have to pay the bill, if the limits are exceeded. Which is mad, partly because landfill is quite a good way of getting rid of rubbish, but more because IIRC the biggest “chunk” of “renewable” energy is generated from methane capture from existing landfill sites - and has been for some while.
I used to work in the Crown Court in Bristol, and one day a very attractive black policewoman came into the witness box to give evidence.
I am wpc 2615 Adora Dick….
The whole of the courtroom was biting its collective knuckles and shoving hankies in their mouths to stiffle the titters.
I found out later that she had a brother, also a policeman, any guesses for his name?
Yup that’s right, Ivor.
Their parents must have been a right couple of cards!
Yes that’s what I meant Pogo. I knew it was EU legislation behind it, but there must be a reason for the Directive however daft. I just wanted to know what it was is all.
It may be like the one that is due to shut down our coal power stations.
That edict was brought in, not because of Global Warming, but to combat Acid Rain!
Now whatever happened to Acid Rain? That panic has gone quiet hasn’t it?
Scandinavia now totally denuded of pine trees is it?
And were is our old friend the hole in the ozone layer, on its holidays perhaps?
One school I was at (and it was posh, so we all called each other by surnames), two lads who were best friends were called Dicks and Cox.
I went to school with an Adam Pratt.
I’ve heard some funnies from the USA way back when people off the boat at Ellis Island would give their kids English names. Hence the likes of: Ophelia Tushmann and Arthur (Art) Kraft. Gods! Could he do macrame! During his second comming at NUFC in the 90s a lot of fans had new babies to name. If it was a boy - Kevin obviously. If a girl - that’s tricky. Some experimented with Kevina but that never really flew so on Tynside there are an entire cohort of adolescent girls right now called Keagan who have more than the usual teenage reasons to hate their parents.
Ian, next time you tell that one lie and replace Dicks with Balls. As in, “Has anyone seen Cox and Balls”. Works for me.
@Rab: “Yes that’s what I meant Pogo. I knew it was EU legislation behind it, but there must be a reason for the Directive however daft”.
Come off it Rab! “EU” and “reason” in the same sentence???
OTOH, I used to know a lad called Sean Head.
I knew an Alex Knutt … he changed his name by deed poll.
To… Alex Nutt (eh?)
Pogo,
Yes, I know. I just couldn’t resist the joke.
We can of course manufacture holes in the ground any time we like. But the EU have applied all sorts of regulations requiring them to be sealed and lined in a certain way so as not to pollute the water table, to only take some materials and not others, (like particularly hazardous ones, or ones Eurocrats think are hazardous), and the latest wheeze is to add a landfill tax to encourage people to recycle more.
In other words, the hole shortage is entirely artificial, created by regulation, and is a Pigouvian attempt to price landfill out of the market.
There was an excellent Penn and Teller episode of Bullshit! on the subject (Recycling). You should be able to look it up.
Oh, yes, what happened to acid rain. What happened was that the expensive research they commissioned in which stands of trees were watered with varying levels of acid found that the more acid was added, the better the trees grew. It acted as a fertilizer. Other than that, the effect was found to be tiny, a few percent of watercourses affected. Around that time it was quietly dropped. (Lomborg mentions it in The Skeptical Environmentalist.)
And of course the ozone hole is as big as ever - I think the record lowest point so far was 2006. There was some JPL report some years ago supposedly poking a hole in the chemistry, but I don’t know a lot about that. Anyway, the believers aren’t worried because they had already predicted it would take 50 years to recover, and it scarcely gets mentioned.
But that’s only two. Prof. Simon had an entire chapter of The Ultimate Resource listing all the eco-scares there had been. There were a lot, and that was back in 1980. They’ve had a lot of practice.
Thanks PA, you are a National treasure.
Just what I wanted.
So as I suspected, they are making this shit up as they go along.
“It’s just a rebellion against the modern world.”
But wait until they break a finger, or something else which is very painful, and they’ll be demanding evil capitalist painkilling drugs faster than you can say “composting”.