The Hypocrisy of Climate Change Protesters
28/08/09 13:07 Filed in: Personal
I was looking at the pictures from the BBC website regarding the “Climate Camp” that has been setup on the site where Watt Tyler protested poll tax over six hundred years ago.
I just wonder whether my reaction to the protesters would be the same as the reception I gave “Greenpeace” in Portsmouth over twenty years ago.
In that incident the “Green” group had setup a Ford Transit outside our digs and where running the engine the power their P.A. system. The noxious fumes coming out the back of the tailpipe were so bad that it made a fellow housemate suffer an asthmatic seizure. Little of which seemed to matter to the shouting group of hypocrites.
You see it’s “OK” for them to use petrol, plastic etc. because they are doing it for a “good cause”. It’s just everybody else who has to go back to Middle Age technology in order to protect the planet.
Fact is, much to my own shame, I had something of a “set too” with a particularly vermant member of the group who, when I told them about the fumes and the problems shouted in my face that I was a “f’ng fascist racist b*stard and should die!”.
To be honest, his fellow protesters where also less than impressed.
Jump twenty years forward into the present and I see from the images provided by the BBC that the current bunch of CO2 protesters are;
In fact, the entire operation is either transported using oil, constructed from oil based products or will likely to be cooked or warmed using so called fossil fuels.
My point is simple. If you are trying to make a point, follow your own dictum. Offering up a “do as we say, not as we do” doesn’t work for politicians and it certainly doesn’t impress anybody following environmental issues.
Why are protesters just such a bunch of hypocrites?
Al Gore, spouting non-scientific rhetoric, while jetting between climate speeches in his own private jet... as environmentally damaging as a medium sized jet liner.
Remember “swampy” protesting pollution from cars, while sleeping in a tree he wrapped in thick blue plastic?
I wish there was a work stronger than hypocrite. My only option would be to swear in advance. But I promised myself I’ve try and avoid that kind of thing.
Speaking on Swampy, aka Daniel Hooper. he appears to have settled down somewhat and has TWO CHILDREN! TWO!! Can you imagine the environment damage that’s causing to the world. How will we be able to feed ourselves with such insensitive behaviour towards the planet and it’s resources! Perhaps you should kill one of your children, as a boost to the planet. Obviously, I’m not serious. But it’s not pleasant being on the other side of the debate, is it Daniel?
I just wonder whether my reaction to the protesters would be the same as the reception I gave “Greenpeace” in Portsmouth over twenty years ago.
In that incident the “Green” group had setup a Ford Transit outside our digs and where running the engine the power their P.A. system. The noxious fumes coming out the back of the tailpipe were so bad that it made a fellow housemate suffer an asthmatic seizure. Little of which seemed to matter to the shouting group of hypocrites.
You see it’s “OK” for them to use petrol, plastic etc. because they are doing it for a “good cause”. It’s just everybody else who has to go back to Middle Age technology in order to protect the planet.
Fact is, much to my own shame, I had something of a “set too” with a particularly vermant member of the group who, when I told them about the fumes and the problems shouted in my face that I was a “f’ng fascist racist b*stard and should die!”.
To be honest, his fellow protesters where also less than impressed.
Jump twenty years forward into the present and I see from the images provided by the BBC that the current bunch of CO2 protesters are;
- Sleeping under tents made from man-made fibres - produced from oil.
- Wearing water proofs made from nylon etc. - Made from oil (as apposed to wearing a waxed cotton coat)
- Have brought large plastic nets to hang banners on.
- Marked out the areas using plastic hazard stripping.
- Arrived in an array of transit vans and cars! Nobody seems to have walked or taken a bus!
- Are handing out rations in large plastic boxes (no cardboard then?).
- Wearing nomex hats, gloves etc - oil based.
- Baseball caps - nylon / polyester?
- Have brightly coloured T-Shirts (hopefully made from cotton) but dyed using pigments produced from oil based inks.
In fact, the entire operation is either transported using oil, constructed from oil based products or will likely to be cooked or warmed using so called fossil fuels.
My point is simple. If you are trying to make a point, follow your own dictum. Offering up a “do as we say, not as we do” doesn’t work for politicians and it certainly doesn’t impress anybody following environmental issues.
Why are protesters just such a bunch of hypocrites?
Al Gore, spouting non-scientific rhetoric, while jetting between climate speeches in his own private jet... as environmentally damaging as a medium sized jet liner.
Remember “swampy” protesting pollution from cars, while sleeping in a tree he wrapped in thick blue plastic?
I wish there was a work stronger than hypocrite. My only option would be to swear in advance. But I promised myself I’ve try and avoid that kind of thing.
Speaking on Swampy, aka Daniel Hooper. he appears to have settled down somewhat and has TWO CHILDREN! TWO!! Can you imagine the environment damage that’s causing to the world. How will we be able to feed ourselves with such insensitive behaviour towards the planet and it’s resources! Perhaps you should kill one of your children, as a boost to the planet. Obviously, I’m not serious. But it’s not pleasant being on the other side of the debate, is it Daniel?
