Madly Protesting Pretense
The linked story from The Guardian Newspaper, a British publication, starts with the following statement, “The time has come to choose: do you trust the people in suits downplaying this emergency, or the activists lying on roads in an attempt to ward off catastrophe?
The Guardian author chooses the latter and throughout the column makes his feeble case in choosing the purely unscientific manner of mass protests and demonstrations. The people in suits he refers to must be somewhat different than the environmentally untruthful, suited politicians we see at all the green conferences rallying each other to employ and apply more and more limiting energy legislation.
According to the author of this piece, we need protestors lying on the streets, gluing hands to priceless art in the Musée du Louvre, disrupting schools with Greta Thunberg’s walkout of “Fridays for Future” and breaking into pipeline valve stations and shutting off the flows of oil.
Yes, these methods prove just how apocalyptic anthropogenic climate change really is and certainly will influence the average citizen into support and backing of these youthful antics. And here we insert the “netspeak” abbreviation “/SARC” for sarcasm.
The politics of this Guardian’s author is clearly illustrated when he writes of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union (Brexit), “David Cameron decided to bypass MPs and ask the rest of us to decide . . .” To interpret the legislative process in the United Kingdom, David Cameron, the Prime Minister at the time, sidestepped the Members of Parliament, and put Brexit up for a vote of the people.” The issue was then decided in the next election.
Cameron chose to uphold the highest building block of democracy and allow the people to decide and not force an authoritarian government decision upon them.
It is always a double standard in the progressive political arena when opposing protests like the Yellow Jackets in France, the tractor convoys in Europe and Asia, and the truckers in Canada are construed as illegitimate, yet their protests which are often accompanied by violence, destruction and at times death are essentially and effectively ignored.
The fundamental reality in these youthful protests is that they know nothing of the science and wish to remain fully ignorant of it. They plod along in their illiteracy and darkness perhaps someday to awaken from woke and to discover they’ve been had.