Frustrations about the environment are a cloak for separate resentments
“Not being able to govern affairs, I govern myself.” That was the view taken by the 16th-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne, who lived at a time when France was wracked by civil war. He was unable to influence what was going on in politics, he reasoned, but he could cultivate his own character and intellect.
Penelope Frank is a climate activist with the Last Generation group who glued herself to the tarmac of the Berlin airport in late 2022. Frank is standing trial for disrupting air traffic, and if convicted could be sentenced to a prison term.
She identifies as a woman, but on paper, her sex is classified as male — and therefore she would be sent to a men’s prison if she were to be convicted.
Global warming doesn’t cause natural disasters. Environmentalists cause natural disasters.
Environmentalists claim that global warming caused by people driving to work and cooling their homes causes natural disasters. In reality, environmentalists cause natural disasters by blocking sensible policies like forestry management and dams, and then once a disaster, like fire or flooding is underway, they contrive to do what they can to block any kind of relief because they believe in worsening natural disasters to convince people of their cause and give them unlimited power to destroy our lives.
A spokesperson for Veterans Affairs Canada said an employee at the site noticed a person vandalizing a wall at the memorial around 9 p.m. local time Tuesday. The individual fled the scene upon being spotted.
A VAC official told Global News on background that the alleged vandal was “a misguided individual with a cause.”
A source with knowledge of the incident told Global News the graffiti was environmental slogans written in French.
The eco-aristocracy has no idea of the horrors that would be unleashed by phasing out oil and coal.
I hope you little people, even in the midst of the cost-of-living crisis, will spare a thought for the literary elite. They’re suffering right now. These poor scribes face a moral conundrum of epic proportions. Should they attend the Edinburgh Literary Festival even though its lead sponsor is a firm that dabbles in fossil fuels? How stressed they must feel by this ethical stickler. Please keep them in your prayers.
Just under 16 million trees have been cut down on publicly owned Scottish land to make way for wind farms. Conservation campaigners warn that planning regulations for new turbines on wild land are so relaxed they are difficult not to meet.
Mairi Gougeon, the Scottish National Party’s (SNP) Rural Affairs Secretary, last month estimated that 15.7 million trees had been felled since 2000 on land managed by the Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) agency. That equates to more than 1,700 a day.
Jeff Goodell, climate correspondent of Rolling Stone, alarmingly told the Guardian in an interview on Sunday that racism is “at the heart of the failure to tackle heatwaves”. What’s more, “the people most impacted by heat are not the kind of voting demographic that gets any politician nervous,” according to the writer, who can’t have been paying attention to American politics for the last 70 years, let alone the steeply declining death rate from weather events.
A climate protest group has claimed its activists were left “bloodied and bruised up” after briefly interrupting Andy Murray’s last-16 clash with top seed Taylor Fritz at the Citi Open in Washington DC on Friday night.
Action was delayed in the first set when three jumbo tennis balls were tossed onto the court in the event’s main stadium, and Fritz later said he found the whole thing “annoying”.
BREAKING: we just profoundly disrupted the Citi Open, one of the world's most prominent tennis tournaments.
We were brutally dragged out. Multiple members of our group were bloodied up and bruised. But we will not be deterred.
We will fight til we win.
There is no alternative. pic.twitter.com/xYLhBDbaUw
— Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) August 4, 2023
The Edinburgh International Book Festival has said it is “standing by its principles” and backed its event sponsor after Greta Thunberg accused them of “greenwashing”.
The climate activist has pulled out of an appearance at the festival later this month in protest over its sponsors Baillie Gifford, an investment firm she claims invests “heavily” in fossil fuels.
As environmentalists and the Biden administration make an all-out push for the adoption of electric vehicles and renewable energy sources, they are facing a quandary: The Green Revolution requires more mineral mining, a practice they have long opposed due to its effects on the environment and Native American lands.
One crucial mineral is lithium. Electric vehicles, solar panels, wind farms, laptop computers, and cellphones are all powered by lithium-ion batteries. Without lithium, you can kiss goodbye California’s plan to transition to all-electric vehicle sales by 2035.
Just Stop Oil protests have cost the Metropolitan Police more than £7.7 million in the past 13 weeks, the equivalent of the annual salary of around 200 officers.
Figures released by the force reveal the cost of policing 515 protests carried out by Just Stop Oil (JSO) since April, including slow marches in major roads in London and the disruption of high-profile sporting events.
More than 270 people have been arrested over the period with Matt Twist, the assistant commissioner, warning the disruption was “not protest, but crime”.
Two YouTube pranksters disrupted a vegan banquet hosted by Just Stop Oil and unmasked themselves as the masterminds behind a counter-protest movement against the eco-activists.
Joshua Pieters and Archie Manners have claimed responsibility for the stunt at the Heritage and Arts Centre in Bow, east London, where Just Stop Oil threw a meal for its supporters on Sunday.
BREAKING: WE'VE SPENT THE LAST FEW DAYS UNDERCOVER WITH JUST STOP OIL. TODAY THEY HELD A PARTY TO 'CELEBRATE' THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS, AND WE WERE THERE, GIVING THEM A TASTE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE. FULL VIDEO TONIGHT. pic.twitter.com/JPwASzacWv
— Josh Pieters (@joshua_pieters) July 23, 2023
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg appeared before a court in the Southern Swedish city of Malmo on Monday, July 24th, and has been found guilty of disobeying police, Reuters reports.
The 20-year-old refused to comply with police orders to leave the port of Malmo on June 19th, where she and fellow climate alarmists had stopped traffic in the oil terminal of the port. Thunberg and the other activists were detained. They “took part in a demonstration that disrupted traffic” and “refused to obey police orders to leave the site,” according to the charge sheet seen by AFP.
Klaus Schwab’s protégé Greta Thunberg demands new LAWS in the name of climate change.
“The laws have to be changed.”
“According to ME we are in an emergency.” pic.twitter.com/3LUa8rZCuc
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) July 24, 2023
‘Letzte Generation’—or ‘the Last Generation’—Germany’s leading extremist climate alarmist group, will not be classified as a criminal organisation despite having engaged in as many as 580 criminal offences since 2022.
On Wednesday, July 19th, the Berlin Senate Justice Department announced the result of its reviews into the activity of the group and stated that it did not believe it was needed to classify Last Generation as a criminal organisation, according to a report in Die Welt.
Eco-zealots were seemingly rounded on and ‘kettled’ by a group of ‘counter-protesters’ today who call themselves ‘Just Stop P***ing Everyone Off’.
The group – pranksters wearing bright orange t-shirts which bear a striking resemblance to those worn by Just Stop Oil – then formed a human chain around them in a bid to foil one of their demonstrations.
However, the counter-protesters then ‘dispersed’ after climate activists ‘explained their reasoning for demanding an end to new oil and gas’, JSO explained on their social media.
