Jeremy Clarkson – a man child who punched a staff member because his food wasn’t hot enough is lecturing a 16 year old on being spoilt.
Peak Climate denial has been reached.
It’s funny how men who criticise Jacinda or Greta do it with such a visceral rage.
Greta spoke real truth to power and she should be celebrated for that.
Jacinda showed genuine leadership at a time of great trauma and has strode the UN with a confidence that has ignited real hope and that should be saluted (although we can all feel frustrated by the lack of transformative change).
The river of hyper-critical ridiculous illogical bullshit rained down on both these inspirational women by mostly white older men has read less like critical analysis and more like a projection of frail male ego
It’s like every time Greta or Jacinda shine on the international stage these mens dicks fall off.
Thoughts & Prayers to the many easily triggered men last week, realising that Women are going to save the planet and demand we all help with the emotional management of that is going to be a hard road for some.
If Jacinda or Greta get nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, there are going to be a lot of easily triggered older white male Broadcasters in NZ in need of a hug.
Clarkson is a has-been television presenter on a boring show who got dumped by the BBC and not before time. Then, this arrogant self-centred bully-boy rains down on Greta because he cannot handle her honesty and intelligence. What does that say about his attitude and the attitudes of men like him towards their own children?
What Clarkson and his ilk – Hosking etc and their pathetic male followers – don’t realise is that Greta and her inspired young supporters will be tomorrow’s leaders.
I actually think that Huskins and Clarkson are fully aware these are tomorrows leaders.
And that’s what scares the fuck out of them.
Tiocfaidh ár lá.
great rallying cry. er….has it been used before somewhere?
youngsuffrajet:
Clarkson’s show, The Grand Tour reportedly made 150 million US dollars last year.
So not quite a has-been 😉
Not sure if Clarkson is a has-been but his daughter arguing with him about this on twitter is definitely not helping his cause 🙂
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2019/09/jeremy-clarkson-called-out-by-his-own-daughter-over-greta-thunberg-rant.html
I was at a gathering of 20 some things on Saturday evening and it was the 2 oldest males there reminding the rest that Greta was allowed to say what she did. Sure they didn’t have to like it or agree with it but simply trashing her for being keen enough to stand up was just bullshit. The, at times, strong vitriol towards Greta was coming from all sexes equally. There was a very strong theme she was heavily coached and being used as a tool.
I also saw the same thing happen on Sunday with an entirely different group of people. The older male was the one saying ‘pull ya heads in’ to what appeared to be late 20 early 30 some things, again of both sexes.
I don’t do skin colour, I leave that to the sad arsed racist retards…..of which TDB has way too many of.
Instant cringe whenever one of these Clarkson/Hosking/Dunky type boofheads hits ‘post’ to their ruling class supplied media columns.
The best response is unite all who can be united to take direct action on climate change.
Full on agreement there.
Whatever your idiosyncrasies or shade of political hue, if you believe in science then get behind the cause.
Ah yes I can just remember when I had the answers to all the world’s problems and injustices. Yes they two were all of my parents and earlier generations making as well. I will cut my Grandfathers some slack as they gave up close to ten years of their lives fighting the Germans in wars 1&2 to put right a few wrongs of their time. Course they were also farmers so I guess they are now the new Nazi’s.
I will apologize now as I am late middle aged and of European descent and a man to boot so I am the worst of the worst. I have a wife and children, have always had a job and shock horror, like my parents also have an opinion. I stopped having all the answers to the big issues when I had to fend for myself and start paying the Bill’s. Maybe that’s because as I qualify for no social welfare I just haven’t had the spare time to muse it over or maybe it’s because I realised I didn’t infact have the answers in the first place. It’s all well and good saying stop it, how dare you and lets do this, but as Cindy is now finding out talking a big game isn’t the same as getting your boots on and getting dirty!!
Things aren’t perfect by a long shot, agreed. Let’s start hearing some actual solutions to the problems and people, cutting New Zealands .2% of global CO2 emissions by half isn’t going to do it. That will however destroy agriculture ( no meat, no dairy no money) and tourism ( no fuel ,no planes no tourists). I guess then we file for bankrupsy and the UN swoops in and helps us out?
I look forward to the tirade of solutions that will now follow.
Fun fact. As a plumber and a farmer I am long used to dealing with shit from other useless non productive members of society so bring it on.
Ah yes I can just remember when I had the answers to all the world’s problems and injustices. Yes they two were all of my parents and earlier generations making as well. I will cut my Grandfathers some slack as they gave up close to ten years of their lives fighting the Germans in wars 1&2 to put right a few wrongs of their time. Course they were also farmers so I guess they are now the new Nazi’s.
I will apologize now as I am late middle aged and of European descent and a man to boot so I am the worst of the worst. I have a wife and children, have always had a job and shock horror, like my parents also have an opinion. I stopped having all the answers to the big issues when I had to fend for myself and start paying the Bill’s. Maybe that’s because as I qualify for no social welfare I just haven’t had the spare time to muse it over or maybe it’s because I realised I didn’t infact have the answers in the first place. It’s all well and good saying stop it, how dare you and lets do this, but as Cindy is now finding out talking a big game isn’t the same as getting your boots on and getting dirty!!
Things aren’t perfect by a long shot, agreed. Let’s start hearing some actual solutions to the problems and people, cutting New Zealands .2% of global CO2 emissions by half isn’t going to do it. That will however destroy agriculture ( no meat, no dairy no money) and tourism ( no fuel ,no planes no tourists). I guess then we file for bankrupsy and the UN swoops in and helps us out?
I look forward to the tirade of solutions that will now follow.
Fun fact. As a plumber and a farmer I am long used to dealing with shit from other useless non productive members of society so bring it on.
“That will however destroy agriculture ”
1. Changing our agricultural practices does not equate to ‘destroying agriculture’. The right kinds of change can be regenerative.
2. Failure to adapt or to change present practices can result in the sale of our own dairy Co-operatives to China.
“Lets do this” Jacinda;
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1910/S00009/climate-change-is-here-act-now.htm
Wake up from your ‘slumber in your suburban neurosis’ and save our planet please!!!!!!!! .
Climate change is here – act now
Tuesday, 1 October 2019, 12:17 pm
Press Release: Citizens Environmental Advocacy Centre
Jacinda CEAC say’s – Climate change is here – act now”.
Oct 1st 2019.
Press Release: Citizens Environmental Advocacy Centre
We all know that ‘Climate change’ is happening.
CEAC reminds us that while the thrust of the MP James Shaw’s “Climate Change Panel” has left transport out of the emissions picture while the panel has largely prioritised its focus on agriculture.
Transport is the real ‘elephant in the room’, and is not being focused on.
While many scientific facts are emerging around our future regarding ‘micro-plastics’ are now entering our environment, being found in both artic regions of snow and ice causing alarming increases in the ice/snow melt that are responsible for increasing ‘Climate Change’
https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/115098866/exceptionally-rare-warming-above-antarctica-may-be-affecting-nzs-weather
The climate change panel and Ministry of the Environment must now concentrate more on;
• Micro-plastics emissions from transport tyres.
• Along with using less energy to lower the air pollution/emissions.
• Fully recognise that increasing transport will increase tyre dust emissions that are the micro-plastics responsible for global warming.
• Use public transport and rail freight rather than the past practice Governments used to commit 90% of all NZ’s freight task to road freight.
Government (EY) 2016 transport study shows we need far more rail use.
https://www.kiwirail.co.nz/assets/Uploads/documents/70bd71037f/The-Value-of-the-Rail-in-New-Zealand.pdf
Last week CEAC attended along with over 350 attendees a public meeting of the ‘Ministry of Environment clean water forum’ and witnessed many angry farmers complain about being unfairly targeted as causing ‘climate change’.
We received a large applause from our speech on transport tyre emissions causing substantial “climate change effects”.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1908/S00391/ceac-supports-tribunal-criticism-of-crown-freshwater-failure.htm
On August 29th 2019 CEAC wrote an article showing how our rural area was exposed from overuse of truck freight that will cause road runoff pollutants into our waterways now since (quote) ‘our environment is now increasing with more trucks carrying all stock, aggregate, fertilser, supplies for farming, eg; fencing, draining pipes, earthmoving equipment, aggregate, stock feed, and many other supplies, so history now tells us that these trucks are also causing more carbon/emissions and pollutants from ‘road runoff of effluent, and vehicle contaminants’ EG; tyre dust, brake/clutch oil/exhaust pollutants as discussed in our press release.’ (unquote)
• How can we reduce (micro-plastics) along with other pollutant impacts to our steams/rivers/lakes/aquifers/drinking water/coastal regions?
IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER;
We must also stop the discharge of those tyre dust micro-plastics ‘road runoff’ into our coastal estuaries as this allows the microplastics to be carried by tidal/current flows to our polar ice shelves and snowfields which will increase snow and ice melting as a team of German scientists two weeks ago discovered tyre particulates have been discovered ice the polar snow and icecaps. https://phys.org/news/2017-02-tiny-plastic-particles-tyres-clogging.html
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/app.45701
(QUOTE) “According to the Rubber Manufacturers Association, each tire produced takes 7 gallons of oil”
https://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/277na4_en.pdf
According to the European Commission Environmental Integration Research the road dust (tyre dust) evidence is confirmed under the heading “Road dust; an overlooked pollutant.”
Many scientific studies have linked particulate air pollution to daily death rates in cities.
These two documents provide the evidence to show about “road dust from tyres is an overlooked pollutant of our waterways.
Tyre dust is micro-plastics.
Clearly climate change is here. – Government must act now.
What have this coalition government materially done about climate change? Have they triggered a climate emergency (and actually done more than that)? Have they steered clear of neo liberal trade deals like oh I don’t know the CP-TPP and RCEP? that might let big polluters pollute more?
Until they do fine words are nice but they wont put out a fire……
Well they have done a lot more than the National mob did. Introducing legislation to achieve GHC reductions, cutting back oil exploration and doing what no National government has managed to achieve – agreeing with farmers on a start to reduction targets in the agricultural sector. All in all, a reasonable start I’d say.
“Peak Climate denial has been reached.”
If only.
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