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Lots of global Amazon hysteria this week...
Why Everything They Say About The Amazon, Including That It's The 'Lungs Of The World,' Is Wrong
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“The lungs of the Earth are in flames,” said actor Leonardo DiCaprio. “The Amazon Rainforest produces more than 20% of the world’s oxygen,” tweeted soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo. “The Amazon rain forest — the lungs which produce 20% of our planet’s oxygen — is on fire,” tweeted French President Emanuel Macron.
And yet the photos weren’t actually of the fires and many weren’t even of the Amazon. The photo Ronaldo shared was taken in southern Brazil, far from the Amazon, in 2013. The photo that DiCaprio and Macron shared is over 20 years old. The photo Madonna and Smith shared is over 30. Some celebrities shared photos from Montana, India, and Sweden.
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@Salacious-Crumb That might teach some people that using celebrities as news sauces isn't wise, nor presidents that tweet.
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Not sure where this fits. Chrissie Hynes has a go at vegans, no f***ks given.
Undeterred by the feminist furore she whipped up with her rock’n’roll memoir Reckless four years ago, Chrissie Hynde has found a new target for her wrath. The blunt Pretenders frontwoman is fed up with what she describes as the “tyranny” of vegans and their “huge sense of humour bypass”.
As a vegetarian for almost 50 years, Hynde is no stranger to eco-activism and animal rights campaigning. She was once arrested for smearing fake blood on the window of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Paris.
But now she claims to have had enough of vegan radicals “sitting over their computer writing hate mail to people”. She tells The Sunday Times Magazine today: “I would fathom a guess that the vegans have now turned more people into hardcore meat-eaters than they have turned people into vegans.”
Hynde, who turned 68 yesterday, has unexpectedly found herself under fire for her support of non-slaughter micro-dairies, small farms that are devoted to self-sustaining dairy production without causing harm to animals.
Many vegans are opposed to all dairy farming, and so the farm she supports in Rutland “is trolled every single day” in what she describes as a form of tyranny.
When Hynde was last interviewed by the Magazine in 2015, she sparked a storm of feminist protest by advising women: “If you don’t want to entice a rapist, don’t wear high heels so you can’t run from him. If you’re wearing something that says, ‘Come and f*** me’, you’d better be good on your feet.”
Four years later she remains unimpressed by the feminists who labelled her a rape apologist and claims that the fuss “didn’t bother me at all”. When her management office advised her to apologise, she says, she replied: “You know what? I don’t give a shit.” She adds that a female interviewer once told her: “‘If I want to look sexy, I think I should be allowed to.’ I said, ‘Why do you want to look sexy?’ I’ve never wanted to look sexy. And I’ve never had anyone in the music industry discriminate against me or suggest anything sexual to me — ever.”
Today her anger is mostly reserved for vegans with a “sense-of-humour bypass” who offer criticisms but not solutions. “When you get into an animal rights organisation where it’s all po-faced ‘Oh humans are soooo cruel’ it’s just, ah, shut up, tell me something I didn’t know. I’d really prefer to be in a bar with a couple of chain-smoking drunks having a laugh than in a restaurant somewhere with some sanctimonious know-it-all.”
She says the rise of veganism itself is “amazing” and a step towards ending factory farming, but fears radical vegans have lost sight of the need for practical solutions to the challenges involved. “There’s a bigger problem: what are you going to do with all those animals? Where is the solution in all this?
“It can’t be from someone in a flat sitting over their computer writing hate mail to people. It’s out on the countryside, where people are actually looking after animals. I’m all about the farmers. We need them.”
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She suffered from a severe depression when she was 11, he goes on to explain, and taking action on climate change helped her recovery. The family bought an electric car, stopped flying — a rule that effectively ended Thunberg’s opera-singer mother’s international career — and became mostly vegetarian. “It is like day and night, it is an incredible transformation,” he says, talking about how happy and energetic she is now.
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@Tim said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
She suffered from a severe depression when she was 11, he goes on to explain, and taking action on climate change helped her recovery. The family bought an electric car, stopped flying — a rule that effectively ended Thunberg’s opera-singer mother’s international career — and became mostly vegetarian. “It is like day and night, it is an incredible transformation,” he says, talking about how happy and energetic she is now.
Oh great, now dedicates her life to making other kids (and their adult submissives) depressed & hysterical.
Had some lunatics at the train station today handing out pamphlets asking for people to join them in tomorrows climate strike...yep frucking up my work day will definitely bring china/vietnam/india/africa into line...idiots
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@Tim said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
She suffered from a severe depression when she was 11, he goes on to explain, and taking action on climate change helped her recovery. The family bought an electric car, stopped flying — a rule that effectively ended Thunberg’s opera-singer mother’s international career — and became mostly vegetarian. “It is like day and night, it is an incredible transformation,” he says, talking about how happy and energetic she is now.
F*ck You Greta’ Bumper Stickers Spotted In Germany,
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@jegga I sure hope all of those people marching actually care about the environment, and are not just narcissists wanting to take pictures of themselves at said march for social media...
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Hope my bumper sticker turns up this week
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Hold China and all other developing countries to the exact same environmental standards with practically enforceable penalties for non-compliance then Trump and co. will start to listen.
A lot of the reason corporations are now involved in pushing climate activism on the West (but don't demand the same of the "less enlightened" people in China, Vietnam etc) is because they want to offshore their production to these countries. Including regulations on these places will fuck up their plans royally. The current goal (using people like Greta Thunberg as useful idiots) is nothing but a scheme to transfer wealth to these other countries and advance globalism. This extreme bullshit being pushed now is pure propaganda.
I would say how dare her parents work her into such a frenzied, depressed state. She's a puppet. Faker than my personality on a job interview.
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This is one scary little girl who looks like an extra from Village of the Damned, or maybe the female Damian, and I feel bad for her. She’s been abused and exploited by adults who use her as a human shield to deflect criticism. They are a Doomsday Cult preaching articles of faith with apocalyptic fear, complete with damnation to Hell and commandments, and selling her as the new Joan Of Arc. It seems to me they are using the kid because they keep having problems marketing their beliefs to the public, kinda like Scientology minus the Tom Cruise charm-offensive, who are still (unsurprisingly) skeptical. She’s the Girl Cryin’ Wolf. But oh, don’t you dare say anything bad about her — she’s just a kid!!
Everything old is new again.
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Rhetorical question: Why does anyone give a flying leap what that self-absorbed child says. Most kids grow out of their terrible two stage.
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@antipodean said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
Rhetorical question: Why does anyone give a flying leap what that self-absorbed child says. Most kids grow out of their terrible two stage.
It’s an excellent question. Politicians and activist-media are telling us what a smart and brave girl this is, and that we have to wake up and listen.
I’d challenge those same politicians and activist media to take their medical and legal advice from a kid. Maybe they’d discover they’re just as skeptical as I am.
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@antipodean said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
Rhetorical question: Why does anyone give a flying leap what that self-absorbed child says. Most kids grow out of their terrible two stage.
It's pretty insane. I have some, what I thought until now, were pretty reasonably minded friends posting all sorts of pro-greta guff.
She's an autistic little girl. Not a climate scientist. What does it say about someones cult when this is their messiah? Just hoping more conservative politicians are starting to realise that this lunatic twitter fringe are not the majority and if they stand up to this they will be elected.
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@antipodean said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
Rhetorical question: Why does anyone give a flying leap what that self-absorbed child says. Most kids grow out of their terrible two stage.
Honestly I’m shocked it took them this long to find something like her to make the face of their movement.
You can’t criticise her because you’re mocking a child with Aspergers and ADD .
You must listen to her apparently because.......?
Anyway, as with every other flavour of the month people eventually get bored and move on . I’m thinking that when that happens the meltdown that’s on the way from a hormonal obsessed teenager who’s whole identity is tied to the attention she gets for telling off everyone for destroying the planet is a suitable punishment for her parents.
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