Essay by Eric Worrall
Letzte Generation Climate hypocrites should try cutting back on their personal fossil fuel use, before they demand other people abandon fossil fuel.
Germany: Climate activists cause flight delays, cancelations
Last Generation activists hindered operations at airports in Hamburg and Düsseldorf. Some were reported to have glued themselves to areas near runways.
“Last Generation” climate activists on Thursday blockaded airports in the German cities of Hamburg and Düsseldorf, causing major disruption to flights.
Activists said they had cut through fences at both airports and that several people had glued themselves to the ground in the runway areas.
The protesters said their actions aim to highlight the rising numbers of plane passengers, which are causing increasing climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions in the aviation sector.
“Instead of presenting a concrete plan to prevent this and to reach the emissions-reduction target called for by law, the Transport Ministry is relying on ‘technological flexibility,'” the group stated.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser pledged new security measures in light of the delays, saying that “there will soon be actual standards for operators of critical infrastructure.”
“This also includes airports, and this will continue to lead to special security at airports,” she added.
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Read more: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-climate-activists-cause-flight-delays-cancelations/a-66208241
How can anyone take climate hypocrites like Last Generation, Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil seriously? Are they really so stupid they don’t realise the clothes most of them wear, the glue they use, and the banners they carry, are mostly the products of fossil fuels? Maybe they don’t think their personal hypocrisy matters?
Climate activists, if you want us to take your demands we abandon fossil fuel seriously, try cutting back on your personal use of fossil fuel.
Makes you wonder about their airport security, no. Oh well, not going to matter when they start banning flights who needs airports. Maybe they can import some of Newsom’s homeless army, should be room in the terminals by then.
And they can use the runways for parking damaged / scrap electric cars.
Just look at the number of EV bikes and cars China has been hiding around the countryside.
“How can anyone take climate hypocrites like Last Generation, Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil seriously?”
Sadly many ‘sensible people’ do
That’s like saying the suicidal members of –
Heaven’s Gate
Jonestown
Solar Temple EckankarGood News International Church,
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
weren’t deranged !!
Oh, just a minute …
The last generation sounds about right if they get their will? A Classic suicidal cult?
“How can anyone take climate hypocrites like Last Generation, Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil seriously? “
Few do, but those who do are very much in the elites. These people with time and the means are in effect [middle and upper middle class] useful idiots, doing what the government and its agencies cannot do and being kept at arms length – except for Starmer and Vince, that is.
“You’ve got to hand it to Rishi Sunak and his government. Their policies on energy have surely set a record for incoherence. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the government’s handling of the so-called Net Zero levy – a surcharge on household energy bills, which is being used to fund the UK’s transition to a decarbonised economy by 2050.
Last month, energy secretary Grant Shapps announced that a proposed £120 household levy, which would have been used to fund the UK’s hydrogen industry, was to be scrapped. He told the Telegraph that he doesn’t ‘want to see people’s household bills unnecessarily bashed by this’.
Yet just days later, the government revealed that a different green levy costing households an extra £170 a year would be imposed instead.
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We shouldn’t be surprised, of course. It’s not just the government that’s committed to Net Zero. Almost every UK MP also supports Net Zero, and so there has been very little opposition to the levy.
In fact, almost every MP has fully embraced the religion of environmentalism. And they support the basic principle of environmentalist dogma – that is, that ‘the polluter pays’. You might expect this to mean that, say, oil and gas firms would be made to carry the can for Net Zero. But in truth, UK households are also seen as ‘polluters’ by Westminster. And they have been seen as such at least since Professor Nicholas Stern’s famous 2006 report on climate change, commissioned by the then Labour government. Throughout his 700-page report, Stern bracketed households alongside firms as a major culprit for CO2 emissions.”
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/07/13/how-net-zero-will-punish-ordinary-people/
One can only hope that unlike our glorious Met police, the Germans don’t fetch them cups of tea and keep the angry public off their backs.
One thing to note here:
almost every MP has fully embraced the religion of environmentalism
No party will front a candidate who hasn’t embraced it. There will never be a party candidate who is opposed to green, net zero or any of the other degrowth ideas.
On the surface Jacob Rees-Mogg questions net zero and bemoans the antics of the protestors, though the activities of his family seem to contradict his complaints. On his GB News programme he invites viewers to email in with their comments, and on many occasions I have written in and told him that he can help put a stop to the nonsense by interviewing any one of a number of highly qualified scientists (Richard Lindzen, William Happer to name just two, but I gave at least a dozen names). Of course he hasn’t because perversely, interviews with the unhinged reinforce the government’s position that something must be done to “tackle the problem”. I doubt he will ever take my advice, he would rather get Violet Elizabeth Bott and her cronies in the studio as it helps the cause:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AbAurKzI48
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11713071/Farming-fury-landowners-linked-Jacob-Rees-Moggs-wife-want-make-way-solar-panels.html
Jacob – pater to Sextus – is most definitely in the elite. Another Parliamentary Janus.
Shouldn’t that be Hugh Janus? (or possibly Huw to make it more topical)
Either way, RHS, two-faced.
On GBNews, I have tried many times to put the other side but such messages are ignored. Lembit Öpic, an ex-MP, has the real Science and has tried to put it across when on the channel. Now we don’t see him at all.
GBNews would, I think, be shut down if they allowed this important part of the Great Reset to be damaged.
Reform UK oppose net zero – we can only hope the masses vote for them in another Brexit type smite of the elitist blob
I think we know what’s going to happen.
Reform will get zero oxygen in the airwaves, print, or online media. Only those who are already converted, so to speak, will be aware.
Omission can often be far more important than spin
Here in Derby we are an island of Reform UK councillors including the Mayor. This is down to a lot of hard work by party leader and now Mayor. It has to be said that he’s changed horses more than once, but he works very hard in the interests of his electorate, and that’s the key hardwork and patience
Political parties are the root of the problem. Actually they are the root of most problems. If you want intelligent people as leaders and law makers then vote for that. Simply, you need to circumvent the party machine and vote for independents. A whole new system. Some will say can’t work no power. I say think about how the dynamics of choosing and voting changes if you vote for independents.
“The protesters said their actions aim to highlight the rising numbers of plane passengers, which are causing increasing climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions in the aviation sector.”
The ability to push assertions as if true seems to be directly proportional to the amount of time spent in ‘education’. As the MSM will be populated with highly ‘educated’ ‘individuals’, there will be no one there to challenge the emotive nonsense from any activist, such as the BBC.
Is it possible that all those educated people are aware of the following small selection of individuals and their perspectives on truth?
“A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority”
Booker Taliaferro Washington
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State”
Joseph Goebbels
“The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling”
Thomas Sowell
“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
Thomas Sowell
“highly ‘educated’ ‘individuals”
Highly indoctrinated hacktivists.
My grammar wasn’t exact enough in this sentence:
“As the MSM will be populated with highly ‘educated’ ‘individuals’, there will be no one there to challenge the emotive nonsense from any activist, such as the BBC.”
I associated the BBC with the activist where I meant the association to be with the MSM. However, perhaps I was partly correct. A better way of putting this should have been:
“As the MSM, such as the BBC, will be populated with highly ‘educated’ ‘individuals’, there will be no one there to challenge the emotive nonsense from any activists, such as the BBC.
The BBC – through Fergal Keane – pioneered emotional reporting; putting how the journalist ‘feels’ at the centre of the story.
“BBC special correspondent Fergal Keane has covered conflict and brutality for more than 30 years. From Kigali to Baghdad to Belfast, he was always at the heart of the story and became a trusted BBC face, known for reporting with humanity and extraordinary empathy.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017795
Fergal’s style was eagerly adopted by BBC hacks Orla Guerin and Lyse Doucet. But why go for the emotions over factual reporting? Who better than the people who created the Greta Thunberg phenomenon to explain it…
“How is it possible for you to be so easily tricked by something so simple as a story, because you are tricked? Well, it all comes down to one core thing and that is emotional investment. The more emotionally invested you are in anything in your life, the less critical and the less objectively observant you become.” — David JP Phillips, We Don’t Have Time board of directors, “The Magical Science of Storytelling”
https://web.archive.org/web/20230118071557/http://www.theartofannihilation.com/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/
That’s where climate anxiety comes in…
Factual reporting. The BBC. Polar opposites these days.
Orla Guerin and Lyse Doucet, chosen for their voices as much as anything else
I think the emotional British public reaction to the death of Princess Diana in 1997 caught the BBC and many news outlets by surprise. Following on from that they changed their reporting style to deliberately foster and cash in on this emotionalism.
“for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State” ”
That’s what Joe Biden thinks, too. That’s why he and his minions are so intent on censoring any dissent from the radical leftwing narrative, and silencing any voices who reveal the truth about Joe Biden’s corruption.
If Joseph Goebbels were alive today, he would have a hard time competing with all the other liars surrounding Joe Biden.
Personally, I would just leave them there in their own excrement, forever, or until they peel themselves off as a jet approaches – I would also like to see super glue made far more adhesive so as they unpeel themselves, you get that lovely Velcro parting noise, yummy
Park a jet nearby and open up the throttle – give them a taste of a temperature record.
Might as well open the septic tank drains too.
Well they don’t have the courage of their convictions – if they did then they’d glue themselves to the planes themselves.
They tried that.
Yes, they called themselves… Plane Stupid.
And they were.
I would also like to see super glue made far more adhesive
Epoxy, as some others in Germany did a couple days ago.
Saw a blurb on a news report that some of the idiots may have to have their hands amputated because of this stunt. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone, but it shows how well these folks think things through.
Leave them there by themselves. Ban news media and all other interlopers including anyone who might bring them food or water. Don’t move to free them until they beg for mercy, and get their supporters to pay for the damage both physical and economic.
I think this is an attempt at humour but it could hardly be any more lame..
https://i.insider.com/64b029c79751e3001929fb21?width=2000&format=jpeg&auto=webp
^^this is supposed to be The Image – you need to click it it for it to show. It’s in the main link anyway
“””According to one professor, we can stop global warming if we used a new super white paint.
https://www.businessinsider.com/global-warming-purdue-white-paint-climate-change-2023-7
Floaty white plastic balls dumped into the ocean might have the same effect. Of course, that would be an awful lot of plastic…
It’s serious unfortunately – there’s been talk over many years of painting buildings, roofs and roads white to raise the albedo of the earth’s surface and reflect heat back out into space. Can you imagine what it would be like walking through a city where the buildings and streets reflected 98% of the solar energy into the air that you had to breathe?
Very pleasant, actually.. the Greeks have been whitewashing the infrastructure for centuries.
The reflected light would travel through the atmosphere, just as it did on the way from space down to the city.
I’ve said for years that if all cars were white and all roofs made of the most reflective material practical, it would just about eliminate global warming. And make most cities more livable at the same time.
Isn’t that just another sign of white supremacy?
Many northern runways are painted white to stop absorbing sunlight. Especially where permafrost underlays them.
I hope no airplanes were injured in this incident, running over something at near rotation speed could make a mess.
That picture was taken from the undercarriage camera of an Airbus A380 as it was landing.
They did need to wash the gore off the tires.
Al Gore?
How many takeoffs would it take before it removed it’s hand voluntarily
This is really going to p*ss off the private jet, Davos types when they can’t get to their regular brothel entertainment disguised as a ‘conference’.
These clowns would be removed PDQ if they tried the same stunt at Davos Airport when the Global Elite are arriving by private jet for their annual bash. Of course, they know that and would never try.
I too would happily become an activist in ‘Just Stop Wind & Solar Farms’
https://www.energylivenews.com/2023/07/14/energy-suppliers-share-views-on-proposed-wind-farm-energy-bill-discounts/
Trying to short term bribe communities to accept wind & solar farms in their areas won’t work – there are hundreds of protest groups fighting local councils & renewable farm developers and winning
They are a blight on our landscapes, they only provide intermittent power, they induce adverse health conditions from LF, infrasound and shadow flicker, they occasionally burst into flames, they sterilise agricultural land – the only financial winners are landowners, suppliers and generators
Forget JSO, support JSW&SF, you know it makes sense
Robert Bryce has covered this. Most of the time they have tried to bribe local people with property tax breaks and such but they have been really nasty at times, employing eminent domain to take over their property.
Austrian Biochemical Engineer: “No Energy Production Method Is More Damaging Than Wind Turbines” (notrickszone.com)
They are just usefull idiots for a cult that wants to change the World. Science try to understand the World. So one could say that this cult want to change something they do not understand? What is it called, those that tried to make gold out of lead? Alchemy?
Climate alchemy – love it.
Piccaso, a communist, also said “Everything you can imagine is real“. Hegel and Marx leaned to old religious ideas, ref: The cult many are in but don’t realize – YouTube
And this could also be interesting as a view on what is really happening? The Dialectical Faith of Leftism | James Lindsay – YouTube
Read them last rights and go on with airport operations
“Climate activists, if you want us to take your demands we abandon fossil fuel seriously, try cutting back on your personal use of fossil fuel and go protest in China, India, Africa and Russia.
Fixed it! 🙂
Eric, “last generation” activists are a good thing. Image how moronic the world would become if they were allowed to reproduce. Yikes!!
Regards,
Bob
Even if they fail to procreate, they will hardly be the last generation.
Imagine when they go from 30 to 40 to 50 to 60. How will they explain it?
If only. Sadly these types go on to have children anyway, then suffer endless guilt about all the climate harm they’ve brought into the world.
These eco-terrorist organisations (for that is what they’ve become) should be made liable for the costs incurred by the interruptions to normal service and any damage to property that their antics cause. Go after the funders.
They should just land and take off over top or around them. Watch them s#@& their pants.
Use the huge airport snow plow…remove all the protesters in one pass.
The blood spots would only be slippery for a little while.
Not just last generation = Completely Lost the Plot Generation more like
Headline:Eco-mobs go mad as they paint plane, storm Ibiza beach club and block motorway in Germany
Express
There ‘something’ about the colour yellow isn’t there…..
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/07/13/china-penetrated-every-sector-british-economy-mps-warn/
………..as if we didn’t know already and it’s only getting worse
>> How can anyone take climate hypocrites like Last Generation, Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil seriously?
Well they committing crimes disrupting public peace and coerce people to abandon their traffic plans, this is serious!
In a free democratic country like the US or Germany you can use as much or little fossil fuel as you want, that is not the problem (it might be their problem, but they simply do not understand democracy)
I think any discussion of this should focus on how to put an end to that behavior and of course legally judge their past behavior!
It is very similar to terrible twos:
(google)
8 Techniques for Handling Terrible Twos and Threes
Someone needs a little nap!
the entire energy industry should just go on a 1 month vacation – not produce or sell any petroleum or anything made from fossil fuels so people would see what life would be like without those products
It is not enough for THEM to stop using FF, no, first they have to make us others stop. What they should do is go live in caves wearing squirrel fur, but then who would want to emulate that? How disruptive do their protests have to get before they are punished?
In the latest heartwarming update, the morons who glued their hands to the runway may require amputation of said hands. That should qualify for an honorable mention in the Darwin Awards.
They used a mixture of epoxy resin and concrete to stick themselves to the runway. Fortunately this can be removed without the need for amputation although the media were gleeful about it for a while – “Imagine losing a hand for a cause. People would remember it for generations!” Absolutely sickening.
I think that wasn’t the runway crowd. It was a separate incident on a city street the same day, using something much stronger and more permanent that krazy glue.
Not entirely sure – they mentioned the runway stunt in the article but the only picture was of 2 protesters still with a slab of something attached to a hand. No other context on the picture so could have been either.
From the video in this tweet? https://twitter.com/TansuYegen/status/1679083757175808000
I read an article yesterday that covered both the airport (with the image in this post) and those two.
I believe it might be the very one! I’m glad there will be no lasting damage for the simple reason that these idiots, and media idiots, are eagerly salivating at the thought of having ‘martyr’s for the cause’ – all efforts must be made to ensure there are never any martyr’s for their cause.
How many tropical beach resort trips does this get you?
Do these people really think that pulling stupid stunts like this actually advance their cause?
“Look at those Nuts! These are the type that support “Going Green”?”
Climate activists, if you want us to take your demands we abandon fossil fuel seriously, try cutting back on your personal use of fossil fuel.
Yeah and get off your asses and grab one of those plentiful green jobs the climate changers are always banging on about so you can buy an EV and help out the industry-
VW CEO Calls For Immediate Freeze On Spending, Says “All Is At Stake” (msn.com)
There should be a crime called “being an idiot” The penalty for being an idiot should be a long prison stretch.”In this case the disrupters should get 5 years for shutting down the runway and 10 years for being an idiot. In addition they should have to pay full restitution for all financial losses.
Yes. Because their problem is, like Joe Biden, they were born idiots, and have been going downhill ever since, approaching vegetable status.
I wonder what would happen if they simply closed the runway and left the protestors glued to the runway? How long would they last? I don’t know, but I’m sure it would drastically cut down on copycat performances!
The problem would come when body parts got sucked into jet engines. That damages the compressors, putting the airplane out of service, and costing six figures to repair.
Someone suggested using the airport snow plows to remove the protestors. That would have to be followed by a walk-through to remove anything left behind.
Two words: corporal punishment
No one takes the climate protesters seriously. That’s the plan of extremism. What it is meant to do is to dull your response and reaction so that non extreme measures that were unthinkable previously now seem normal. It is a psychological ploy and it works. That’s why we have useful idiots assembled in groups. Think about that. Idiots don’t assemble themselves, they are idiots.
I hope that for once, they are at least charged for the damages they do.
That cut fence will have to be repaired and waiting aircraft are going to end up burning a lot of extra gas.
Why not do something useful like mine clearing on the Russian front to help Ukraine.
It’s nothing a snowplow can’t fix
Method in madness – these clowns know with the new superglue the pavement, or runway itself must be cut up to free them, Imagine what it costs to repair such runway holes!!
And to think they delayed the new Berlin BER airport for 25 years!
Will they resort to NordStreaming as their NATO bosses like to do?
Acetone dissolves most of the glue enough to free them, then the remaining residue can be rapidly burnt and scraped off – if you heat superglue or epoxy it goes all tacky and soft. Thankfully these clowns know as little about chemistry as they know about climate change, and I’m not about to give them any lessons.
Ironic isn’t it. I note that all of the items of apparel are made from fossil feedstocks, as are fossil fuels. But such polymeric materials consume less than ten percent of the feedstocks, so it is the fuel demand that keeps the cost of polymer precursors low. And also the cost of other feedstock derivatives like asphalt. Without fossil fuels, the gentleman in the photo would be unlikely able to afford the shoes, pants, jackets, bottles, and glue.