Who's On Board For Greta Thunberg Month?
As Pride Month drags on to its conclusion, and given that we have Black History Month to look forward to later in the year, it strikes me that there is one glaring omission in these state and corporate sanctioned extravaganzas. I refer of course to the lack of a similar “Climate Awareness Month”. True we have “Earth Day” on 22nd April each year, but one measly day? Surely we can do far better than that. So I say it now, let’s have a “Climate Awareness Month”.
How best to celebrate it? Of course we’ll have the flags, adverts and all of the other tiresome propaganda that’s rammed down our throats every minute of every day that we happen to stray into a shop or office, gaze up at the local Town Hall and other government buildings or whenever we happen to switch on the television set but perhaps for Climate Awareness Month we could step up our game.
We could renounce the use of fossil fuels for the entire month. Turn off all the power stations except those powered or partly powered by “renewables”, ban the import of overseas gas and oil for the entire month and shut down all petrol stations for the entire month, indeed ban all non electric vehicles for the month. And until Ofgem makes up it’s mind over whether the wood pellets imported to service the Drax power station count as a “sustainable source” then that should be included in such a ban too. Certainly the fuel used by the ships transporting it all across the Atlantic Ocean are highly unlikely to comply with such requirements
https://www.ft.com/content/932d53fc-0a1c-4bda-a82a-a98dece2f956
Which month would be most suitable for “Climate Awareness Month”? I’m going to nominate February. After all it’s 2 to 3 days shorter than the other months. It’s also ideal as a winter month in the Northern Hemisphere to highlight all the misery coming further on down the track from persisting with net zero.
Naturally, to ensure supplies to essential services such as hospitals and government buildings (how would we function without the bureaucrats to enforce it all), there would need to be a bit of rationing. Plus there would be a need to guarantee energy availability for military uses (remember there is a war in Ukraine to keep going). Widespread electricity blackouts for the majority of every day would be the norm and gas supplies to homes would have to be turned off too.
Commercial air travel would need to be grounded and the use of railways strictly limited. Bad luck if you want to go somewhere or see somebody or get on with enjoying life in the way we were previously accustomed to doing. Shopping might become a bit challenging too as shelves empty and panic buying becomes rife in the days leading up to the great month of climate awareness celebration. Still, all those anti-social types who’ve already stolen a supermarket trolley would have a head start in making off with whatever they could still get their hands on.
Schools and colleges would probably need to close or go on a “3 Day Week” 1974 style as would much of what’s left of our industries and commerce.
A debate might even be needed on whether Wifi should be turned off too, as those towers sending out the signals need power too. Even “Just Stop Oil” devotees might balk at that one, but then if it is a price worth paying …. Electric vehicle users won’t get off so lightly either, as their continued use would be a drain on the limited electricity supplies still available, though if the month is unusually mild there might be enough to permit their limited use.
https://www.britannica.com/story/how-does-wi-fi-work
I’m not an expert at how much wind and sunshine there is every February, or what proportion of our energy supplies come from those sources each February, and of course the occasional drop of snow can occur in that month too, so it would be a rather cold, lonely, dark, boring and miserable time. In fact much of modern life as we know it would have to be put on hold.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/carney-starmer-and-sunak-talk-a-zero-amount-of-sense/
Yes, it will lead to a bit of hardship but then what’s a bit of hardship if it leads to an increase in climate awareness. We could even take the moral high ground and look down on all the countries who opt not to join us in our worship of net zero. Perhaps we wouldn’t even notice how loudly their populations would be laughing at us and our gullible stupidity.
More seriously, the misery might even be worth it if such hardships and misery wake us up from the insane, miserable restricted existence that net zero is leading us to. Of course I will be making sure I am out of the country holidaying somewhere well away from it all, somewhere warmer or at least governed more sanely than we are, whilst all this insanity and misery was going on, but so what? Would my hypocrisy be any worse than that of all those avid users of private jets such as Bill Gates, John Kerry, Al Gore and the rest of the Climate Commissars the Media love to put on a pedestal, or those corporations successfully profiteering from it all with vast government contracts at our expense?
So let’s bring it on and make February Greta Thunberg Month. If it wakes us from our slumber and finally gets us asking why our energy prices are amongst the highest in the world, and demanding to know why we shouldn’t be issuing more licences to extract gas and oil from the North Sea or to take a much more serious look at adding fracking to our energy sources, then it could even be a price worth paying. It might even lead to children asking some searching questions of those seeking to brainwash them.
I wonder too, once we’ve endured one month of this hardship and misery, whether there will be any rush to repeat it in subsequent years. At least at the moment there is a chance to halt and reverse this madness in its tracks, but we are not many years off this process becoming irreversible and then every month of every year will be Greta Thunberg Month.
“Our manly ways and stern simplicity wreak much confusion to the enemy's councils. For they are men yet garb themselves as women, wearing wigs and finery and lace.” ― Oliver Cromwell