Climate change and all the attendant hysteria might be wearing some of us down but luckily there are some moments of light relief. A Somerset family of eco-heroes who selflessly gave up flying in 2002 have made it by land and sea and, it transpires, by air to attend a family wedding, according to the BBC:
The family decided to stop flying in 2002 “because of its effect on the climate”.
Mr. Simon, from East Pennard, said: “We stopped flying a long time ago because of our own carbon footprint, which we looked at and we thought we can’t justify it anymore.”
But when Ms. Coggins’ sister, who lives in Sydney, revealed she was getting married, the family started planning how they would get there without using a plane.
They travelled through Kazakhstan, China, Laos, Thailand and Indonesia using multiple modes of transport, before taking a flight from Dili in East Timor’s capital to cross the Timor Sea to Darwin, Australia.
Apparently:
The family thinks they have used five times less carbon travelling than if they had flown all the way.
Note ‘thinks’. No actual figures are provided to prove this claim. The journey took four months and involved the couple giving up their jobs. Oh! That’s how it’s done! Just give up work. This must be the most extreme example of climate activism being a middle-class leisure pursuit.
The trip required “a monumental amount of planning”. Sadly, the planning didn’t extend to working out how to get from SE Asia to Australia:
Their travel options ran out and they were forced to take a short flight.
Writing on the family’s blog, Rosa [the couple’s daughter] said: “It really was tough, having to get on a plane after all we had achieved without one.”
Probably a lot less tough than trying to swim across the Timor Sea.
Ms. Coggins made the invaluable observation that “unfortunately the world isn’t currently set up to make low-carbon travel easier than flying”.
No method of travelling long distance is easier than flying and nor will it ever be, except possibly short hop space travel, because it’s a great deal faster and safer. It’s never going to be easier to go by land and sea to Australia because most of us have to earn a living and don’t have time, however wonderful a trip of a lifetime might be. That’s why the Cutty Sark is now a museum ship. In 1883 it broke the record at 73 days from Sydney to London. Impressive but not quite as impressive as less than 24 hours in a 787.
But the great thing about this story is that perhaps Net Zero won’t be so bad after all. If your travel options run out it seems you can just hop on a plane and still be an eco hero. I’m off to Australia myself in a couple of weeks. My travel options have run out too, so I’ll be on the non-stop flight to Perth with all the other passengers whose travel options have run out.
Stop Press: Some people in the comments have been asking how the family got back from Australia. According to the BBC: “The family will continue soaking up the sun for the next few months before going back home the same way they came.”. So, a whole year off then.
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Another cock-up.
Well it is more of the same but it’s also the excellent Denis Rancourt’s latest mammoth piece of research, so well worth a look. In fact, reading through this substack just makes you think anybody would have to be absolutely insane to willingly proceed with any more of these death jabs, they really would. It’s the ‘captive audiences’ in nursing homes and similar institutions I feel bad for, everybody else can vote with their feet.
“The COVID-19 vaccines did not save lives and appear to be lethal toxic agents.”
This is the strident position of a new paper by Denis Rancourt et al., analysing all-cause mortality (ACM) in 17 countries in the Southern Hemisphere and equatorial region.
The authors find a “definite causal link” between peaks in all-cause mortality and rapid vaccine rollouts across four continents and a broad range of vaccine products, inlcuding the mRNAs, Covaxin, Sinovac and Johnson & Johnson.
The paper, which is 180 pages long and is yet to be peer-reviewed,* attempts to quantify the fatal toxicity risk per injection, which appears to be “exceedingly large in the most elderly.”
”In 9 of the 17 countries, there is no detectable excess mortality until the vaccines are rolled out… In the other 8 of the 17 countries, a new regime of higher mortality is initiated after 11 March 2020 and prior to any COVID-19 vaccine administration… In all 17 countries, vaccination is associated with a regime of high mortality, and there is no association in time between COVID-19 vaccination and proportionate reduction in ACM.”
https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/definite-causal-link-between-all
Did Pfizer or Moderna ever give an official response about the DNA plasmid contamination Kevin McKernon and other scientists found in their products? I don’t remember hearing of any. Here’s a scientist who replicated McKernon’s research and the blue-pilled force is strong with him. What to do when you’re reporting on something so significant but you’re also a fan ( and multi-jabbed recipient ) of the mRNA tech? Well, you let Big Pharma off the hook and call it ‘incompetence’ due to the ’emergency’ rather than intentionally malicious. Clearly there are people still unwilling to accept the reality that ‘they’ want us dead/injured/infertile. I know, it’s a head f*ck….
”Phillip Buckhaults, a cancer genomics expert, and professor at the University of South Carolina has testified before a South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Ad-Hoc Committee saying that Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine is contaminated with billions of tiny DNA fragments.
Buckhaults, who has a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology, said “there is a very real hazard” that these fragments of foreign DNA can insert themselves into a person’s own genome and become a “permanent fixture of the cell.”
He said it’s a plausible mechanism for what might be “causing some of the rare but serious side effects like death from cardiac arrest” in people following mRNA vaccination.
Buckhaults is not an alarmist and has been reluctant to go public with his findings for fear of frightening people.
He himself was vaccinated three times with Pfizer’s covid vaccine and recommended it to family and friends. He described the mRNA platform technology as “revolutionary” and said the vaccine has saved many lives.”
https://maryannedemasi.substack.com/p/researchers-alarmed-to-find-dna-contamination
Two people feel ever so slightly unwell after days of travel, business meetings and I’m assuming dinners and alcohol infused social functions. Global lockdown was a totally proportional response.
Iti s real it got me in the mouth and made teeth fall out. But with combatatice therpaies it was brought under control. It is a real attack. The soft palatte of your mouth is very similar to the cells in the lining of your heart and in your throat. Don’t feel that is has gone away for good. I have learned more about it and I can deal with it now. Never cower in fear of these prats.
In terms of excess deaths you will see a dramatic rise in late October, moastly due to the injections but not entirely. Going into winter the numbers will be off the charts. And still everyone will ask why. If you don’t know why then that means that you are cut off from the realm of spirit and you need to make its acquaintance urgently. There is no other way for me to put it. I care deeply about my fellow Brits I wish there was a quick and easy way of lifting this spell.Just take the first step on the path of awareness.
Okay, we all know this is wrong. How do we stop it?
What direct action can be taken lawfully against the corporations and government organisations who implement and promote these harmful activities?
Whilst it is great that the Daily Sceptic is able to publish information like this just writing and talking about it does not change it. One of the problems of writing and talking about it is this gives the impression someone might be doing something about it. It lulls everyone into a false sense of security.
The people who fund and support misinformation and disinformation, whilst claiming it is not, have the money and resources.
Who has the money and resources to stop it?
By what mechanisms can we stop it?
Elected representatives are completely useless as we have seen from MPs and government ministers. They will keep their mouth shut and do nothing, supporting by inaction, all of this dangerous nonsense.