I work for a niche energy company which does a lot of its business with local authorities and housing associations. Anyone who has been in the position of attempting to get work off those sort of organisations will know what I’m talking about.
For those who don’t, it turns out that as well as slotting into public procurement exercises the usual social value gimmicks, LGBT quotas and DEI nonsense, many of these organisations are obviously now also asking for proof of commitment to green policies so they can claim credit for it as they strive for Net Zero. To even bid for the work, you need to have some badge or other showing your genuflection to the Green God.
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CO2 is the one gas that can be directly tied to Industrial Capitalism. Every human activity involves the release of some CO2, whether it is turning on your lights, driving your car, eating a fillet steak etc etc, so what better way to control all human activity than by controlling CO2?————- And that is what climate policies are. A means to control everything people do. CO2 is the Socialist Bureaucrats dream gas, as it allows them to put policies in place they have long dreamed of, and with “climate change” they now have the seemingly plausible excuse for doing that.
And breathing, of course – that is what they all want to control most.
There is far too much breathing going on on this planet.
… ah yes, breathing – expelling approximately 44,000 ppm CO2 I believe.
What to do about this highly inconvenient activity?
And more importantly, talking.
As for singing especially in church (vis a vis during the scamdemic) definitely a big no no.
It’s only also tied to industrial capitalism: Oxidation of carbon into carbon dioxide is a powerdul, exothermic reaction which is not only the motor for all animal life on this planet but it’s also the base of literally all of human civilization which started a real long time in the past when man started to make use of fire instead of just fleeing when it occurred naturally as part of some catastrophe. Without fire, we would be restricted to a very poor and unhealthy diet and couldn’t really live anywhere except fairly close to the equator.
Yes but all of that is of no concern to governments. I think all of us on this website know what the qualities of CO2 are etc. But to government it is only of interest to them as regards how they control all human activity, and linking emissions of CO2 to all human activities enables them to do that.
I was just pointing out that this is much more fundamental than “industrial capitalism.” Everthing which breathes on this planet relies on
C + 2O -> CO₂
and all our civilization since way before the neolithic revolution is built on it.
They will just say, we have many steaks available, they’re all from a Lab. What is not to like about putting small farmers out of business and have people dependent on a few large corporations!
Yep——-All our activities are to be controlled and we are supposed to make do with less of everything. —Less energy, less travel. less food (or only approved foods) and everything else you can think of. The excuse for all of this eco socialism is “climate change”. But still I think most of the population think using that excuse to control all human activity is acceptable, because they have been indoctrinated into believing there is a climate crisis. But they never seem to ask themselves why 3 billion Indian and Chinese people are continuing to have reliable affordable energy provided to them that is bringing them prosperity while we in the wealthy west are getting rid of those fuels. The climate emergency is apparently not a crisis for those countries. They don’t seem to realise that all of our sacrifice, suffering and lowering of living standards will have no effect on global climate so long as half the world continues to use those fossil fuels.
Not in the least hilarious. Crushingly depressing. How many fingers am I holding up?
If only we could crowd find a Zero experiment on a remote island where volunteers go to live for 6months without anything.
It would need to be filmed by remote drones and we would witness how many were left to collect at the end of 6mths.
It could never happen as none of these green fools would be that stupid to sign up ….. or would they?
CO2 is at 420ppm currently. You’d think the numpties running the course would at least know that. Climate drives CO2 levels not the other way round. Historically CO2 levels have been at 8,000ppm. Plants thrive with higher CO2 levels as it’s the basis of their nutrition. At 150ppm plant life (and thus all other life) is extinguished. So, ‘save a tree, light a fire.’
It’s not absurd, it’s evil. Making people performatively recite things neither they nor you believe in, else you are a witch/heretic.
A bit like Pravda, everyone knows it’s BS but dare not say anything, a bit like a man having a cervix.
It sounds like an infantilising experience. A bit like doing detention and having to write an essay on how you’re going to change your behaviour.
Actually it’s a bit like mad evangelical missionaries trying to make a proper climate disciple out of you!
“After also promising to leave the kids at home when we go abroad”
They signed you off when you mentioned going abroad, bloody hell they’re slipping.
” Miliband is coming for you”…Everyone will be coming for him soon!
Perhaps those nice people in Israel could send him a pager?
I could imagine enjoying 6 hours of that, particularly if they are so moronic they can’t see when they are played.
Equally possible in that time the police could be called and I’d be getting a free ride to a station.
I asked ChatGPT to give a list of products we use every day that, as part of their manufacture, involve a significant use of petroleum products.
I got an answer that was way to long to post here, but among the most important:
The list was of course much longer, but if even that is not a powerful index of human incompatibility with the Green Agenda and Net Zero, than I don’t know what is.
I am so glad I’m retired, I’d never get through one of these.
If anyone here has ever been on one of those speed awareness courses… this sounds like its evil twin. You are “given the opportunity” or “invited” to attend such a course, treated like an idiot who doesn’t know that speed limits exist, and have to make a “commitment to change” at the end. At least it only lasts 3 hours, but you do have to pay actual money to attend.
Well you know what they say about treating people like children…..
Great article, LOL’ed at some of the arch ‘personal commitments’.
In order to fully conform to the ultimate implications of Net Zero and environmentalism in general you should have added in ‘I pledge to locate a forest plantation, dig a me sized hole next to a sappling then lie down awaiting the honour of becoming compost for a lovely new C02 absorbing tree’
That would have got you not just the green cult inductee certificate but 30 second Zoom call and benedictory virtual elbow bump from Greta herself!
This has been the best article on The Daily Sceptic for weeks!
“Carbon literacy”?
What they really mean is carbon dioxide literacy but they are too illiterate and uneducated to understand this massive difference.
Great insight into the mad climate classes, some helpful humour to make the reality more bearable.