Posted on 04/30/2017 7:53:59 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Organizers are expecting 100,000 to turn out Saturday for the Peoples Climate March in Washington. A better name for it, though, would be the Mass Virtue-Signaling Exhibition. Or how about the Grown Children Acting Up for Attention Demonstration?
Has there ever been another event in which so many were so desperate to demonstrate their moral superiority? To show that they care? To commit a futile and stupid gesture that's meaningful only in their minds?
Of course every one of the marchers will arrive at their destination via some form of non-carbon spewing transportation, right? They'll all ride bikes, walk, drive rubber-band powered cars, and run like Forrest Gump, won't they?
Or maybe not. One report says "300 buses are already booked, coming from across the country" to Washington. And if Al Gore appears, it's a better-than-even bet that he'll fly in on a private jet, spewing carbon dioxide all the way there and back. Just as the Union of Concerned Scientists says, "Together, we can tackle global warming."
But the climate march is about more than climate. It's a means to call for line items of the usual left-wing wish list, including "good paying jobs that provide a family-sustaining wage and benefits and preserve workers' rights, including the right to unionize." Marchers will apparently also demand the funding of "investments in our communities, people, and environment to transition to a new clean and renewable energy economy that works for all, not an economy that feeds the machinery of war."
And maybe a portrait of Lenin in every home, too.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
The head of the UN IPCC had a Ah-Ha moment when she said that global warming was the reatest tool to destroy the economic system that has become dominant in the last 150 years. (Hint, that would be the free enterprise system).
It’s a lost and spoiled generation, not all of course.
But the several times we did have snow this year, not ONE of the many boys ranging from 13 to 16 knocked on the door to ask if they could shovel and make a buck.
But the first warm day recently, there were a dozen outside playing basketball.
When you have no cause and life’s too easy, you find a silly cause that is currently “cool’ and you blindly join it.
The Left just loves big marches. In the 1930’s the Communists and Socialists had huge marches. Yet the majority of the American people were at best indifferent and the never achieved legislative majorities.
The stupid “climate march” is over! Why are we getting this rehash?
PHOOEY to the “climate” marchers!!!!
Soooo, they found 100000 flunkies to bus in who will all be making 50$/hr paid by the wretched global cabal and this is news?
Will Al Bore, the science moron, be leading the group?
Only the leftist mass media enables them to pick up new converts from the massive pool of insanely-low-info people PT Barnum talked about.
For later
Yeah, remember; it is not the ECO Summit. It is the socialist Eco summit. The Climate Clowns are communists who want a world wide totalitarian government. Human made CO2 is just an excuse to inslave all of us.
Plant more trees , consume less C02 says my company... except
CO2 is plant food!
These plans of capturing CO2 is going to cause famines... then again, no one will stop Mexico or China from producing CO2
The EPA is the prime culprit for getting our factories
shipped to China. Add the carbon tax scheme and America will be 100% dependent basket
case
Nice jpeg. Concise.
Picked up my son from Pitt on Saturday. (moving back home for the summer, Pitt ends their year very early)
The drive was smooth sailing from Philly to Pittsburgh, then I was stopped dead half a block from the pickup parking lot.
There was a “climate protest” on campus. The group was carrying signs and repeatedly circling the central block of campus, purposefully on move-out day, to add as much disruption as possible to an already difficult logistical situation. I sat motionless at an intersection for about 20 cycles of the light as they blocked intersections ahead.
Everyone was angry. They did not win any support or good will for their cause.
The most ironic aspect was that NONE of the marchers were students. They were all old hippies, 50-70 years old. Long hair, unkempt appearance, and just plain ugly people.
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