Posted on 10/31/2019 5:22:21 PM PDT by EdnaMode
A group of climate activists crossing the Atlantic by sailboat to a UN summit in Chile were shocked to learn the event was canceled -- four weeks into their grueling voyage.
The 36 young environmentalists set off from Amsterdam on October 2, using a sailboat in order to highlight the impact of flying on greenhouse gas emissions.
They had completed more than half of their seven-week journey to the UN Climate Conference (COP25) in Santiago, Chile, which was scheduled to take place in early December.
However Chile's President Sebastián Piñera announced Wednesday that the country would no longer host the summit, amid protests that have left at least 20 people dead and led to the resignation of eight cabinet ministers.
Instead of turning back, the Sail to the COP group, as the activists are known, have now decided to sail on to Belém, Brazil.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
So they think everyone should start sailing instead of flying?
Couldn't happen to a better group of people.
What Whackadoodles.
Sail around the Atlantic until the next Summit ,LOL
All that work and navigation, all for nothing!
Ha Ha! Aren’t such private vessels supposed to have radio communication so they could identify themselves?
Maybe that’s only in the United States.
Nobody even thought to keep up with the news of the day. SAD!
Dont these people have jobs?
They are full-time activists.
(Many years ago, I submitted a similar post of hyperbolic wistfulness regarding ecofascists on a boat and a newly triggered lurking leftist immediately joined Free Republic just so he could convey his spittle-flecked outrage at my post. He soon got the zot, of course, but he was fun to toy with while he lasted. Maybe he’s lurking still... And maybe he’ll join again!)
Yeah, but what a PARTAY !
“Ha Ha! Aren’t such private vessels supposed to have radio communication so they could identify themselves?”
Private vessels are not required to have radio communication.
And we know you didnt read the article!
“Nobody even thought to keep up with the news of the day. SAD!”
What is sad is you didnt read the articl and have no idea how long it takes to sail across an ocean.
How utterly stupid are these people?
I’m guessing those riots and dead protestors were unrelated to anything regarding climate change.
Just imagine all of the people and leaders in the world that would love to have “climate change” as their worst problem to deal with.
Okay - looked it up. The headlines all say riots are due to an increase in subway fare. I’m guessing that was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Well, since they sailed from Amsterdam...
Wagner: The Flying Dutchman overture
Did they have the rude spoiled brat with them?
Virtue signaling can have its downside.
Cue the “How dare you?”
They work full time for George Soros.
They wasted a few weeks of their lives.
But, worse than that is that...
They’re wasting their whole lives for a fraud. Once they have lived out their entire lives, they’ll wonder how they could have been so stupid for so long.
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