Posted on 07/20/2021 9:51:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai
I care about the future; therefore, I care about the climate. I belong to the vast majority of global citizens who, as poll after poll show, are concerned about the direction the planet is heading and understand the urgency and existential nature of the impending climate emergency. The recent catastropic flooding in central Europe and extreme high temperatures in North America are just a few symptoms of this.
So in my family, we do something about it. We scrimp and save on our carbon budget: we walk or ride bikes instead of driving our car; we eat dramatically less meat than the average family in industrialized countries; we skip that trans-Atlantic trip even if we really want it; we make sure we’re not wasting food and we also compost our scraps.
And then some filthy rich ***hole blasts into space, just for fun.
That’s incredibly selfish, isn’t it?
And it really devaluates our efforts to protect the climate — both morally and materially. […]
Let’s take Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space flight on July 11. For a suborbital journey of about 100 miles (160 kilometers), the company said the carbon dioxide emissions released were roughly equal to a round-trip trans-Atlantic passenger jet flight. Based on publicly available information, a trip from London to New York City releases about 1.24 metric tons of CO2. To put it another way, that 1½-hour jaunt into space was equivalent to about 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) of driving an average passenger car. …
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Ahh, beat me to it.
Then there’s also this classic:
The Old Negro Space Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8
Opinion: This person obviously has been living under a rock as they have not noticed all of the changes that have been made over the years in effort to protect the environment.
Woman needs to lighten up and get a life.
Appreciate it.
That much more for we non-believers in climate catastrophe.
That lady’s eating more than just bugs!
She has a thumb for a head.
Another thing this crazy woman doesn’t pat attention to is how much that “filthy rich a**hole” donated to environmental causes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/11/16/bezos-climate-grants/
Sheep are more intelligent.
“if those science people can come up with how to stop volcano’s from going blooie”
Hmm, maybe we just have to start throwing virgins into them again...
The joke’s on them. Anywhere we flee to, we’ll be bringing the malignant virus of humanity with us.
“the elites will still have their SUVs, live in lavish homes and dine on the best food…”
Until they wake up and realize they’ve turned the entire world into South Africa and there is no place to escape the mob...
Bezos has not made orbit yet, but is given a contract for a nuclear propulsion system. How does this make any sense except to funnel pork to his partners Boeing and so forth?
I don’t care if some rich a-hat blasts himself into space but I do care if some rich a-hat orders me to do whatever.
My answer is to mount a huge rocket on the Earth and use it to push us further away from the sun. Global Warming solved!
/s
Gretta T-berg in a couple of decades!
Won't find any in liberalmania.
Not a single warmist prediction for the 2000’s has come true.
Oh, you know the drill: any weather disaster is “proof”, from Hurricane Katrina to the floods in Belgium and Germany . . . shows how disgusting they are, like when the left also uses shooting victims to push gun control.
And then some filthy rich ***hole blasts into space, just for fun.
That’s incredibly selfish, isn’t it?
No. It isn’t. What it is: “none of your damn business”.
What she really means is give the money to me.
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