Posted on 02/17/2024 3:00:27 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder
Feb 12
One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks. “What’s this?” she asked.
“Pulverized willow bark,” replied her fairy godmother.
“What happened to the carpet?” she asked.
“The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene
and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum,” came the response.
Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles.
“Your old toothbrush?” noted her godmother, “Also nylon.”
“Where’s the water?” asked Greta.
“Down the road in the canal,” replied her godmother, ‘Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it”
“Why’s there no running water?” Greta asked, becoming a little peevish.
“Well,” said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, “Where do we begin?” There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it’s impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tires and how ore has to be smelted to a make metal, and that’s tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat, and even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden’s energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tires and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . .
“What’s for breakfast?” interjected Greta, whose head was hurting.
"Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs,” replied her godmother. “Raw.”
“How so, raw?” inquired Greta.
“Well, . . .” And once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and in the end was educated about how you can’t have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore.
“But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes,” lamented Greta.
“Tilda died this morning,” the godmother explained. “Bacterial pneumonia.”
“What?!” interjected Greta. “No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin.”
“Not anymore,” explained godmother “The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum-based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there’s not any easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can’t really burn many bodies using as fuel Swedish fences and furniture, which are rapidly disappearing - being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm.”
This represents only a fraction of Greta’s day, a day without microphones to exclaim into and a day without much food, and a day without carbon-fibre boats to sail in, but a day that will save the planet.
Tune in tomorrow when Greta needs a root canal and learns how Novocain is synthesized.
Good post! Forwarding...
Parody is revealing. But link does not take to actual post. One source: https://www.homesteadingtoday.com/threads/no-hansel-just-a-greta-fairytale.611766/
Fortunately for Greta, Lobotomy, an older medical treatment for Retards, can still be performed using a sharp bamboo stick through an eye socket.
More examples here:What could happen if we just stopped oil? Six billion might die
Cute, but also reality based. 🙂 👍
Six billion might die?
Hmmm, doesn’t that sound just like what the elites want?
Remember they plan on living forever and need the planet free of all the little people.
Another Quora response:
anyone who flatout wants to ban all “fossil fuels” has no concept of what that would entail, or how that would affect the populace as a whole. They have not sat down and spent some time on what that means or even how much of their lives are affected by “fossil fuels”. For starters the year after the ban it would mean that as many as 1,000,000,000 world wide would die. Most of these would be children, and elderly people. As well as those that are chronically ill or have diseases like diabetes or HIV.
The following two to three years around 4,000,000,000 people would die from starvation/lack of clean water/lack of resources/lack of medical care. The changes to our lives would be incalculable and would be worse than a nuclear strike. The destruction that this would cause in our lives is incalculable.
To break this down, take a city like Chicago Illinois. With a population of 2.76 million people. So Chicago use around 127,000,000,000 megawatt hours of electricity per year. Of which 92% of that is from “fossil fuels” so Chicago’s 119,380,000,000 megawatt hours of electricity now has to come from some other source. You can not install enough solar or wind fast enough to make up this difference if you were to cut all use of “fossil fuels” by the end of 2020.
The average American consumes around 1996 lbs of food a year. So you will need to bring into the city of Chicago 2,754,480 tons of food stuff a year or 5,508,960,000 lbs of food stuffs a year. Normally this is transported by plane, train, truck, and ship. But seeing how there is no transport anymore (unless you are looking at a wagon train) there will only be a fraction of the needed food reaching the city of Chicago.More: - https://www.quora.com/Greta-Thunberg-says-that-we-should-abandon-all-fossil-fuel-immediately-in-2020-If-that-is-done-how-would-it-impact-the-world/answer/James-Witherspoon
During famines of all kinds, people suffer. But the elite survive and thrive.
So don’t be scared by this story, Greta. It’s instructive, to be sure. But you, Al Gore, and Bill Gates will ride things out just fine. Suffering is for the little people.
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Ditto, I’m forwarding to all my ‘green’ friends...both of them!
Without petroleum you won't get wool or cotton either. You could take a club and kill an animal, and skin it with a flint knife, if you have the skill to hone a flint knife, and then wear it, though you probably have to figure out how to clean it and cure it or you will smell like the dead animal you just killed, if you can kill it.
Our ape forbears survived out of the tree canopy only because, even though they weren't homo sapiens, did have brain cavities large enough to support basic skills like stone tools and hunting and fire. It turns out fire was absolutely essential to get the calories out of food you can gather to support and enlarged brain which cannot be suppoted by the calories you can get from just scrounging fruit and nuts and berries.
I love it
I just love it .
But none of the little eco tiwts will listen...
the drone of their college professor just blocks out the truth.
And the roar of the WEF drowns out any other voice.
I am just now finding out how far along the 15 minute city program is in the US.
Market st in San Fran wasn't killed by crime and drugs ... it is being prepped and almost there. The program is being put in place right in front of us.
LOL! I wish. But this is what these Luddite environmentalists want. They should all be made to go live in the wilderness for one year. Naked and with no tools.
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“But you, Al Gore, and Bill Gates will ride things out just fine. Suffering is for the little people.”
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Not unlike the way the elites are unaffected by inflation, crime, shortages, and even taxes. They never have to sacrifice in any way or abide by the onerous policies they push on the little people.
Will they need Allen wrenches to build an IKEA Fyr?
In fact, make that for the rest of their days.
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