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The Greens – The (unofficial) Ladybird Guide

 Who Are the Greens?

People who love the planet earth are called Environmentalists or Greens.

Greens believe that the planet earth is being destroyed and everyone needs to work together to save it.

Greens think that people are bad and the planet is good. Some Greens call people a “cancer” on the earth.

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Natural Is Good

The Greens believe that things that are already on the earth are “natural”. The Greens like natural things.

This includes trees, whales, snow leopards, icebergs, oceans, rainbows and lots more. Viruses, genetic defects, disease-carrying mosquitos, illness and death are all natural too. The Greens don’t mention these much.

The Greens believe that people are destroying nature when they make their lives better. Lots of people have better lives by using things made by modern science and technology.

The Greens don’t like modern things. They call them “un-natural”.

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Some “natural” things are out to kill us. Humans are successful because we have protected ourselves from nature and shaped the world around us. Greens prefer nature.

All Food Should Be Natural

The Greens like “natural” food. By “natural” they don’t mean that they just find their food in the country-side, but food is grown in an old fashioned way.

The Greens let farmers use modern tractors, but don’t let them use modern farming techniques or inventions, like pesticides and biotechnology. They like food grown in a 1930’s-type way.

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Growing food in a 1930’s “organic” way. It’s lucky the Greens let them use tractors.

Local, Local, Local

Greens like food which is grown near to where they live.

Greens don’t like farmers in other countries. They refuse to buy food from farmers who live in poor countries in Africa because it is infected with “food miles”.

Greens go to local “farmers markets” which sell sausages, jam and pickles and cheese when it is “in season”.

The farmers don’t go because they are busy working on the farm. The Greens haven’t met farmers before, so they don’t notice that the farmers are missing.

The Greens tell everyone that they have bought their food at a farmers market and everyone says “well done you”.

This makes Greens feel special and happy. It’s funny how that doesn’t make the African farmers feel special or happy.

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“It’s organic and local .. Well done you!”

Supermarkets Are Bad

Greens don’t like supermarkets because they sell food from around the world at low prices.

Greens prefer food that is expensive. Luckily for the Greens, marketing companies have written “organic” on some foods and made it very expensive.

Greens haven’t noticed that all food is actually “organic”.

When Greens have cooked their “organic” food they tell everyone that is “organic” and everyone says “well done you”.

This makes Greens feel special and happy.

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Greens want food to be more expensive and only available once a year (when it is “in season”)

Modern Food Is Actually Poison

In olden days, most people spent their days growing their food to eat. When there was bad weather and the food didn’t grow properly, lots of people died.

Nowadays, food is developed by “bio-technologists” and grown by a few people with big machines. There is enough food to feed everybody in the world and the food is interesting and tasty.

The Greens are frightened by modern farming and they want to stop it. They shout “Frankenfoods” at bio-technologists and want people to grow their own food in animal dung.

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Green campaigners have ensured that 1,150,000* children die a year in poor slum cities. Golden Rice would have saved them, but Greens ban genetically modified foods. (*UN Data)

Chemicals Are Scary

Greens are scared of chemicals. This is because the Greens think that chemicals are unnatural.

The Greens are scared that chemicals are harming people in secret ways. The Greens think that chemicals are linked to cancer.

Lots of things are linked together, but usually “chemicals” and “cancer” is linked together in press releases from Green activists.

Chemicals are also linked to killing diseases and making food better and last longer. People are living longer and healthier lives throughout the world. The press releases don’t seem to mention this.

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Greenpeace activists say that clothes are “contaminated” with hazardous chemicals. The Greens think that all kinds of chemicals are hazardous, including chloride (salt is sodium chloride).

Recycling Is Clever

Green people don’t like rubbish, even when it is put in tips and grass is grown on top. Greens like recycling.

Recycling means that all the things that are very common and easy to make are taken out of the rubbish and used again. So glass and paper and plastic is recycled, but all the rare materials are put in a big tip.

It is very clever.

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Glass is recycled. Glass is made from sand which is quite plentiful.

What is the Greens Favourite Animal?

It is the Polar Bear.

Even though they love the Polar Bear, the Greens love pictures of Polar Bears that are poorly, falling off icebergs or swimming a lot and looking tired. Greens send these pictures to their friends to make their friends sad. Greens like to make their friends sad. They like to be sad together.

Luckily, the Polar Bears don’t seem troubled by this. There are now more Polar Bears than ever before and they are doing very well.

Maybe one day, a Polar Bear will eat one of the sad photographers to make him happy.

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There are more Polar Bears now than there were in the 1960s. This doesn’t stop the Greens using the Polar Bear to gain sympathy and raise money.

What Is The Greens Favourite Plant?

The Greens don’t have a favourite plant. They like all plants and even took their name, the “Greens” from the colour of leaves.

Plants have a favourite gas. It is called carbon dioxide and they grow strong and healthy when they have lots of it.

When plants first evolved there was lots more carbon dioxide in the air, but now there isn’t so much and sometimes kind farmers pump it into greenhouses so planet can grow healthy.

Ironically, Greens like plants and trees; plants and trees like carbon dioxide; but Greens hate carbon dioxide. If the plants could talk, they would probably ask for more carbon dioxide from the Greens by way of thanks. I think that this would make the Greens very grumpy. It would be quite funny to watch.

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Plants thrive with more CO2. The current level of CO2 in the atmosphere is 390 parts per million (yes that is per million, it is tiny). This is shown on the far right hand-side of the picture. Just to the left is 800 ppm, these plants a bigger and healthier. Interestingly, during  the Cambrian Period, when life emerged, CO2 was 8,000 ppm, 20 times the current level. More CO2 is not a problem.

“Technology Miles” Are Good

Greens don’t eat food which has been transported on ships and lorries. This is because ships and lorries produce carbon dioxide. Greens are against “food miles”

iPhones, Samsung Galaxy phones and Apple Macs are also transported on ships and lorries.

The Greens like iPhones, Samsung Galaxy phones and Apple Macs because they help to show the poorly pictures of Polar Bears.

Because of this, the Greens have not yet invented “technology miles”

Poor People Are Happy People

The Greens live the in the rich countries. Even though their lives are easy, they aren’t happy.

People in poor countries want things that people have in the rich countries. They want things to be cheap and plentiful in their own countries like food, electricity, railway travel and education.

This would make them happy.

The Greens want to poor people to stay poor and carry on living in nature. They look at pictures of them smiling and wish that they were poor and happy like them.

The Greens don’t move from rich countries to the poor countries to be happy and poor, but they do hang pictures of African people on the walls in their houses. To make them happy.

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Kenyan farmer sell her crops by phone

Do the Greens Like Other People?

The Greens think that there are too many people on the planet and that the planet will run out of things we need, like food and metal and water.

People don’t just use things up, they actually make useless things into useful things. For example oil and uranium is useless when it is in the ground, but it powers heating, industry and travel when it is extracted and made useful. This means that the planet will not be used up and lots more people can live on it.

The Greens haven’t noticed that this is happening because they only notice bad things happening. They think that natural things are just used up and wasted. They don’t notice that people are creative and make things out of rocks.

The Greens are very scared about more people living on the planet. They think that people are a “cancer”. The Greens haven’t suggested killing these people yet, but some-times they probably think about it.

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The Greens think that there are too many people, but haven’t suggested killing them yet.

Why Are Green Ideas Fashionable Now?

People used to think about which is the right way to improve the lives of people. They argued about capitalism and communism and nationalism and socialism. All the “isms” were arguments about the future for people.

The Greens believe that people are the problem and that the planet needs to be saved from people. As the leaders stopped believing in the future for people, the Green idea became increasingly attractive to them. The leaders now have a cause that casts them as saviours without having to offer an attractive future for people. This was perfect for the leaders and the Greens.

All the leaders who used to talk about isms, now talk about the planet. Now they just compete with each other to be seen as the leader to save it.

The world leaders have big meetings to talk about carbon dioxide, not solving poverty or creating peace and stability or making the world a better place.

The Greens should be happy, but they are still sad and grumpy. They are always sad and grumpy because they don’t like other people at all. The Greens have a burning sense of injustice because they don’t feel part of the modern world and they want to destroy it.

The Greens like to pretend that they are leaders of a popular movement. But, most people ignore them. To look busy and to pretend that they have lots of supporters, Green activists dress up in gory suits and perform stunts for the news cameras.

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A Green stunt carried out by Green activists. The Green lobbyists aren’t shown here because they are briefing government ministers.

Who Is the Green’s Leader?

In the early days, the Greens grew beards and went in little boats to stop whales being killed. They didn’t have leaders.

In the 1980’s they shaved their beards off and started talking to the grown-ups.

The first real grown up to become a Green was Margaret Thatcher. In 1988, Margaret Thatcher had successfully killed all her enemies and had run out of an “ism” to believe in.

A wise man called Sir Crispin Tickell told Margaret about a new cause that wasn’t an ism – it was “global warming”.

He said that she could be the leader and would become a hero that saved the planet.

Oddly, the Greens never said thank you to Margaret for persuading world leaders about “global warming” and closing the coal mines in Britain. Maybe, it because the Greens pretend to be left-wing and Margaret was right-wing. It is still rude though.

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Margaret Thatcher at the UN 1988: “The problem  of climate change needs effective action at the international level.”

Margaret Thatcher’s Big Apocalypse Computer

To become the leader hero, Margaret Thatcher had to convince other grown up leaders that the planet was dying.

Margaret talked to the other grown-up leaders at a big meeting called the United Nations. She convinced them to set up a special campaigning team called the IPCC. Margaret gave money to buy a clever computer to foretell the coming apocalypse.

The Hadley Centre built a machine and filled it with special numbers. It showed the the world used to be cold and was now very warm. It showed that we will die soon from global warming.

Some people noticed that the world used to be a lot warmer than it is now, but they were told to be quiet and not spoil things.

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The Hadley Research Centre for Climate Research is now run by the UK Met Office. It has a massive computer which repeatedly foretells “hotter, drier, summers” and “warmer, wetter winters”. Even when we have freezing cold winters and torrential rain in the summer.

Big Al’s Hollywood Apocalypse

The next leader Al Gore. Al is a man who dines well and lives in a mansion, but wasn’t happy. Al wanted to be the big leader of the Greens.

Al made a Hollywood film with lots of special effects borrowed from his friends in Hollywood. The film showed how the Apocalypse would look. It looked horrible.

Al’s film showed that because we drive cars and use electricity, we would drown and starve because the seas would wash over the land. Frightening pictures were more convincing than the big computer.

The film was called “The Inconvenient Truth”. It was very imaginative, but not a true story. Some people tried to tell Al that it was going to be ok, but he called them names like “deniers” and “in the pay of big oil”. Al is a grumpy Green leader and he gets very angry. Especially when people don’t believe his Hollywood special effects because they cost him a lot of money.

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“An Inconvenient Truth” Hollywood special effects showed the rising seas of the Apocalypse. It is quite like a biblical flood

The Apocalypse Hasn’t Arrived Yet – Will It Please Come Soon

Something called a “hiatus” happened and Apocalypse computers stopped working properly. The signs of the coming Apocalypse, the “tipping points”, didn’t happen and the world stopped warming.

The Greens had got used to their way of living and the leaders had a reputation the defend. All the leaders had no new “isms” and needed the Green campaign to carry on.

So, the Greens invented a religion.

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No Global Warming since 1998. (It was also warmer in the Middle Ages and when the Romans were in Britain and  there wasn’t much modern industry in those days)

The Green Religion – How Does It Work?

People don’t believe in Priests and Vicars and God, but they do want something to believe in.

The God of the Greens is “The Earth”.

The Truth of the Green religion is revealed by clever “scientists”. The theologians have special computers which continues to foretell the Apocalypse.

The Devil of the Green religion is a gas. The gas is called carbon dioxide, the Devil Gas.

The Devil Gas is made when human beings do things that makes life better for themselves. It is called the Carbon Footprint.

Hell is the Apocalypse. The Apocalypse used to be called “the mini ice age”, then it was called “global warming”, then when the earth stopped warming, it became “climate change”. It might be called something else in the future. This will be decided by the Green theologians.

The Greens crusade against the Devil Gas with Sermons to save us from the Apocalypse.

The Sermons Against The Apocalypse preach Public Penance.

People can perform their Penance by doing more boring things and doing less things that are interesting, fulfilling and fun. This helps people reduce their Carbon Footprint.

The Devil Gas has sympathisers. These people are Heretics and called Deniers. Deniers are hunted down and cast out.

Unlike older religions, there is no redemption for the Green followers, only persistent Penance.

Luckily, the Apocalypse hasn’t happened because lots of Greens are performing Penance.

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Al Gore is the Green jesus. There are lots of other politicians who would like to be Green Jesuses too

For a Sensible View

Patrick More was a founder of Greenpeace, but left because “scare tactics and disinformation were employed by some within the environmental movement.”

Patrick argues that the environmental movement “abandoned science and logic in favour of emotion and sensationalism.”

Video: Why Greenpeace Founder Left The organisation and Now Campaigns Against It

For A Sensible Read

 

For a human-centred view of the world and to get an insight into the increasingly bizarre tactics of the Greenpeace, Patrick’s book is a great read. It may even restore your faith in humanity and belief in the future.

Book: Patrick Moore “Confessions of Greenpeace Dropout”

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Illych, 28 February 2016

Left-Wing People – The (unofficial) Ladybird Guide

Left-wing People In The Olden Days

Left-wing people used to like working-class people.

Lots of left-wing people used to be working-class people. These people were known as socialists and joined trade unions.

Sometimes working-class people used to frighten left-wing people, but they pretended that they weren’t frightened and were nice to them.

Left-wing people supported working-class people, gave them money, sat in rooms with them and wore badges to show that they cared more than right-wing people, who wore ties instead of badges and didn’t care.

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Left-wing people used to support working class people

Nowadays

Nowadays, working-class people are bored with socialism because it hasn’t made them rich and happy.

Nowadays left-wing people are middle-class people. Working class people are a big disappointment to left-wing people.

Left wing people now think that working class people are:
a) Simple and easily led
b) Un-enlightened and susceptible  to short-term pleasures
c) Terribly sad and struggling, unable to cope on their own
d) All of the above

Education Is A Life-long Task

Left-wing people think that working-class people are unable to think for themselves and require life-long education to help them make informed decisions.

Left-wing people work tirelessly on education programmes to encourage working class people to buy expensive food and clothes and not cheap food and clothes. They are disappointed that working-class people are un-ethical. 

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Working-class people like to drink alcohol and have sex. They do not understand that these activities are dangerous and need continuous education from left-wing people.

Working-class people need to be protected from newspapers, even though they don’t read them anymore. They are easily influenced and their happy-go-lucky ways can be turned into bigoted nasty ways. Left-wing people are needed to help them use Facebook carefully and not make mistakes. 

Left-wing People Like To Be Sad and Unhappy

Many left-wing people have a very nice life, but they like to be sad. To help with this, they choose to be sad for other people. Sometimes these people are far away and sometimes they are nearby, but different to them.

In the olden days, left-wing people tried to make it better for other people. Nowadays, they like to protect them by being offended when a working-class person person doesn’t behave properly.

Left-wing like to help other people by being offended on their behalf. This means that the other people can carry on with their lives and the left-wing people do all the work. This isn’t really fair, but the left-wing people seem to carry on doing it, so they must enjoy it. Despite all this effort left-wing people are still very sad.

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Left-wing People Care More Than Other People

Left-wing people care about people that they have not met. They especially care for people who live a long way away and who are very different from them.

Left-wing people care so much that they love the whole entire planet. Other people don’t care about the planet, they only care about themselves and other people that they know. This means that left-wing people have to love the planet even more, even more than they actually like other people.

Left-wing people show that they care by telling other people about how much they care. They send special “I care” signals to other people. Forwarding videos on Facebook is one way that they can show how much they care. The videos often show people far away who are living miserable lives, but pictures of cute fluffy chickens in nasty factories are considered sufficient.

Left-wing activists (see below) are very helpful. They make lots of “I care” videos which makes it quick and easy for left-wing people to send their “signals”. They do this several times throughout each day when they are not busy.

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Sometimes Left-wing People Are Made Angry By Other People

Left-wing people care so much, it makes them hate people who don’t show that they care. These people are right-wing people. Left-wing people have given them a name, it is “Tory scum”. Left-wing people like to shout at the right-wing people and tell them that they are scum, even when they aren’t listening.

Shouting at the Tories is another way to show that they care. Caring is very important to left-wing people.

Left-wing people care so deeply that they don’t have time for thinking and convincing. They use their precious time for shouting about caring.

Also, working-class people don’t know what left-wing people are saying, so it is helpful when they point to the right-wing people and shout “scum”. They think that working-class people do understand shouting and caring.

If you have observed someone and you are not sure if they are a left-wing person, seek their opinion on “the Tories”. If they start to shout and care, they are left-wing.

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Left-wing Activists Are Helpful

Left-wing activists are left-wing people who have an internet connection. They make the internet very loud.

Left-wing activists help other people care on the internet. They are very helpful in pointing out when people have forgotten to show that they care. They help people in many ways – watching videos, commenting on things and clicking on buttons called “start a petition”. Left-wing activists sometimes go outside their houses and meet other left-wing people and they care together and shout at the Tory scum.

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Left-wing People Are Funny

Left-wing people have “enlightened comedians” who make jokes on “panel games”. These are broadcast on the television and BBC Radio 4.

The enlightened comedians make people laugh at right-wing people, whom they consider stupid. In the olden days, comedians made jokes about Irish people, but these comedians weren’t clever like the enlightened comedians.

Instead of the Irish people, the enlightened comedians make jokes about working-class people. Because they care, they use special words like “Glaswegians”, “Sun readers” and “UKIP supporters”, so the working-class people will not notice.

Working-class people do funny things like drinking Monster energy drinks, eating Haribos and watching television. This is funny and the enlightened comedians are helpful because they point at them and laugh, so we know who to laugh at as well. It is very funny and we all laugh because we are en-lightened too.

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Further Reading – George Orwell

In the 1930’s George Orwell wrote about the left-wing people he knew in “The Road to Wigan Pier”. It is very funny.

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George Orwell went to fight in the Spanish Civil War against the Spanish right-wing people and to help working-class people. When he arrived in Barcelona, he found that the working-class people had taken it over. The left-wing people (then known as the Communist Party) were so disappointed that they took the city back from the working-class people and gave it to the nice right-wing people. This is a good example of how left-wing people show that they care. He wrote about this in “Homage to Catalonia”

Illych, 24th February 2016