link UN calls for higher taxes to combat climate warning.
In the classic 1976 horror/suspense teen movie Carrie, an otherwise improbable story is made even more ludicrous when at the end, a hand reaches out from the grave and grasps at the heroine, just when everyone thought the story was over.
The slight ebb in the stupidity which is global warming seems to be making a zombie like comeback a la Carrie. The U.N. which itself is a parasitic leech on nations is calling for another 100 billion dollars or so of taxes in order to fund the fairy tale. While a hundred billion dollars may not be as much as a year ago before the devaluation of the dollar, it’s still a lot of hooch to throw down the bottomless pit of global warming initiatives. If we spent that towards let’s say, global hunger, I might buy it.
It’s not good enough that the west is abstaining from personal washing, re-using shopping bags, driving electric skateboard-like deathtraps and recycling eggshells. Only through imposition of taxes can the imminent destruction of earth be avoided. More research is needed to find the root causes and find ‘sustainable solutions’. In point of fact, they will determine that since man (especially western man) is the root cause of warming, they must be eliminated or reduced. They have to eliminate man to save man. Hmmm. More than enough evidence has emerged which pushes back at the credibility of the doomsday claims of the movement that sane rational people should at least be skeptical of the ongoing bleating.
My suspicions are that the movement is being funded by the travel and hospitality industries which have much to gain from ongoing conferences in exotic locales. If someone decided to tally up the benefits to airlines, taxis, limos, hotels and bars which service this industry, I”m sure we’d understand the need to keep the debate alive. To say nothing of the millions of chickens sacrificed as dinner for these earnest conventioneers. Next thing you know, someone will link the decline of the chicken population to global warming. That would be hard to argue. Naturally, that would be a government funded study. Please let the Zombie die already.
link Could you give up washing? | Environment | The Guardian.
As if. Mind you, this is a story from a Brit tabloid paper, so there may be a correlation with the previous piece on Stephen Fry…which perhaps validates his contention that women find men disgusting. I will stick my neck out and state that not bathing regularly is less an observance of environmental consideration as it is a symptom of sloth.
Unless you were one of those unfortunate men trapped in a mine shaft in Chile, there is no excuse not to bathe daily. The miners were somewhat impeded by lack of facilities and besides, it was dark, so no one really knew who stunk anyway. But in the real world with most homes having running water, there is no excuse for not running the soap bar over yourself daily.
In the article, a woman is quoted as habitually running a few lemon slices on her armpits before venturing forth on her day. Ick on so many levels. I’m not sure why such an article would be written unless they’re trying to validate slobbery as the new social chic. Anyone who thinks this trend has legs should ride the London or New York subways during July. Or sit next to a practitioner of the above bathing routine on a long overseas flight. The sweet smell of lemons doesn’t quite overcome the robust aroma of dead skin cells and bacteria.
It’s only a small leap to go from non regular bathing to non regular teeth brushing, again, considering it’s Britain, not a stretch. Imagine being cornered in conversation on a crowded subway train in July by a non bathing disciple with halitosis. Guantanamo prisoners had it better.
If anything, governments should move to legislate mandatory bathing. Rather than allow people to freely wage olfactory terrorism on fellow citizens, there should be minimum standards of personal hygiene if people want to be allowed out in public. Unless you are involved in a kinky sex ritual which encourages such deportment between paying adults, you should not be legally allowed to pollute public common breathing spaces with your personal essence de oh my!. Congregating in enclosed public spaces should not be an exercise in enduring mustard gas. Advice for the ignorant, odor is not French for smell of gold.
It’s hard to even imagine that anyone supposedly interviewed for this article would even admit to not bathing regularly. This is truly the indicator of a declining society.