Passed on by Dave R
Sailing to school and the daily issues of climate change
It is dawn on the rugged shores of Loch Craignish and two little boats are setting off into the sunrise.
This is the school run with a difference.
For six weeks, a handful of students have been unable to take the bus to Lochgilphead High School after a landslide cut off the community of Ardfern during the wettest two-day period ever recorded in Scotland.
A trip by sea is, for now, their commute.
We have become used to seeing the fight against climate change fought by the young. Greta Thunberg has become the voice of a generation demanding action, and action now.
The 'voice of a generation' seems to be twaddle learned from adults. Maybe the kids would be better off taking a break from school.
"This has really punched us straight in the face," says Graeme Dailly, director of infrastructure and environment at Angus Council, surveying the damage to the flood defence scheme in Brechin.
"We are facing a climate change emergency," he adds.
8 comments:
Not just any twaddle, BBC climate change twaddle.
Defund the BBC.
DJ - I agree, should have been defunded years ago.
"This has really punched us straight in the face," says Graeme Dailly, director of infrastructure and environment...
Don't give me ideas, Graeme.
You only have to say that 'climate change' is a 'problem', and expect the government to cough up the dosh to pay for the - er - 'problem'.
If useful idiots didn't use the spurious arguments surrounding such a theory, we'd all be better off, and kids like the Swedish goblin could get back to their iPhones and Playstations!
Of course, the BBC is complicit in all the gibberish surrounding a non-existent issue, but there again, with all the kidults doing the 'reporting', what does the public expect?
You just have to look at all that soil, scree, rubble and other stuff lying at the foot of the mountains and wonder what brought it all down from the tops of the mountains.
And in the valleys, why is the land so flat and the flat land so broad? And why do rivers meander? And what carried all that stuff out into the estuaries?
It was not levelled by the cro-magnons so that they could build lots of shacks.
Maybe the cro-magnons were burning too much coal.
But there would have been a wise Shaman who proclaimed, "Wur doomed, ah tell ye, doo-oomed!
Unless you all build me a substantial dam, in the shape of a palace, where I will abide and observe the weather. And give me all your shiny stuff for safe keeping.
Oh, and also all your young virgins, that they may learn the ways of sustainability."
And the ugliest young(ish) virgin, whose name was Gurreetah, proclaimed "Harken into the wise Shaman, for he is truly right. And I will be the first young(ish) virgin to enter his shelter and be instructed in the ways of sustainability."
For she knew, that in the absence of some affliction that blinded all men, it was her only chance of a shag.
Sam - yes it's a ludicrous comment. Must come from being constantly told about the fight against climate change.
Scrobs - I agree, we'd all be better off without the gibberish. Better off financially too.
Doonhamer - ha ha, very good. Mind you, it is her only chance.
"during the wettest two-day period ever recorded in Scotland"
I'll bet you that's a lie. If it isn't I'll bet you the relevant records go back to the week before last.
dearieme - I bet it's a lie too. Why two days rather than one or three? I'm sure I read somewhere that two days was cherry-picked for the headline.
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