Just Ban Everything ~ Why Don’t You?
what price freedom of thought and expression
some people are natural sheep
Even though I limit myself to just 10 minutes of news a day I can’t help from noticing that the world is becoming crazier, crueler, and more bizarre as each day passes.
The latest insanity I’ve seen is a call to ban the wool trade because it’s cruel to sheep. Here in the UK an advert by PETA, (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ), has been canned by our advertising standards authority for claiming that ‘wool is just as cruel as fur’. The snag is that if farmers didn’t regularly shear their sheep, then the poor animals would get very sick ~ and that really is animal cruelty.
I know that several organisations want to ban the keeping of domesticated farm animals, along with banning eating meat and wearing leather / wool. That is never going to happen. Although a bunch of mad scientists are busy creating artificial meat, currently only grown at vast expense in labs, but if they get their way there will be factories churning out this muck before long. Don’t expect me to eat that, nor quorn either.
Milk substitutes are already available as an alternative to the genuine article from cows, sheep. and goats. I suppose artificial vegan cheese actually tastes a bit like real cheese. Luckily I have sworn off dairy products as part of my paleo diet.
The green global warming eco-warriors will be happy to have the keeping of farm animals banned because they say that the methane from bovine flatulence is a major factor in catastrophic anthropogenic climate change. Maybe if they shouted less we’d have less CO2 in the atmosphere and less COVID-19 laden spittle floating about.
Talking of global warming, the burning of coal to generate electricity is banned here in the UK, which puts our economy at an enormous disadvantage to China, India, and the USA, where coal is still mined and used. Next, ‘they’ will ban the use of oil based fuels, such as diesel. Where do ‘they’ think all the electricity is going to come from to run all the electric vehicles?
More insidious, because of the COVID-19 virus, travel between counties is mostly banned, and travel within countries is banned in some places too. Gathering together in groups is mostly banned everywhere.
Worse than that, history is banned, because some of it ‘offends’ certain minority sections of the community. Some words are banned, some movies are banned, some songs are banned, and I’ll bet some books will be banned before ere long.
I seem to remember people like the Nazis doing this kind of totalitarian stuff.
Some say that Black Lives Matter. And that we should all ‘take the knee’ to show respect. All I know is that where they burn books they will soon burn people.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
some say the answer is green energy
good luck with that one
Global Warming, don’t worry about it.
Amidst the latest brouhaha and persecution of ‘climate change deniers’ there’s one good reason I can’t get at all excited about catastrophic anthropogenic climate change, (man-made global warming), and ‘green energy’. The fact is that the Northern Hemisphere is still in the last hurrah of the last ice age.
Some 10,500 years ago, (the blink of an eye in cosmic and geological time), most of the people on Earth lived in Africa because everywhere else was too damn cold. In fact, the last ice age hasn’t yet really ended, so any time in the next few hundred or few thousand years Europe, North America, and Northern Asia could be again covered by sheets of ice miles thick.
Much of the geology of these continents was structured by ice ~the Great Lakes in North America were formed 20,000 years ago as a result of the last period of glaciation. Where I live now was covered by a sheet of ice three miles thick only 10,000 years ago ~ and the ice reached as far south in England as where London is now. As I said 10,000 years is but the blink of an eye in terms of geology and the life-cycle of our sun and the planets.
Agriculture has only existed in England for 6,000 years, because before that it was too cold, so Mesolithic Man lived by hunting. Up until 6,200 years ago, so much of the seas’ waters were locked up in ice on the land that you could walk from what is now Germany to England, without getting your feet wet ~ over a stretch of dry land called Doggerland. Where the English Channel is now used to be part of what is now called the River Rhine.
Ice Ages have come and gone over the last 2.4 billion years, starting with Snowball Earth and the Lower Huronian Ice Age. It is thought that Ice Ages are caused by changes in the Earth’s orbit and the amount by which our planet tilts. Typically, a period of extreme glaciation could happen about every 100,000 years or so, (but can last for up to 200 or 300 million years.) The last one has only being running, (on and off), for around 100 million years. The Earth is now in an interglacial period, so we have a lot more worries over freezing to death than we have over global warming.
May I suggest that you don’t worry too much about global warming, but make certain you know how to cope with a hell of a lot of snow and ice.
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