After our daughter of fifteen years of age was moved to tears by the speech of Greta Thunberg at the UN the other day, she became angry with our generation “who had been doing nothing for thirty years.”
So, we decided to help her prevent what the girl on TV announced of “massive eradication and the disappearance of entire ecosystems.”
We are now committed to give our daughter a future again, by doing our part to help cool the planet four degrees.
From now on she will go to school on a bicycle, because driving her by car costs fuel, and fuel puts emissions into the atmosphere. Of course it will be winter soon and then she will want to go by bus, but cycling through the freezing builds resilience.
Of course, she is now asking for an electric bicycle, but we have shown her the devastation caused to the areas of the planet as a result of mining for the extraction of Lithium and other minerals used to make batteries for electric bicycles, so she will be pedaling, or walking.
Which will not harm her, or the planet. We used to cycle and walk to school too.
Since the girl on TV demanded “we need to get rid of our dependency on fossil fuels” and our daughter agreed with her, we have disconnected the heat vent in her room. The temperature is now dropping to twelve degrees in the evening, and will drop below freezing in the winter, we have promised to buy her an extra sweater, hat, tights, gloves and a blanket.
For the same reason we have decided that from now on she only takes a cold shower. She will wash her clothes by hand, with a wooden washboard, because the washing machine is simply a power consumer and since the dryer uses natural gas, she will hang her clothes on the clothes line to dry, just like my parents and grandparents used to do.
Speaking of clothes, the ones that she currently has are all synthetic, so made from petroleum. Therefore on Monday, we will bring all her designer clothing to the secondhand shop.
We have found an eco store where the only clothing they sell is made from undyed and unbleached linen and jute. Also can’t have clothes made on wool, because the emissions from farting sheep are supposedly causing bad weather.
It shouldn’t matter that it looks good on her, or that she is going to be laughed at, dressing in colorless, bland clothes and without a wireless bra, but that is the price she has to pay for the benefit of The Climate.
Cotton is out of the question, as it comes from distant lands and pesticides are used for it. Very bad for the environment.
We just saw on her Instagram that she’s pretty angry with us. This was not our intention.
From now on, at 7 p.m. We will turn off the WiFi and we will only switch it on again the next day after dinner for two hours. In this way we will save on electricity, so she is not bothered by electro-stress and will be totally isolated from the outside world. This way, she can concentrate solely on her homework. At eleven o’clock in the evening we will pull the breaker to shut the power off to her room, so she knows that dark is really dark. That will save a lot of CO2.
She will no longer be participating in winter sports to ski lodges and resorts, nor will she be going on anymore vacations with us, because our vacation destinations are practically inaccessible by bicycle.
Since our daughter fully agrees with the girl on TV that the CO2 emissions and footprints of her great-grandparents are to blame for ‘killing our planet’, what all this simply means, is that she also has to live like her great-grandparents and they never had a holiday, a car or even a bicycle.
We haven’t talked about the carbon footprint of food yet.
Zero CO2 footprint means no meat, no fish and no poultry, but also no meat substitutes that are based on soy (after all, that grows in farmers fields, that use machinery to harvest the beans, trucks to transport to the processing plants, where more energy is used, then trucked to the packaging/canning plants, and trucked once again to the stores) and also no imported food, because that has a negative ecological effect. And absolutely no chocolate from Africa, no coffee from South America and no tea from Asia.
Only homegrown potatoes, vegetables and fruit that have been grown in local cold soil, because greenhouses run on boilers, piped in CO2 and artificial light. Apparently, these things are also bad for The Climate. We will teach her how to grow her own food.
Bread is still possible, but butter, milk, cheese and yogurt, cottage cheese and cream come from cows and they emit CO2. No more margarine and no oils will be used for the frying pan, because that fat is palm oil from plantations in Borneo where rain forests first grew.
No ice cream in the summer. No soft drinks and no energy drinks, as the bubbles are CO2.
We will also ban all plastic, because it comes from chemical factories. Everything made of steel and aluminum must also be removed. Have you ever seen the amount of energy a blast furnace consumes or an aluminum smelter? All bad for the climate!
We will replace her memory foam pillow top mattress, with a jute bag filled with straw, with a horse hair pillow.
And finally, she will no longer be using makeup, soap, shampoo, cream, lotion, conditioner, toothpaste and medication. Facewashers will all be linen, that she can wash by hand, with her wooden washboard, just like her female ancestors did before climate change made her angry at us for destroying her future.
In this way we will help her to do her part to prevent mass extinction, water levels rising and the disappearance of entire ecosystems.
If she truly believes she wants to walk the talk of the girl on TV, she will gladly accept and happily embrace her new way of life.
Regards,
(Name Withheld)
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COMMENT: I am really, really upset and astonished by ”A LETTER FROM A CONSTITUENT ABOUT HOW HE ADVISED HIS TEENAGE DAUGHTER ON ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’”.
I am certain that there are more points to be made but here is mine:
Bicycle Do you know they are made of steel, aluminum, plastic, rubber, etc, etc. All ingredients devastating to our planet. The only sensible solution is to walk or if you are in a hurry run. By the way, running will keep you warm.
Cold shower Well I suppose that the water is brought to the house in buckets, made out of some material not harming the environment, from a nearby stream of water. In the winter ok if not possible then sorry, you have to wait for the spring. This will also save a lot of water and cleaning of effluents.
WiFi Oh my god! That means she has a mobile, tablet and/or computer! Discard all of them. Of course in a safe way. Certified recycler is nearby I suppose so you don’t have to walk too far.
Horsehair pillow Are you for real? For that, she needs a horse. Why not start with the primary ingredient for growing a horse, HAY! Which by the way is perfect for the mattress. Maybe she can cut off her own hair and stuff her pillow?
I really hope that your wonderful off-spring survives until summer.
Regarding walking: without shoes or boots as they are made with outlawed materials as well.
Shoes. Cant have those either. She can make her own mocassins after she kills her first deer with a rock and tans the hide.
This should turn back the civilization clock, about 500 yrs! The “fault” lies in the Public Education system, which is “brainwashing”, & indoctrinating” our Children ! They don’t teach Government, History, & other crucial educational subjects like they “Once did”!
America’s future depends on the children.
Adios, America !
And don’t forget going back to using one of these.
Hmmm, that may not be a bad idea…
AoC,
I put two in – in 2015, when I had a contractor here digging to put in my combo underground root celler, bunker, torando shelter in. I just had him scoop out two deep holes.
I’m prepping for immediate family, could end up with five families and two houses full depending on what happens…thats a lot of shit when the shit hits the fan…just thinking.
That is extremely intelligent, sir. Damn, waste and disease are huge concerns. I’ve been tweaking my graywater so as to preserve the field and to reuse the water that can be safely reused. You are way ahead of me.
How deep and wide were the outhouse holes, how do you treat it, etc.?
I had him scoop them out about five feet deep, the hole is about 4′ X 4′ and the outhouse extends 2′ over the hole. Drove some rebar into the base on opposite sides to keep the wind from tipping them over in storms. Both seem to keep about a foot of water in them. Put a foam toilet seat over the bench hole, have lanterns inside each one, TP, magazines, and hand sanitizer.
I have a dozen bags of lime in the barn and keep one in each outhouse with a cup to sprinkle some in after. I use one all the time rather than trudge back to the house, if the family ends up here they will come in handy.
Have two portable camping toilets as well, in case there is no house flushing for whatever reason, and its late night or freezing weather, and somebody has to go.
I also keep a bed pan with my medical supplies, in case someone gets bed ridden.
You are right about waste and disease, and most will suffer greatly from both when the grid is down. You have to prepare for it before.
Thank you very much!!!
Hey just out of curiosity, what’s your soil perc like? Heavy clay?
Did you build them yourself?
AoC,
I’m in southern Granville County (north central NC) at the northern tip of the largest Triassic Basin. The soil is terrible. I have trucked and tilled in around 35 yards of black gold leaf compost over the years for my gardens/cold frames, orchard, and grape arbors, besides mulching.
https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/energy-mineral-land-resources/north-carolina-geological-survey/geologic-hazards/groundwater-%E2%80%93-quantity-and-quality-respect-geology/guide-homeowners-triassic-basins-north-carolina
Luckily, I have one of the better producing wells in my area, and I’m getting ready to dig a second one.
I’m going with my second Bison duel line well head, with a separate hand pump. Check them out, great company. They used to make a ‘low profile’ duel line hand pump well heads but stopped (thats what I put on my first well in 2014) the handle is hanging in the barn and attaches in a minute to the well head. Power goes off, I can pump by hand. Have enough hoses to run water to the house.
https://www.bisonpumps.com/deep-well-hand-pump/
I have a good friend who has his own roofing, carpentry business. He is amazing, and I work as his helper. He built an addition (all year sunroom) onto my home that was a work of art. I could never do the work he does in three times the time. I have another friend who is an electrician. Between them both I am lucky to have solid friends who are skilled tradesmen.
One of these days I will figure out how to get my email addy to you. You’re not terribly far from this old Nomad, but I also drove cross-country in 2.5 days flat. In the meantime, I love this thread, sir!
My neighbor, who I call Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), is a genius, I swear to God. He is a master mason but he fixed my tractor lickity split, built about 300′ of my 2′ tall x 8′ wide berm in a couple of days, and turned an old garage into an amazing guest house.
BTW, I am quite familiar with Bison. I need another hand pump but this one’s gotta be deep, brother. 340′ and that’s only 1.5 gpm.
You guys are kicking ass. Good on you. Renting now for a year more, hope I escape by then.
I’m blessed to even be where I am, CO2. Blessed. 3 kids and sole breadwinning is a bitch, and kids are EXPENSIVE as you know.
Check out simple pump, it’s what we have. https://www.simplepump.com they go pretty deep.
Saves water! lol
Logic has no effect on GloboHomo Communists.
Because they are just takers, not makers or builders.
You forgot to add that she needs to throw 10%of any money she earns into a pot to be distributed to people who are harmed by climate change that she does not know by somebody she has no control over.
Simplest response…
“OK. You first.”
All you do for daily life will henceforth be scrutinized, and if found to contribute to perceived climate threats, then you do without such conveniences.
So, When would now be a good time to start? You pampered, self righteous, incredibly ignorant and entitlement minded fool?”
The arrogance of the ignorant.
It’s a disease, common to indoctrinated minds.
They had better start whittling out the stockade for they will surely need it for infractions lest future generations claim they are responsible for it.
If you talk with your kids about important things before they get to the age of 15, they won’t turn out to be idiots who think they should listen to Greta Thunberg in the first place. Too little, too late. Making your daughter mad at you won’t educate her at this point. She’s old enough to listen to facts.
Have her watch the climate presentation The Power of Truth by Dr. Patrick Moore a minimum of ten times until she gets it. Dr. Moore is the CO-FOUNDER of Greenpeace. It’s a 1:24hr presentation full of charts and graphs with explanations. It’s not what most of the readers here probably think it is. Basically, Dr. Moore says AGW is BS. BTW, the first 15min. or so are all about his rather impressive environmental credentials so be patient.
I’m going to try this approach:
Q: what will happen if the Earth warms?
A: desertification, deadly heat, sea levels rising.
Q: So?
A: Billions of people will die.
Me: therefore carbon emissions plummet and the Earth heals itself. Voila’!
Carbon emissions have absolutely ZERO to do with anything in the first place. In fact it is at the lowest level in around 250,000 years according to core sampling. That yellow ball in the sky is rumored to play a big part but Al Gore disagrees. The sea level thing is also horse hockey. Massive quantities of water enter and leave the atmosphere every day. Tree hugger liars try to claim water is a zero sum game in spite of the entering and leaving of water being a proven scientific fact. The fellow who first posited the theory, now fact, was roundly excoriated and mocked for thirty years until it was proven. If a big asteroid of ice hits the atmosphere you may get your rise in sea level whether it is cold or hot.
These lying assholes are so desperate to control your life they will say anything.
You don’t advise a teenage Daughter anything. You get out of the way and learn to pray.
Path of least resistance for sure. Also lazy, lousy parenting. If you can’t realize that this is a battle you cannot afford to lose it appears that procreation wasn’t a wise choice for you. Enjoy raising Teyshawn Jr for her!
That is the best idea I have heard in a long while .I am sure your daughter is in full agreement with the new house rules right Good luck to you all and also by leaving her home while you vacation you will not have to put up with having to listen to her telling you how bored she is .
When the Zombie Apocalypse hits I am staking out all these climate change fuques along with my Mother-in-law and one sister-in-law for bait.
Of much more consequence: the increasing covert sex-grooming going on in schools.
that is in fact the best answer to most demands by leftists – make they themselves live up to their own rules. (straight outta alinsky ….)
actually she has to go farther back than her great grandparents as that is when the destruction evidently began.
When Greta came up in conversation a couple of moths ago my 15 year old daughter said, “Have you seen her eyes? She looks like she’s on drugs and she sounds mentally unstable.”
That’s almost verbatim because I had her repeat it to my wife, just to make a point.
Sometimes it takes years without knowing if you are doing a good job and then all of a sudden with just a few sentences you discover it was all worth it.
My daughter was up for this crap too until she read this now she wants to change her name to Regreta.
Fucking bullshit. What a load of shite. That is never happening. It is just a fake story.
A fake story? Nooooooo, it can’t be….
I wonder what his daughter will use ragweed for once a month….
You breathe out CO2. So the only way to get all the way down to zero CO2 footprint is to stop breathing. I think I’m going to start using that as my argument with the climate crisis crowd.
No more going to McDonald’s either, and no flying anywhere either! LOL