Oh! I See You're Serious, Now
when what you say ≠ what you do
It’s like they believe they’ve already got a lock on this crappola and they don’t even bother to try to act as if their own scenario is valid. I can imagine they’d get lots and lots of press and public accolades if they came up with various cute ways to arrive at this “critical” summit. I can imagine folks arriving in Poiuses, on bikes, on Vespas, or even afoot. But their contempt for the masses is such that --- meh, why bother?
the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier ... “We haven’t got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand,” [ Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company] says. “We’re having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.”
...The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park ... menus of (no doubt sustainable) scallops, foie gras and sculpted caviar wedges.
So what happened to those much vaunted EUtrains? They always run on time, right? Oh… yeah. The great un-washed. oh, eww.
Seems like the only thing afoot here is the One World Gubbmint stinging the productive nations like a wasp with stunning legal entanglements then sucking the living guts out for their own amusement and nourishment of a few tin-pot dick-taters.
Oh yeah—and the Attack of Teh Stupid.
[The protesters] started their two-week “Climate Bottom Meeting,” complete with a “storytelling yurt” and a “funeral of the day” for various corrupt, “heatist" concepts such as “economic growth".
The Danish government is cunningly spending a million kroner (£120,000) to give the protesters KlimaForum, a “parallel conference” in the magnificent DGI-byen sports centre. The hope, officials admit, is that they will work off their youthful energies on the climbing wall, state-of-the-art swimming pools and bowling alley, Just in case, however, Denmark has taken delivery of its first-ever water-cannon – one of the newspapers is running a competition to suggest names for it – plus sweeping new police powers.
Pass the Popcorn…
"If we fail, one reason could be our overconfidence,” said Simron Jit Singh, of the Institute of Social Ecology. “Because we are here, talking in a group of people who probably agree with each other, we can be blinded to the challenges of the other side. We feel that we are the good guys, the selfless saviours, and they are the bad guys.” [*eye roll*]
As Mr Singh suggests, the interesting question is perhaps not whether the climate changers have got the science right – they probably have – but whether they have got the pitch right. Some campaigners’ apocalyptic predictions and religious righteousness – funeral ceremonies for economic growth and the like – can be alienating, and may help explain why the wider public does not seem to share the urgency felt by those in Copenhagen this week.
OR it could be because anyone who’s been paying the least bit of attention knows your “science” is, yanno, Crap.
Limos, private jets, buckets of caviar, ladies of the night: OK
Christmas trees: Oh, nonononononononono.
Posted by ZZMike on 12/07/09 at 05:50 PM
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