Actually, leftist festivals usually end up with fields of garbage, so perhaps this aftermath is more expected than ironic:
Green-agenda Agitators Prove Hypocritical by Leaving Part of Planet Trashed
Those "green agenda" agitators who travel on private jets to conferences where they preach to others against the use of fossil fuels, or in the case of John Kerry accept a climate award, have done it again.
It was at the Glastonbury Festival 2022 in the United Kingdom.
The climate change agenda was on full display for several days, but when things wrapped up, attendees left behind fields literally plastered with trash.
The Gateway Pundit pointed out it followed climate activist Greta Thunberg's sermon about saving the environment.
"It’s no secret that leftist ideologues, especially those of the ‘climate change’ variety, are some of the most egregious offenders when it comes to hypocrisy. Some of the most fervent advocates of the ‘save the planet’ crusade are often caught failing to live up to their proclaimed standards (climate change warrior John Kerry and his private jet flights, as just one example)," the commentary said.
"While we are all familiar with the hyper-delusion and psychopath-level hypocrisy that is prevalent among the elitists, this duplicitous behavior can be found throughout the climate-obsessed within the leftist hierarchy. Instead of hopping on their private jets and yachts in defiance of their stated agenda, the masses are beholden to a lesser form of self-righteous denial that is equally inconsistent with the green agenda."
It's definitely hard to take these monkeys seriously, especially the limousine-liberal crowd—the DiCaprios and other famous folks who (1) make wild-eyed predictions about the future (island nations under water, no more North Pole ice) that never come true, and (2) skip around in private jets while sanctimoniously telling the hoi polloi how to live.
As I've written before, I don't mind the essential message of environmentalists at all: of course it's better to live somewhere clean than somewhere dirty, and there's definitely plenty that humanity could be doing to clean up after itself. My beef with many environmentalists, though, is that they romanticize nature and formulate dangerously unpredictable policies based on those romantic notions. The earth is in a perfect, delicate ecological balance? Nature is peaceful and harmonious? All bullshit. Nature is conflict and struggle and death—red in tooth and claw. And taking one part of the web out just means that another part of the web will fill in the empty space. There's no good or bad about nature; nature simply is. What's good or bad is how friendly or unfriendly nature is to human existence, and I wish environmentalists could be more honest about their project: it's not a question of saving the planet (as George Carlin wisely noted); it's about saving ourselves.
And in the end, because nature is always changing and evolving, the environment, if left to its own devices, will eventually evolve right out from under us, and that's just natural, too. By attempting to keep nature human-friendly forever, humanity is stapling a natural process to the floor in the hopes that it can't—won't—move forward. And that, ironically enough, means environmentalism is, at heart, very unnatural.
That said, let's clean up the Texas-sized clump of trash in the ocean; let's unclog our rivers of those millions of plastic bottles; let's clean up those areas where kids play in rivulets of sludge, rot, and noxious chemicals; let's figure out better ways to capture the pollution we belch into the air. At the same time, let's find solutions that are (1) economically viable and (2) unlikely to alter the current overall quality of human life. We're clever; we can do that.
Well said. The climate has always been changing. We'll either adapt or die. Wouldn't it be something though if driving those SUVs has delayed the coming ice age?
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