And many were arrested
(ABC News) At least 57 climate change activists were arrested in conjunction with the so-called “Break Free” protests against the use of fossil fuel.
The bulk of the arrests took place in Washington state this morning, when 52 activists were cited for trespassing on railroad tracks, according to the Skagit County Department of Emergency Management. One person was cited for resisting arrest. The other five arrests took place in Albany on Saturday on similar grounds.
In Washington, approximately 150 people had spent the night camping out on railroad tracks that lead to two refineries, according to a spokesperson for BNSF Railway. The protests were peaceful, according to the spokesperson, and the majority of activists obeyed a request to leave the tracks at 5 a.m. PT today.
The Break Free protests represent part of a “global wave” of action taking place across six continents over 12 days targeting “the world’s most dangerous fossil fuels,” according to a statement published by the organizers earlier this month.
I’ve perused many, many articles on this, and not one reporter asked any of the protesters two simple questions:
- Did you take a fossil fueled vehicle to this protest?
- Have you given up your own use of fossil fuels in your own life?
Warmists really do not like questions like that. They say they are immaterial, because “we all have to make sacrifices in our lives”, meaning that Government must be empowered to force these changes. It also means that they know they are hypocrites, and unwilling to practice what they preach, so, they need to change the conversation.
Outside the @WhiteHouse #BreakFree protesters demand an end to offshore drilling. #keepitintheground pic.twitter.com/byEz7IBajI
— act.tv (@actdottv) May 15, 2016
How’d they get there? There’s a second tweet at the article noting that California Warmists want an end to fracking, so, it’s not just oil they want eliminated, but natural gas, too, which provides a tremendous amount of power for things like heating and cooking, among others.
That photo (from Erik McGregor/Pacific Press) leads the story. Notice how many things required the use of fossil fuels. The smartphones were shipped either on a fossil fueled plane, truck or boat. The same with all the clothing. Many of those signs are plastics. Petroleum! I see plastic glasses, both frames and lenses. They all look well fed and (relatively) clean, thanks to all those dirty fossil fuels which allowed the creation of a 1st World Nation. Funny how these same people want to deny a modern, clean, well fed life to people in 3rd world crap holes.
Our esteemed host concluded:
If they actually thought about it, they want to deny a modern, clean, well fed life to themselves. Upwards of 99% of everything we buy is shipped on a diesel-powered truck at some point, usually at multiple points throughout the manufacturing and distribution processes.
They have about as much self-awareness as the ridiculous Occupods of a few years ago, protesting capitalism and evil corporations, while wearing clothes produced by capitalism, carrying smarter-than-them phones produced by capitalism, and hiding out in tents produced by capitalism. It seems that the only capitalist product that they eschewed was soap.
actually one only has to look at the photo.
The lady with shades…..created with fossil fuels. The posters..fossil fuels.
The ink, the shirts and pants. The straw hats would never be made it to markets if there was no fossil fuels to harvest the textiles and move them to market.
In other words these same people would be fighting their neighbors for the mere right to survive rather then protesting the earth warming up a little.
but one goood thing about it they would be swinging tree stumps at each other because these same people would be protesting the killing of deer and antelope was cruel…..
Fossil fuels actually allowed Darwinism to flourish not become extinct because all of these socialist/communist whackos would never make it in a world that had not exploded into technological wonder because of what Fossil fuels have brought to the world.
But alas….the 99 percenters who buy 99.99 percent of everything on the planet have it so terribly bad in the world these days because its gotten on average 1 degree warmer in the last 70 or so years.
Woe is them.