Why do left wing activists always look so miserable? Perhaps because they realize they’re a bunch of no fun scolds and that the policies they push will cause problems in their own lives?
Students from across Metro Vancouver walked out of school today to demand action on climate change, joining school strikes staged in eight other Canadian cities.
About 50 students joined the Vancouver Teen Climate Strike rally at city hall before marching to the West Broadway office of George Heyman, the B.C. minister of environment and climate change strategy.
Organizer Rebecca Hamilton said she was motivated to take action watching other student strikes around the world and especially Swedish teen Greta Thunberg who has been missing classes every Friday to sit outside her country’s Parliament to protest its inaction on climate change.
“Climate change is a crisis and everyday I ask myself how can I just be going about my everyday life when this crisis is coming that’s going to impact my future and generations to follow,” said the grade 11 Lord Byng student.
Hamilton says although the newly introduced Clean B.C. plan includes many positive steps, the emission reduction targets announced don’t go far enough.
“The targets that [Clean B.C.] is based on aren’t science based and won’t keep us below 1.5 degree C temperature rise,” she said. “And so we want to ask George Heyman about these issues because we know that he really believes in strong climate action.”
They look cold, don’t though? Calling it carbon isn’t science based, either. Politically based. But, she is right that the targets aren’t science based. Nor is their cult.
Really, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax is, in fact, finding critics and opponents on all sides. At the end of the day, every carbon tax will see the costs passed on to the consumers. And no plan will see all that money returned to the citizens (which is the big plan these days), no matter what the designers of the taxes say. Perhaps that’s why the kids look so miserable? Or could it be the indoctrination in schools on the Cult of Climastrology? Or just that they’re cold?
It takes a special kind of mal-educated idiot to live in Canada and not realize the benefit of being warm in the winter and connecting the dots to where that comes from.