One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks. "What's this?" she asked.
"Pulverized willow bark," replied her fairy godmother.
"What happened to the carpet?" she asked.
"The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum," came the response.
Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles.
"Your old toothbrush?" noted her godmother, "Also nylon."
"Where's the water?" asked Greta.
"Down the road in the canal," replied her godmother, 'Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it"
"Why's there no running water?" Greta asked, becoming a little peevish.
"Well," said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, "Where do we begin?" There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it's impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tires and how ore has to be smelted to a make metal, and that's tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat, and even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden's energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tires and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . .
"What's for breakfast?" interjected Greta, whose head was hurting.
"Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs," replied her godmother. "Raw."
"How so, raw?" inquired Greta.
"Well, . . ." And once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and in the end was educated about how you can't have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore.
"But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes," lamented Greta.
"Tilda died this morning," the godmother explained. "Bacterial pneumonia."
"What?!" interjected Greta. "No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin." 
"Not anymore," explained godmother "The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum-based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there's not any easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can't really burn many bodies using as fuel Swedish fences and furniture, which are rapidly disappearing - being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm."

This represents only a fraction of Greta's day, a day without microphones to exclaim into and a day without much food, and a day without carbon-fibre boats to sail in, but a day that will save the planet.

Tune in tomorrow when Greta needs a root canal and learns how Novocain is synthesized.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on June 12, 2024, 10:26:01 PMI'll be damned if I ever buy a fucking electric vehicle to put my support behind this

I feel bad enough owning an iphone after seeing shit like this

I was considering one. After reading this thread, that might be off the table.

Give it time. If the current crop of losers are any indication, they'll be too busy mining the harbor on each other the next time Monkeypox rolls around to even whimper how racist mother nature is.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on June 12, 2024, 09:34:10 PMYou think maybe instead of sending billions to Ukraine in furtherance of war and destruction we could be using that capital to help these people who are giving their lives to provide us with the ways of life we take for granted?

*Spits -- you self righteous libtards make my fucking stomach churn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipOeH7GW0M8

LMFAO!!!!

You know, my ancestors used to mine like this and they died in droves, IN THIS COUNTRY!!! as recently as 120 years ago. What changed it is government regulations and laws. When these stupid fuckers have enough, things will change or they will continue to be taken advantage of.

Quote from: knows things on June 13, 2024, 07:50:52 AMHey Biggie, isn't that gargantuan pillow-monster that was trying to siphon your sperm a progtard?

Seems to me that a self-professed "empath" would be bawling her eyes out about the plight of all this little brown people, but I only ever heard her get to sniveling when her site was falling apart.

Yes she is and it would appear these poor innocent souls of a darker shade do not have enough media attention to warrant her empathy. Plus, there are no cool riots on their behalf where jagoffs are burning shit down in black neighbors on behalf of the black cause she can attend in hopes of scoring some good weed or black cock. 

Black lives matter, but let us not get carried away if they begin to matter enough to delay the availability of that new iphone I want for Christmas

these people are lower than fucking bacteria

Hey Biggie, isn't that gargantuan pillow-monster that was trying to siphon your sperm a progtard?

Seems to me that a self-professed "empath" would be bawling her eyes out about the plight of all this little brown people, but I only ever heard her get to sniveling when her site was falling apart.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on June 12, 2024, 10:26:01 PMI'll be damned if I ever buy a fucking electric vehicle to put my support behind this

I feel bad enough owning an iphone after seeing shit like this

You and me both bother. I wish we did not have to have frickin smart gadgets around the house.

I'll be damned if I ever buy a fucking electric vehicle to put my support behind this

I feel bad enough owning an iphone after seeing shit like this

Quote from: Herman on June 12, 2024, 10:19:56 PMYa, BLM really has their priorities in order.

The hypocrisy is sickening. This green bullshit is a perfect example of that.

it truly is sickening. Watching them pontificate from their Ivory towers like some modern day saint while their entire lives are built atop of exploitation of the very people they claim they fight for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJ8me22NVs

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on June 12, 2024, 10:16:34 PMAmen my brother.

But Black Lives Matter tho!!!!!

apparently these don't

and that's what disgusts me the most about these vermin cock suckers... the shameless hypocrisy that is so bold and blatant. It's unfathomable to the decent of mind.

Ya, BLM really has their priorities in order.

The hypocrisy is sickening. This green bullshit is a perfect example of that.

Quote from: Herman on June 12, 2024, 10:14:51 PMAny frickin day. Justine and Jim Crow Joe cancelled pipelines and the six foure jobs that builing and maintaining them provide so that Africa can be raped.

But, progs in the West are NIMBYs. As long as they don't see coloured kids dying from heavy metal poisoning of water so they can drive their Teslas, they are saving the planet.

Amen my brother.

But Black Lives Matter tho!!!!!

apparently these don't

and that's what disgusts me the most about these vermin cock suckers... the shameless hypocrisy that is so bold and blatant. It's unfathomable to the decent of mind.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on June 12, 2024, 10:05:04 PMHuman life is meaningless over there and as the demands these progtards insist on artificially inflating so will the human tragedy. But they just don't care because outwardly it allows them to pontificate to the rest of us.

I'd take a thousand Alaska pipelines in first world highly regulated areas over the type of human exploitation these rodents are in favor of.

Any frickin day. Justine and Jim Crow Joe cancelled pipelines and the six figure jobs that builing and maintaining them provide so that Africa can be raped.

But, progs in the West are NIMBYs. As long as they don't see coloured kids dying from heavy metal poisoning of water so they can drive their Teslas, they are saving the planet.

Quote from: Herman on June 12, 2024, 09:59:41 PMI worked in upstream oil and gas in Africa. They aint got close to the environmental and worker safety protections Canada has. But, that was nothing compared to the environmental and human destruction caused by progtards appetite for electric vehicles, and solar panels.

Human life is meaningless over there and as the demands these progtards insist on artificially inflating so will the human tragedy. But they just don't care because outwardly it allows them to pontificate to the rest of us.

I'd take a thousand Alaska pipelines in first world highly regulated areas over the type of human exploitation these rodents are in favor of.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on June 12, 2024, 09:34:10 PMYou think maybe instead of sending billions to Ukraine in furtherance of war and destruction we could be using that capital to help these people who are giving their lives to provide us with the ways of life we take for granted?

*Spits -- you self righteous libtards make my fucking stomach churn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipOeH7GW0M8

I worked in upstream oil and gas in Africa. They aint got close to the environmental and worker safety protections Canada has. But, that was nothing compared to the environmental and human destruction caused by progtards appetite for electric vehicles, and solar panels.

You think maybe instead of sending billions to Ukraine in furtherance of war and destruction we could be using that capital to help these people who are giving their lives to provide us with the ways of life we take for granted?

*Spits -- you self righteous libtards make my fucking stomach churn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipOeH7GW0M8