Day of the Thunberg
Doing its bit for the big climate strike on International Greta Day, a truck carrying a 68m wind turbine blade has tipped over in Tasmania.
Doing its bit for the big climate strike on International Greta Day, a truck carrying a 68m wind turbine blade has tipped over in Tasmania:
Police said the road was completely blocked, and given the logistics involved in clearing the scene, the road was likely to remain closed for about 12 hours.
Inspector Burke said the truck and blade, which had a combined total weight of 60,000kg, was being escorted by Transport Tasmania safety vehicles and Transport Safety Officers at the time of the crash ...
Deliveries are expected to be complete in October, with about 528 oversize loads required for the 48 turbine project.
That hot load of freight is just gonna have to wait. Elsewhere, the Victorian government is shunning dams and relying instead on water from its magical electric Flannery bucket:
Water Minister Lisa Neville says water in the state’s rivers will halve by 2065, citing this forecast in her refusal to build even one dam, even though over that period the state’s population is expected to double.
Rather, she said, Victoria would rely on its high electricity-consuming desalination plant, from which it has ordered $81m of water this year, costing average households what she said was “only” $10 …
Ms Neville said: “New dams do not create any new water. They simply take it from somewhere else: either from farmers who currently rely on it or from the environment.”
Don’t you just hate it when a big ol’ dam breaks into your farm and steals your water? They’ve been getting away with it for years, the water-rustling bastards.
Climate strike updates to follow.
(Via Noel G.)
UPDATE. If you happen upon any climate strikers, send pictures to blairt@dailytelegraph.com.au - and please shoot wide, not tall.
UPDATE II. A climate grifter seizes the moment:
Jotham Napat, Vanuatu’s deputy prime minister, delivered his speech in English “because the people who need to hear this, the ones who are causing the problems, are not here”.
According to the Vanuatu Posts’ Dan McGarry, Napat named the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and New Zealand as the ones who are “to blame for this threat to our survival”.
Deliver your speech in Mandarin, pal. Maybe these guys could help.
UPDATE III. That’s the spirit! In honour of the day, thoughtful Indonesian sharia savages use an all-natural, 100 per cent renewable rattan whip to belt three couples insensible:
After the backs of the six men and women had been flogged more than 20 times each, some collapsed, bleeding, crying with severe pain and had to be carried off stage.
The couples were punished in Banda Aceh for showing affection in public, and their whipping — using a rattan cane — came after they’d already been jailed for several months …
They were beaten by a masked officer for behaving “amorously”. The mayor of Banda Aceh, Animulla Usman, said the aim of flogging the couples in public was to “make them repent”.
“Animulla.” Perfect name.
UPDATE IV. Adelaide:
UPDATE V. Greens only smile when something terrible is happening:
After a long week in parliament there is nothing quite like taking to the streets to demand real action on climate change with this legend. @jennyleong ðŸ’ªâ˜€ï¸ #ClimateStrike pic.twitter.com/f2vGl2Wjub
— Abigail Boyd (@AbigailBoydMLC) September 20, 2019
UPDATE VI. For brainwashed zombie children, it’s always about the poleys:
HELP THE POLAR BEARS #ClimateStrike #ClimateAction #hobart pic.twitter.com/rKUvSGC4W8
— bronte (@bronte__lee) September 20, 2019
UPDATE VII. Cultists hail their one true leader:
Wombat all set and ready for #ClimateStrike!!! 🌎✊🽠pic.twitter.com/OweU7pg6Ba
— sehar (@s_ash03) September 20, 2019
My daughter channelling @GretaThunberg @StrikeClimate #ClimateStrike pic.twitter.com/YvLyk4EqSV
— ConservationBytes (@conservbytes) September 20, 2019
Their obedience noted, Greta may now spare them.
UPDATE VIII. Beyond parody. An actual “the end is nigh” sign:
