Heroes to Zeroes in Just One Century
In 1919, thousands of young Australians were still returning from Europe following their voluntary service in one of history’s most brutal and deadly conflicts.
In 1919, thousands of young Australians were still returning from Europe following their voluntary service in one of history’s most brutal and deadly conflicts.
In 2019, thousands of young Australians are scared to death by the possibility some years down the track of slightly warmer weather.
Heroes to zeroes in just one century. Of course, it will take another century or so before we see any effects of slightly warmer weather, but that didn’t stop around 300,000 Thunberg-struck climate garbage babies from attending last Friday’s mass hysteria rallies.
Of Australia’s total population, those 300,000 represent about 1.2 per cent. By comparison, more than 8.5 per cent of our then-4.9 million population signed up for duty in World War I.
A significant number of WWI enlistees were the same age as the child component of Friday’s climate protests. James Charles Martin was still three months shy of 15 when he died at Gallipoli of typhoid.
Another 19 Australians below the age of 18 also perished, having tricked officials into letting them go to war.
Even soldiers of legal age tended to be of slight dimensions relative to your tall, well-fed, bed-wetting modern teens. Australians of the early 20th century were in the main short and skinny, yet to an individual they were loaded with more courage than all 300,000 outdoor party people combined.
Why, some of them even moved out of their parents’ homes. Imagine.
“You’ll die of old age,” declared one teen’s Friday sign. “We’ll die of climate change.”
No you won’t, sweetheart.
You’ll be flying around the world like the rest of Australia’s much-travelled climate-fright generation, who bitch about plant-nourishing carbon emissions and then catch the next jet out of here.
And there’ll be no Turks waiting overseas to machinegun you, either.
Among all the science-boasting evident last week — these kids know everything about science, apparently, but can’t tell you how a simple internal combustion engine works — one fascinating sub-theme emerged.
modernity has failed us #climatestrike pic.twitter.com/jc0TRbXiIL
— ebani (@undoebani) September 20, 2019
According to several signs at various locations, “Modernity has failed us.” It’s a line from a song by sad woke band The 1975, and every fan downloaded it using the most modern technology ever devised.
sydney climate strike today made me so existential, as we all should feel. this is so real and always has been. pic.twitter.com/s5981eJMbG
— nikki (@royaldweeb) September 20, 2019
You know, our lads back in WWI might’ve appreciated a touch of modernity here and there. Things like, I don’t know, pain-free dentistry, vaccines, airconditioning, refrigeration, airlines, electricity, three-figure lifespans and the like.
The only way modernity has failed us is that it has bred a generation of hopeless panty-bunchers who burst into tears whenever one of those Pacific Island climate grifters begs for more free cash.
Vanuatu’s deputy prime minister Jotham Napat was at it again last week, claiming the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and New Zealand are “to blame for this threat to our survival”.
He forgot to mention the world’s major emitter, China. By complete coincidence, a Chinese firm recently completed the US$47.7 million rebuild of Vanuatu’s main airport.
Nobody on Vanuatu or anywhere else on Earth has ever died from climate change. More than 60,000 Australians died in WWI, however, because the bullets, bombs and mustard gas deployed against them were not imaginary.
They existed not in computer modelling or Greta Thunberg’s monomaniacal little mind but in three-dimensional reality. That’s why just about every Australian city and town has a memorial to our WWI dead.
Mudgee’s memorial features the names of 96 men killed, from E. Baker to H. Young.
As a reward for their sacrifice, wealthy green activists from Sydney’s north shore recently helped derail a coal mine proposed for a site near Mudgee in the NSW central west. Of 3192 submissions to the Independent Planning Commission, 2530 were form letters from an activist group called Lane Cove Coal and Gas Watch.
Lane Cove’s median weekly household income, as recorded in the 2016 census, is $2192. That is 74 per cent higher than in Mudgee, where unemployment happens to run some 30 per cent above Lane Cove’s figure.
Lane Cove Coal and Gas Watch, which in 2014 won a “Community Action Award” for the “most inspiring community action initiative”, cost Mudgee and surrounding towns more than 1100 jobs.
You can bet the rich Lane Cove job-stoppers took a break from their usual happy meetings — “tea, coffee and snacks are provided and often wine and pizza” — so they could join Friday’s panicky one-percenters, all screeching about destruction.
Climate Change alarmism definitely isn't the left's new religion or anything like that...#ClimateStrike pic.twitter.com/ag4TAQSG3c
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) September 20, 2019
Helpfully, French airman Jacques Trolley de Prevaux filmed actual destruction back in 1919 — mere months after WWI ended — so we have a point of contrast.
Floating along the Western Front in his airship from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border, de Prevaux captured mile after mile of absolute wreckage.
“Yet what is perhaps most moving is not the scenes of devastation,” wrote David Crane in The Spectator, “but the sight of the people below, picking up again the threads of their old lives among the shattered ruins of what had once been homes, with the resilience of a people whom history had long accustomed to the miseries of war.”
The young folk attending Friday’s protests have never known anything but unprecedented levels of peace and prosperity.
They have the all the resilience of crystal butterflies.