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Sorry if your Post didn’t get delivered Friday morning: Blame the loons who Our printing plant was blocked in the name of combating a “climate emergency” that doesn’t exist.
The protest also disrupted deliveries of The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today — which the Extinction RebellionNuts claimed that this was punishment for not being sufficiently hysterical regarding climate change.
Which tells you how extreme these idiots are, since the Times’ news pages devotedly toe the climate-hysteria line.
Oh, and while the group is officially Extinction Rebellion NYC, most of the 16 arrested are hippies in their ’60s and ’70s who traveled from the likes of Vermont to block the plant exit and stall the trucks from delivering 100,000-plus newspapers.
Their rationale: “The climate and ecological crisis is already here — destroying people’s homes and livelihoods with extreme weather, droughts, and fire — yet governments and corporations, influenced by mass media corporations, are complacent by continuing to ignore the root causes of the crisis and the dire situation humanity is facing.”
That’s demented bull. Global warming is real. However, its impact is not immediately catastrophic. The world’s top scientists, via the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, confirm that warming will only slightly slow world economic growth through the end of this century.
But even if climate change were a dire threat, this isn’t how to fight it. Stupid stunts like the Extinction Rebellion blocking busy roads in Britain are also a common way to turn people against your organization.
All such “action” does is provide a moralistic buzz to the morons who indulge in it.
Newspapers can be recycled for a lot of reasons. Our parent company News Corp is working to reduce its fuel- and electricity carbon emissions by 60% by 2030, and be net zero-carbon by 2050. New Corp achieved a 36% reduction last year.
That’s being environmentally responsible, unlike the privileged trustafarians and geriatric radicals of Extinction Rebellion.
