Should This Woman Be Looking After Children?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-51857722
Ok so she's completely radio but is it fair to brainwash the kids?

[ToraToraTora]

haggis, the climate has always changed, nothing, new natural cycles. Assuming society will collapse into a Prehistoric forage is just potty. Yes human kind will have to change, as it always has but to assume we'll all have to plant veg in our gardens is bat crazy.

[TheDevil]

"she's not a bad mother in the mothering sense"

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"she's not a bad mother in the mothering sense"

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[TheDevil]

"but to assume we'll all have to plant veg in our gardens is bat tish crazy."

We all don't have to do anything TTT and i'm sure you'll be the last person to do something just because someone told you to.

We don't have to to plant veg but in doing so, we'll be more self sufficient and less reliant on other produce which has carbon foot print as well as reliance on other people.

[Bobbisox1]

You heard the man 3Ts
“ Dig for England and help the war effort “ :0))))

[Bobbisox1]

Oops I meant Victory not England , lol

[ToraToraTora]

Bobby, when the Atlantic is full of German subs and we are rationing then it makes sense to use what land we have for food. This is talking about a collapse to such a permanent state. MAABOF.

[youngmafbog]

I have got a damned site more veg in my garden but I dont go on about saving myself because it wouldnt. If the world ran out of food just how long do you think it would be before someone came and took it from her - with force if necessary. But of course that is not going to happen is it because she is talking tosh.

This woman is clealry a new age hippy type. Just look at the poor childs hair.

Ripe for being picked on there stupid woman.

[youngmafbog]

Speaking of gardens, shouldn't you be out digging some?

[Bobbisox1]

http://www.upl.co/uploads/026A09A059574248A625974609D95C671584372428.jpeg

[Mamyalynne]

I wouldn't plant veg on a damned site Youngmaf - you may get cabbages with 2 heads.

[youngmafbog]

:-)

[jim360]

// ... the climate has always changed, nothing, new natural cycles. //

Sigh... as usual, you are accepting a conclusion that was only reached because Climate Scientists investigated this, and yet ignoring the same scientists when it comes to the more inconvenient message: human activity is having a measurable impact right now, and will continue to have a measurable impact, above and on top of what natural cycles provide.

I'm not saying I agree with this woman in terms of the speed and scale of societal collapse either, mind -- but it's possible to suggest that she's overreacting at the same time as recognising that the concerns are far more legitimate than you are giving them credit for. The way we generate energy and electricity, the fuel we use for travel, the standards we set for new buildings, how and where we source our food -- all these will have to change. If it's done in a sensible and managed way then there's no reason to fear total societal breakdown.

[ToraToraTora]

jim the climate has always changed, I know there are factors involving human habitation etc that I'm not intending to get into here.

[New Judge]

//I'd call that educating, not brainwashing.//

Hmm. Very similar to teaching your children that the Earth is flat.

//Well her "end of the world" will be weeks, months, who knows maybe even years after our "end of the world"//

What? She’s planted a bit of “tree cabbage” (whatever that is) and some “scarlet pimpernel” seeds. (?? No. Me neither). I can tell you that I grow one heck of a lot of produce in my sizeable garden and even in mid-summer I am nowhere near self-sufficient in the stuff. That's ignoring the essentials that I cannot grow, such as soap, beer, gin and washing up liquid. If the New Order means living without them - especially if it is as hot as predicted - I'd sooner shuffle off this mortal coil anyway.

The woman is deluded, is unnecessarily worrying her children and she needs to rein herself in. One thing that did strike me, though:

//Every six weeks, she takes her two youngest daughters on an 450-mile round trip from their home in Sheffield to an organic farm in South Wales,…//

I wonder how they get there.

[jim360]

// jim the climate has always changed, I know there are factors involving human habitation etc that I'm not intending to get into here. //

The first isn't up for dispute but you can't just dismiss, or refuse to get into, the second.

[ToraToraTora]

jim:"The first isn't up for dispute but you can't just dismiss, or refuse to get into, the second. " - this thread is about this woman and what she's doing to her children, start another thread if you want to focus on different points.

[Bobbisox1]

My God TD you’re an unbelievably rude person!

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