{"id":321,"date":"2019-09-20T05:11:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T19:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=321"},"modified":"2019-09-20T05:11:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T19:11:26","slug":"gretas-grinning-legions-of-death-from-tim-blair-well-know-theyre-serious-when-the-mobile-phones-are-in-the-bin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Greta\u2019s Grinning Legions of Death From Tim Blair “We\u2019ll know they\u2019re serious when the mobile phones are in the bin.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/blogs\/tim-blair\/gretas-grinning-legions-of-death\/news-story\/6d2eb09b36be3a0b22463a54eaa7ea67<\/p>\n

And so on Friday we\u2019ll have possibly the biggest Halloween-style climate scare pantomime yet. The kids love this sort of thing, as you\u2019ll have noticed from past climate protests.<\/p>\n

Their signs shriek disaster, but their joyful smiles<\/a> are a dead giveaway<\/a>. These aren\u2019t really protests at all. They\u2019re parties in the form of participatory performance art.<\/p>\n

Step it up, children. You\u2019ll also need to ditch the \u201cyou can\u2019t eat coal\u201d banners. You can\u2019t eat mobile phones either, but every schoolkid at every Friday strike will be carrying one, despite their enormous climate impact.<\/p>\n

As Paris-based think tank The Shift Project pointed out earlier this year, digital technology generates nearly three times Australia\u2019s carbon dioxide output.<\/p>\n

Why, these junior climate warriors are nothing but a mob of planet-poisoning Instagram Adanis.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll know they\u2019re serious when the mobile phones are in the bin. For that matter, they might consider getting rid of the signs as well. Serious protests don\u2019t involve a great many signs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/blogs\/tim-blair\/gretas-grinning-legions-of-death\/news-story\/6d2eb09b36be3a0b22463a54eaa7ea67 And so on Friday we\u2019ll have possibly the biggest Halloween-style climate scare pantomime yet. The kids love this sort […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[27,253,61,250,252,251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}