'It's our time to rise up': youth climate strikes held in 100 countries

[Bomber_Harris]

Try Cottenham it did happen.

I know Cottenham it's my favourite course as I've had winners there and at least it's got a proper Owners and Trainers building instead of some windswept tent

Yes it's very well attended compared to most ptps because it's a very well run meeting, and yes I will concede that Cottenham is less gammony than most PtPs (but gammon is still the core demographic)

so I still stand by my comments and I can request photographic evidence if need be. Your local PtP happens to be the exception (along with Northaw) rather than the rule

- Bomber

 

[Half Pint]

Thank you for your concession.

 

[DrWazzock]

Personally I would only allow council tax payers who are over 45 to vote in elections.

Some of the rubbish that the youth of today comes out with is beyond belief but there are only too many lefty politicians and metrosexuals willing to give it air time.

My niece went vegan in January to save the planet then went off on a skiing holiday as a reward. That's the sort of nonsense that gains traction in youth circles.

Do I care if nobody visits me. Hell no.

 

[Cowcorn]

My daughters school forbade students to attend these demos and a letter was sent home warning of dire sanctions if any pupil was seen at these events.
Ah the the Nuns you have to hand it to them the wont get fooled by this nonsense !!!

 

[DrWazzock]

A student strike.

Damage your own education and disrupt that of others. Prove to future employers that you have the wrong attitude before you have even left education.

Pointless negative exercise.

If you are that bothered about the climate change make the necessary changes to your personal life and the things you can control.

 

[rob1]

A student strike.

Damage your own education and disrupt that of others. Prove to future employers that you have the wrong attitude before you have even left education.

Pointless negative exercise.

If you are that bothered about the climate change make the necessary changes to your personal life and the things you can control.

Thats not the way it works these days. Its slways someone else that is at fault and who needs to change

 

[marco]

If perhaps they organised a countrywide day of planting trees, or god forbid collecting money to buy land to plant trees on that would be a movement with a productive outcome.

 

[R J]

A student strike.

Damage your own education and disrupt that of others. Prove to future employers that you have the wrong attitude before you have even left education.

Pointless negative exercise.

If you are that bothered about the climate change make the necessary changes to your personal life and the things you can control.

Very true ,
If they work hard in science lessons they may come up with some solutions !

 

[MidLincs farmer]

No, didn’t sneer at the last time they went on strike, won’t sneer at them this time. Strangely I don’t feel the need to sneer at people who do things differently, hold different opinions or want different outcomes to me. It’s a shame that a thumb to the nose of people who think differently to ourselves seems so to be the default position of some.

As a parent I wouldn’t encourage a child to miss any schooling. We are often reminded in no uncertain terms that every day of attendance is vital to their learning (which seemed to go very quiet when the teachers took strike action BTW ) so obviously a day of protest could better spent but if others feel they need to protest then so be it.

 

[DrWazzock]

They are wasting public funds allocated to education so I don't agree with it.

Maybe if all education was private people would think twice before blowing a days fees on a pointless exercise.

Just my view. I'm grumpy because it's lambing time. No, I'm just grumpy anyway.

 

[arcobob]

They are wasting public funds allocated to education so I don't agree with it.

Maybe if all education was private people would think twice before blowing a days fees on a pointless exercise.

Just my view. I'm grumpy because it's lambing time. No, I'm just grumpy anyway.

Private schools were not caught up in these antics, mainly because the fee paying parents would play hell but also because the attitude of the teachers is entirely different.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Kids are very often the voices of their parents

 

[DrWazzock]

I don't know whether people think about it but teachers have a certain amount of material to get through. Every lesson is dedicated to a part of the syllabus that is essential to the course.

If people miss lessons it's a problem because it's difficult to make up the lost time. Two modules must then be squeezed into one lesson, the teaching is more difficult and results can only suffer for it.

Being married to a teacher it surprises me how much she is expected to do to encourage kids who can't be bothered. They have even had to visits pupils homes and with help of parents persuade them to get out of bed to come to school to sit exams.

In my day, if you didn't attend you got zero and deserved it.

 

[Bomber_Harris]

Personally I would only allow council tax payers who are over 45 to vote in elections.

Some of the rubbish that the youth of today comes out with is beyond belief but there are only too many lefty politicians and metrosexuals willing to give it air time.

My niece went vegan in January to save the planet then went off on a skiing holiday as a reward. That's the sort of nonsense that gains traction in youth circles.

Do I care if nobody visits me. Hell no.

you should try reaching out to her

all this bravado, it's bollox

you may not care now but you will one day, probably when you're in the aforementioned care home and Prabhu is giving you a colonic irrigation

- Bomber

 

[Bomber_Harris]

I recall the last time the kids and the bright young things took the day off school to demonstrate against the state of our planet and all the usual suspects in the right wing media took to their platforms to put the boot in

Julia Hartley-Brewer to name one of many

Likewise on this forum there was no shortage of not-so-bright old things putting the boot into the bright young things

are you going to do it again? are you going to sneer at them? are you going to ridicule them like last time?

of course you will

only know this

stuff like this is one of the many many reasons why you're becoming more and more disconnected with your kids

remember this thread

remember it when you're in a care home having your bum wiped by someone from India and it's been more than 6 months since you last saw your son and grandchildren

there's a reason why your son always has a 'lot of work to do this weekend' whenever you suggest he pays you a visit with the children

you disconnected from them decades ago because of all the sneering and ridiculing over stuff like this

you'll remember this thread when you're all alone. You'll look back on how empty your twilight years are and you'll think "damn, the Bomber was right"

that is all

- Bomber

'It's our time to rise up': youth climate strikes held in 100 countries

School and university students continue Friday protests to call for political action on crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...p-youth-climate-strikes-held-in-100-countries

it may have gone unnoticed in today's news especially as so much of the media was concerned with the latest fukery from Nigel Farage, but there was a fresh wave of youth climate protests across the globe

and remember, if your initial reaction is ridicule and sneer at these youngsters, see my opening post. That will be you years from now, all alone and having your bum wiped from someone from India, and you will look back and think "Damn, the Bomber was right"

- Bomber

https://www.independent.co.uk/envir...ronment-children-school-protest-a8866771.html

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/...quare-for-climate-change-strike-a4116721.html

 

[MiJ]

Couple of books worth giving to the young
Global Warming and other Bol locks
The Long Emergency.

 

[Scribus]

All these protests go to prove is how easy it is to manipulate and exploit the young. The Nazi's were bloody good at it to.

 

[Jackov Altraids]

I would have absolute respect for any 'youth' that gave up THEIR time to protest.
Most would do anything to 'mitch off ' school for a day so it's pretty meaningless.

What kind of a failure does one have to be in their own profession to waste so much time trolling on a farmers forum to ease ones inferiority complex......

 

[Hindsight]

All these protests go to prove is how easy it is to manipulate and exploit the young. The Nazi's were bloody good at it to.

Possibly / Probably as easy to manipulate the old - mention of Death Tax anyone!?

 

[Scribus]

Possibly / Probably as easy to manipulate the old - mention of Death Tax anyone!?

But the wrinklies aren't quite so photogenic.