500’000 in Montréal. Change is coming!! #ClimateStrike #FridayForFuture #klimatstrejk pic.twitter.com/3NtyNk3dvh— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) September 27, 2019
WNU Editor: Some readers have asked me on why have I not posted anything on the massive climate change march in Montreal on Friday. My focus has been elsewhere for the past few days, so even though I am late, here are some observations. I did not attend the march, but I had to be in the center of Montreal that afternoon, and the office that I was going to was in the middle of the climate change march. I definitely did not want to drive, so I took public transportation (it was free that day). The place where I took the bus is also the bus stop near the local high school. This school is half non-white, and the students were more or less told that they were not under any obligation to go to school today. But at the bus-stop all the students who were waiting for the bus and who did NOT go to the march were non-white. I can understand why. Demo or not, these non-white students are primarily from immigrant families, and it has been drilled in them that they better go to school before anything else. When I was downtown I had a very good chance to see the crowds (at least one section of it). The placards were on climate change. Anti-globalism. Anti-capitalism. Anti-oil. Pro-Marxist. Pro-LGBTQ+. Etc.. The composition of the crowd was young, and almost entirely white. (Montreal is about 40% non-white). In the office that I was at, the people that I was seeing were not at all interested in what was happening outside. They actually found it to be a distraction. When I left the meeting the demonstration was ending and all that I saw was litter and garbage from the demonstration everywhere.Was I impressed. No.
Update: I am from a generation that strongly believed in pushing for government policies to preserve the environment. I did it in Moscow when I was living there, and I did the same when I became a citizen of Canada in the 1990s. But today's generation and their focus on the environment is different. They believe in computer models that say that global temperatures are rising, and it will destroy much of civilization if it is not stopped. Some are even saying that disaster is only 12 years away. I do not share this point of view. I am old enough and I have travelled the world enough to see first hand how the energy industry has transformed the lives of billions on this planet for the good. Any disruption in this supply and its growth would be a disaster for these people, and that is not based on some computer model but on the history of where we were, and where we are today. And as to claims that climate change will kill millions. Need I say that climate events did kill millions in the past, but due to global modernization fed by a growing energy industry, that is a thing of the past (see below). I do not want to live in that past, but Friday's massive turnout in Montreal tells me that a lot of people do.
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