Today is the election in Norway. The question is will they vote out the socialist government that is currently in power? I'm not sure. There seems to be a movement for Trump ideas in other countries. By Trump ideas, of course, I mean putting your citizens above foreigners. Such a strange concept in today's society. There is a socialist from Wales on our trip. We had a civilized talk and she seems to be old school in that you talk to people you don't agree with to get the other side of the story.
The Canadians on the trip aren't as open. I had to hear them complain about climate change. I will never understand how someone old enough to remember the 70s can still believe climate change is an existential threat. In the 70s, the whole world was panicked because we were going into another ice age and global cooling was the catastrophic existential threat. Then we had global warming and now we have climate change since they admit that they can't figure out which way it's going. This trip proved the point that weather people suck even at predicting the weather. Weather.com told us it was going to rain every day we were here.....it's rained once in the five days we've been here. 20% success rate for a 50/50 if chosen randomly is not something to boast about yet they do.
The bird killers were in full effect on the bus ride over here. For those of you who don't know, the 'bird killers' are windmills. They provide the least cost effective energy, kill birds as a byproduct, and use a lot of oil in order to operate. Not to mention that their turbines are non-biodegradable. So Silent Spring was wrong (or lied) about DDT killing birds and it was banned worldwide but windmills actually kill birds and the argument is to use them more. All the more reason that if someone is ineffective and doesn't work, the left will love it but if it's effective and efficient, they'll despise it. How dare DDT kill mosquitoes and wipe out malaria! If malaria is eradicated then more Africans will live and then we'll have more overpopulation causing more of a carbon footprint and thus creating more climate change. I know, we'll just pretend they kill birds and prey on people's love for animals so they kill Africans instead. For those of you who think there's "nothing wrong with being good stewards of the Earth" so justify white lies like this one, to steal a line from the other side, you are part of the problem.
The other lie environmentalist love to perpetuate is that plastic straws are killing oceanic life. Less than 1% of the plastic in the oceans comes from straws and less than 1% of that 1% comes from America. America getting rid of plastic straws is so insignificant against the problem, you might as well call it 0. 90% of ocean's plastic comes from 10 rivers. 6 of those rivers are in China, and 4 are in Africa. Yet nobody tells them to stop. Every time I tell this to an environmentalist who is actually knowledgeable, they always come back with "Who cares? There's nothing wrong with having a clean planet so if you have to tell a white lie to get people to behave, then it's fine." The success of the movement proves people like to be lied to.
All I've done on this trip is confirm my hatred of Candians. The Welsh woman hates the English but I can't understand that. I don't know much about Wales but Ireland wouldn't exist without British imperialism. I pointed that out and that was the most pushback I got but I expected it. She was good natured about it so I have no qualms. The Canadian that pulled her aside to counteract us told her that Europe is being destroyed by "Trump-Wanna-bes" like Macron and Trudeau. This is how the left operates, they pretend that the people fucking everything up is not on their side even though they always supported them right until everything collapsed. Trudeau, the former PM of Canada, isn't even European. To claim Trudeau and Macron are "Trump-wanna-bes" is so far from reality that you have to just concede that you can't fix stupid. THere's a reason those two hate Trump; they are his antithesis.