Staying warm the survival bid of the 21st Century

You don’t have to go overseas to find elderly people spending the day riding on buses and going to libraries and shopping centres just to stay warm, because it’s happening right here in North America too. Staying warm has become the survival bid of the 21st century. Pensioners, not “street people” are the new norm. “Middle class families are among millions of Britons who cannot afford to heat their homes this winter, as elderly ride on buses all day to stay in the warm.” (Godlike Productions).

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“After a week of snow and freezing temperatures a shocking picture has emerged of the bleak months ahead for 5.5 million households. Pensioners, who are among those most vulnerable to the cold, are resorting to extraordinary measures to keep warm. Many have been using their free travel passes to spend the day riding on buses while others are seeking refuge from the cold in libraries and shopping centres.”

This is the shameful human cost of government New Energy Mandates here and abroad. On January 1, 2011 states like Pennsylvania will see their energy costs soar by 30 percent. Ditto and even higher for Canadian provinces. Maurice Strong’s NGO (non-government organization) members and environmental activists, some of them the elected officials of the day, have completed their mission: finding cowardly, politically correct governments willing to put keeping warm beyond the reach of average people. Incredible that while grandmothers and grandfathers are riding public transit to keep warm, thousands of NGO’s and environmental activists along with the heads of various states, are sipping martinis in cosy Cancun bars during the hypocritically entitled, UN Climate Change Conference. Complaints from people to their governments about unaffordable energy bills continue to go unanswered as governments live the lie of telling them that their soaring bills are necessary. Governments inundate taxpaying populations with high gloss notices like the ones sent out during election years, telling them when they can wash or dry their clothes and instructing them on high or low their household temperatures should be. The governments of countries on both sides of the ocean are talking about having to ration electricity to offset a global warming already identified as the biggest scam in human history. In David Cameron’s Britain, this is happening only several generations after Winston Churchill, including the one that bravely lived through life in the bomb shelter. Two days before his November 4, 2008 election as US president, Barack Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle “Energy prices will skyrocket under my Cap and Trade Plan.” During his Campaign of Hope and Change, he had already promised to “bankrupt” the coal industry. Experts are calling for the coldest winter in a century. People here and abroad are forced to huddle for warmth away from their homes, even in the aftermath of a derailed global warming movement that now seeks water as the new scare front. The old year will soon be replaced by a new one covered in icicles. The decades long Greenpeace “Save the Environment” slogan should be replaced to cover the cold new reality of governments willing to let their own people freeze: “Save the People.”