Friday 25 February 2011

... and finally they came for the water users!

The BBC wheel out their fakecharity template article.

1. There's a "should" in the headline, repeated in the first sentence, which is a signal that what you are about to read is complete fabricated bollocks.

2. Then there are some rent-a-quotes from the National Trust, RSPB and World Wildlife Fund etc.

3. It rounds off with a government spokesman agreeing that "more must be done".

So far so good.

Now, I can understand Them going for smokers, drinkers, fatties, skinnies, gamblers, pornographers etc, because those are all minorities; They launch occasional skirmishes against car drivers, but they are the majority so it's half-hearted at best; but what makes Them think they can humiliate water users? That's all of us, surely? Even tramps have to visit public toilets or take the occasional communal shower in a drop-in centre or something.

PS, water is indeed "a precious resource" but there is no lack of the physical substance itself; the cost is collecting it, storing it, purifying and pumping it.

12 comments:

Scott Wright said...

"PS, water is indeed "a precious resource" but there is no lack of the physical substance itself; the cost is collecting it, storing it, purifying and pumping it."

Indeed and if there ever were a real view that we will face a shortage, desalination (is that the right word?) technology would be researched quicker & come to the fore in order for us to pump water from the sea and make it drinkable.

Heck it might even help with these imaginary doomsday sea-level rises the warmist propaganda merchants are spinning us.

Bill Quango MP said...

I never thought of that. As sea levels rise we just globally drink a few litres each, and back down it goes.
I suppose we all have to pee down a mineshaft or something to stop it seeping back into the water table.
Or sealed jars, Howard Hughes style.

Bayard said...

Of course, this completely ignores the fact that the western half of the country has more water than it knows what to do with falling out of the sky: when was there last a drought in Wales?

View from the Solent said...

A spokesweasel for DEFRA ..
"Water is a precious resource and we must all play our part in helping to conserve it for the benefit of society and the environment both now and in the future"

And how will this water be conserved for the future? Store it in dehyrated form, perhaps?

Mark Wadsworth said...

SW, BQ, even if sea levels were rising, however much we suck out will end up flowing back in again.

B, did it ever stop raining?

VFTS, that bit had me completely baffled as well.

JuliaM said...

"...but what makes Them think they can humiliate water users? That's all of us, surely?"

Travel on the Tube much, in the height of summer?

Mark Wadsworth said...

JM, yes, but being tall I can rise above the smells that so trouble you :-)

Bayard said...

"B, did it ever stop raining?"

Allegedly it does occasionally, even in Snowdonia.

"And how will this water be conserved for the future? Store it in dehyrated form, perhaps?"

I guess they mean stop taking water out of the ground faster than nature can put it back again, but it's not obvious.

Gordo said...

"I guess they mean stop taking water out of the ground faster than nature can put it back again, but it's not obvious."

Which brings us back to the truth that must not speak its name: overpopulation.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Gordo, the UK (as an island) is nowhere near "over-populated".

Towns and cities only appear to be crowded because of the Hallowed Greenbelt (they cover less than a tenth of the surface area) and we are or could be more or less self-sufficient in food if we really wanted. In crude numbers, there's one whole acre per person.

Sure, recent immigrants who don't respect Our Way Of Life are a problem, but they'd be a problem in e.g. Ireland which has a tenth of our population density.

Ian B said...

Oh, can't the government just once say, "what the fuck has this got to do with the RSPB? Aren't you bird people? Aren't you a bit outside your remit, here?"

Please. Just once.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Ian B, you appear to overlook that the RSPB is part of the government, see footnote at the end of this post.

The RSPB is a textbook fakecharity - the government pays them to recommend something which the government wanted to do anyway.