Eva Versus Greta

Two public commentators with opposing worldviews:

One does not expect that we should get all of our information and knowledge about important world events from young European females who are often featured in the media. BUT, if I had to choose between the two of them, I know which one I would rather run with.

One is the Dutch social and political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek (age 27), who has a background in legal studies. The other is the Swedish social and political commentator Greta Thunberg (age 20), who cut short her high school education so that she could traipse around the world pronouncing her gospel of climate gloom and doom.

One is fully aware of the radical agendas of the climate alarmists, including the Great Reset mob and folks like Klaus Schwab, while the other one is on a moral crusade to intimidate us all into giving up our cars, our gas stoves, our hamburgers, and our way of life so that we can somehow change the climate.

Greta of course gets all the free airtime and media coverage she likes, while Eva is mainly restricted to the alternative media because she dares to offer us a different take on things. She has long been sounding the alarm about the nefarious globalist agendas, including how the Dutch government is seeking to appropriate Dutch farms for the sake of ‘saving the planet’: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2023/01/13/three-cheers-for-the-dutch-resistance/

In a recent interview with Mark Steyn she said some important things about the frightening plans that our elites have for us (presumably all with the full approval of Greta). She highlighted the plans of the World Economic Forum and the Great Reseters to impose a personal carbon allowance on us peons.

This, connected to things like a digital ID, is being heavily pushed under the guise of dealing with our “climate crisis”. Part of that interview I present here:

Eva: The digital identity is not just a passport that you will have on your iPhone in a digital form – it entails just about everything the government would like to know about you. Yesterday in the Dutch media we saw a perfect example of what it could entail in the near future. We had the CEO of one of the largest Dutch banks say, ‘Why don’t we start with a personal carbon credit’ – a ‘carbon wallet’ she called it actually – right in line with the plans of the World Economic Forum people have for us… ‘Why don’t we make it so that rich people, who for example want to go on holiday a little too often, can buy personal carbon credits from people who can’t afford buying plane tickets or eating meat too often? So that way we can swap it out…’

 

Mark: So if Bill Gates’ or Leonardo DiCaprio’s carbon footprint is getting a bit too big, then some peasant living in his hovel up country somewhere, and he can’t afford to go to Saint-Tropez, but he will be able to sell his carbon allowance to Leonardo DiCaprio so Leonardo can park his yacht in Saint-Tropez for a few extra days.  

 

Eva: Exactly right, that’s it. So what will happen is the rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer, and they’re saying it openly as if it’s not a controversial thing at all. It’s neo-feudalism. That’s what it is. And they don’t mind…

Mark went on to speak about a Canadian bank vice president who said the same thing, speaking about how convenient all this would be with all your information in one central location and monitored, so we can save the planet – we’ll keep track of things like how many miles you do in your car, whether you’ve taken on too many vacations, if you’re eating too many cheeseburgers, etc. All that data will be centrally located…

Eva: Yeah, they’re being honest and they’re exposing their true agenda… The downside of this is – and I hope that people can see this – is that the government can shut you down… We should take their word seriously and say ‘hell no’. I say we should cancel these communists immediately and get the hell out of my private life. I’m not having you track me in what I eat and where I go…

Way to go Eva! She is a champ. You can watch that brief interview here: https://canadafreepress.com/article/dutch-political-commentator-eva-vlaardingerbroek-on-the-wefs-plans-to-impose-a-personal-carbon-allowance-connected-to-digital-id

On the other hand we have young Greta who angrily denounces anyone who does not take her totally seriously. ‘How dare you!’ One writer (I am not quite sure who) recently offered us a good insight into just what she is proposing, and what it in fact will actually look like in the real world.

It is well worth sharing, so I here offer it in full:

One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. 

 

She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks. “What’s this?” she asked. “Pulverized willow bark,” replied her fairy godmother. “What happened to the carpet?” she asked. “The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum,” came the response. 

 

Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles. “Your old toothbrush?” noted her godmother, “Also nylon.” “Where’s the water?” asked Greta. “Down the road in the canal,” replied her godmother, ‘Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it.” 

 

“Why’s there no running water?” Greta asked, becoming a little peevish. “Well,” said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, “Where do we begin?” There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it’s impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tires and how ore has to be smelted to a make metal, and that’s tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat, and even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden’s energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tires and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . . 

 

“What’s for breakfast?” interjected Greta, whose head was hurting. “Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs,” replied her godmother. “Raw.” “How so, raw?” inquired Greta. “Well, . . .” And once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and in the end was educated about how you can’t have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore. 

 

“But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes,” lamented Greta. “Tilda died this morning,” the godmother explained. “Bacterial pneumonia.” “What?!” interjected Greta. “No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin.” “Not anymore,” explained godmother “The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum-based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there’s not any easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can’t really burn many bodies using as fuel Swedish fences and furniture, which are rapidly disappearing – being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm.” 

 

This represents only a fraction of Greta’s day, a day without microphones to exclaim into and a day without much food, and a day without carbon-fibre boats to sail in, but a day that will save the planet. Tune in tomorrow when Greta needs a root canal and learns how Novocain is synthesized.

As I say, if I have to make a choice between Eva and Greta, I certainly know which woman I will run with.

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