Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Children Crusades


About nine hundred years ago the elders of Europe sent twenty thousand or so of their children off on a silly, futile and fatal crusade to save Jerusalem from the infidels. This week hundreds of thousands of parents around the world encouraged their equally naive children to rail against that daemon, global warming ... caused by carbon dioxide ... otherwise essential to all life. History surely has a way of repeating its more bazaar moments.

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