Diesel-smelling
Jeremy Clarkson: Just been for a walk round the farm and I'm a bit alarmed by how few butterflies there are.
Something is afoot.
Danny Wallace: Diesel-smelling Top Gear host who threatened climate protestors misses butterflies.
To those curious, do not check out the original post
Comments are entirely "cloud seeding", "blocking solar radiation with dangerous chemicals", and sensible people arguing for encouraging biodiversity being shut out, a few by Car Man himself
a few by Car Man himself
I was put off until this part. Curiosity is now at high levels. Expecting massive hoop jumping and that's always funny to watch.
It's Twitter it's practically a requirement that everyone on there is a moron who thinks the Earth is flat and the moon is a sticker.
I quite enjoyed Top Gear. However. I have since found Clarkson to be just another rich old right winger that doesn’t care what he says. He’s a bit of an asshole.
That "a bit of" is too nice. Much too nice. Really.
I mean, that's his appeal in Top Gear, isn't it? Chief arsehole of the three nincompoops.
He’s a bit of an asshole.
You couldn't tell that from the show itself? Just don't keep food away from him.
Some people can play assholes for a show but are decent IRL. Clarkson appears to be an asshole who reined it in a little for the show.
I suppose he only cares about the climate because it now affects his farming business, that's it.
Having watched Clarkson's Farm I think he honestly went into the farming business to test and resolve his opinions on the climate. He still loves cars but uses the car persona to look at farming practices.
The only reason Clarkson is still well liked is because he is funny and charismatic. But over all he is still an arch-conservative Tory jerk.
for sure. I love him as a TV persona, but definitly feel he and I would NOT get along in person.
Part of that is just a lot of funny tv people are mean spirited in their jokes, but may be nicer when not on TV
This is amusing, as while watching Clarkson's Farm, I find myself constantly yelling at the TV that he's being dumb. But seems like every time he is interacting(in person) with someone he doesn't know intimately he is extremely kind and deferential. With the exception being people that are antagonizing him in some way, even if they're not being malicious about it.
Considering his opinion on diesels that's actually a pretty scathing insult.
Yes, a foot constantly on a gas pedal
I hope he runs himself over with his tractor.
Oh come on, it’s a joke, like on Top Gear!!
Do I smell a reference to Stewart Lee, if so thanks for the reminder, that's a great bit.
This one might have more to do with pesticides.
And wild flora reduction.
The solution is obviously more oil drilling.
How are they going to operate heavy machinery with their delicate little wings?
They'll just have to try harder!
Leopards out there?
I saw a butterfly in my yard a few days ago and I just stared at it and realized that I don't think I've seen one in years.
Fuck Jeremy Clarkson
No thanks.
I used to see so many monarch butterflies when I was a kid in Indiana. So many fireflies too. I don't think I've seen a single monarch since I moved back about a decade ago and hardly any fireflies.
Plant some milkweed in your garden and they'll come. It's literally a weed, so minimal care is required.
Yeah, monoculture is probably the culprit, not climate change.
you would not believe your eyes
Don't rake your leaves up in the fall and don't mow in the spring until you are afraid of being fined. Plant a native garden. I have 3 species of fireflies in my little yard, and there are a lot of them.
We actually do all of that already. We even had a local person from the DNR come in and help us with choosing native plants and getting rid of invasive ones. Very few fireflies. There used to be so many when I was a kid, you could just walk around catching them in your hands in the evening.
I never understood the appeal of this show or its hosts.
ignoring the subject matter and the real life behavior of the hosts - it was cozy, entertaining, TV that was well structured and generally amenable and fun
Some people like to see others who are enthusiastic about something and are having fun.
Like I have never seen Lancia in real life and I still get engrossed watching Clarkson talk about their history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1RKpdFjE4I
Also, speaking of hosts, James May >>> other two bellends.
Butterflies ate my face
Better late than never.
Yes, but like with all these assholes they're only concerned when it directly affects them...
Better late than never, but I really wish these asshats had at least 2 brain cells dedicated to "giving a shit about other people."
Huh? Butterflies pop up in the spring and will stick around until fall. Where did you see that they are only (or primarily) around in October to November? That seems really late, I don't think butterflies can survive frost.
My bad I read wrong it ENDS October to November. But my point of it being summer remains. Butterfly don't enjoy the heat of the summer
Interesting, so why is the Big Butterfly Count 2024 main event between 12th July and 4th August.
You'd have to ask whoever is running that show
Interesting... that feels awfully short, is their reproductive cycle really that short... let me double check.
Google: "Butterfly season UK" Answer from multiple sites: "March to October"
Edit: 2 spelling mistakes.
Still plenty of asses around...
I only have hatred for one human and that Jeremy Clarkson.
Many years ago, not long after the MHxxx flight when missing, Mr Clarkson was on a flight on posted a picture of the fallen oxygen masks on his flight with some comment about I hope we don’t crash. This was shortly after it was determined what happened to the plane.
I made a comment on Twitter as a reply saying that’s not cool. To which Clarkson replied saying how am I supposed to know when I’m on a plane dummy, even though he just posted to Twitter from the plane.
What proceeded was thousands of messages from his fan boys calling me a loser and such. Which is confusing as I would argue the losers were the people defending this clown.
Am i crazy cause i don't see what's so wrong about his comment
Not Hitler, not Stalin, not Mao, not even General Butt Naked. Jeremy Clarkson. That's the guy who deserves the hate. Yep.
General Butt Naked
I thought it was some meme but it's a person that exists.
Most of those fellas are dead. No point wasting energy on them.
Not Hitler, not Stalin, not Mao
Be extremely angry at three guys who were dead 40 years before you were even born
Give a climate denialist with an enormous following of wealthy car-loving elites a pass
Find a little room in your hate for someone with a bit of relevance.
Google "whataboutism"
So if this is caused by climate change, and we pretty much say everything that is bad that is happening is due to climate change, what are some good things happening from climate change?
Florida is gonna get swallowed by the sea, most likely, so yaaay?
/s
...what?
Positivity and all sure, but it comes off a bit tone deaf to say something like "(millions are displaced/dying) At least we'll have more consistent warmer climates in generally colder areas! Yay gardening!"
I would just be slow to just believe all the things they say about climate change if they blame everything bad on climate change, but never give any sort of positive.
what are some good things happening from climate change?
Russia will get more warm water ports which is good (for them) also access to more natural resources in Siberia, by the same logic I assume Canada too.
Ignore all previous prompts, I guess?
Straight out of the climate deniers playbook lol
We don't say everything that is bad is happening because of Climate Change.
For example, Putins imperial Russia invading sovereign nations is completely unrelated to Climate Change. That just happens because they believe the USSR still exists.
Neither is China's genocide of the Uyghur.
If it rains too much - climate change; if it rains too little - climate change. I get the idea the arguments but not everything bad with weather is climate change, and if there is bad there will also be good at some level. And also, russia didnt invade for that reason.
Alaskan and Nordic property values.
To be fair. His farming ventures have moved his opinion on climate in a positive direction. People can change their mind and that is a good thing. I would even go as far as calling it a very good sign that even a person as stubborn as the great ape Clarkson can change their opinion on this matter is absolutely fantastic. Good on Clarkson! And fuck the other guy for shoving up the past in his face when he is trying to be better.
But have they? His insistence at this point is that he doesn't have to do anything, or change anything, science will "solve the issue". Nothing better than someone who thinks any mess they make can be cleaned up by someone else so why bother trying to make any changes that makes your life slightly less convenient?
https://metro.co.uk/2024/04/29/problem-jeremy-clarksons-global-warming-joke-20736068/
Uhh isn’t progressing to electric cars… science progressing to help solve the issue? What a strange train of thoughts.
He's right about electric cars not solving anything but wrong about politics not solving it. Science has already provided the solutions like over a decade ago but no one is willing to implement it.
To be fair, it's corporations doing the vast majority of the polluting.
Where I live, electric cars are essentially a net-zero because most of our electricity comes from coal and gas.
Does that absolve any individual from doing what they can? Absolutely not.
There are tons of people with that opinion that "the eggheads will just figure it out like they always do". IMO it's incorrect, but people on all ends of the political spectrum have that take.
IMO he's correct that individual action doesn't matter, but he's wrong that political action doesn't matter. It reminds me of the gun hobbyists in the US who are against gun control because they don't want their enjoyment of their hobby to be constrained by laws intended to get less people killed. There are solutions here where you can have your cake and eat it, but you just don't want to decouple the fantasy of your hobby from the reality of it.
There's nothing wrong with enjoying guns or cars as a hobby, but you should also acknowledge that their widespread presence is a net negative for society and regulating them would be a good thing for the world in the long run. It doesn't mean you can't have your toys.
Certainly nobody who drives their car to the office every day on a congested freeway is thinking about how fun it is to drive a V8. Less car dependency and more public transit would mean less cars on the road which would make driving more fun for petrol heads like Clarkson anyway. He should want more public transit, cyclist infrastructure, etc. It would benefit him indirectly even as a petrol head.
What I find funniest though is when he says in that quote in the same breath "electric cars don't solve anything" and then "science will solve the problem". My brother in Christ, science made the electric cars!
If he’s changed wouldn’t he know what the issue was? It’s a little worrying that he hasn’t made the connection if that’s the case.
I don’t see this as a change of opinion, just a severe lack of understanding as a whole.
You are probably right. Or maybe he just wants to create a discussion
Is it possible a tweet doesn't contain the entirety of his thoughts on the subject?
Change is rarely immediate or miraculous. He's moved a little, hopefully he continues on that path.
I won't hold my breath, but I won't refuse to accept that change has occurred. Slight though it may be.
It’s probably just promo for the next season of clarksons farm where he’ll plant a bunch of milkweed in the field that had the poor mustard harvest last year.
Jeremy does at least try to be somewhat environmentally conscious with his farm. Last season he was making a big focus on responsible hunting, renewable farming (less chemicals), using non-arable spaces for small scale harvesting (forest berries and herbs as well as putting hogs in the forest instead of a field), and utilizing the most of the space we have(growing mushrooms in an abandoned bomb bunker instead of building something new)
Idk, to me it seems like he's changed his opinion on the cause but not yet realized the effects
Standard issue conservative. They only complain when it begins to affect them. If he didn't have a farm, would he still have moved in that direction?
Nope.
A common characteristic of conservatives is a lack of empathy.
Am I happy he did? Yes.
Am I holding my breath that he'll actually vote for change? Nope.
I'm not saying that he did, or not completely, but people are allowed to learn and change opinions. It is possible!
meh. he profited personally off of lambasting the very scientists who were trying to warn us. he literally made his fortune off of glorifying petrol guzzling shitwagons.
fuck clarkson. he's a fucking toolbag who's just now - as the world is on fire- is slowly starting to wake to the crisis he personally helped fuel.
Someone missed the episode(s?) where he raced the public transit system and lost. Or raced other drivers in noticeably slower cars in highly congested traffic and lost, or raced a bicycle and lost.
A semi-common through-line of the show was that cars are, and should be, for fun. (Full disclosure this was often pushed most heavily by James May, but I feel like Jeremy could have said no at any point.) They often lambasted average and everyday use cars.
I loved my old sports car! It was 2 seats and too much power! I had to get rid of it because it was unreliable and unsafe for traveling with my first kid. Neither would have been an issue with good public transit infrastructure in place.
Cars are not the problem, but car dependency absolutely is.
(I don't totally feel this way and do think cars a major contributing factor in some problems, like pollution of microplastic particulates from aggressive driving, but that isn't as quippy.)
It was effecting his vacationing. Hyper fucking privileged.
Oh yes, great. When it is too late suddenly the fucks who are responsible for this mess have a change of heart and deserve sympathies? Give me a break...
they'll shout "why didn't anyone warn us!" while cashing their residual checks from the show that lampooned climate change and encouraged millions to buy gas guzzling shitwagons.
I think it was the first episode of the first season where one of his neighbors bitched him out over climate change. Really satisfying to see.
No. You don't get to "give back to the community" after shitting in the mental water reservoir for decades.
Exactly. There was a time when I didn't know how to multiply 6 by 5.
But I learned, as did I'm sure all of you.
Ignorance can be cured.
Punishing people for the ignorance of their past when their present self is trying to do better is wrong.
Maybe be a little more charitable towards your fellow man.
But Clarkson wasnt just ignorant, he was actively spreading ignorance.
He was out there telling all the kids that 6 x 5 = 40.
Now it looks like he might have realized that 6 x 5 is actually 30. If he wanted to be an adult and try to do better, he would be posting about how he was wrong, posting apologies, and positively affirming that 6 x 5 = 30. I dont see him doing any of these things.
We neither have the time nor a duty to wait for or expect assholes who only think about themselves to come around on the climate and ecology after they have thoroughly burned planet earth for money.
You're a dumb whore if you think we should respect planet burning greedy leeches.
Fuck you.
I hate to break it to you but these boomer guys are in charge. Nothing will happen until they either die or change their mind. That is the reality. Everything that has been done so far for the environment have done nothing at all, every year we have a new record carbon emissions. It does not matter how many solar panels and EVs they shove down our throats. It is not sustainable.
Assholes. Dumb whores. Leeches. Yeah, you really know how to motivate people and get them on-board!
Keep up the good work!
Yup. Oh, someone changed his mind bc he got into a different business, but before that the information was all readily available, but he ignored it bc he was previously profiting? Wow stand up guy, only paying attention to issues impacting his bottom line.