2nd November 2019 Janteloven and the Danish CO2 problem.

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Saturday 2nd, 44-53F, milder but promised to be wet. Or just grey. Or wet. Or just grey. Perhaps with a little sunshine? Or just wet. Or just grey? You get the message. Danish Meteorologists speak with forked tongue! In fact there was light drizzle throughout my walk but none of the half-promised sun.

There were also lots of pheasants pottering about now that the huntsmen have given up the struggle for the moment. Something had upset the local gulls too. There were hundreds each, in several groups, swirling in circles out over the fields. Which, BTW, were landscaped by "Capability" Hanson back in the 18th century.

I can't be certain but it looks as if the main road has been swept. I hope they alerted the archaeological authorities. It would be awful if important fossils were missed amongst the debris on the asphalt. Or even early Viking treasures? You'd think they'd send a metal detectorist along. So that the archaeologists have more stuff to put into store and ignore for a few decades. 

Danish history could be re-written in a moment of inattentiveness. By a council worker using his mobile phone behind the wheel of their road sweeping machine. There was a short phase of believing the weird patterns on Danish park lawns were made by aliens. The infamous "Danish Crop Circle" boom. It soon proved that it was only council workers using their mobile phones while driving their ride-on lawnmowers.  There was a huge sigh of relief because the mere concept of "advanced aliens" seriously conflicts with Janteloven. Life in Denmark, as we know it, could cease to exist!

Getting back to the climate issue and the new government's lies empty election promises to reduce CO2 by 70% by 2130. An extreme right wing party, which previously, flatly denied climate change even existed, has suggested they use Denmark's North Sea Oil profits to pay for green research. They also demanded a seat on the climate group to ensure they can thrust a spanner into the works whenever it suits their dogma.

Somebody forgot to clean out the bath afterwards.

The problem [as ever] is Janteloven. Jante's law. Which clearly states, in Runes carved in imported pink granite, that nobody must ever think themselves better than any Dane. Including village idiots, peasants & pig farmers. So Pure Bred Danes must re-invent every single bit of "green" technology, for themselves. Or Denmark must simply go without. It's no use plagiarising other country's research. Nor is it any use bringing in clever, foreign researchers to work at Danish universities. That would conflict with Janteloven. The Danes, including all the peasants and pig farmers, would know and burn all the "immigrant's" books.

Sunday 3rd, 48F, calm, dark grey overcast. It remained resolutely grey during my walk. The Red Kite decided yesterday's free entertainment was enough for one person and turned away. I teased the gulls by climbing the lane past their roosting field. Even at 200 yards they become agitated by human presence. Well, mine, anyway. How this lot would survive on a diet of stolen ice creams and chips at a [dying] British coastal resort is anybody's guess. 

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