Climate change activists or glue sniffers?

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Washington draws all kinds of kooks and kooky ideas. The latest are members of the Super Glue Gang.

Haven’t you heard?

The Super Glue Gang advocates climate change. They’ve decided that God can’t make up his mind and that Mother Nature is confused.

The natural scheme of things is off kilter, but a new Green New Deal will make everything ecological correct. A new silent spring, if you will, will come via congressional action in 2020.

A group of a few hundred activists under the banner of Shutdown DC hit town Monday morning. They blocked major thoroughfares during morning rush hour, causing major headaches for commuters, people trying to enjoy the last vestiges of a sunny pre-autumn morn and beckoning their GPS systems for alternatives to the traffic blockades manned by police.

Law enforcers were restrained, as usual, enabling protesters their First Amendment rights. Only three dozen or so were arrested, which means they’ll be back for more shenanigans.

The Super Glue Gang’s next performance is set for Friday morning.

To tell the truth, the protesters did not shut down D.C. They merely slowed down and inconvenienced folks who aren’t familiar with how the climate of a daily D.C. commute changes when protesters are in town exercising their First Amendment rights.

For sure, that’s an inconvenient truth.

What’s arresting, though, is what some of the activists pulled off just to put an exclamation point on their climate change antics. They Super Glued themselves to their props.

Hadn’t you heard?

They used a bright pink and a bright yellow sailboat to block traffic along K Street NW, the heart of D.C. Lobby Town. Then they sat down and Super Glued themselves to the vessel.

Outrageous, huh?

As outrageous and dangerous as chaining yourself to a tree. Which environmental activists do.

As outrageous and dangerous as stirring up the United Nations to force financial institutions to donate climate change ideological kookiness.

See, people are dying because they do not have easy access to clean water.

People are dying because people who provide medical care are being violently shooed away.

People are dying because they’re ill-prepared for natural disasters — disasters that have flooded our globe since, well, read the Book of Genesis … in the Bible. It’s the first book, the one that starts “In the beginning” — and it has nothing to do with “it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord.”

That grown folks took a toxic substance, poured it on their skin and then placed their skin on a boat that said with bold black letters that said “REBEL FOR LIFE” is dangerous.

It’s dangerous because these people are role models, whether we agree with them or not. And young people are glued to YouTube and other social media to get a good close-up look at what to do next.

They’ve already hooked school — and they’re excused for playing hooky.

Encouraging young people to be environmentally conscious is one thing. Urging them and showing them how to hurt themselves in the process, however, is dangerous and stupid.

What’s outrageous is some of members of the Super Glue Gang appeared old enough to have read Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” when it was published in 1962 — a seminal tome in the environmental movement.

It’s theme? The danger in toxic chemicals.

⦁ Deborah Simmons can be contacted at [email protected]

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