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Eula Goodnight: Marshal Cogburn, we’re ready to go. Shooting cornbread in a meadow is not taking us anywhere. And my father’s murderers ride free.

Rooster Cogburn: Well, Sister, I was just celebratin’ a little.

Eula Goodnight: Celebrating what?

Rooster Cogburn: Bein’ alive, Sister. Bein’ alive.

Rooster Cogburn 1975

I’m slightly confused.

Five years ago Greta Thunburg thought the world was going to end in five years.

It didn’t.

So she deleted the tweet that said it would happen and that’s all.

But WHY is that all?

Shouldn’t she be happy that the world didn’t end? Isn’t the idea that we all didn’t die from climate change a reason for people all over the world to celebrate?

Yet none of the people who agreed with this dire prediction seem pleased, they just seem to want to quietly walk away.

Hey if my Doctor had told me I had five years to live and five years later I was still going strong I’d throw a party.

But in fairness to Greta this happened before. In January of 2006 Al Gore said we had ten years to save the planet and the great Rush Limbaugh decided to run with it:

Now, the last time I heard some liberal talk about “ten years” it was 1988, Ted Danson. We had ten years to save the oceans; we were all going to pay the consequences, which would result in our death. Now Al Gore says we’ve got ten years. Ten years left to save the planet from a scorching. Okay, we’re going to start counting. This is January 27th, 2006. We will begin the count, ladies and gentlemen. This is just… You have to love these people — from afar, and from a purely observational point of view.

Ten years later the clock ran out and for some reason Al Gore didn’t celebrate the fact that mankind had survived either.

You’d think they all wanted us to burn, or starve or something.

Well personally even with all the problems the world still has I think this calls for a party so I declare March 18th 2023 A Day of Celebration of us all being alive so let’s party using a slight variation of my own Happy Birthday Song

♫ Hurray we're not dead! ♪
Hurray we're not dead!

We haven't died yet
We haven't died yet

Five years have passed and we're still here
The Climate death did not appear

So let  have a laugh and give a cheer
Hurry we're not dead!

♪ We're not dead. ♫

Climate change didn’t kill us, HUZZAH!