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Year after year, children and adults alike are baffled by how they can fight Climate Change. They know it begins with small things but remembering them, making them into Habits to Save Gaia isn’t easy. If it was, St. Greta wouldn’t have been so upset at the United Nations.
Need a reminder? A companion that will watch over and be a constant reminder to Do Better?
Introducing Grouch on the Couch. Your own St. Greta, dressed in her favorite yellow slicker. Place her in the bathroom to remind you to take shorter showers and turn off the water as you brush your teeth.
Discover her in the hallway and take your hand away from the thermostat. It’s cold? Put on another sweater.
Find her in the garage. You don’t really need to drive to the grocery store today. Grab your canvas bags and walk! Sure it’s five miles, but won’t you be happy for the exercise!
Turning out the light next to your bed and she’s there on the nightstand next to the condoms. Two words: over population.
Just think of the places she’ll turn up tomorrow!
And St. Greta doesn’t have to stay home. You’ll find her at the office, too! She might be standing over the plastic cutlery in the lunch room to say “didn’t you bring your own fork from home? Shame!”
There she is over next to the recycle bin! Don’t YOU DARE throw that empty soda can into the trash!
Oops… there she is next to the office thermostat! Put on that extra sweater.
Why settle for mere photocopies …
Imagine you’ve strolled into your office break room to enjoy some lunch, you open a cabinet to grab a paper napkin, reach in, and — egads! — see the visage of that 16-year-old emotionally troubled climate crusader, Greta Thunberg, scowling at you from behind the plastic spoons. [snip]
“Greta Shaming” is the latest lame stunt from the planet-saving crowd, intended to make you think twice before… I dunno… having the desire to go on living.
… when you can have your own Grouch on the Couch to help you obey fight Climate Change!.
Israelis are ‘Greta shaming’ each other over plastic https://t.co/wniyP6taaU via @timesofisrael
— Tree.St (@_TreeSt) November 7, 2019
Stay tuned for our Kickstarter campaign to get Grouch on the Couch in every home and office! Because, let’s face it. Try as she might, St. Greta cannot be everywhere at once.
Remember, only you can fight Climate Change.
featured image original artwork by VG Darleen Click
twolaneflash says: Climate changed here on the Florida coast last week: it went from the mid-90’s to the mid-70’s. Damn, I love me some climate change, and the hurricanes are gone till next year. Winning!
Scott says: Climate changed in Colorado as well, dropped from 55 to 25 in half an hour…On top of that, the sun went away and it started to SNOW!
Jim says: We’ve just had some ‘climate change’ here in southern Australia with strong Antarctic fronts dumping, rain, hail sleet and snow. Temperatures have dropped close to zero at a time when we are preparing to cut our paddocks to be bailed for hay – as in ‘make hay while the sun shines’. Well it’s not shining and the pasture is lush green and wet.
Georgev says: Well below freezing in SE Michigan and it’s only Nov 8. Most early Decembers are not this cold.
GWB says: she’s there on the nightstand next to the condoms
Won’t need them if she’s on my nightstand………………
Maybe, for an outdoors version it can be a Grump On The Stump?
Ooooh, you could do one that you can freeze and put in your drink, instead of those wasteful ice cubes: Grumbler in my Tumbler.
(There aren’t many good rhymes for ‘crank’ it seems.)
(Crank on a Plank seems appropriate for 3eocean voyages….)
Cameron says: Yeah…Thankfully I don’t work in an office environment that would tolerate such things and I doubt that they would like what I do to their religious icon.
GWB says: You aren’t talking about the Olaf Treatment are you? o.O
SFC D says: I’m thinking it’d be more useful as a urinal target.
Baceseras says: She could remind us not to flush for number ones. “If it’s yellow, let it mellow — if it’s brown, flush it down.”
Ralph R Jaeger says: I have observed that when Grouchy Greta wears her raincoat with the hood pulled over her scowling,palid visage she bears a resemblance to the chess playing spectre of death from Ingemar Bergmann’s film ” The Seventh Seal” . Must be a Swedish idiosyncrasy .
Ralph R Jaeger says: Surealistacally speaking of course.
Joe in PNG says: But unlike the polite figure of Death from the film, who’s willing to engage in a prolonged game of chess, she’d ice you and everyone you know in a heartbeat. For the good of the planet.
Ralph R Jaeger says: Well said,Joe. Death was far more agreeable in the film than Greta.
Rdm says: So why wouldn’t they just stop supplying the plastic spoons instead of pulling the Greta stunt, unless they just wanted to virtue signal and pretend they are some sort of saint?
I actually like this. I may start putting Greta’s scowling visage with a “how dare you?” on all sorts of things. She may become the next Harambe.
Joe in PNG says: Of course this would be outside the USA.
Try that in the USA, and that photo would be vandalized, parodied, and desecrated in all sorts of creative ways.
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