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Doomsday prophecies! End times hysteria! The weeping, the wailing and the gnashing of teeth!

Thousands march on the legislature in Edmonton. Greta Thunberg, the teen environmental extremist, the social media pop star, has arrived.

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I’m not up in Edmonton. I watch from afar.

I would have driven up but Greta would have been mad at me, making a pilgrimage in my weapon of mass destruction, a VW Golf with a full tank of gas.

But, like certain self-serving politicians in this province parading their phoney-baloney virtue, maybe I should have begged for a selfie with Greta.

After all, she, like, just wants to not only shut down the oilpatch, she wants to shut down the use of oil and gas altogether and that seems like such a cool idea.

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Especially since the clock is ticking ever so quickly to the Last Judgment where Mother Earth will send us gas-guzzling unbelievers to the burning fires of hell.

Gag.

Well, the revival meeting proceeded as scheduled at the church of the climate apocalypse.