Saturday, October 19, 2019

Little Greta

Русский

Unfortunately, grown people frequently use children for achieving their own goals. 

    The Greta Thunberg story reminded me of my school experiences.
    At the end of the forties, Stalin decided to enlarge the collective farms by uniting several villages. Our village was large, and there were several small ones around.  There were collective farms in all villages. Some collective farms were richer. They did not want any unification. In the school building, should have been a meeting of all the peasants in order to solve the problem of unification.
    I was in fourth grade. Our teacher said that we should all go to this meeting and vote for the association. Otherwise, the assessment of our behavior will be reduced. She said that unification is a very important event for the country. It will accelerate our movement towards communism.
   We all happily went to this meeting. We participated very actively, shouting that we were going to communism and voted as requested. Collective farms were combined. Our merit in making this decision was substantial.


     Now back to Greta.
     Global warming is determined by many processes, not only by carbon dioxide emissions.  There are much more powerful influences on Earth temperatures then  due to carbon dioxide. [1]
    Climate change is a too difficult problem for children's minds.The current Earth temperature change is little understood even by professional climatologists. It is a shame to do propaganda among children who are not prepared to verify the correctness of propagandist ideas.
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    [1]. Is climate change man-made?
 https://galinapop-russia.blogspot.com/2019/10/sunday-february-24-2019-is-  climate.html

Все мы немножко Греты

English

К сожалению, взрослые люди часто используют детей для достижения своих собственных целей.

История с Гретой Tунберг напомнила мне о моих школьных событиях. 
В конце сороковых Cталин решил укрупнять колхозы объединением нескольких деревень. Наша деревня была большая, а вокруг было несколько маленьких. Во всех были колхозы. Некоторые колхозы были более богатыми. Они не хотели никакого объединения. В школе должнo былo быть собрание всех крестьян, чтобы решить проблему объединения. 
Я была в четвёртом классе. Наша учительница сказала, что мы все должны пойти на это собрание и проголосовать за объединение. Иначе нам снизят оценки по поведению. Она сказала, что объединение - очень важное событие для страны. Онo ускорит наш наше движение к коммунизму.  В это время только дети верили в коммунизм.
Мы все радостно пошли на это собрание. Мы чувствовали себя очень важными, мы решали судьбу нашей родины. Мы очень активно участвовали, кричали, что мы идем к коммунизму и голосовали так как нас просили. Колхозы объединили. Наша заслуга в принятии этого решения былa существенной. 

Теперь вернемся к Грете.

   Глобальное потепление определяется многими процессами, а не только выбросами углекислого газа. Существует гораздо более сильное влияние на температуру Земли, чем изменение температуры из-за углекислого газа.[1] 
   Изменение климата является слишком сложной проблемой для детских умов. Нынешнее изменение температуры Земли мало понимают даже профессиональные климатологи. Стыдно заниматься пропагандой среди детей, которые не готовы проверить правильность пропагандистских идей.
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1. Is climate change man-made?
https://galinapop-russia.blogspot.com/2019/10/sunday-february-24-2019-is-  climate.html

Friday, October 11, 2019

My adventures at Chicago Airport (ORD)


     On Wednesday, October 2, I was traveling from Karlovy Vary to Columbia. At 7 in the morning there was a bus to Prague, and then a flight to Columbia with stops in Philadelphia and Chicago, where I arrived at about 7pm. From Chicago, I had a flight AA3172 to Columbia at 8:50 pm from gate G19A. Then the gates began to change: G5, G1, L8, H2. I ran between these gates, like a hare, an old hare with sore legs.
    Then the departure times started to change, to 9:15 pm, 10:35 pm, 11:30 pm, 12:15 pm, 1:00 am, 3:00 am.
    The flight was delayed because the plane was being repaired at that time. Around 11:00 pm, passengers were divided into two groups: pessimists and optimists.
    Pessimists did not believe that the plane would be repaired and asked for a hotel. All the pessimists were given a hotel, and vouchers for a taxi and a meal.  We were given tickets for the new Flight at 8:45 a.m. My hotel was a half-hour drive from the airport. It was pouring rain, but I quickly found a taxi. 
    Optimists waited for about another 2 hours when they were told that the plane could not be fixed until morning. They were taken to a large room with many beds, where they could sleep until morning. Their plane flew to Columbia approximately at the same time as ours.