3 A CROSS?

We've caught another CCD. We're gathering at the wind farm by the shore to witness the processing. The turbine for the execution is modified to always face the sea but its blades still rotate. Much of Castle Goring appears over the water at low tide but only rarely is the tide low enough for any of Worthing to be seen.

First the question. “Do you, Joshua Josephson, believe in climate change and acknowledge that it has been caused by human greed and stupidity?”

“No, it's all bollocks. I don't believe it.”

“So, Joshua Josephson, you are guilty of climate change denial. You are hereby sentenced to death by crucifixion.”

The three blades of the turbine don't literally form a cross. Josephson's arms are tied to the blades in a 120 degree angle. At one time we restrained the CCDs' heads, but that enabled them to strangle themselves quickly and the whole point is that they should die slowly. They have a heart monitor attached so we know when they are dead. It usually takes a few hours but varies greatly.

The execution started early this morning and the sun is setting. Josephson's heart rate is only slightly irregular and he appears to be sleeping. I volunteered and have drawn the first night shift.

Josephson is still living after 72 hours. Under the law of England he must be released. He is unconscious but his heart continues beating. An ambulance is ready to take him to hospital.

The more I think about it, the more I believe that crucifixion of CCDs is a mistake. When Josephson recovers he will be able to mount a campaign against us. The deaths of the CCDs have done nothing to bring back the land we have lost. Why make martyrs of them?


Joshua Josephson will be the last CCD to be sentenced to death in Sussex.  

by Peter Redfarn

Comments

  1. Pace Rainbird17 August 2018 at 08:46

    Reversion to barbarism in a future where they've lost the battle with climate change but maintain today's high tech renewables. And you do it all with a touch of macabre humour. Great.

    Not sure that I get the logic of the wind turbines being near the shore. Wouldn't they be further out to sea?

    Is the last sentence moving from the individual narrator to an all-seeing narrator, or is this the narrator's conviction, that this will be the last execution?

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    1. The Fossil18 October 2018 at 21:48

      Wind turbines are all along the shore where I lived in Cumrbia!

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