Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 28, 2023

My own childhood involved a key that you’d use to wind up a spring inside the toys.

Santa didn’t have enough USB ports in his sleigh for everybody’s toys.

Both have it right. When ‘wind up’ passed, we worked with batteries, which eventually ended up in landfills. Then later on, we happily turned to rechargeables which eventually . . .

Unfortunately, we cannot have proper hydration and lower sea levels until the ice caps stop cooling the ocean waters.

Time for windup spring drives to make a comeback?

Solar panels don’t work very well at the north pole.

Reality and fantasy fuse in a child’s mind.

If our tradition of Santa came from Australia, would he have lived at the South Pole?

Maybe if we all rode bikes and ate bugs, the little jerk would have more power from the coal plant with which to charge his toys.

You want to stop human global warming or human caused pollution? Get rid of half the humans, it would do wonders.

The ice caps are the same thickness they were 100 years ago. Climate is not a constant, it is ALWAYS changing.

Smart kid. Acknowledging the problem is the first step.

Another part of childhood was waiting for Dad to assemble the @#%*!+who’s-idea-was-this items.

Maybe kids could get their parents to support renewable energy if they knew Santa’s workshop was going to sink in the near future.

Apparently Santa moved to the North Pole in 1866 https://theworld.ORG/stories/2015-12-24/how-and-when-north-pole-became-part-christmas#

Sad but true.

So Santa shifts the carbon footprint problem to you?