Greta Thunberg

At first it was a novelty, now she's becoming tiresome. I'm all for talk on making a better future but her latest speech/publicity stunt is nothing more than emotional blackmail, using a vulnerable teenager to hammer a debatable point is quite sad.

 

Wonder what she will do when the spot light drifts off her, back to school and catch up on the last 12 months?

 

I don’t really understand why GROWN men feel threatened by her, and threatened by her message.

If she was my kid, I’d be proud. She’s done more in the last few weeks than most people achieve their lifetimes. Regardless of her message.

 

She really rubs up the gammon. I like that she gets ruddy faced old men LIVID.

 

That too. Bursts a few more capillaries every time she’s on the telly. Lovely.

 

She needs to get herself an Xbox or Nintendo Switch.

 

But then some raging flag-shagging mouth frother would be on here giving the spiel about how kids are more interested in their Xbox than anything else. Can’t win mate.

 

Or the fact that it uses electricity

 

What has she actually done?

 

Looks like it wasn’t just Aaron Banks she riled up. I find the reaction she gets, quite eye opening.

 

Raised awareness of climate change about a thousand notches.
Got politicians feeling ashamed about having done so little to address the issues.
Acted as a figurehead for millions of young people to get angry about the crap legacy we're leaving them and got them making a racket about it.
Interesting how the vast majority of climate change deniers/minimizers are either people who make money out of polluting activities. Or older people who won't be around to suffer the serious consequences. Or both.

 

She'll never down a pint, stood on her head after a 16 hour sesh with her mates in Malia.

Regardless of the message, she's still losing.

 

Brilliant post Simon.

If Miss Thunberg read that, she wouldnt have a clue what you were on about

Whoever is pulling her strings should be ashamed of themselves, using a child like this.

By the way, did she row across the Atlantic to get to New York?

 

Those that are riled up by Greta are almost exclusively right wingers, ironically the same people who often accuse of being 'snowflakes' and dislike young folk for being lazy and unproductive- the exact opposite of the young woman they now feel threatened by .

Funny how that works.

 

She hasn’t told us one thing we don’t already know, the things ‘experts’ have been debating with each other for years yet suddenly this 16 year old ‘kid’ comes from nowhere and shes the new messiah. Publicity stunts on catamarans and speeches about ‘stealing her dreams’, give me a break. If she and whoever is really pulling her puppet strings wants to make a shred a difference, go take your roadshow to India and China because thats where the problems of the next generations lie. Let see if they will listen because i doubt it.

 

Guess thats me then. I won’t sleep tonight knowing i’ve helped to steal Gretas dreams, whatever they were.

 

It's not about telling us stuff we don't already know. That's the point - apart from a few crackpot mavericks, scientists have been telling us the realities for decades but we've complacently done very little about it. What Greta has done is to help galvanise youth to start shaming governments into doing something. It may not work but it's a start. And I think that climate change is going to keep getting bigger as a political issue due to pressure from young people.
We've come through a period of political youth apathy in the era of Thatcher and Reagan's children. All the signs are that that is changing and I welcome it.
I take your point about India and China. But the West can't get sanctimonious with them unless it gets its own house in order. We spent a hundred industrial years burning fossil fuels and exploiting the non-industrial world's resources to achieve global economic domination. Now that they are playing catch-up we can't expect them to behave ecologically responsibly unless we do too.