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Maybe. There might have been some in 1914 and 1938/39 who had the prescience to warn against the risks the world faced.

 

I would imagine at this point she doesn't write her own Facebook posts. However, i'm also sure that she will have a large say on the content etc. Like I said earlier whether you agree with everything she says or not, got to give her some credit for at least believing/speaking out about something.

 

Seems like Putin doesn't share your impression. Maybe she should go have a one to one with him. Would be very interesting viewing.

 

Well she traveled to the US on a boat with minimal carbon footprint. I’ve never done that, have you?

Her mum used to be an opera singer and flew around the world performing. Greta convinced her mum to change her career so she didn’t need to fly and thereby reduced her impact on the environment. Have you changed your career due to environmental concerns? I haven’t.

Her / her family fund all her costs to take part in this climate campaign (e.g. hotels, food, etc) and they have sacrificed their education, money and time to support this campaign. I’ve not spent much time or money campaigning for environmental causes. Have you?

 

You don't have to feel guilty. You can support the cause though. The technology is there now to drastically reduce emissions if governments make a commitment to it with the urgency that the situation merits.

 

A plus for me then as I have stop-start option function on my car. So I am doing my bit afterall

 

Not quite the same concept though is it. A party elected with a majority and a manifesto that includes climate change policies will be able to pass the policy as the party is likely to support the policies. Brexit isn’t a party policy and MPs are more willing to break ranks, hence the chaos it is causing.

I would imagine if the popular movement towards taking action on climate change continues, all parties will have to adopt policies to address it.

 

Bang on. Hypocrites like Emma Thompson want all the benefits of supposed global warming but not for the rest of us. Funny how many don't actually practice what they preach.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/great-pacific-garbage-patch-ocean-cleaning-successful-inventor-boyan-slat-a9138286.html

 

The world will end, in a long long time, granted, it’s pretty much inevitable. Mankind will probably be gone before then though, and no doubt by our own doing. Or, at the doing of the leaders of the world i should say.

 

I don’t think that is what anyone is saying, tbf. I agree, changes need to be made, but as well as ordinary people making some changes, the way environmental concerns are treated at government level needs to change significantly, too. It’s not easy to put consideration for another generation ahead of our own, when you have a life to live. But at some point it is most likely i’ll be gone and it’ll be my kids that will be left. Even putting science aside, do i want them to inherit a world heading in a worse direction? No of course i don’t. To me it makes sense to try and move to cleaner energy and to a time where these things and technologies can be accessed more easily by normal people, not just those well off. Doing nothing is more likely to mean my kids and the children of other people are more likely to inherit a worse environment going forward, so of course i would support the kind of change because it is simply more likely to improve, or slow down at the least, our impact.

 

Project fear, fake news.... there’s hype around every corner. Tbh, i just need to open my own eyes to see mans impact.

It’s alright, the offspring of the ones that started coining ‘ fake news and project fear’ as an excuse to feed the population to rubbish any argument they don't like, will all be off to live on Mars, anyway

 

Don't worry about London. Everyone will have been stabbed to death long before the pollution gets them.