climate warrior brats

Predictions .... predictions......

Goose eggs: No climate doomsday warning has come true

By the way what happened to Al Gore’s predictions?????

We dont have a time machine for the future but we can revisit the past, prediction fail

 

Greta can fluently talk in 2 languages and does well in school.

 

Wasn't going to re-engage in this thread as it's pretty pointless ... neither side is prepared to budge and I personally feel comfortable I will be on the right side of history ... however ... came across this tonight and found it really insightful

Why is Greta Thunberg so triggering for certain men? (and women)

"... who’s the real freak – the activist whose determination has single-handedly started a powerful global movement for change, or the middle-aged man taunting a child with Asperger syndrome from behind the safety of their computer screens?

And that, of course, is the real reason why Greta Thunberg is so triggering ... the truth is that they’re afraid of her ... terrified of her as an individual, and of what she stands for – youth, determination, change.

She is part of a generation who won’t be cowed. She isn’t about to be shamed into submission by trolls. That’s not actually a look of apocalyptic dread in her eyes. It’s a look that says “you’re not relevant” "

 

Nonsense. This is Dushanbe in Tajikistan:

 

Yep it’s all an over reaction...

 

I disagree with that article, I don’t think fear plays a factor (and to be honest there are very few things in life that I fear, she is not of if those things).

What I didn’t like about the article is the amount of assumptions, of course I am aware that the article is not penned directly at me however by grouping the none supporters together they have targeted me as part of that group.

They talk about bullying and then go so far as to say we are scared and regret our life choices etc etc.

Is this not exactly the same bullying thing?

I regret nothing about my life, I fear very little in life. I still don’t like the way she spoke, I think if I stood up in front of a bunch of people and said how dare you and you have ruined it and now you come to me to fix it, I would not be very popular and I’m a grown ass adult.

Are we meant to accept this behaviour from a child?

Why? Because she is “passionate”?

On a side note with regards to her speaking two languages, pretty much every school kid in Europe learns English. I’m not saying that it’s not good I mean hell I can only speak English and some VERY basic French but it’s not something I would note as astounding about her education.

On yet another side note, I love this forum. This is the only place I can discuss things like this without it getting heated or people degrading to name calling, just a bunch of folks with different opinions discussing .

 

Behaviour? Her rhetoric is designed to make people focus on her cause. And it has, everyone is talking about it including Trump. If it was a flat boring speech, well, it wouldn’t exist because that’s pointless.

People who go on about it being “bad behaviour” because she’s a “child” (come on, in two years she will be an adult) remind me of those old farts a few decades ago who went on about children “being seen but not heard.” And why shouldn’t she get a say when it’s the earth she and her generation are inheriting?

It was a passionate speech, not “bad behaviour.” Was General Patton’s speech to the third army “bad behaviour”? Or is it passion because he was old? Sigh.

 

I see it as pretty much the voice of an upcoming generation, on top of the 2 or so that are already pretty ****** about the inaction on climate change. The only ones that seem unconvinced are 50+, but they have a lot less time left to worry about it.

Thing is the its likely the majority now believe in climate science and what it is telling us, so its only a minority who now disagree. Maybe her opinions, and those of other kids who strike are a little immature, but over time and as they grow that resolve will only become more firm. I think that worries quite a few out there.

There is no real agenda here - kids being puppets of the big bad evil climate change movement? seriously?

I can see some parallels of children marching in the 1980's over nuclear disarmament and de-proliferation... looking back I don't think too many now see them as "poor misguided pawns" who were mislead, carrying out somebody else's agenda, but now the very right thing to do at the time.

 

There are quite a lot of us "over 50's" pretty ****** off too ... and don't **** off those who have nothing to lose by being ****** off!

Twice this week I've been on the news - one for rightfully heckling a local federal pollie for his transition-denial BS - another a state pollie for their erosion-caused-by-state-infrastructure-denial BS. Oddly enough - or maybe not - they're both coming around fairly quickly