Greta Thunberg

[bignasty]

They do.
All three countries have environmental activists. Some cite Thunberg as an influence (there is a girl in China who did a similar school strike). Why would you think those places don't have activists?

Are you kidding? In China any protestor against Climate change would be swiftly removed and sent to forced labor camps or mysteriously disappear and be assassinated. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/09/2...t-hong-kong-police-beijing-hiv-whistleblower/

Even protestors against the Chinese Government, in Hong Kong, are being kidnapped and sent back to Mainland China. Of course this is nothing more than the Communist tyranny of the left, which is revered by Bernie Sanders and his ilk.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35275309

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

After Greta's whirlwind tour what has she done for climate change? All is back to normal, companies are still working on reducing their emissions as they always have and the kids are back to playing their X-box using those horrid fossil fuel burning vehicles and keeping warm using fossil fuels.
There is zero difference from pre Greta to post Greta except some kids skipped school. Yup, person of the year.
For those of you who were not aware of climate change pre Greta, try to keep up.

 

[Fradi]

Greta is ready to go, it is her speech writers that are all out of fresh ideas and are taking a break.
Climate for now is on hold and not changing anymore waiting for Greta.

Perhaps Trump will change his mind and take up where Greta left off, he must still be pissed at losing out to Greta for person of the Year.

 

[jalimon]

he must still be pissed at losing out to Greta for person of the Year.

Just that in itself is priceless!!!

For those of you who were not aware of climate change pre Greta, try to keep up.

Sound advice...

We will most probably see one of the biggest chaos in Australia in the next few weeks. If the fires continue it's the summer touristic season of Australia might be destroyed. Australia had not seen a recession in 3 decades.

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

^^^^^^ Do you not follow this Australian fire? They were started by humans, fuck all to do with climate change. Damn I wish I was a salesman heading to your house.

 

[Fradi]

^^^^^^ Do you not follow this Australian fire? They were started by humans, fuck all to do with climate change. Damn I wish I was a salesman heading to your house.

Australia has been having these fires every year forever, I know I grew up there.
Perhaps this is the worst one yet but it is most of the time started by careless human beings, their climate has always fuelled fires.
It is normal for it to be without rain for months and to have above 100 degrees Fahrenheit for weeks in the summertime.
It was like this way before Greta was born.

 

[Bred Sob]

Greta is ready to go, it is her speech writers that are all out of fresh ideas and are taking a break.

Well, Greta is going to speak at Davos, let us see what are her / their fresh ideas. As a tease, she lets us know that she is going to take on the world of finance and order it to "immediately halt all investments in fossil fuel exploration and extraction, immediately end all fossil fuel subsidies and immediately and completely divest from fossil fuels". She has obviously had it with the old farts who are not only against tattoos, but have in addition destroyed our planet as well.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...tycoons-fossil-fuels-dismantle-climate-crisis

And speaking of finance -- Davos is not a cheap place. Greta must be doing well for herself.

 

[jalimon]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/australia-burning-bushfires-bad/

 

[Bred Sob]

The climate scientists are obviously having a field day with the fires in Australia. This is how their reasoning goes: The influence of human-induced climate change was clear in the Australian fires, he [Richard Betts, professor of geography at Exeter University] said, though more studies were likely to confirm this in the coming months.

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...stralia-bushfires-harbinger-future-scientists

My interpretation: they are probably going to set an identical set of fires in identical Australia but the one that is rid of those malicious environment-destroying humans, and then compare the results.

 

[jalimon]

Bred don’t blame the scientists. Having doubt is their job.

It’s human nature that intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid are full of confidence..

 

[Bred Sob]

It’s human nature that intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid are full of confidence..

Funny you should put it this way. But for once you seem to be on the right track. And in this climate "debate", who in your view is full of confidence and who is full of doubts?

 

[jalimon]

Another interesting read: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/business/dealbook/larry-fink-blackrock-climate-change.html

 

[Bred Sob]

And of course the real climate change can be observed this week in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

https://time.com/5764506/pakistan-afghanistan-snow-avalanche/

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

Even Greta's homeland thinks it is a waste of money.

https://truepundit.com/swedes-vote-climate-policy-biggest-waste-of-tax-payer-money-in-2019/

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

An open letter to Greta, even puts the yappy kids in their place.

https://albertapressleader.ca/profe...tter-to-teen-climate-activist-greta-thunberg/

 

[CaptRenault]

:lol: :lol: Greta and Bernie--a perfect pair.

Bernie Sanders pranked by Russians posing as Greta Thunberg (with audio)

By Jon Levine
nypost.com
February 15, 2020

Two Russian pranksters say they successfully duped Sen. Bernie Sanders into believing they were environmental activist Greta Thunberg and her father Svante during an 11 minute call with the Vermont socialist.

Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov — who have a history of targeting US politicians — told The Associated Press they had pranked the senator and posted audio of the call to YouTube.

The conversation began warmly with Stolyarov taking the role of Svante while an unknown woman played Greta. The three spoke about the possibility of Thunberg endorsing his presidential campaign.

“Let us continue to talk and when you come to the United States I will bring some people together and we can do some interesting things, and if you wanted to make a statement in support of my candidacy and the program we have outlined for climate change, I would be very very appreciative,” Sanders said.

Things eventually went downhill after the faux-Thunberg peppered the senator about his 1988 visit to the Soviet Union.

“In the Soviet Union in 1988, after you were recruited you were programmed to work for Russia and your memory was erased so the CIA wouldn’t track you down,” she said.
“This is what you believe?” Sanders responded.

“Yes, you became a sleeper agent of the KGB. Now it’s time to wake up and fulfill your mission, become president of the United States, build communism in the United States and work for Russia!”

At some point during the rant Sanders hung up the phone.

A rep for the campaign did not immediately respond to request for comment from The Post.

 

[Cruiser777]

pranked by russians posing as greta thunberg

I like Greta's Russian accent. LOL

I guess Bernie didn't know how good is Greta's "Swedish accent" English.

Also, if I was a politician in this era, its 2020 for God's sake, FACE TIME or NO talk blindly on the telephone.

Also politics aside (Although, can't deny that the earth is warmer then before) , gotta give credit to Greta, 16 years old and she made herself world famous.

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

^^^^^ But what did Great actually accomplish? Is industry all the sudden going to find an instant solution or are we just going to continue as we have for the past decade or so and make progress. All all the striking kids going to stop using fossil fuel transportation, turn off their air conditioning. No, Greta made zero difference long term.

 

[Cruiser777]

^^^^^ But what did Great actually accomplish?

If this is not an any accomplishment, what is ?, SHE IS 16 YEARS OLD FOR GOD's SAKE, need I say more ?????

https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2019-greta-thunberg/


So let us ask you, what had you accomplished when you were 16 years old ?.
But for now, 6000 plus posts, that seems to be some some kind of an accomplishment,
See if you can get enough votes and make you... the MERB person of the year ???
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[Bred Sob]

The fact that Greta accomplished anything at all should really be credited to the Zeitgeist rather than any of her identifiable talents. I wonder if she herself is surprised to discover that so many (seemingly) adult people are prepared to take her anguished bullshit seriously.