What's the trouble with Greta Thunberg?

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It's an old story, using a young girl to sell something in this case climate alarmist bullshit.

In popular mythology Greta Thunberg is a one-girl revolution who has inspired millions of young people into action by being able to see what adults refuse to see. But her promotion as global statesman is really a well-crafted piece of PR. Those on the Left who seek to use climate alarmism to further their war on global capitalism know full well that the likes of Robin Boardman-Pattison, the Bristol University graduate with a private education and fondness for foreign holidays, who stormed out of the Sky News studio last week when Adam Boulton accused him of being middle class, is a liability to their cause.

But allow Thunberg to speak for them by proxy and, well, who will dare criticise a 16-year-old girl with Asperger’s? The success of this strategy can be seen from this morning’s Today programme. The BBC, which apologised for not challenging Lord Lawson in an interview on climate change, was nevertheless happy to give Thunberg the prime 8.10am interview slot. And not once did the normally inquisitorial Nick Robinson ask her an even slightly difficult question. It is not hard to imagine the mass outrage which would have followed had he dared to do so: middle-aged man bullying a schoolgirl and the like. As a result of Thunberg’s perceived untouchability, the climate alarmists have managed to promote their views in a way which would not have been possible had an adult spokesman of Extinction Rebellion been on the air – Nick Robinson’s interview with ER’s co-founder Gail Bradbrook, was actually rather robust.

Sorry, but the fawning attitude towards Thunberg is not going to extend to me. If you are going to be given an international stage to call for a general strike, as Thunberg has done, you deserve to be challenged – whether you are 16 and wear pigtails or not. If the BBC, or anyone else, is going to offer a platform to Thunberg, these are the questions she needs to be asked:

1. Do you really think it is possible to eliminate carbon emissions by 2025 – the target of Extinction Rebellion, whose aims you have endorsed – without crashing the global economy? That wouldn’t just mean the end of air travel, which you personally shun, it would mean the end of your favoured high speed rail travel, too. While great efforts have been made to switch to renewables, we do not yet even nearly have the technology to turn to a fully fossil-free world and to pretend that we do so is fanciful.

2. If governments are supposedly ignoring the science, how do you explain, then, that those same governments set up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) more than 30 years ago specifically to advise them on climate change – and have continued to seek its advice ever since, most recently asking it what would need to be done to limit global temperature rises to 1.5 celsius?

3. You want a general strike, but why do you think workers will want to join one when your demands would mean an end to many of their jobs? It is one thing for schoolchildren to go on strike – taking a day off is always very exciting for them. You might have a harder job convincing industrial workers whose jobs and living standards ultimately depend on the cheap source of energy which you want to take away. I know campaigners keep going on about ‘green jobs’ but it is no consolation creating 1,000 jobs in green energy, or whatever, if your unrealistic carbon reduction targets are going to destroy 100,000 jobs in heavy industry. How are you going to convince those employed in the latter to join your strike?

4. You said this morning that you think you can see the issues more clearly because you see things in black and white. But isn’t that the problem? There are great complexities in how to balance economic and environmental needs. The idea that the issue of climate change can be reduced to two choices – environmental destruction or purity – is nonsense. What we need to solve climate change is people who can see the issue in a rich spectrum of colours, not black and white, wouldn’t you say?

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/0...eta-thurnberg/

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It's an old story, using a young girl to sell something in this case climate alarmist bullshit.



https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/0...eta-thurnberg/

the climate strike thing is hilarious as well. Their demand to solve climate change is to form citizens councils and for the government to do what those councils said :P

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the climate strike thing is hilarious as well. Their demand to solve climate change is to form citizens councils and for the government to do what those councils said :P

They're a bunch of tossers, total dickheads.

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It's an old story, using a young girl to sell something in this case climate alarmist bullshit.

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/0...eta-thurnberg/

"It's an old story, using a young girl to sell something in this case climate alarmist bullshit."

One of those oldest tools in the shed. Pandering, hiding behind children when the adults can't deliver.

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Piers Corbyn makes a lot of sense, certainly far more than his ignorant arsehole of a brother.

Jeremy Corbyn's BROTHER brands 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg an 'ignorant brainwashed child' who is being abused by manipulative adults

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-brother.html

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Aw, lookie- the Brit maggot has found something else that's decent to attack. You fancy yourself as one of Beelzeebub's little imps, don't you, maggot, a pain in the ass for everything that isn't filth and corruption.

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"It's an old story, using a young girl to sell something in this case climate alarmist bullshit."

One of those oldest tools in the shed. Pandering, hiding behind children when the adults can't deliver.

Looks like they've taken a leaf out of the Hamas playbook, using children as hostages to garner sympathy and, of course, fat cheques.

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Morons. It was Thunberg who began the school-children's protests- all on her own and unprompted.

I told you that Extinction Rebellion was a-comin' to get you. Good to see you sweat.

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She is like a zombie, her eyes appear totally dead. She is being used by cynical politicians and media outlets, who will be abandoned when her usefulness comes to an end.

This young woman sounds increasingly like a millenarian weirdo.

Anyone who doubts that the green movement is morphing into a millenarian cult should take a close look at Greta Thunberg. This poor young woman increasingly looks and sounds like a cult member. The monotone voice. The look of apocalyptic dread in her eyes. The explicit talk of the coming great ‘fire’ that will punish us for our eco-sins. There is something chilling and positively pre-modern about Ms Thunberg. One can imagine her in a sparse wooden church in the Plymouth Colony in the 1600s warning parishioners of the hellfire that will rain upon them if they fail to give up their witches.

It actually makes sense that Ms Thunberg – a wildly celebrated 16-year-old Swede who founded the climate-strike movement for schoolkids – should sound cultish. Because climate-change alarmism is becoming ever stranger, borderline religious, obsessed with doomsday prophecies. Consider Extinction Rebellion, the latest manifestation of the upper-middle classes’ contempt for industrialisation and progress. It is at times indistinguishable from old fundamentalist movements that warned mankind of the coming End of Days. I followed Extinction Rebellion from Parliament Square to Marble Arch yesterday and what I witnessed was a public display of millenarian fear and bourgeois depression. People did dances of death and waved placards warning of the heat-death of the planet. It felt deeply unnerving.

It struck me that this was a march against people. Most radical protest and direct action is aimed at officialdom or government or people with power. This macabre schlep through London was aimed squarely at ordinary people. Banners and placards made no disguise of the marchers’ contempt for how the masses live. We were told that ‘Meat = heat’ (that is, if you carry on eating meat, you fat bastards, the planet will get even hotter) and that driving and flying are destroying Mother Earth. Of course, it’s okay for them to fly – Emma Thompson jetted first-class from LA to London to lecture us plebs about all our eco-destructive holidaymaking. It’s only a problem when we do it; it’s only bad when we take advantage of the miracle of mass food production and the expansion of flight to make our lives fuller and more pleasurable. They detest that. They detest mass society and its inhabitants: the masses.

http://www.thegwpf.com/the-cult-of-greta-thunberg/

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She is like a zombie, her eyes appear totally dead. She is being used by cynical politicians and media outlets, who will be abandoned when her usefulness comes to an end.

You'd like to eat her brain, eh maggot. Haw, haw............haw.

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She is like a zombie, her eyes appear totally dead. She is being used by cynical politicians and media outlets, who will be abandoned when her usefulness comes to an end.



http://www.thegwpf.com/the-cult-of-greta-thunberg/

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'Outrage is justified': David Attenborough backs school climate strikers
Exclusive: broadcaster says older generations have done terrible things and should listen to young

The outrage of the students striking from school over climate change inaction is “certainly justified”, according to Sir David Attenborough, who said older generations had done terrible damage to the planet.

In an interview with the former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, the broadcaster and naturalist dismissed critics of the widely praised global movement of school strikes as cynics.

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...greta-thunberg

You can fuck off now, maggot. Big Dave is here.

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Bullying little girls is HM's mark. Heil the Master Race!

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Bullying little girls is HM's mark. Heil the Master Race!

you truly believe having a citizens council for everything and having the government do whatever they say will fix climate change?