Greta Thunberg (klimataktivist)

Reconquista 7 days ago
She’s going to talk about sharia Sweden

Flynn 6 days ago
Ha Ha Ha....this will open her eyes!..Malizia II is an 18 Meter racing yacht. does she realise I wonder exactly what her living conditions are going to be during this 14ish day voyage? Racing yachts are built for speed and not comfort - she will be spending most of the trip heaving up and feeling miserable, and if they hit a storm she will be scared to death in mountainous seas and bone jarring swells. No doubt she will be putting on a brave face upon their arrival in New York but those who have experience of offshore racing will know the ordeal she will have just been through. Good piece here - https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/...reta-thunberg/

nobullman 7 days ago
Greta - your 'carbon footprint' is eqivalent to about 100,000 Africans just stay in your bedroom and play Fortnight!

JOHN 8 days ago
Every time I see this wretched creature ugly face in the news I go out and rev up my diesel van until it positively turns the air around it black with diesel fumes. Does this goat creature know that the royal family have their own private jet?

Climate activists have therefore changed their emphasis. No more eliciting pieties by explaining what happens when carbon dioxide rises past 400 parts per million. Better to use the specter of imminent self-extinction to rally the public behind actions like banning cars from city centers and halting new oil exploration.

This new focus may have the virtue of conveying urgency. But it is going to bring the climate protesters into conflict with democracy, whether they realize it or not.

The symbol of this transformation is the Swedish high school student Greta Thunberg, who describes herself to her 800,000-plus Twitter followers as a “16-year-old climate activist with Asperger.” Late last summer she began skipping school on Fridays and traveling to Sweden’s Parliament, the Riksdag, where she handed out fliers informing adults, in crude language, that she was doing this because they were ruining her future.

Classmates joined her. Students in other European capitals imitated her. “Fridays for Future,” as the protests came to be called, turned Ms. Thunberg into the first world political leader born this century. They have been hailed by Green parties across the Continent, many of which won impressive victories in May’s European elections.
Ms. Thunberg believes people should act, not argue. That, perhaps, is why she is planning to travel to next month’s United Nations global warming summit in New York by sailboat, not airplane. It is not that Ms. Thunberg does not care about climate data; indeed, she cites the annual reports of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as if they were gospel. It is just that she is done debating.

Her politics rests on two things. First is simplification. “The climate crisis already has been solved,” she said at a TED Talk in Stockholm this year. “We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is wake up and change.” Second is sowing panic, as she explained at the World Economic Forum in Davos last winter.

Normally Ms. Thunberg would be unqualified to debate in a democratic forum. Since a 16-year-old is not a legally responsible adult, she cannot be robustly criticized and, even leaving aside her self-description as autistic, Ms. Thunberg is a complicated adolescent. Intellectually, she is precocious and subtle. She reasons like a well-read but dogmatic student radical in her 20s. Physically, she is diminutive and fresh-faced, comes off as younger than her years, and frequently refers to herself as a “child” — about the last thing the average 16-year-old would ever do.

Kids her age have not seen much of life. Her worldview might be unrealistic, her priorities out of balance. But in our time, and in her cause, that seems to be a plus. People have had enough of balance and perspective. They want single-minded devotion to the task at hand.

This Ms. Thunberg provides. That climate change be understood as an “emergency” is her first objective. Increasingly, authorities share it. The week of the heat wave, according to The Economist, the Met Office, the British meteorological agency, was trying to speed up its “attribution studies” so that it can link incidents of extreme weather to global warming before the public’s attention drifts. This is a political, not a meteorological, goal. There are also calls to politicize language: In May, The Guardian announced it would use the term “climate crisis” rather than “climate change” in its articles, and “global heating” rather than “global warming.”

Alliances between institutional authorities and activists like Ms. Thunberg often backfire. With questions of global warming, the problems of credibility are already large, even without fresh incitements to politicization. Sometime after the age of 16, most people learn that not even the members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are above self-interest and human error.

The US President pulled out of the landmark Paris climate accord and insists global warming is a hoax.

She said: "As it looks now, I don't think so, because I have nothing to say to him.

"He obviously doesn't listen to the science and the scientists. So why should I, a child with no proper education, be able to convince him?"