Guest essay by Eric Worrall
I guess we have an answer to why the kid got so much attention so quickly.
Can the rest of the world save itself from climate breakdown without the US?
Mark Hertsgaard
@markhertsgaard
Mon 16 Sep 2019 22.33 AEST
Last modified on Tue 17 Sep 2019 01.31 AESTWith Trump expected to skip the UN climate summit, the question will be: what’s possible if the most powerful nation is pulling away from action?
As world leaders converge on New York City for the United Nations climate action Summit on 23 September, they enter what may be the most consequential week in climate politics since Donald Trump’s surprise election as president of the United States in 2016. Trump, of course, announced soon after taking office that he was withdrawing the US from the Paris agreement, the landmark treaty signed at the last big UN climate summit in 2015. António Guterres, the UN secretary general, convened this week’s summit precisely because the US and most other countries remain far from honoring their Paris pledges to reduce heat-trapping emissions enough to prevent catastrophic climate disruption.
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Trump is not expected to attend this week’s summit; the US delegation will instead be led by Andrew Wheeler, a former coal company lobbyist who is now the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. In keeping with Trump’s denial of climate science and his administration’s dismantling of environmental regulations and accelerating of fossil fuel development, Wheeler testified to the US Senate last January that he would not call climate change “the greatest crisis” facing humanity.
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Activist pressure has helped make the Green New Deal the de facto position of the Democratic party in the US, while also spreading the idea overseas. Each of the leading Democratic candidates in the race to replace Trump has endorsed one version or another of a Green New Deal. Bernie Sanders proposes a particularly robust program that will, he promises, “end unemployment” by creating 20m new jobs and also help developing nations dump fossil fuels in favor of renewables.
Guterres has gone out of his way to boost the visibility of the climate youth, most notably Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who is the best-known face of the climate movement. Thunberg’s “School Strike For Climate”, begun a year ago in her home town of Stockholm, spread like wildfire around the world, inspiring hundreds of thousands of students to skip classes and take to the streets to demand that governments, in Thunberg’s words, “act like the house is on fire – because it is”. Guterres has invited Thunberg to keynote a special one-day youth climate summit on 21 September and also to address world leaders at the plenary session on 23 September.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/16/un-climate-summit-2019-why-it-matters
Just one question – when did the USA agree to allow the Secretary General of the United Nations to start dictating policy to the President of the United States?
If the United Nations climate action Summit on September 23rd is anything like the 3 democrap “debates”, then, by the time the “Lunatic Fringe” of the world are finished out-dooming each other , the Earth will have ceased to exist last Friday ! (give or take an hour)
I find it hilarious that they feel the need to push a teen girl with emotional problems, be their next planetary Savior candidate.
She is going to say the same pile of propaganda crap we have heard many times before, it will not work since too many people have grown tired of the incessant 24/7, “we are doomed, unless you allow up to dictate your life”, proposal bullcrap.
Nothing new under the sun……..
So – any comment on THIS Guardian article?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/17/whistleblowers-scientists-climate-crisis-trump-administration
Wild Guess: They are all Leftist alarmist holdovers who were trying to sabotage the Trump policies and were told to do their jobs or find new ones? What do I win?
Ummm, the fact that they are b*tching in the Guardian is proof positive they have not been “muzzled by Trump”. LOL
God you are a totally mindless lemming, and hater of poor brown people.
The sh!tshow of a lifetime.
If only we could just cut off all fossil fuel deliveries to NYC for the week of the conference, they might get the hint.
She reminds me of Hans Blix.
Maybe she could find Sadam’s stash of WMDs.
That’s “Saddam’s.”
Mispronouncing and misspelling his name are very well deserved insults.
If I recall, during the first Gulf War, the American spokeswoman would pronounce the name Saddam in a tone that came over as Soddam, which if you’re of a British, Australian, New Zealand extraction, will know full well, is a less than courtious description, because that indeed was his attitude, sod’em!
At a US Canadian border checkpoint a driver was arrested when asked who owned the auto .
Driver replied “sa Dame”, and was hauled off.
I don’t need to be lectured to by some stinkin’ liberal kook named Mark Hertsgaard….
When? It was when Joe Biden told him it was fine and also when he told the EU that Trump would be gone soon and just wait him out. Never mind the USA people or its elected President. File it in the category of Dems not recognizing any other government than their own and everything else as a temporary lapse of the voters.
Joe Biden The girl Sniffer.
Greta and her climate change pushers are certainly living proof of the mathematical fact that 50% of the world’s population is of BELOW Average Intelligence.
I think we have enough evidence and cases to begin formal work in defining “climate crackpot” now.
This was a mis quotation. What was actually said is
Where’s Inspector Dreyfuss when you really need him?:
https://youtu.be/HnEA1Ag8FXQ?t=264
Frankly, I”m quite comfortable with a young, not-formally-educated, inexperienced girl who claims to see CO2 as the UN poster child.
It’s perfectly fitting.
Charles VII of France also needed something to boost the morale of his troops.
Joan was the daughter of Jacques d’Arc and Isabelle Romée,[25] living in Domrémy, a village which was then in the French part of the Duchy of Bar.[26][27] Joan’s parents owned about 50 acres (20 hectares) of land and her father supplemented his farming work with a minor position as a village official, collecting taxes and heading the local watch.[28] They lived in an isolated patch of eastern France that remained loyal to the French crown despite being surrounded by pro-Burgundian lands. Several local raids occurred during her childhood and on one occasion her village was burned. Joan was illiterate and it is believed that her letters were dictated by her to scribes and she signed her letters with the help of others.[29]
At her trial, Joan stated that she was about 19 years old, which implies she thought she was born around 1412. She later testified that she experienced her first vision in 1425 at the age of 13, when she was in her “father’s garden”[30] and saw visions of figures she identified as Saint Michael, Saint Catherine, and Saint Margaret, who told her to drive out the English and take the Dauphin to Reims for his coronation. She said she cried when they left, as they were so beautiful.[31]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc
Steven Crowder reveals how veganism is not only bad for animals and the environment, but actually worse than meat-eating!
https://youtu.be/4m_THN4J5g0
In her own word, Greta says that she wants everyone to become as terrified as she is. Someone terrorised her and she wants others to be as terrorised as she is that’s a quote.
Who terrified her? She was quite clear about it. She is terrified each day, she says. So who are the terrorists responsible?
Terrorists should have their funding cut off and be chased down. Intending as she is on terrorising the general population (she self-stated goal) she is now a sort of child-soldier kidnapped by some terrorist group and indoctrinated to join their cause. Stockholm Syndrome, it’s called.
I dub this “Oslo Syndrome”. Greta has been indoctrinated and terrorised and sent fort to terrorise others. She said as much in an interview played on the CBC today.
Oppose terrorism and the recruitment of child soldiers on all forms, even when the terrorists are rich, white and powerful.
I always find it amusing when the US is painted as the spoilers in their climate plans when the real culprits are India and China. Whilst the US has been the country who has lowered its emissions the most ,China and India have ensured that any reductions by the rest of the world would be an exercise in futility. When one analyses the true impact of the Paris agreement one would quickly realise that it was never about emissions but more about redressing balances , financially and economically . If one looks at countries such as Germany, Australia , the UK and certain states in the US where politicians have taken this stuff seriously the economic and social costs are pretty disastrous with things certainly going to get worse . The Chinese must be having a big laugh as these fanatical countries commit some form of economic suicide.
I am not surprised. When I served as a Blue Helmet in Syria, it was an open secret that the entire UN leadership was pro-Arabic. They did not even hide it while or official mission was to be impartial observers. The top brass of the UN is about as impartial as a follower of a radical sect. I don’t blame Trump for ignoring them.
António Guterres is not really interested in “their Paris pledges to reduce heat-trapping emissions”, what he really wanst is their Paris Pledges to fork over huge plies of cash.
“the Paris agreement, the landmark treaty signed…”
It is NOT a treaty, as our congress would never have ratified it. It is simply an “agreement” in which we have said we would give the Green Climate Fund $500MM/year for banana republic despots to use for “sustainable” tyranny.
The UN still misses out as Donald Trump is a lot more entertaining to listen to than Greta Thunderbird.
Like the “world ending in 12 years” thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1127604746066583552?lang=en
Prove Greta has the social intelligence of a sea sponge.
Art imitates life. Greta will have the same influence as the little girl in “Miracle on 34th Street”- and all the children who wrote to Santa.
Well, in reality, sensible people do not believe in Santa, nor will they assume that a child who can see an invisible gas is an authority – unless they are gullible enough to believe in Santa. Or just plain stupid. I don’t think Trump is susceptible to that kind of argument.
The innocence of children speaks for itself. It should automatically mean that they need training, and not taken as trained scientists.
She could start by explaining how CO2 warms the oceans.
I’d like to know that too as there are some very confused people here in Australia who believe CO2 does exactly that, as well as turning oceans acid.
There is a true story about an African girl, similar age, who could “see” something everyone else in the village could not. Everyone in the village believed her and acted on her “visions”. Pretty much everything and everyone died as a result of believing her “visions”.
Lets hope the UN doesn’t allow this child to influence political policy making…oh wait!
See Joan of Arc, these things rarely end well.
Greta is no Jeanne D’Arc.
Jeanne convinced a limpid King to throw the English out, against the advice of the entire army. And they achieved something they never thought possible. Bishop Cauchon, the swine, cooked Jeanne twice, just in case.
Now the British depraved Malthusians have kids in their service, and only Trump threw their Paris Accord out. Look at how they tried to cook him!
Macron so far has not thrown it out – maybe he remembers Bishop Cauchon!
The UN will use whatever gets results in its quest for a World Government.
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