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?
NEWSFLASH:
Obama meets with Thunberg, calls her a big fat liar!
Former President reveals “She is unafraid”, completely undermining her entire “Please panic and feel my fear” message
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/obama-meets-with-teen-climate-activist-shes-unafraid-to-push-for-real-action/ar-AAHrzqZ?ocid=spartanntp
There are millions of tons of ships on the bottom of the Atlantic that ensured her that right.
Per:
https://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_ii/battle_of_the_atlantic.php
“The control of the Atlantic had a major impact on the outcome of the war. Keeping Britain supplied helped to keep the Germans from taking over all of Western Europe.
The losses in the battle were staggering. Over 30,000 sailors were killed on each side. The Allies lost around 3,500 supply ships and 175 warships. The Germans lost 783 submarines.
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Could have at least thrown a flower in the ocean on the way.
Tunnel vision……
I am not getting the connection.
Good point, I just thought it needed saying.
He himself is unafraid living so close to the ocean.
I still have hope in the younger generation. Maybe one day this young lady will learn the truth about, what we in the U.S. call, progressive socialism.
No wonder the green suicides are up.
Does GW cause sea sickness?
Sounds like somebody needs to be charged under the “Mann Act”.
Yes, Greta got a lift by a sailing ship from Europe. She has to swim back though, no sailing ships available then…
Am I the only one offended that some girl from some other country who has no connection to the US, has never been here, suddenly is sitting in front of our congress making demands, and they give her an ovation?
Maybe I will go over and do a tour in Europe demanding they stop building bird choppers and take the ones already built apart, and fast!
Hmm … I assume people going into the UN building have to pass through some type of security checkpoint like they do at airports.
Will they search her for bottles of glue?
Interesting that the recent UK YouGov poll on concern about Climate Change has Sweden even lower than the USA on the percentage of population that think that “The climate in changing and humans are mostly responsible”. 36% as compared to 38%.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/science/articles-reports/2019/09/15/international-poll-most-expect-feel-impact-climate
Maybe Greta ought to stick to campaigning outside her own parliament before preaching her nonsense to everyone else.
Greta is abused. Google Translate works pretty well on this.
https://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/morens-hensynslose-utlevering-av-greta-thunbergs-mange-kamper/3423845595.html
(Mother’s ruthless rendition of Greta Thunberg’s many struggles)
Greta’s mother is the abuser. Of Greta and her sister Beata too. It doesn’t say much about the father, but it does imply that he is also dominated by Greta’s mother, Malena Ernman.
The mother is a narcissist who loves to pyscho-diagnose her children. She has now published a book all about this. From the description, anyone in that family would be damaged. Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
https://www.uofmhealth.org/health-library/hw180537
From the first link: (The “I” in the quote is the mother of these two.)
Uhhh … Maybe Beata is normal?
Maybe Greta should head home and see how much of Scandinavia has move rapidly out of Autumn and to more Winter climatic conditions …
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/b5WLmv/sno-i-varmland–tidigaste-pa-20-ar
and
https://twitter.com/mikarantane/status/1174587443162615808
While I agree that Saint Greta is a deeply worrying, deluded media phenomena that has no place in any debate that includes oh, you know facts ‘n’ shit, anything that undermines One-Term-Trump has got to be a good thing. 487 days and counting.
What is it about the Donald Trump presidency that you dislike?