Guest essay by Eric Worrall
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Greta Thunberg joins climate change activists filing complaint at UN summit against carbon-polluting countries
By Claire Knox, wires
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has captured the world’s attention in a fierce and passionate speech at the United Nations headquarters, accusing world leaders of failing to act on climate change.
The Swedish campaigner’s brief address electrified the start of the Climate Action Summit in New York.…
More than 50 global leaders — with the exception of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and US President Donald Trump — were set to take part in the summit by announcing climate finance measures and transitioning from coal power.
Mr Trump dropped in briefly and listened to one of the speakers. Ms Thunberg stared down the US President when the two crossed paths.
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Read more (includes video): https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-24/greta-thunberg-speech-climate-change-un-summit-how-dare-you/11541300
I’ve got to admit I’m a little disappointed.
I was expecting to see some great staring contest between Greta and the President, tension crackling in the air, one of them finally dropping their gaze, but watching the video I’m not sure President Trump even knew she was there.
I always understood a “stare down” to mean something which involves both parties.
Maybe one of the President’s secret service tipped him off, “don’t look now, it’s that kid…”.
Update (EW): h/t Breitbart President Trump has complimented Greta on her happy face;
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I think Greta is suffering from not using the bucket on the long trip across the seas…….
This is as thoroughly obnoxious and disgusting as you can get. This is child abuse.
Never mind that my classmates and I knew more about basic biological and chemical science at 16 than this nearly-robotic kid can imagine. She only knows what she’s told and parrots whatever is handed to her. Ask her to explain something about – anything- about the differences between weather (short term) and climate (long term) and she can’t without some prepared response handed to her.
The fact that she is angry about being bypassed by Trump is as plain as day in that photo. I think she expected to confront him with another prepared speech and got nothing. I also believe, based on what I’ve seen elsewhere long before she arrived en scene, that she threw a screaming tantrum when she got back to where she’s staying in NYC.
She’s no ambassador for or about anything, other than what she parrots out, which was prepared for her. I sincerely doubt that she has any idea what it really means other than what she is told by “other”. I also doubt that she herself could have put together anything truly coherent enough to be valid, whether she handed it to Congress or to anyone at the UN.
She is a puppet being exploited by her parents and nothing else. She’s physically growing into adulthood, and when she loses the cutesy charm of childhood, she will no longer be useful to anyone, either to bring in cash to her parents, or to make appearances and plead for someone to stop the End of the World.
In 12 years, she’ll be 28, a full-grown adult with no childish charms to throw at people. If she does manage to retain a following (which I doubt), and she decides she wants the attention she got as a child, disaster will follow. /not sarc
On a side note, I thought the deadline was 10 years from now. Someone moved the goal posts and didn’t tell me? /sarc
Sara – They got tired of digging up the goalposts to move them. The goal posts are on wheels, now.
;o)
Here are where the goal posts are at the present time, but they are working on a plan to get them a little further away still:
https://twitter.com/NickMcGinley1/status/1176952334494175233?s=20
Thank you, H.R. I wondered about that. The time limit keeps changing faster than the weather report.
She reminds me of those evangelistic ‘kids’ that we had in the south in the 1960s and 1970s…..all preachy and hyped-up on religion. They’d go through about five years of this hyped-up nature, then collapse and go into some rehab unit. She will probably go the same route.
At first she looked hopeful he would come over and give her some recognition – then she got an ugly scowl on her face when he paid her no mind.
How can they tell, she has the same stare all the time as though it is the only emotion she has.
Right. Like so much misinformation they’ve altered “glared at” to “stared down”.
I agree with Sara that this is at least very close to child abuse.
If she was or is serious about carbon emission’s,
Why is she wearing make up?
Why is she wearing those clothes?
sorry but I don’t think she starred him down or glared at him, she was po’d that he ignored her, she is so used to getting attention.
I like the part where after sneering and damning and scolding her audience without mercy, going so far as the intone bitterly “I shall NEVER forgive you!”, she ended it up with a bland “Thank you”!
It reminded me of an episode of the Simpson’s wherein Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, who runs the local Kwik-E-Mart, curses out Homer and tells him to leave the store and that he is the worst human being he ever met and that he is banned for life, then adds as Homer walks out the door “Thank you, come again”.
Well the Polar bear mascot failed . I note Greta won’t be going to China , the biggest polluter on earth .
Child abuse …sad really sad . first we use their future as a credit card then we scare them with this climate fraud .
Where have all the scientists gone ? Enabling a fraud that in the end will kill hundreds of millions ….
but perhaps that is the objective after all . Well beside the money of course .