Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is looking to the world for suggestions as to how she can re-cross the Atlantic after next month’s U.N. climate summit in Chile was unexpectedly scrapped.
The 16-year-old made it from Sweden to California by yacht, train and electric car before Chile’s government announced it was canning the summit because of political unrest in the South American nation.
The COP25 summit will now be held in Spain and she is pleading for public help to make the 6000-mile trip through carbon-free modes of transportation.
“As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I’ll need some help,” Ms Thunberg tweeted from Los Angeles.
“It turns out I’ve travelled half around the world, the wrong way.”
“Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November … If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful.”
As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I’ll need some help.
It turns out I’ve traveled half around the world, the wrong way:)
Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November… If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful.
-> https://t.co/vFQQcLTh2U— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) November 1, 2019
Thunberg refuses to fly because of the carbon emissions involved.
Her cry for assistance Friday came after she spent time with Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio discussing ways and means to help the world struggle through what they claim is a “climate and ecological emergency,” as Breitbart News reported. DiCraprio called her a “leader of our time” and revealed they have made “a commitment to support one another.”
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It can’t be done. Next question?
You can’t get there from here (without fossil fuels) in the time allotted. So buck up and book a flight like everyone else or continue to stand in the corner and pout.
Nuclear submarine. No carbon involved in the propulsion, unless there is a reactor accident and they have to shift to the diesel electric systems. Highly unlikely.
She could be reduced to her fundamental atomic structure and teleported by the secret space aliens at Area 51. Not too sure about the reincorporation of her atoms at the other end unless there is some secret Alien base in Sweden we don’t know about.
The balloon ideas above are all good – but it would have to be lifted either by helium or hydrogen gas. No carbon involved if she sets up the ballon at the bottling plants.
” Not too sure about the reincorporation of her atoms…”
Has the Heisenberg Compensator gone glitchy again?
I’m not sure…
If she is still in California, she should just stay there. There is an unnecessary industry there with a really huge, carbon footprint. She should stand at the movie studio gates in Hollywood, shaming them, and demanding that they shut down. The world can do fine without another DiCaprio film. Surely he would support her. Right?
“It turns out I’ve travelled half around the world, the wrong way.”
What a perfect metaphor for the whole of Climate Change hysteria
Hitch a ride on the next great white. That would reduce her carbon footprints.
Here’s a suggestion based on a similar, though much smaller, challenge.
The first person to swim the English Channel to France, Captain Matthew Webb, smeared himself in porpoise oil. I suggest Greta try that if she doesn’t care to wear a rubber suit made from fossil fuels.
Be positive – St Greta may yet be a force for good. Imagine if it got through to some of those climateer donkeys that air travel was wrong…….. then there wouldn’t be any more climate conferences!
St Greta deserves our support – she may not be very bright, but no-one can doubt her sincerity.
Yes, this could be disruptive. Probably will not be though.
I suggest Lord Monckton pick her up in a slow boat and give her an education all the way back to Europe. What a coup that would be when she emerged as a skeptic. She could then use her superpower for the good of the planet.
How does flying in a seat that would otherwise go unoccupied increase carbon emissions? Book at the last minute. Done.
Standby would also answer
Yep, that was my answer, educate her about how emissions from any aircaft crossing the Atlantic will not change if she gets on one.
Trump could dispatch an aircraft carrier for her
Virtual presence. Just like she and all other delegates should have been planning from the start. That’s if they really believed that CO2 is a problem.
Freak’in id***s
She could just use AOC’s transatlantic railway, as outlined in her Green New Deal. AOC has all the answers. Maybe AOC could go with her.
Does the railroad have high-voltage lines or does it drag 99 boxcars of batteries?
Richard Branson needs to lend her his helium balloon.
Trump should offer her a ride on a nuclear powered submarine or aircraft carrier.
One of those flying nun hats Saly Fields used to wear.
You’re showing your age Gary 😉 The millennials here will have no idea what you’re talking about.
Gidget.
How can you be so sexist as to call anyone a girl midget?
I bet a good hundred bucks that she’s gonna fly home/Spain/whatever over there…
She needs to walk. Wherever she’s going, it doesn’t matter where, she needs to walk there, and gather a following of children who give up their homes and families to follow her. And she needs to decide on the destination so that those who are not in her path can gather there to await her and greet her arrival.
“…It turns out I’ve travelled half around the world, the wrong way…”
Glad she can admit the error of her ways. That’s step 1.
Surely she can emulate Captain Jack Sparrow..
There are a lot of her elite</b. "virtue signalling" friends who are flying their private jets from airports all over the world to attend the COP.
Just hop on one of them; her weight will be negligible compared to the booze and entourage that will accompany them.
She just needs to overstay her visa and turn herself in to ICE. They will see to it that she gets back to Sweden.
Oh no, do we need to have her back in Sweden?
“Oh no, do we need to have her back in Sweden?”
YES,
we want a ‘green clean world’ (when do we want it …now)
So dont let your rubbish get blown into other peoples yards; deal with your own trash
So they brought a kid over here from Europe with no way back.
That made me laugh! Stop it!
Forced deportation (to somewhere) for visa violations might work.
That way travel by air would not be by her choice but by a grateful government
agency.
Generally, a Swedish citizen can stay in the U.S. 90 days without a visa, so that action would not take place for a while.
So would her pilgrimage to Montreal and Edmonton in Canada reset the 90 day clock, or is it 90 days total ?
Going to Canada dont count for a reset.
She could probably get a 90 days extension, but thats the absolute limit.
“It turns out I’ve travelled half around the world, the wrong way.”
Geographical ineptness abounds. If she had gone the other way she would be in the same spot if travelling 1/2 way around the world.
Reminds me of the joke/question – how far can you walk into a forest?
A: You can only walk in 1/2 way, from then on you are walking out.
Clearly her home schooling is working.
Oxcart.
They were grounded twenty years ago and put in museums.
Still, she has nothing to worry about. Gaia will find a way.
Carbon-based. Perhaps she can form a glass plane and slide on her carbon-based ass.