Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Deutsche Bahn apologised for allegedly making Greta Thunberg sit on the floor for part of her journey, while travelling on an overcrowded train in Germany.
Greta Thunberg in first-class Twitter spat with German rail firm
Deutsche Bahn says activist’s tweet implied she had not been offered a seat on journey home
Kate Connolly in Berlin
Mon 16 Dec 2019 05.51 AEDTSwedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been criticised by a German rail firm for what it said was her implication that she had spent a journey without a seat on an overcrowded train.
The teenager tweeted a photograph of herself looking pensively out of the window of her German train on Saturday, writing: “Traveling (sic) on overcrowded trains through Germany. And I’m finally on my way home.”
Greta travelled by train from the COP25 UN climate conference in Madrid via a climate protest in Turin, Italy, on Friday. She is due home in Stockholm to celebrate Christmas with her family after a year travelling the world by rail, sea and road to highlight the threat of global heating.
Traveling on overcrowded trains through Germany. And I’m finally on my way home! pic.twitter.com/ssfLCPsR8o
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) December 14, 2019…
Greta later clarified her position, by suggesting she never said there was a problem, because overcrowding shows how popular trains are.
It could have been worse. If Greta was attempting to travel through France, they’re all on strike, though there has been some talk of interrupting the strike during the Christmas holiday period.
And if Greta was attempting to travel long distance by train in Britain, my personal experience there’s a good chance she would have been sitting in a puddle.
At least that German train floor looks clean.
Update (EW): Some people have suggested Greta travelling on the floor was a publicity stunt, perhaps there was a seat available.
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“overcrowded” means that depopulation program is not working as efficient as intended.
It is time to start putting the deplorables against the wall.
What holds them back is lack of progress in CO2 neutral guns.
Q How rotten is this little grub?
A1 Not quite as rotten as her parents who should never have been allowed to breed and/or
A2 Nowhere near as rotten as her minders – the Club of Rome.
She’s a world famous celebrity. That snapshot is not credible.
Notice the term ‘global heating’. Why was the window not opened?
Where did the energy come from to power the trains that she was on?
Carbon free wind…
Electricity in Germany is a mix. At times they also import coal and nuclear generated electricity from neighboring countries. Within the borders they have nuclear (slowly closing), coal and NG from Russia. On top of this complexity, the have wind and solar export/import through HVDC via Denmark to Norwegian hydro. Then there is the problem of getting the power from northern Germany to southern Germany where the big industry live.
They probably have some coal fired steam locomotives on museums and elsewhere if their electricity grid goes down – no problem.
Bloody nora, Germany are doomed!
With apologies to Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd-Webber:
Oh what a circus,
Oh what a show.
The world’s gone crazy over the words of an actress named Greta Thunberg.
We’ve all gone crazy, striking all day and crying all night
Just to get the misery right
Oh what a farce, that’s how to go
First class on a train
and then sit on the floor
demand to travel like Ms Thunberg.
But who is this Santa Greta ?
Why all this howling, hysterical cheering?
What kind of goddess lives among us?
How can we get by without her?
She had her moments (How dare you?), she had her fans
The best show in town was XR outside COP25
crying “5 more years”
But that’s all gone now
well until Glasgow next year
Don’t cry for her.
The first lesson of political indoctrination is: never let the truth get in the way of your political agenda.
Could have walked or rode an ass. Only 60 plus days
You wonder if her handlers and advisers prompt GT to stage these theatrics? Or maybe her opera star mother. If so, they sure don’t seem too smart. As far a so far as over crowding she was lucky she wasn’t travelling in Bangladesh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CZ8fejXB7Y
With Joe Ebeni’s comment above, I came to think:
Would it not have saved more energy if GT had used train and Greyhound bus, instead of the battery car from Arnold? – Hm, forgot she may not be comfortable with all those common people around her in the bus.
It wasn’t really ‘overcrowded’.
She just used the literal translation from Swedish and didn’t realise it has a different meaning in English.
Very clever Craig.
Greta Tintin is just preparing us to the near future where her wishes have come true. After the last plane and the last motor car have been eliminated, she will miss the 6 square meter space at the overcrowded DB. Bollywood explains it all her
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She’s a healthy young teen, why did she have to sit down? I commute now as a middle aged lady and even I can stand on a moving train or bus for at least half an hour.
Time for a little quiz. Who said “you have stolen my childhood’?
Ahhh, I know I heard it somewhere..
That quiz tells everything, just sad she may never dare to see it.
I recall being in Italy on business in the 70’s – bought a first class ticket from Bologna to Milan – and had a first class STAND in the corridor for the 2-hour journey – no seats available. Showed my ticket to the conductor – who did that (typically Gallic) shrug….
Welcome to the real world, Greta….
Same thing happened to family members traveling in France/Switzerland a year ago, because of a cancellation the reserved seat became moot.
Anyone in doubt on air transport popularity can visit http://www.flightradar24.com and obtain a somehow realistic picture on what has been achieved.
A 16 yr old Aussie girl traveled around the world by yacht solo. Used the sweat from her own brow. Gret bitches about first class seating on German trains using staged photographs.
Judge not by words, but deeds.
returning to scandawegia where sea level continues to fall .
Yes, land rising because those neanderthals 20,000 years ago melted all the ice, when driving around in their fossil fuel powered Flintstone cars.
Sorry Carl Friis-Hansen but that’s a damn lie. Flinstone cars used renewable foot power, not fossil fuels. 😉
Please tell me that luggage was for her entire entourage and not just her.
My daughter traveled around the world for 2 years and did not have nearly as much luggage. Who does Greta think she is?
Maybe if we just ignore her, whe will go away. She does not deserve the attention or the acclaim she has been given.
Riff on kids. Be proud of your work on this page . . Love that you’re getting kicks from abusing a 16 year old whose only crime is that she’s acting according to her beliefs (right or wrong) – much like the rest of us. . . With every word we reveal who we are . . .
Jim hogg
So we should respect a girl who lies, and causes mass anxiety among young children? She has made children miss days of school, all while she travels all over the usa/canada and europe on yachts, trains and tesla cars 😐
She isn’t following her beliefs as she isn’t educated in weather sciences or any other sciences, she is following a lie a scam.
Sure thing Jim Hogg,I too am proudly supporting child abuse and the cruel usage of a teenage Retard.
Sorry make that a Teenage very special person,climate expert and future seer.
Greta’s 15 minutes are over and once again have revealed the callous cruel nature of the Cult of Calamitous Climate.
Any organization that uses children in this way,has zero chance of gaining any credibility with me.
How many coal or natural gas molecules had to DIE to produce the electricity that keeps the servers running that host Twitter so Greta could send out her tweet to her many followers around the globe?
No, seriously, if global warming due to fossil fuels is so important, why is it necessary to increase the load on the electrical grid so people know you are sitting on the floor of a train?
Why is anyone talking about this spoiled brat kid ??
Beats an eco friendly ox cart.
Who took the picture. She is handled by adults and that is where the blame should be.