Chris White Tech Reporter
February 03, 2020 9:46 AM ET
Swedish lawmakers nominated activist Greta Thunberg for a Nobel Peace Prize Monday in the belief that the teenager will help save the Paris climate agreement.
Thunberg “worked hard to make politicians open their eyes to the climate crisis,” Jens Holm and Hakan Svenneling, both members of Sweden’s Left Party, told the Associated Press. They believe the 17-year-old activist’s work prodding officials to take the deal seriously is worth the prize.
“Action for reducing our emissions and complying with the Paris Agreement is therefore also an act of making peace,” Holm and Svenneling said. (RELATED: Greta Thunberg’s Father Says ‘She Is Happy,’ But He Is Worried)
Thunberg is receiving heaps of praise after she appeared at the United Nations’ climate summit in 2019. She won TIME Magazine’s “Person of the Year” in December 2019, making her the young person to receive the honor since the magazine started naming people of the year in 1927.
She traveled to the U.S. from her home in Sweden in August on a racing yacht to avoid taking jets, which activists argue are responsible for spewing tons of carbon emissions. Her visit was designed to galvanize support for action on global warming ahead of September’s United Nations climate summit.
Thunberg’s emotional speech at the summit appeared to be the catalyst for much of the praise.
“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet I’m one of the lucky ones,” she said at the summit. “People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”
UN climate officials struggled to find a spark after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement in 2017. The deal required the U.S. to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. China only committed to “peak” emissions by 2030 while India made no promise to curtail future emissions growth.
What did Yasser Arafat and Mother Teresa have in common? The Nobel Peace Prize of course!
Greta deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize? Sure, why not.
The Nobel Peace Prize has degraded to the point of being equivalent to a Crackers Jack toy, except for the monetary award part (around $1 million).
The decline in the prestige of the Nobel Peace Prize awards began with the co-award to Henry Kissinger in 1973, continued with the co-award to Yasser Arafat in 1994, and accelerated downward with awards to Al Gore in 2007 and Barack Obama in 2009. The money I could use; the trophy and publicity could go into the circular file for all I care.
Greta Thunberg has done precisely ZERO to promote peace. No war, famine or despotic regime has been averted, ended or overthrown.
All she has done is had some fantasy that she can ‘see’ carbon dioxide, when any scientist knows she cannot.
Then she has said ‘How dare you?’ to a few political representatives. Big deal: I have said and can say a lot more than that and no-one has recommended me for any prize, peace or otherwise.
The Nobel Peace Prize is dead if this nomination is not thrown out as spurious, irrelevant and utterly out of synch with what the prize is supposed to be about.
There is a serious case to suggest that sectioning for mental ill health is required for anyone who thinks this is anything other than an absolutely corrupt and fraudulent nomination.
Just lie enough and you can get one too.
The peace prize has become a meaningless piece of junk given to the newest political mouthpiece of liberal dogma. What a shame the liberals have yet destroyed another tradition that at one time meant something.
I have the same sort of feelings about the Scientific American magazine…it once meant something, now a piece of junk.
How does promoting actions which will lead to global shortages and starvation, and therefore war, merit a PEACE prize?
Yeah, the Nobel committee. Bob Dylan won for literature. Everybody must get stoned.
Or, my favourite Spoonerism: ‘Every turn must get stoned’.
If Al Gorical, Barack O’barmy and Greta Thunderpants deserve Nobel Peace Prizes the rest of us must be just down the list. Will there be enough to go around? Personally I would settle for something of more established and durable value… like a free bagel.
Classic doublespeak.
Someone who directly spreads lies, division, hate, ignorance and stupidity is given a peace prize.
Lisa Simpson should get it.
Can the Pope declare her a Saint right now, or is it too early?
I think praising the Snork Maiden is the biggest own-goal yet scored by the global warmunists.
In my travels across the interwebs the most frequent reaction I observe from the otherwise disinterested is one of annoyance and anger that they are being so lectured by an ignorant, arrogant, petulant child who should still be in school. And a better school than previously.
Also, the way this young girl is being used by the people whose words she parrots comes across as quite revolting to many sensible adults.
Okay, Michael, I’ll bite: The “Snork Maiden”?
Ian,
Google is your friend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Moomin_characters#Snork_Maiden
An open letter to Greta Thunberg – a gem; the truth:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/11/open-letter-greta-thunberg-jason-d-hill/