Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Fake problem meet real problem.
Climate change or coronavirus? ‘Pick your evil’, protesters say
Demonstrators led by Greta Thunberg say global governments have raised more alarm over virus than climate emergency.
Protesters at a rally led by climate activist Greta Thunberg on Friday denounced governments for taking urgent action against the coronavirus outbreak but failing to treat global warming as an emergency.
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Organisers said some 4,000 people attended the event, fewer than expected, probably because of the weather and concerns about the spread of the virus in large crowds.
Andaga, 25, a marine biology student from Ghent, said some of her friends stayed away because of worries about the virus.
“I thought, OK, maybe I should carry hand sanitiser, but it was sold out everywhere … Yes, it was a concern of mine, but not enough to stop me from coming out and marching,” she said.
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Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/climate-change-coronavirus-pick-evil-protesters-200306195937709.html
Clearly a lot of Greta Thunberg’s followers are not as committed to climate action as Greta herself.
There is this student Andaga from Ghent,
who on fighting climate change is bent.
But being unable to find sanitizer,
made her intended audience much wiser.
So at far fewer followers must she now vent.
This lot clearly have their priorities screwed up. They are fighting the greatest challenge of all human existence that will wipe out 7bn people in the next 11 years. Yet they are not showing up for fear of catching a virus that, at worst, will take out 200M mostly old men and women over the next two years. They lack conviction for their cause.
Indeed. The latest deaths in Australia were all over 90 years old and in aged care homes. While it is sad to see people fall victim to this virus, a comfortable and painless death at 90+ I would consider to be a good innings.
The environmental impact of the Greta rally in Bristol, England: