Dear Greta,
So you got what you wanted.
“System change & Economic Slowdown” is a real thing now.
Airplanes, industry, jobs, restaurants, recreation, and schools are all shut down.
Instead we have fear, poverty, misery, joblessness, economic ruin, and a bleak future.
Happy now?
Anthony Watts
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“Instead we have fear, poverty, misery, joblessness, economic ruin, and a bleak future.”
Yes, but this time it is a temporary inconvenience. Further, we are still benefiting from all the accumulated economic wealth, expertise, infrastructure etc. that the prudent exploitation of fossil fuels has allowed us.
Eco-loons want it to be permanent. After a few years of their vision there will be no time for the luxury of human development and progress, no freedoms/democracy, no reliable food distribution or storage of perishables, no law and order, no health services, no heating, no sanitation, no trees, no wildlife (all ravaged for fuel and food)………. but Greta’s elitist brain-washers will be living it up in luxurious fortress country estates.
You big white heterosexual man bullying a poor defenceless waif of a female genius, Nobel Prize winner-elect n all.
HOW DARE YOU??
(Jolly easily??!!)
It’s always shocked me to see the lefts ambivilence towards the suffering of the people of Venezuala, they dont seem to see the consequences of their own policies on real people, even when it’s right in front of them.
I don’t see why this will be any different. they just don’t get it
If they don’t acknowledge the disastrous role of socialist policies, they can blame climate change for causing a migration exodus to justify more extreme global socialism……….. every cloud etc.
I read tonight Venezuels govt is going to UP taxes to cope with covid..
ah yes I can see that working……badly
The most interesting bit to me is that Greta is the one who will have to live her life in this “brave new world” she longs to create. If she ever grows up (an open question) and reaches mature years, I wonder how she’ll feel looking back on all the misery and destruction she tried to enable? (Whether is occurs, or if saner heads eventually prevail.)
★★★★★
× 1,000,000
Nicely done, Mr. Watts.
Your letter should and deserves to go “viral.”
Maybe, just maybe, some of the not-so-bright out there will finally understand there’s an issue of cost/benefit involved.
People anxious and suffering everywhere, economic meltdown, retirement funds decimated…Green whackjobs happy and think this is the future. I hope everyone is paying attention to this or this is how our children will suffer.
If the malaria drugs can be shown to prevent the Wuhan virus illness, and reduce the severity of those who get the illness, then we can all go back to work.
It shouldn’t be that long before we can tell just how effective the drugs are in people. A couple of weeks. I’m sure the scientific community would say a couple of weeks is not enough testing, but the business community might see it differently and press for getting back to work.
We will know a lot more about this situation by the time President Trump’s 15-day cooling off period is over.
If we can get the economy back up and running in a short period of time, then the economy will take up where it started, taking into consideration the large number of changes that have taken place with the supply chains all over the world.
We won’t be booming like we were two months ago, but if we get up and running fairly quickly, we can probably be doing close to that level in about a year. Our economy hasn’t changed. It’s still good. The damages to the economy from the Wuhan virus affair are yet to be calculated but the sooner we get moving, the less it will be.
“Be careful what you wish for – you might get it.”
As a teenager stricken with Aspergers and with no real understanding of climate science, Greta makes the perfect spokesperson for alarmism.
Here in UK we have an overpaid BBC ‘expert’ called Chris Packham – also somewhere on the spectrum – who has been given space on their website today because he’s worried that coping with CoVid19 will push Climate Change down the agenda.
If only!!!
With everything being “shutdown” via local, state or national mandate, it will only take 5 or 6 days before the big cities run out of food and booze, ….. and the people in the suburbs and beyond had better be ready to protect themselves, their food and their property from the hordes of hungry city dwellers that will be intent on ravaging the countryside.
The looting and burning of electronic and whiskey stores within the cities is one thing, ….. but iffen they come out of the cities looking for something to eat, ……….. “Katy bar the door”
People in positions of “elected power” and others, need to stand up against the Green Blob, its aims if reached in reality would practically be Genocidal.
Once again, I looked hard for a “Love &heart;” button.
Hi Anthony,
I can’t seem to be able to successfully share items on this site with others. I have tried many times.
Just wondering if others are having the same problem?
Anthony,
Please make the point that billions have already been spent on ‘climate change’, however as has now been clearly shown that was never the real threat.
What if those resources over the last 2 decades were put into pandemic preparedness?
It needs answering by all those academics on the CC gravy chain.
The Glasgow Global Warming meeting will most certainly be a casualty of cCOVID 19; or is that too much to hope for. Perhaps it will rearranged and transferred to China along with David Attenborough
Instead of attacking Greta Thunberg we should promote the sensible informed alternative views of Naomi Seibt – who has a sound scientific education.
People are criticizing the “image” of Greta. She is an actress playing a role forced on her. Her ability to understand and meaningfully consent given her disability is more than suspect. This has been forced on her first by her activist parents. Now taken over by shady shadowy figures by radicals from Extinction Rebellion.