Guest essay by Eric Worrall
If you don’t agree to their demands, Greta Thunberg’s followers promise to ruin their own educational prospects and give your children a better chance at securing a place in a good university.
Global school strike for climate change movement resumes, with protests taking place across Australia
School students in cities around the world are back at parliament buildings, striking for climate change action.
After the momentum of the strikes was derailed by COVID-19 in April, the resumption of global protests look to be planned around local restrictions. Protests in Canada, for example, are all online.
The Fridays for Future movement, made famous by Greta Thunberg, reports more than 3,000 strikes planned around the world today, with most concentrated in the US, Europe and India.
Ms Thunberg is expected to join the strike at Swedish parliament later today.
In a tweet this morning, the 17-year-old environmental activist said protesters would be back “next week, next month and next year. For as long as it takes”.
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Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-25/global-student-strike-for-climate-action/12702434
I’ve always wondered how people looking on at the gathering of the Children’s Crusade must have felt.
The Children’s Crusade was a doomed 13th century attempt by children who were outraged at the failure of their parents to reclaim the Holy Land for Christendom, so they decided to take matters into their own hands.
No doubt the crusade was deeply distressing for the parents of children who fled into the night to join the madness. The crusade was highly profitable for unscrupulous merchants who deceived the naive children into booking a passage straight to North African and Arabic slave markets.
But for people who were not directly involved, the madness of the moment must have been utterly surreal.
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Shut off all their internet access and cell phone service.
“…securing a place in a good university.”
Care to define “good university”?
Fair point.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/05/18/a-queenslanders-guide-to-australian-universities/
“I ask you, Captain, would you let your sister date a college guy?”
“Which college?”
LOL! Good one!
There is going to be a lot less places in university because most have there budgets smashed because no overseas students. The good new fast food is booming with all the people at home so they will have a job.
Don’t complain, they are making room in the world for educated and level headed children to get ahead without resorting to climbing a ladder of success. Unfortunately those that succeed will be forced to support them. Kind of like today.
When I read that Greta was going back to school, I wondered if applied heat and electro-technology was on the syllabus. Then she would find a use for imaginary numbers (and what the R toP, P to R buttons were for on her calculator)
You’ll notice they didn’t start their renewed protests until school started again…
+100 !!! 🙂
I think I may have been a bit harsh earlier,they are children. Their parents, teachers, the media, pop idols,comedians, politicians,movie stars have all played a part in leading them on. They are just children they didnt stand a chance. The lunatic left have no boundaries,ruthless horrible ***** all of them
Darwin’s theories at work. Why does it take so long?
I think you mean should be locked up.
Cities for Climate?
If anyone really wants to see the evil of such children’s crusades, see Innocent and the ‘Innocents’ here :
What Are the Children Telling Us? by Robert Ingraham
https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2019/eirv46n14-20190412/15-20_4614.pdf
There is a reference to 1. George Zabriskie Gray, The Children’s Crusade: An Episode of the Thirteenth Century, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1870.
In the 13th century, where did the disgust children have for their parents come from for not securing the holy land? Certainly not from the parents.