Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Greta Thunberg has slammed New Zealand’s “so-called” climate emergency. But rather than thank Greta for her criticism, New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern has compounded her error, and publicly contradicted the harsh words of the Swedish global climate leader.
Greta Thunberg calls out New Zealand Government for ‘so-called’ climate emergency declaration
14/12/2020
Lana AndelaneSwedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has called out the New Zealand Government for its “so-called” climate emergency declaration earlier this month.
In a tweet on Sunday (local time), the 17-year-old linked to a Newsroom opinion piece, arguing the Government’s declaration is merely virtue signalling unless it’s backed by immediate action to reduce the country’s carbon emissions.
“‘In other words, the Government has just committed to reducing less than 1 percent of the country’s emissions by 2025’,” Thunberg tweeted, quoting an excerpt from the article.
She continued: “Text explaining New Zealand’s so-called climate emergency declaration. This is of course nothing unique to any nation. #FightFor1Point5.”
"In other words, the Government has just committed to reducing less than 1 percent of the country's emissions by 2025".
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) December 13, 2020
Text explaining New Zealand's so-called climate emergency declaration. This is of course nothing unique to any nation. #FightFor1Point5https://t.co/Yp8nuek9Pn…
The following is New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern compounding her shameful lack of climate ambition by trying to talk back to Greta Thunberg.
Jacinda Ardern defends climate change goals after Greta Thunberg scoffs at emergency declaration
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has defended her country’s climate change policies after activist Greta Thunberg suggested the country lacked ambition.
Ms Ardern said the comments referred only to part of New Zealand’s goals on climate change.
Ms Thunberg took to Twitter on Sunday to say that New Zealand’s “so-called climate emergency declaration” was “of course nothing unique to any nation”.
New Zealand announced earlier this month that it would become carbon neutral by 2025.
Ms Ardern told reporters she welcomed Ms Thunberg’s contribution to the debate on climate, but said the emergency declaration covered only a portion of New Zealand’s climate change goals.
“If it was the sum total of what we were doing, it would be worthy of criticism, it’s clearly not,” Ardern said, adding it’s “only a good thing that there are people out there continuing to urge ambition and action”.
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Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-15/ardern-defends-nz-climate-change-goals-after-thunberg-tweet/12987266
How dare she? How dare a mere Prime Minister like Jacinda Ardern question and contradict the words of a great climate leader like Greta Thunberg? Jacinda in my opinion is a total climate traitor, her refusal to accept correction from someone who has never held elected office, had any meaningful responsibility, and has AFAIK never even set foot in New Zealand is proof of her guilt.
Karl Marx once explained “The mode of production of material life determines altogether the social, political, and intellectual life process. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but on the contrary their social being, that determines their consciousness.”.
If New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern genuinely wants to foster a green consciousness amongst her people, Ardern should stop being so half hearted about climate action. She should follow the advice of Greta instead of arguing with her, she should follow the path laid by Greta Thunberg and Karl Marx and go all in to create a mode of production and social being which leads people to a glorious green epiphany.
Hilarious when the green left eat their own.
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The countdown towards Greta’s irrelevance is on. Once she turns 18, her fibs and tantrums will no longer be acceptable. She will lose her status as the Child High Priestess of the Climate Cult of Doom and Gloom. Just 17 days to go.
Watch out for that huge flurry of activity and hype-documentaries etc before her reign comes to an end.
We might have a little party with meatballs*served with hockey stick shaped spikes), Swedish Princess cake and Grehito cocktails (basically a modified mojito) with dry ice. Might don the yellow raincoat again and sing the song How Dare You (to Dayenu, a very catchy Jewish tune.) Working on the song to Dancing Queen-Climate Queen.
I’m fascinated by how this works. Does Thunbergeroni read the world press wire service in English and come up with these erratic little headline captures herself or is there a backing organisation exploiting her? Hey, Grets dear – here’s a rant for you.
mouthy lil brat;-) thought It’d been quiet too long
jacintas already screwed the economy by stopping oil/gas offshore
busy ruining dairy n farming
not much left to be done to get back to stoneage is there?
Haha. One virtue signaller signalling another virtue signaller that she isn’t virtuous enough.
Swiss Journalist Jacques Mallet du Pan (1749-1800) coined the adage “A l’exemple de Saturne, la révolution dévore ses enfants” “Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children”.
Every revolution winds up with its leaders being taken to the guillotine, and with the man on horseback taming the mob with a whiff of grapeshot. Today, Greta plays Madame Defarge. Tomorrow she will be found to be insufficiently revolutionary by the Red Guard.
Rent-a-crank
Has anyone else noticed the pimping of a new movie about Greta by Hulu? You’d think she was the Virgin Mary or a beatified saint. I just do a face palm, roll my eyes and move on to some other content.
Not to criticize the face of anyone … let alone a child; But this child is developing that whole Chief Inspector Dreyfus eye-tick thingy.
It is a fantasy of mine, for a world leader to look at Greta,. The UN and wef and just smile and say, F*#k off.
People still listen to this tard?
The pot calling the kettle black, or in this case a green watermelon calling another watermelon, red, or to put it yet another way, a gesticulating low wattage dwarf tyrant calling out the Comrade queen of virtue signalling.
The pimple on a gnats bottom that is New Zealand epitomises geopolitical, economic and climatism irrelevance. Reads more like astroturfing to help the Comrade trial the Great Reset down under?