Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Greta is incensed that rich countries are prioritising taking care of their own people, instead of sharing their Covid-19 vaccines with poor countries.
Greta Thunberg says she won’t attend COP26 summit if ‘vaccine nationalism’ continues
PUBLISHED FRI, APR 9 20217:28 AM EDT
Vicky McKeever@VMCKEEVERCNBC
- “Of course I would love to attend the Glasgow COP26. But not unless everyone can take part on the same terms,” Thunberg tweeted Friday.
- Thurberg said inequality was already at the heart of the climate crisis, adding that if people could not be vaccinated and travel to the summit to be equally represented, that would be “undemocratic.”
LONDON — Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has said she will not attend the high-profile United Nations climate change summit if current vaccination trends continue.
Thunberg tweeted Friday morning in response to a BBC report which said she had “no plans” to attend the summit, known as COP26, which is due to take place in Glasgow, Scotland in November.
“Of course I would love to attend the Glasgow COP26. But not unless everyone can take part on the same terms,” Thunberg tweeted.
She argued that many countries were vaccinating “healthy young people” against Covid-19 at the expense of higher risk groups and front-line workers in other countries.
Thurberg said inequality was already at the heart of the climate crisis, adding that if people could not be vaccinated and travel to the summit to be equally represented, that would be “undemocratic.”
“Vaccine nationalism won’t solve the pandemic,” Thunberg said, arguing that “global problems need global solutions.”
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/09/cop26-greta-thunberg-wont-go-if-vaccine-nationalism-continues.html
Greta has no consideration for the millions of working class people in rich countries, whose taxes paid for the vaccines she wants to redistribute.
Of course, if poor countries were rich, they could buy their own vaccines. So what is stopping poor countries from becoming rich?
The best economic analysis of global poverty I have read is P J O’Rourke’s economic treatise “Eat the Rich”. The evidence O’Rourke presents suggests the reason poor countries are poor is they are run by kleptocrats.
You might think some of the politicians who run the US are bad, and there are worrying trends, but the picture O’Rourke painted of the poorest nations was of rulers who never give the green shoots even the slightest chance to grow. In the worst places in the world, as soon as the local thugs in charge notice an accumulation of wealth, they swoop in and steal it, shooting anyone and breaking anything which gets in their way, leaving nothing behind but wreckage and carnage. People in poor countries rapidly learn the hard way that there is no point attracting attention by trying to improve their own lives, because they won’t be allowed to keep the fruits of their labour. Anyone with ambition in such places emigrates or joins the thugs. Or both.
Asia learned how to become rich because for a short time after the abrupt collapse of the Empire of Japan, the organs of government sanctioned theft were in disarray. When British government employee Sir John Cowperthwaite travelled to Hong Kong in the aftermath of WW2, after the Hong Kong people had been left to fend for themselves for a few months, he was so entranced by the beauty of watching poor people sort their own lives out, he dedicated the rest of his career to preventing the British government from intervening in the Hong Kong economy. Cowperthwaite’s policy of strict non-intervention gave birth to the Asian Miracle – an accumulation of wealth so rapid that even today, Hong Kong is richer per capita than Britain.
People in the most insanely deprived circumstances can rapidly accumulate wealth if they get the thieves off their backs. A few years ago I read the heartwarming story of Mesfin Getahun, an Ethiopian living in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, who in just a few years made 10s of thousands of dollars; not by preying on his fellows, but by helping to supply their basic needs. At the time Mesfin wanted to emigrate to the USA. I hope he made it; I think he would be an asset for any nation which accepts him.
If Greta wants to help poor people buy vaccines, instead of cheerleading UN sanctioned theft, she should be urging the people of poor countries to go all George Washington on the tyrant thieves who are keeping them poor. Use the money accumulated in the offshore bank accounts of kleptocrats to pay for the health needs of poor countries. Let people in rich countries who have worked hard for their money keep what they have earned – including the right to receive a vaccine which they helped pay for through their taxes.
Maybe if Greta had gone to school a bit more she would know all this.
I’d be interested to know the Thunberg family income over the past couple of years. Little Greta has apparently travelled to both North and South America, and returned to Sweden, buying only one train ticket along the way.
Her parents both have had well-paid jobs so she’s been well off all of her life. Her personal net worth has been estimated at around $1M, excluding her parents worth and her charitable foundation of course. Just goes to show that if you start young enough and scream angrily about the right subject, idiot’s will throw money for you to shut up and go away.
Professional protester. Why would she need to go to school.
Why would she learn a skill to do anything constructive ?
Greta Thunberg threatening to boycott the Glasgow COP26 Climate Conference would be an unexpected benefit flowing from the Covid-19 pandemic.
It certainly is one way of lowering her profile though Biden might be upset if he couldn’t Smell Her Hair
He can probably smell her hair from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean !!
Agreed, but it then denies the chance to hear one of her childish but entertaining rants. The downside is of course that a lot of leaders think she is great.
But Who wants to be in Glasgow in november ???
I do – but not for Greta and the Greenies.
I live here.
I would, but not during the conference. Another week to pub cruise, sampling single malts
LOL!👍👍🤣🤣🤣
My wife is the product of generations untold of Glaswegians and a U.S. military guy.
I’m an American who has, so far, sat out the sojourns of Mrs. H.R. (now American) when she visits kith & kin in Glasgow.
That was a good question and a sanity test, if you’re not from there, or confirmation of residence if you are from Glasgow.
Anyone who doesn’t live in Glasgow and wants to go there in November is nuckin’ futz!
May I formally thank Greta, on behalf of most Glaswegians, for her absence.
As another Glaswegian, I approve your comment. If Greta wants to come to Glasgow in November with no carbon footprint, I propose that she swims here.
“Greta Thunberg Threatens to Boycott the Glasgow COP26 Climate Conference”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! First chuckle of the day.
I’ll have to read the rest of the article to see if there’s some more to tickle the funny bone.
Ha ha+++
I just wish everyone would ignore the ignorant little twerp. This is the second article about her today I have seen. There is nothing between her ears and she is just doing what her handlers tell her so don’t give her airtime.
Ignore? The BBC is currently in the middle of airing a 3-part series, “Greta Thunberg: A Year to Save the World.” Each episode is 1 hour, and it’s being broadcast at 9pm on Mondays on the primary channel.
Other than the chance to count the sycophants who pay her tribute, I’m not sure what the point is of watching it. Episode 2: Greta Goes Skiing with the Slightly-Ashamed Jet Set (I paraphrase slightly) is on this Monday.
Meme logic: A reporterette asked a Plain Folk Amishman to what did he attribute his community’s avoidance of CoViD-19. He replied, “We do not have television.”
Without the SJW networks the world would be a much more peaceful place.
You will be relieved to know that viewership of the BBC among the 18-30 age group in the UK is tiny and falling. The Beeb is on the way out.
I wish. There’s even a bloody statue of her in Winchester University. Apparently the students hate it and wanted the money spent on helping them get a degree.
Her parents, her “educators”, and those who exploit her should be prosecuted for child abuse.
DrEd – I wish I could click your comment’s upvote a few thousand times more.
It really is pure child exploitation. Greta and Mongo are just pawns in the game of life.
Sorry, who is Mongo again?
Mongo is the enforcer from Blazing Saddles. Played by Alex Karras. Greatest movie of all time.
Mike when did Joe Biden change his preferred pronoun to Her?
Greta has some genuine special needs that cause me to have sympathy for her personally. She hasn’t had a normal life for some time. Think of the difficulties of young people vaulted into ultra high attention, often high income positions … star hockey players … music stars, etc. Many have no internal mechanisms to handle sudden fame, and wealth in a mature manner. A hard enough road for people with average capacities. Precisely because they are immature. Greta comes to this with a set of real “special needs”.
Someday like all “stars” … her worth to the professional activists will wane. Does she have people to lean on 24/7/365 when the cameras stop flashing, the travel ends, the entourage, and funding disappears ? Can anyone see her functioning to fully take care of herself independently, and quite possibly suddenly … say five years from now at age 23 ?
She may end up with a bad case of Winehouse-Morrison-Cobain syndrome in late 2029 if she’s not very careful. It tends to come with the territory in some folks.
“Greta Thunberg Threatens to Boycott the Glasgow COP26 Climate Conference”
Uh…Good? As in good riddance. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out…
Poor countries are kind of lucky they are NOT getting the poison vaccines.
If you look at how cAGW and COVID are sold to the public, they use the same tactics. The ends are the same- we lose our wealth and we lose our freedom.
The same kind of propaganda is being done re: the George Floyd murder trial. It’s as if the corporate media wants riots to ensue.
I’m totally impressed that of all the people who are said to have died <s>from</s> with CoViD, George Floyd, who had CoViD, is not enumerated among the CoViD deaths.
Nothing boosts ratings like a sizable catastrophe.
I have the very strong feeling, that the world will survive very well the absence of Saint Greta. Maybe her family could sell her 9500,- euro chair from IKEA, and she could donate the money to buy vaccines for poor people in third world countries.
Don’t you like poor people in third world countries?
???? Sorry, I couldn’t understand your question. Please, could you help me? Thank you in advance.
Eric,
I agree completely. Why should my taxes go towards paying for vaccines for pensioners who haven’t paid taxes for years. Surely I have more of a right to a vaccine as a tax-payer than an 80 year old living off the state in a retirement home? And while I am at it I will stop the vaccine manufacturers from exporting vaccines that other countries have paid for until I have stockpiled enough vaccine for myself and my family for years to come.
How dare you?
YAWN !!
Those 80 years olds BUILT the places and towns you live in ….. using FOSSIL FUELS
They have paid their share of tax…
Have you. !
Do they tax your “unemployable benefit” ?
In the US unemployment benefits are indeed taxable. Not sure what that has to do with Covid vaccinations.
He said “unemployable” benefit. I think he means state supports like welfare, student grants, student loans their “comrades” want to wipe off the books as free. Overall, people who have little to no contributions to society, trashing the people who built the streets they ride their stolen bikes on. Glad I could clear that up for you.
You have to have been employed at some point prior to collecting unemployment benefits. “umemployable” implies no such employment history. It’s a subtle jab, but the scare quotes around the phrase should have been enough to catch on to what Fred was doing there.
In the US, Social Security Retirement Income is taxable, as is any individually-owned retirement account. I’ve paid into SocSec since I was 16. Then they added the Medicare tax.
I don’t know where the idea comes from that retirees and elderly don’t pay taxes, but it is baloney.
Depending on your income, up to 85% of your Social Security benefit may be taxable. Why 85%? Because for the average Social Security recipient, 15% of their benefit is money returned to them from their taxes and their employer’s taxes paid in for them by their employer. Most Social Security recipients will get back at least seven times what they and their employers put into the system, plus interest.
That means the remaining 85%, is depending on how you want to look at it, a taxable gift, a wealth transfer, elderly welfare, or whatever. Years ago, Congress decided to tax that “free money” portion of the SS benefit check as income, because that is what it is, the “income” portion of the benefit vs. the portion returned from the “premiums”, i.e., the taxes, paid in. The average Social Security recipient gets back EVERYTHING put in by themselves and their employers, plus interest, in just under two years of receiving benefits. Everything after that is essentially someone else’s money given to them by the power of government to fleece one and enrich another. Sadly, most believe they paid for their benefit, but have no idea that they are really participating in a huge government-sponsored Ponzi scheme, only capable of existing because of the national and generational aspects.
Of course, the system is stacked such that the lower your benefit, and therefore the more of your benefit which is “free” money/welfare, the lower the percent which is taxable, and those that paid in the most and subsidize the system the most, are taxed at the 85% rate. Medicare does the same thing, doubling and tripling your Medicare Part B premium based on your income, not your health.
Indeed, Sara. The notable exceptions are Roth accounts (because you already paid taxes on the contribution going into the account) and HSA accounts (which are designed for paying medical expenses)
That said, some elderly don’t make enough to be taxed, but that has nothing to do with their age – the younger poor folk similarly don’t make enough to be taxed. That’s because we here in the US have a “progressive” tax system, something Izaak is supposedly for, yet here he is arguing against it. will wonders never cease.
You don’t even know how to write good sarcasm.
Pensioners in the UK pay taxes
Can you get me a rebate?
Izaak, so if somebody you knew and loved died because a vaccine they could have received was shipped to some third world country, then you would be cool with that? Boy, what a great guy you are!
i could hope youre forgetting the S/ on your post?
i guess your parents who worked and paid taxes would expect vaccine if they want it?
assuming you had parents? and they worked at all
stopping export of PAID FOR vaccines, without which funding they might not have been made so fast or at all..hmm
frankly OD on the vax and spare us your presence
…pensioners who haven’t paid taxes for years.
Izaak, could you introduce me to one of these geezers? I want to find out how he does it. My STRS benefits are almost entirely taxed. I also pay property taxes, sales taxes, fuel taxes, and a boatload of taxes that are embedded in the other things that I buy.
I don’t know what it is like wherever you live, but I’m still paying taxes! How come you are always off base with your comments? Is it congenital, or something that just came on with age?
Izaak lives off the government teat, so assumes everyone else does as well.
I believe Izaak is pulling your leg folks with his out-of-character ‘meaness’.
Maybe, but he’s only saying what the EU are doing!
Oh for sure Izaak is trying to be snide and sarcastic. And failing. It doesn’t work when you are basing it on falsehood (such as the elderly don’t pay any taxes) as it only highlights your own ignorance rather than say anything about the subject the attempt at snide sarcasm was aimed at.
In Germany even pensioners pay taxes.
Climate conferences are useless and meaningless – with or without that young women. So why worry – why even write a WUWT article about it?
Mockery and ridicule are powerful weapons when everyone knows the Emperor has no clothes.
Now there’s a thought. Perhaps St. Greta has ulterior personal motives in trolling conferences. How else is an unattractive mental defective going to lose what every girl has?
Does Greta identify as a woman? I’d never have guessed
Greta is right about the inequality in the system, the only trouble is she has no understanding that the support for the Elites C19 release/vaccination program and climate change hoax are the Elites vehicles to a massive wealth shift under the World Economic Forum, the basic enslavement of the masses under Agenda 2030/21, and achieving their goal of a corporate New World Order under a One World fascist government, hell bent on drastically reducing the world’s population.
Careful, Greta will stamp her little foot. Maybe she’ll go down the garden and eat worms?
Nobody loves me
Everybody hates me
Going to the garden to eat worms
Big fat juicy ones
Tiny little squiggly ones
Watch them wriggle and squirm
Bite their heads off
Suck their juice out
Throw their skins away
I don’t see how birds can live on
Worms three times a day
3rd verse:*
The first one was easy,
the second one was queasy,
The third one got caught in my throat.
Big fat juicy worms, slip slop slimy worms, fuzzy wuzzy little worms
Nobody loves me
Everybody hates me
Going to the garden to eat worms
Long thin slimy ones
Short fat juicy ones
Gooey, gooey, gooey, gooey, worms
Long thin slimy ones slip down easily
Short fat juicy ones stick
Short fat juicy ones stick between your teeth
And the juice goes slurp, slurp, slurp
source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/miscellaneouslyrics/childsongslyrics/nobodylovesmelyrics.html
sigh
If only her mother had done that, while she had ‘a twinkle in her eye’
Then the hapless cow wouldn’t have been simultaneously anaemic and Vitamin B deficient – thus going on to produce a child (2 children in fact) with a without properly constructed and functioning brains.
Her own mother, Greta’s gran, also.
No. Leave out the Buck Pass. It is not genetic (nature)
Autism is ‘nurture’ – or the very definite lack of same
If only people beyond age 50 ate a few worms now and again.
They wouldn’t then spend the last 10 years of their lives, (haha) diagnosed as having Alzheimer’s, wearing nappies/diapers while being systematically milked for every penny and possession they ever had.
Or dropping like flies from ‘co-morbidities’ Sweet mercy.
Simply one penny per day ## for a B12 tablet would have given them, their families and carers, their physical, mental and social lives back.
We treat animals better than that.
Speaking of animals………
Moles (Talpa europaea and its cousins) eat worms. Lots of worms.
One of the odd things about moles is that they have specially adapted blood and Haemoglobin – allowing them to exist in environments containing very high levels of Carbon Dioxide
Why would that be……….
## Would also be ‘a solution’ for malaria.
Mozzies and other blood sucking & biting critters cannot abide the smell of the B vitamins.
(You know, that sweet slightly sickly yeasty smell classically in ‘Marmite’ **)
If your personal Vitamin B status is normal-to-high, they won’t bite you. Bite someone else instead
It’s a big part of why humans have noses, especially girls when looking for a mate. They ‘sense’ the Vitamin B level of their potential/intended mate.
The scent/smell of of Vitamin B indicates a ‘Good & Successful Hunter’ – i.e. someone who can/could supply her (and her baby) with a reliable supply of Vitamin B – thus the pair of them stand a good chance of producing a Good Baby
Also, he will act as a walking talking mosquito repellant if they stay in close company
(And you thought they were attracted to something else)
As opposed to a Successful Gatherer’
Gatherers are Mating No-Noes and Fails, plants don’t contain Vitamin B
Pennies dropping anywhere – is that where some or all of The Babies have gone?
How could Ehrlich have seen that coming, the epic success of the Mediterranean Diet in reducing population, at both ends of the age-range.
** Wonders if that ‘Marmite’ connection is why Vegemite is so popular ‘Down Under’
Engage brain:
Australia is a Desert – i.e. a place of very low organic soil and thus devoid of worms – there’s nothing there for them to eat. i.e. Soil organic matter
But, Soil Organic Matter is in fact mostly bacteria – some of those bacteria make Vitamin B in our stomachs – should we happen to ingest them either by accident or design
Hence why Aussies like Vegemite – they are self-medicating on ‘Fake Soil’
As do many folks in this part of the world via Marmite, also Bovril
funny old world innit
made me smile
hate to tell you but Aus does have some rather amazing worms even in dry areas like WA before machine ag they had manyfeet long earthworms(machinery sliced n diced the poor buggers rather well) coastal areas etc have healthy populations again tending to less in farmed soils using chem.I have crap soils multi mineral deficiencies but still have massive worm populations when its a bit damp
Love it. We had a picture hanging in the hall when I was around 5, with the first verse underneath. My first vague understanding of what resilience means.
Didn’t the University of Winchester just install a $US27K bronze statue of Greta an their campus? She is clearly an important person.
yes, everyone is fuming about it. it was a vanity project of the outgoing dean. even the students hate it.
Strange.
They are putting up statues to honor a high school drop out yet here in the US they are tearing down statues of those that helped build the US.
And don’t be fooled into thinking they are just taking down Civil War confederate statues.
If they had their way the Jefferson, the Washington and the Lincoln memorials would also become “history”.
Long past the time that “Cancel Culture” be cancelled.
When the children of today become the angry young adults of tomorrow, and see how badly their future has been compromised by green-debt socialism, Greta statue heads will roll.
And road/bridge funding are now called racial divide tools that must be relegated to 5% of the “infrastructure” stimulus. Go look it up.
What are the carbon emissions of that and where were the metals mined?
Bronze…
Bronze – Wikipedia
Is it true that Tamino (Grant Foster) has stopped posting about global warming?
The reason being that he has moved from Maine to California, and he is enjoying the much warmer climate.
Climate refugee.
Just in the opposite direction the Alarmists theory would predict.
What contribution could Greta make as a non-scientist without a paper to present?
COP is a political process. No science allowed, only consensus science is discussed.
Consensus science = Lysenkoism.
But, but, she is on BBC1 every day telling us that next Monday she will speak to us but not giving opinions, just giving us the science.
Does that not make her a scientist?
I just hope someone with more patience than me makes a note of all her scientific facts and then publishes any falsehoods.
No point in sending them to her, though, she won’t pay any attention.
Is Greta a scientist? She’s Bill Nye without the bow tie.
Look lower. Every sailor knows how to tie that …
What actual scientific papers have ever been presented at COP? It is and always has been a purely political circus (the only “papers” being treaties, agreements, and other purely political documents) it’s not a scientific forum.. Even if someone wanted to present a scientific paper, it would first have to conform to the political narrative to even get in the door, which would make it a political propaganda rather than a serious scientific paper. Scientific papers should be presented to scientific forums, not political forums.
Along with Portuguese and German courts “Austrian Court Rules PCR Test Not Suitable For COVID-19 Diagnosis And That Lockdowns Has No Legal Basis” – https://greatgameindia.com/austria-court-pcr-test/
Very true, they do not use the PCR test here in Portugal. However, that did not stop the lockdowns! Restaurants and shops are still closed with the exception of essentials. Grocery stores, hardware stores, computer/phone/appliance stores, and plant nurseries are open. They even shut down the beaches until just three weeks ago! The populace is getting antsy, Easter is a big deal here and it was again canceled.
Greta–
SO WHAT…… WHO CARES. !!
Greta’s handlers want the spotlight for their Greta puppet. Greta will go to Glasgow …. guaranteed.
And is a shoe-in for the part of Sasette in the next Smurfs movie…
Actually I support Greta and think that everyone should boycott the Glasgow COP26 Climate Conference until inequality has been banished. Seriously, fatcat scientists rich on climate cash hobnobbing in fancy hotels at the expense of tax payers when millions of people don’t know where their next meal is coming from? When they are living rough in developing countries and even near the Hollywood and Silicon Valley elite? Cancel the climate hypocrisy and force the scientists to cancel their flights and hotels – and keep whatever variant of Covid they have at home. Cancel the insanity once and for all.
The blinkered green left views wealth creation as a wrong committed against all who don’t, won’t or can’t create wealth. Their default solution then is to appropriate that wealth, redistribute part of it to the don’ts, won’ts and can’ts, and retain the balance for themselves. All in the name of the greater good, of course. It is inconceivable to them that wealth creation lifts everybody.
From the article: “People … can rapidly accumulate wealth if they get the thieves off their backs.”
The left are the thieves! They want to steal other people’s money because they’re too lazy or too stupid to create any wealth themselves. It’s why so many of them end up working in government bureaucracies.
This article is actually about corruption and theft in developing countries, using Greta as a hook. But it makes some excellent points nonetheless.
Let’s hope “We Don’t HaveTime’s” PR golden girl doesn’t turn up
The only green way to get here is with the migrant dinghies, although they do get a Border Farce escort ashore
If she starts now, she can walk down to Denmark then get a small boat to row across the North Sea to Scotland. Her resultant carbon footprint would be minuscule.
No doubt Greta will deign to make an appearance once her handlers have signed the contracts for the television rights/book deal/appearance fee etc
A high school dropout with zero scientific knowledge who’s been brainwashed by climate activists won’t be attending the COP26 circus. Every (Covid) cloud has a sliver lining!
Mentally ill school dropout. FTFY.
I was under the impression that Greta and her Dad were one of the primary COVID vectors from Chinese infection at Davos to Sweden. Actors, right?
Wonder what actions she is advocating considering that her ‘EU co-patriots’ are denying shipments of the vaccine to Australia – that was trying to gift them to Papua New Guinea?