Greta’s Movement Is Imploding

The Heartland Institute

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School Strike 4 Climate began with Greta Thunberg skipping school to protest the ‘climate emergency.’ The movement went global, with students across the globe skipping class in order to fight climate change.

It appears School Strike 4 Climate has hit a crossroads. A New Zealand chapter recently shut itself down to to it being an overwhelmingly white movement. Is this the beginning of the end for School Strike 4 Climate? We’ll find out!

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goldminor
June 18, 2021 1:27 pm

Here is another step down in temps at the South Pole. This is at 10 hPa, and one spot has recorded a temp of -129F. This translates down to a spot on the surface which is reading -96F today, very cold. …. https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/10hPa/overlay=temp/orthographic=-313.87,-89.47,481/loc=-169.691,-80.389

Dave Fair
Reply to  goldminor
June 18, 2021 2:10 pm

Great pictorial representation why they had a bitch of a time sailing around the tip of South America.

Tom Gelsthorpe
June 18, 2021 2:01 pm

Like many talented child actors, Greta goes by Harry Truman’s dictum: “Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.”

Since there’s no substance to her shtick, she needs another gimmick besides ostentatious angst, and Viking child braids. Maybe a horned helmet would buy her another 15 minutes of fame. And a battle-axe, if the helmet’s not enough.

Dave Fair
Reply to  Tom Gelsthorpe
June 18, 2021 4:23 pm

Is her mother the battle-axe?

Reply to  Tom Gelsthorpe
June 19, 2021 12:55 am

Horned helmet AND breast cups!
97% of fantasy film makers agree that breast cups maketh the heroine!

MarkW
Reply to  Leo Smith
June 19, 2021 9:30 am

That and bikini armor

Al Miller
June 18, 2021 2:08 pm

There’s a typo in there- I’m certain they meant to say  “to it being an overwhelmingly Vapid, brain dead movement.”
There fixed it!

leitmotif
June 18, 2021 2:12 pm

Who posted this one? Comical Ali (Baghdad Bob)?

The Greta thing will escalate.

June 18, 2021 2:19 pm

So another “useful idiot” is biting the dust.
But it’s those that pulled her strings that are the problem.
(And some of them don’t realize that they are also “useful idiots”.)

Reply to  Gunga Din
June 18, 2021 2:21 pm

And then there’s Joe Biden.
A rich but useless idiot.

Dave Fair
Reply to  Gunga Din
June 18, 2021 4:25 pm

An idiot that made a fantastic family money-making machine out of ‘public’ service.

MarkW
Reply to  Dave Fair
June 18, 2021 7:08 pm

Not so brilliant. Pretty much every Democrat has managed to do it.

Art
June 18, 2021 3:47 pm

Children and “adults” who have never grown up and who think they can stomp their feet at the supermarket checkout demanding their parents buy them candy.

Reply to  Art
June 18, 2021 4:45 pm

Don’t forget the Participation Trophy.

William Capron
June 18, 2021 4:08 pm

So, where does Griff stand on this? It’s hard to know what to stand against or support until I see his opinion and do the opposite.

Reply to  William Capron
June 18, 2021 11:00 pm

Probably waiting for instructions

High Treason
June 18, 2021 4:18 pm

We should be encouraging them! …….To eat their own.
Hopefully they will collapse under the weight of their own insanity.

June 18, 2021 4:39 pm

Ironic. She’s too old to be skipping secondary school and doesn’t have enough credits to matriculate to a university where cutting classes is a time-honored tradition.

Reply to  Frank from NoVA
June 18, 2021 11:01 pm

Greta will get an honorary doctorate

Mike
June 18, 2021 4:47 pm

Good. It looks like non-white people are the only ones capable of leading this movement, meaning white folks can go back to normal fossil fuel and maybe nuclear energy needs.
And if anyone expects the vast majority of non-white folk across the globe to start cutting back on their energy usage, good luck with that.
This could put the whole green movement out of business.
But don’t worry. Liberal, woke white folk will rescue it from it’s near certain death and try again to foist this nonsense on the rest of us. I mean, if the world’s temperature increases by 3 degrees, instead of it being -15 in Fairbanks, AK in the Winter, it would be -12. What a disaster!!!!

n.n
Reply to  Mike
June 18, 2021 5:14 pm

White, black, brown, yellow, etc. community leaders in a democratic/dictatorial project to consolidate capital and control, a secular movement, not limited to redistributive change. They are full of euphemisms for-profit.

n.n
June 18, 2021 4:58 pm

Rabid diversity (e.g. racism), huh. Some, Select Lives Matter.

n.n
June 18, 2021 5:10 pm

Woke and [morally] broke. It’s an ethical (i.e. relativistic) religious thing.

Stevek
June 18, 2021 6:14 pm

The Greta movement is racist. It is racist because changes to reduce co2 will mainly impact the lower income groups which are disproportionately black. This is the dirty secret the Greta types hide.

James Stagg
June 18, 2021 6:44 pm

BTW, where are all the black scientists that support AGW? Could it be this is a racist effort to eliminate colored people from the earth?

Joe
June 18, 2021 9:29 pm

Oh, my!
I might run out of popcorn because of this development!
The Horror!

Patrick MJD
June 18, 2021 10:07 pm

When she broke on to the world stage as an activist, I said she will be dropped after her “15 minutes of fame”, and it seems to be happening. She allowed herself to be manipulated by her parents (Who should be charged with child abuse IMO), caregivers, politicians and media.

I do feel some pity because her well known mental heath issues have not prepared her for the fall.

Rudi
June 18, 2021 10:16 pm

There will come a new generation loudmouth´s and I think that they will know about the exaggerations and lies that have destroyed the life of many young and they will point thier fingers at them as they scream.

June 19, 2021 2:19 am

if you are worried about seas rising why are you putting 100’s of wind turbines in the sea water displacment and building massive cruise ships and huge tankers container ships Also all building factorys etc. stopping the earth from breathing more you cover the earth with concrete the less it can breath

ozspeaksup
June 19, 2021 2:56 am

ah wokeness to the nth degree bites their own butts, now THAT- is Funny!!

2hotel9
June 19, 2021 3:36 am

Use their own tactics against them, that is how humans defeat these leftist a$$holes.

Bloke down the pub
June 19, 2021 3:57 am

WWW. White Woke Wrong

Craig from Oz
June 19, 2021 5:40 am

Most Left on Left conflict revolves around leadership.

Lefts are driven – rightly or wrongly – by the fact they know what is best and if only they were in charge they could use these skills to make the world a better place.

Important words are ‘in charge’.

This is why Leftie groups tend to fragment. It is not they their core beliefs are different, it is leadership.

In my view this has less to do with Woke Issues and more with the fact the people involved weren’t allowed to hold the leadership positions.

Tom Abbott
June 19, 2021 1:58 pm

Since this article is about race, let me just say Happy Juneteenth to all Americans. We are celebrating this day nationally for the first time, although it has been held officially in Texas for decades and observed by people across the nation.

Juneteenth was the day that Black Slaves in Texas learned that the Republicans had finally managed to free them from slavery.

June 19, 2021 6:57 pm

“this whiteness issue seems a bit privileged”

This climate change”issue” is privileged.
Climate change alarmism is an extension of white guilt.
Where it is now necessary to “check your privilege” while complaining about climate change, the left eat their own
Love it haha

Quilter52
June 20, 2021 12:03 am

I reckon it might implode even faster if A few more parents developed a backbone And sued the schools for allowing their children out without parental permission. My niece was supposedly going to school at the last climate strike in Australia and her mother spotted her from her office window. Consequences for said niece have not been pretty. School is also not enjoying the process as she went to school and then went to join the strike without a parent’s permission note. Since the school’s policy is that children cannot go off the school grounds during the day without permission from the parents in writing, and parents will be advised by telephone if the children so leave, and neither happened, the school is dealing with a very angry lawyer mother. I’m quite enjoying the process.