Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Following Greta’s recent temper tantrum, in which she slammed allegedly green leaders for their lack of progress, politicians are making a big show of their contrition.
Climate change: Youth have ‘every right to be angry’ says UK PM
By Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent, MilanBoris Johnson says young people have every right to be angry about the state of climate change.
The UK prime minister told climate activists in Milan that they were paying the price for the “reckless actions of their elders”.
The penitent mood here was underlined by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who said politicians needed to be “whipped into action.”
Both agreed that urgent action to limit warming was now desperately needed.
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They’ve heard from a host of voices including Greta Thunberg who castigated politicians for dashing the hopes and dreams of young people.
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Speaking here today, several senior politicians conceded that Ms Thunberg was essentially correct in her analysis.
“Young people around the world are already paying the price for the reckless actions of their elders,” said Mr Johnson.
“Hundreds of millions of you are facing rising seas, failing crops, burning forests, and evermore ferocious storms, daily challenges that lead to lost opportunity. And your future is literally being stolen before your eyes.”
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58750164
It is possible the politicians all actually mean to keep their promises they will try harder, but I think there is room for doubt.
And it seems unlikely Greta would accept even a genuine British effort to go green.
As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, in the eyes of deep greens, Britain more than anywhere is irredeemably guilty of climate sin.
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Time to drop Greta off in Kabul so she can find her a husband who can give her life some meaning and direction. She already hates herself, she should fit right in to shari’a.
Poor Afghanistan. Our “leader” threw millions of innocent people to the wolves without a second thought. Biden is the one who should go take up residence in Afghanistan.
These leftist idiots in western governments are the only disaster young people should be angry about. Sadly leftist ideological indoctrination has destroyed the ability to think rationally in millions of them. And the leftists’ courting of fundamentalist islamic nutjobs, yeah, young people should be furious about both and yet they are so dimly aware of reality they’ll not see it till way too late.
That’s true. On a plus note though – if things carry on as they are, Greta’s Taliban husband-to-be will come to her!
Naw, far better pickings in her country, she would be WAY down the roster of eligibles. In Kabul she would stand out. At least until she was put into chador.
She is right about one thing: young peoples’ futures are being stolen.
But that is because of the insane level of debt they will have, made ten times worse by carbon zero. Not because the weather might get slightly worse.
“As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, in the eyes of deep greens, Britain more than anywhere is irredeemably guilty of climate sin.”
But how to signal to the world our awareness of sin, our guilt, our contrition? I have a post up at Independence Daily about one possible solution, using the adiabatic lapse rate to relieve all ambulant people on the planet from the effects of global warming right up to 2038.
Spread the word, brothers and sisters. Fashion footwear can save the world!
JF
htt etc independencedaily. co. uk slash footwear-fashion-can-save-the-world slash
Moderation wouldn’t permit the link.
JF
If I could meet Greta, I would tell her that man made CO2 is causing cancer….and and…is causing the moon to collide with earth…and and….causing the sun to go super nova….would she believe it?
She probably would believe it, but do you really want to give her ideas?
Doubtful Greta speaks for all the young and probably not most. But any excuse will do for weak politicians devoid of reason.
She doesn’t even speak for all those children wanting to bunk off school for a day each week.
But it is fun to skip school regularly. I did it alot in high school, especially in the springtime.
I skipped a lot, too, but it didn’t have anything to do with politics. School was pretty boring for me. I would skip school and go to the public library where I could look at things that really interested me.
From the article: “Hundreds of millions of you are facing rising seas, failing crops, burning forests, and evermore ferocious storms, daily challenges that lead to lost opportunity. And your future is literally being stolen before your eyes.”
This is a totally delusional statement.
Or just dishonest.
He is a known liar. Twice sacked for it so far.
Here’s hoping for the hat-trick.
If by failing crops you mean record harvests then Boris is spot on!
From the above article’s quotes according to the BBC:
“Speaking here today, several senior politicians conceded that Ms Thunberg was essentially correct in her analysis.”
An “analysis” which was never presented for examination and which the BBC and other MSM outlets have parroted as if it was something more than the blabbering of a still-adolescent young woman.
“Draghi, who said politicians need to be “whipped into action…””
Well, politicians probably need to be whipped, but not into action on “climate change”.
Has Bojo brushed his hair?
Just a useful idiot agreeing with another one.
GRETTA THUNBURG IS A TRANSVESTITE BOY, PEOPLE.
STOP REFERRING TO “IT” AS “HER” FFS.
I fear you may have misread an earlier article that referred to her transatlantic journey by boat. You may need to go back and work out which bit of that word you got wrong.
I did no such thing.
This is a TRANNY.
You need to LOOK HARDER.
Stop seeing ONLY what your mind WANTS to see.
I often find her to be very rude but you sir are beyond the pale.
This is no way to talk about anyone,
You mean…truthfully?
I certainly don’t support name calling but if being gender fluid is OK then what’s wrong with that statement? Is it OK for people to demand recognition for their sexual identity then call others out when they do? Maybe her birth name was Gregory 🙂 She (?….my choice) looks/acts/talks androgynous BTW.
I have a dangerously low tolerance for androgyny. Either way, Gretta is 100% a boy.
Because she does not identify that way.
Who knows more about you? You or some anonymous bully online?
Is there nothing wrong with saying that markl identifies as a furry? Of course there is.
I have no way of knowing if you dress as a ferret on the weekend. II’s just an insulting lie.
Because she does not identify that way.
Who knows more about you? You or some anonymous bully online?
Is there nothing wrong with saying that markl identifies as a furry? Of course there is.
I have no way of knowing if you dress as a ferret on the weekend. It’s just an insulting lie.
The Sayanim tranny squad must have heard about my truthful comment regarding Gretta being a BOY…
That is so wrong on so many different levels that I simply don’t know where to begin. The comments are not enabling any sort of view, they are simply calling out your comments which appear to be insulting, derogatory, ignorant and unpleasant all at the same time.
Yeah sorry but not sorry if I don’t appreciate people who stand on a world stage from the standpoint of DECEPTION. And, oh, up yours.
“Hundreds of millions of you are facing rising seas, failing crops, burning forests, and evermore ferocious storms, daily challenges that lead to lost opportunity. And your future is literally being stolen before your eyes.”
There is really only two reasons for a head of state to lie in saying something like that: 1) He is trying to placate the loonies in his party. 2) He is bat-shit crazy.
Well, in either case he is bat-shit crazy to lie like that. He must have advisors that know the bald statements are lies. The UN IPCC CliSciFi reports tell us so.
I wonder if Boris Johnson is capable of learning?
He went to Eton so that was probably trained out of him,.
World leaders have competed on who could demolish power stations fastest.
Then they are astonished that the energy market is also demolished.
Boris has the Medusa touch, everything he gets involved in goes wrong. H
Isn’t the Medusa touch when everything turns to stone? When everything goes wrong it is the ‘Murphy’ touch, or ‘Finagle’ touch perhaps?
It’s the radical leftwing touch. They ruin everything they touch.
Ah, St Greta, what is depriving you of your ‘future’ is your decision to ignore an education in favour of radical, partisan political activism. And even those who DID bother with schooling have gone on to deeply relevant subjects as gender studies and other useless and unemployable subjects.
Perhaps if you’d learned some arithmetic or logic you might have been able to add and subtract temperatures and data showing how wrong you are.
You might also have been able to contribute something to the debate instead of just lashing out like a spoilt brat because real people don’t give a toss about you and your juvenile opinions.
Go back to school, learn some things about the world around you where children are not protected from everything then abused by adults who use them as figureheads. That course never ends well for the children.
Why do we credit anything that child says.
Grown men, supposed world leaders no less, cowering to a teenage high school dropout. Embarrassing. Or at least it should be.
He has lost the plot, and my vote. Global crop yields failing! What a cretin!
https://ourworldindata.org/crop-yields