Essay by Eric Worrall
“In order to change things, we need everyone—we need billions of activists”
Greta Thunberg blasts attention-seeking COP27 leaders and says she’ll skip the ‘greenwashing’ climate summit
Thunberg has also thrown her support behind headline-making activism.
BY SOPHIE MELLOR
October 31, 2022 9:07 AM EDTSwedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has declined her invitation to the biggest climate conference in the world, calling it a forum for “greenwashing.”
Speaking at a Q&A for the launch of her new book, Thunberg announced she would be skipping the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, otherwise known as COP27, held in Egypt next week, as it has become a platform for attention-grabbing politicians.
“I’m not going to COP27 for many reasons, but the space for civil society this year is extremely limited,” Thunberg said.
“COPs are mainly used as an opportunity for leaders and people in power to get attention, using many different kinds of greenwashing.”
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“In order to change things, we need everyone—we need billions of activists,” she said on Sunday.
The move pushes her further away from politicians in Europe who have called for a ban on these protests.
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Read more: https://fortune.com/2022/10/31/greta-thunberg-blasts-attention-seeking-cop27-leaders/
I can’t help thinking trash talking your closest allies is probably not the best way to build an army of “billions of activists”. Working with others produces better results. I mean look at how close the WEF has come to world domination, by working with others. I’m sure World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab believes plenty of the people he works with are less than perfect, but he makes the best of a bad lot.
Greta mentioned other issues without being too specific. One of those unspecified issues is likely that it is rather difficult to reach Sharm El Sheikh safely by anything other than air.
Sharm El Sheikh itself might be relatively safe, if you ignore all the terrorist attacks, but it is surrounded by some of the most dangerous places on Earth. Safely reaching Sharm El Sheikh via surface transport is a challenge.
For example, British cyclist Dan Hood, who is currently trying to reach Sharm El Sheikh by bicycle, is currently cycling through downtown Baghdad in Iraq. At some point he is going to have to cross the pirate infested Gulf of Aden, or possibly cross the Suez Canal bridge at Al-Qantara. Not a cycling route I would choose to attempt.
Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh is attempting to swim to Egypt – through some of the most polluted and pirate infested waters on Earth.
Maybe the world still has a use for air travel after all.
On a happier note, there are rumours that Dr. Evil is about to get his own movie. Lets hope the producers have the guts to make Dr. Evil an environmental leader – and give him a daughter.
It’s Halloween and we hear from a goblin who wants to take over the world.
Perfect.
I’m glad I was sitting down when I read this 🙂
Sounds like an episode from “PJ Masks” that my grandkids watch…
I must add, I don’t think this troubled young woman is a monster. She is a mentally impaired, vulnerable, person who is being used to put money into many people’s pockets and whose family has failed her miserably.
Good point! She is also looking increasingly like a pumpkin.
Jack(boot)-o-Lantern
Climate Jugend and Green Shirts.
Useful (dispensable when no longer needed) idiots.
Yes! See what happened to David Suzuki’s daughter when she grew too old to be a cute teenager. They replaced her with Greta. It’s only a matter of a couple more years when they will discover a NEW child prodigy who is more pliable and doesn’t have a book to sell.
I’m thinking the “Green Goblin” from Spiderman.
The Gulf of Aden seems well off the route to COP27, Shirley?
Probably should have said Gulf of Suez. I would have thought Iraq was off the track, but maybe he decided to avoid Syria.
Plus no need to cross the Suez
His big problem is going from Jordan thru Israel to Egypt.
Beautiful thru there but a heck of a way to make a point
Everyone is signing treaties these days so crossing the border on a foreign passport shouldn’t be too much of a challenge. Surviving the trip may be the issue.
They better hurry because Biden is trying his best to blow up treaties in the Middle East by taking the side of the Mad Mullahs of Iran, and against the Arab nations.
How do you get from Israel to Egypt with out crossing the suez?
cross the border.
Like Canada to the USA.
The Canal is deeeeep into Egypt [well, if you’re on foot!].
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Although some of the Doom Princess statements are correct, especially as regards the politicians at COP’s, her basic tone seems to be get more active, like throw mash potatoes on paintings and glue yourself to the wall. Fools in a hurry but going nowhere.
Nothing is more fun than encouraging the youth to become unguided missiles for a useless cause. Who will keep society functioning while we all protest with the prophet Ungreta?
UNGreta surely….
Pragmatism is dead.
The Climatistas disconnected an entire network of functional power plants without even a thought of the fact that no replacement plan exists, except for a smattering of current that trickles occasionally forth from the Chinese glass and Prairie Pinwheels. Functioning Society? They’ll concern themselves with that once they have our pronouns all sorted.
‘The Great Leap Forward’ but this time not a Red Book but a Green Book (on the outside).
“Billions?”
And once you have amassed those Billions, you will control them how?
It didn’t end well for The Wicked Witch of the West……
Yes, but now the flying monkeys control the media.
(They seem to drop lots of “blue ice” so cover your head>)
you will control them how?
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“Speaking at a Q&A for the launch of her new book, Thunberg announced she would be skipping the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, otherwise known as COP27, held in Egypt next week, as it has become a platform for attention-grabbing politicians.”
Isn’t that all she’s done since her school strike and dropping out of school, seek to grab attention?
PS Who wrote her book for her? Are there lots of pictures of CO2?
Greta Thunberg may have her name on the cover, but it is a collection of essays written by other people from what I can gather from seeing the contents page.
You actually looked at the contents page?
I guess somebody has to do it. 🙂
“…… attention-grabbing ……”
Well, it takes one to know one.
Visionaries don’t write books. They’re ghosted. Anyway it seems filled with inspired theological dissertations by the Usual Suspects.
What I can’t understand is why “renewables” haven’t immediately and comprehensively filled the energy vacuum created byRussia closing its pipeline.
I do recall being told coal mines had been divested and were to be “stranded assets”.
That thought bubble did not age well.
Australian coal today is $467.78 up from $188.12 this time last year.
Yes, Net Zero is a pipedream.
It’s not going to happen.
It doesn’t need to happen, fortunately. More CO2 is harmless. The thick heads of our political leaders in not understanding this, is what is harmful.
They are not in that position to understand things but to follow orders. Do we really think these clowns have any real power ?
Shades of the price of everything “energy” since the nutjobs installed Obiden in the oval orifice.
Amazing to me how that one action by the left, replacing energy friendly Trump with the Potatous, has brought out the truly evil folks across the planet. Now, let’s see what happens when the pendulum swings the other way. And it is swinging, rapidly. Not quick enough to save the EU this winter, but moving away from the completely fact free climate silliness to the possible reinstatement of sound energy policies across the globe.
Wishful thinking? Maybe.
Apparently, Greta is autistic. She thinks it’s a super power. She’s right.
A super power is good or evil, depending on how it’s wielded. In the case of autism, it’s probably going to be evil.
Autism, schizophrenia, and right hemisphere strokes have a lot in common. There is the inability to understand context. There is a disconnect from reality. There is overconfidence.
G.K. Chesterton
The other thing about the left hemisphere is that it incapable of realizing that it might be wrong. Ah yes, there is also the lack of interpersonal skills.
It’s unsurprising that someone with a dominant left hemisphere could argue with the tenacity of a bull dog, be completely inflexible, and be completely undaunted by facts that disprove their orthodoxy. It’s also unsurprising that such a person would reject anyone who deviates, even slightly, from that orthodoxy.
I would also guess that Greta lacks a sense of humor. Many years ago, a very wise lady told me that humorless people are dangerous and to be avoided. Over the decades I’ve never had reason to doubt that wisdom.
And, given the billions of money at stake for investors in solar, wind, electric vehicles, bogus surface temperature data products, and other CO2 scams, it’s unsurprising that their market developers/promoters use her.
As with Brandon, it is shameful. Cynical, out-to-make-a-buck, crooks using severely impaired people to sell.
And, as has been said here many times:
a FAMILY that can do that to their loved one is cruel, indeed.
It is obvious, thus: they are NOT loved.
So. It all boils down to one thing: love. Of truth…. of freedom….. of people…..
No love and you can do ANYTHING.
The heartless exploitation by her family lends strength to Hillary’s contention that “It Takes a Village.” What Greta got instead was a crime syndicate.
A politician gave me a formal vote of thanks for hosting a lovely dinner for a few hundred people. We are talking of arguing with madmen because they can be quick. This person said, as thanks, “Sherrington is actually a very mean guy, so mean that he once demanded a bacterial test on the Milk of Human Kindness.”
I could not find a quick response. I lost. Geoff S
Geoff
You’ve made me doubt my sanity now. As I read your story I immediately thought
It’s better than throwing it on a supermarket floor
How does a cow get syphilis anyway?
Missionary work.
She’s certainly not burdened with humility, nor intellectual curiosity. The second coming of Hillary Clinton.
I don’t think Greta knows we are in an Ice Age.
It’s quite apparent that she is grossly ignorant of the facts and speaks only from her indoctrination. An action that doesn’t necessarily require Asperger’s syndrome, only a desire to confirm ones ingrained conception of reality.(bias). I think think the buzz about her being in the autistic spectrum is somewhat of a circus stunt and simply draws attention away from how mercilessly brainwashed this unfortunate young lady really is.
The rather good fun journo in The London Times Caitlin Moran had a very positive take on Thunberg and how she conducted herself at some large meeting or other. Keynote sincerity. Good speech, four pages A4 – did she write it? Likely. Half a day with her. She’s 18 now and at Uni
Born in January 2003.
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Greta Thunberg’s net worth, age, parents, house, honors, quotes, profiles – Briefly.co.za
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I don’t claim to know how it works in Sweden, but in the U.S., 9th grade is the end of Jr. High School, followed by High School, then Uni. Most people finish Jr. High at age 14 or 15, depending on when their birthday falls. It appears Greta took an extra couple of years or so to make it that far.
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My DuckDuckGo search on what University Greta was attending yielded no results. I did find the above linked bio with the quoted information about her education.
i think you are correct. but she will learn we are this winter.
Greta’s only familiarity with Science is as a word in the dictionary.
Billions? Wow. That girl is lost in space.
Even at this young age, Ms Thunberg is demonstrating strong convictions and strong actions. These can be desirable attributes. However, her mind cannot possibly comprehend the many complexities of climate research. She will be a very unhappy person when she realises all that effort was backing the wrong horse in the climate change stakes. I hope that she can find competent advisors to help cushion the mental reversal, which could destroy her. No person should wish that on another. Geoff S
There is no epiphany looming.
Hey, Greta. There’s only so many works of art that you can deface.Think of the CO2 you could cut if you all held your breath.
I thought she was PO’d last year because everyone was just talking about cutting CO2 in the atmosphere – nobody actually doing it at the scale required. You know, that multi-$100 Billion bloviation industry. So now the solution is to have billions of activists? Well that’s really going to remove CO2 and reduce emissions eh Greta ?? Useless kiddie bloviation, instead of worthless adult bloviation.
How will St Greta of Gaia’s billions of hypocritical protesters survive
without 24/7 solar?
I’m being picky here. But it would be better to replace “Made with” with “Made from” in that image. Made with doesn’t imply oil is the raw material, and to a Eco Zealot it would mean “Made using” and instead you could use nice clean environmentally friendly renewable electricity to convert the bio-cabbage into iPhones.
This may explain why you’re right about Eco Zealots!
Words matter. 🙂
Geez. Once upon a time young men were called to storm the beaches of Normandy and fight for democracy and freedom. Today they are called to throw vegetables at art works and glue themselves to surfaces while demanding bowls be provided to defecate in. Sad commentary on our youth.
The German flakes demanding bowls were well beyond youth.
So sad.
I genuinely cannot identify thé gender of this person.
Nor can it.
“She was at COP24 in Poland, COP25 in Spain, and last year’s COP26
in Glasgow, where she memorably slammed leaders’ pledges as so much
“blah blah blah.”
Distance is no obstacle; having sworn off flying because of its
climate-wrecking emissions, Thunberg sailed by zero-carbon yacht to
New York for the Climate Action Summit in 2019.
But the Sharm El-Sheikh venue is a step too far- into “a tourist
paradise in a country that violates many basic human rights”
While continuing her quest to be “greener than thou”, St Greta always
comes up short & has to do a lot of pretending, like her hypocritical
green mentors. While claiming to sail to NYC on a “zero-carbon racing
yacht made of hydrocarbons, she used a lot of 24/7 solar products to
get there. Along with that, her crew flew back to Europe.
She did get it right at COP26 by slamming leaders’ pledges as so much
“blah blah blah.” She continues to “wrack up points” by calling Sharm
El-Sheikh “a tourist paradise”, but then assumes the hypocrisy mantel
by pointing out that Egypt does violate “many basic human rights” but
ignores that Green Zealots’ fail there, too.
Globally, they deny people 24/7 solar products that would immensely
improve their lives & often times, keep them from dying prematurely.
All that “rock throwing” done to reveal others’ hypocrisies is done
for the sake of a so-called problem that, in fact, could turn out to
be a boon to humanity!
“Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away…”
“Antigonish”
Hughes Mearns
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/10/31/from-blah-blah-blah-to-greenwashing-lying-and-cheating-why-greta-isnt-going-to-cop27
https://www.cfact.org/2019/07/31/climate-kid-greta-protesting-oil-on-yacht-made-of-hydrocarbons/
Not a zero carbon yacht, see the second link on OMW’s post above.
Also, the crew that brought it back to Europe had to fly to the USA to collect it.
She really is away with the fairies
Not too sure about that. I suspect the fairies have a better standard.
I know I spoke to one yesterday. Cute girl, nice wings as well. 🙂
“Lets hope the producers have the guts to make Dr. Evil an environmental leader – and give him a daughter.”
They could call her Gerta.
It’s not often I agree with her, but she’s absolutely right in saying “COPs are mainly used as an opportunity for leaders and people in power to get attention”. Pity the UK MSM don’t have such vision and are moaning about Rishi Sunak’s decision not to go!
She’s being nothing less than brutally honest – as folks such as she tend to be..
The enquiring mind wonders if, in light of the difficulties of getting to the selected place, is that is why they went there. Because Greta couldn’t, that Greta actually has Principles and practises Honesty
Wild ass theory: She scares the pants off them and they didn’t didn’t want her there
Ain’t that sooo very very lovely – effectively the very folks who suffered Trump Derangement Syndrome (because he didn’t beleive in Climate Science) are now having Greta Derangement Syndrome – because she does beleive in their junk science.
surreal
edit to PS:
Please don’t project: Greta doesn’t want to dominate the world or anybody.
Her father does maybe but don’t inflict yourself onto her
“Greta actually has Principles and practises Honesty”
I’m not sure that she does practice honesty. Her lifestyle seems to have a larger carbon footprint than mine. I’ve never been to the locations of any COP conference apart from Glasgow and that was only about 45 miles from where I grew up. Usually to visit my Grandmother in Govan, very rarely after she died. I also suspect she has a more fossil fuel rich lifestyle than I do, even before Net Zero made energy and therefore everything else skyrocket im price.
The only excuse she can have is ignorance of the facts, and that’s not an excuse in her case
Not only a larger carbon footprint, I read here a few weeks ago that she is worth $1M.
On a global average basis, how much CO2 is emitted per $1m of accumulated wealth, given an average gross margin of 15% and a net of about 5%?
Ignorance is almost certainly her excuse, and for her I think it’s valid, as she has been programmed to not question.
I practice the ukulele.
Still rubbish at it.
Well, you really have to give Greta credit for personal integrity, surely.
Of course, the poor girl is headed for some awfully big disappointments, not least of which, she is still going to be alive in 40 years, when the world will still be habitable and other people will still be burning fossil fuels.
That’s definitely going to leave a mark.
Funny in the heading picture that almost look alike..
Scary!!
Fiction and fact merge !!!!!!
it may be “unkind” of me
but
if anyone could be “struck dumb” shes high on my list along with gore the pommy King dude, suzuki and others
Colonel Lawrence said “the wogs have taken Akabar “ by a long camel ride over appalling desert. If then why not these?
From the article: “Speaking at a Q&A for the launch of her new book,”
I guess that was inevitable.
Will Greta’s book reach the New York Times Best Seller list?
yes, in the fiction category.
Do they have a Fantasy category? Fantasy is imaginative fiction.
If she isn’t attending it is likely that her invitation was not all-expences-paid (as in previous appearances) and her books are not bringing in enough cash to fund the lifestyle to which she had become accustomed. Time for her & her family to move on to another grift.
He makes the most of a bad lot. Obviously there are no mirrors in her or Schwab’s house. And to bring people on board I wouldn’t mention the WEF or world domination. Get on a communist board, no thanks.
I looked up Greta’s book on Amazon and guess which tome they paired it with?
I’m sure she could have sailed there on the carbon fibre sailing yacht she used to get to America
No, it didn’t have an engine and you need an engine to transit the Suez Canal.
I have worked with a few people who were on the autism spectrum, and they were socially inept, in that they just didn’t respond to your attempts to make friends with them. They also tended to talk to you about things they were interested in, often in great detail, and they didn’t seem to notice that they were boring you.
They would make clumsy attempts to seem friendly. A frequent strategy was to overpraise you, even though they seemed mystified by genuine kindness and generosity. If you are autistic, you can try to hide it, but normal people will spot you as socially strange in a few minutes.
Someone I suspect of being autistic is Bob Dylan, who is consistently rude to people, because he just doesn’t care if anyone likes him or not. Apparently, in his concerts, he does not speak to the audience between songs. The way he just ignored the Nobel committee for several weeks after they named him as the winner of the Prize for Literature was just plain strange in its rudeness. Finally he accepted the Prize, probably because somebody had told him that it came with a large cash award, but then he declined to accept it in person. His acceptance speech referenced Moby Dick, but was cribbed from an essay in Cliff’s Notes. Consider the irony of somebody receiving the Nobel Prize for literature, and mailing in an acceptance speech that was plagiarized.
Positively Bidenesque.
Bidenesque
Bidenesque – An incredibly stupid statement. Bidenesque takes its name from Vice President Joe Biden who continually makes incredibly stupid statements.
For example, “Look, John’s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs.” –Joe Biden
Or, “When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.” –Joe Biden, apparently unaware that FDR wasn’t president when the stock market crashed in 1929 and that only experimental TV sets were in use at that time
“In order to change things, we need everyone—we need billions of activists”
As J M Barrie said: “I’m not young enough to know everything”
I’m sure with Greta’s enormous intellect and wisdom she is aware of Buckminster Fuller?
” Take away the energy-distributing networks and the industrial machinery from America, Russia, and all the world’s industrialized countries, and within six months more than two billion swiftly and painfully deteriorating people will starve to death. Take away all the world’s politicians, all the ideologies and their professional protagonists from those same countries, and send them off on a rocket trip around the sun and leave all the countries their present energy networks, industrial machinery, routine production and distribution personnel, and no more humans will starve nor be afflicted in health than at present.
Fortunately, the do-more-with-less invention initiative does not derive from political debate, bureaucratic licensing, or private economic patronage. The license comes only from the blue sky of the inventor’s intellect. No one licensed the inventors of the airplane, telephone, electric light, and radio to go to work. It took only the personally dedicated initiative of five men to invent those world transforming and world shrinking developments. Herein lies the unexpectedly swift effectiveness of the design-science revolution. Despite this historical demonstrable fact, world society as yet persists in looking exclusively to its politicians and their ideologues for world problem solving.”
We’re moments away from testing that hypothesis. Rehearsal for an EMP strike.
Here is an image from Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Seems frighteningly similar to now.
Our beloved leader, Herr Schwab wrote this in his book where he invites himself to re-imagine the world:
Page 102 – Youth activism is increasing worldwide, being revolutionized by social media that increases mobilization to an extent that would have been impossible before. It takes many different forms, ranging from non-institutionalized political participation to demonstrations and protests, and addresses issues as diverse as climate change, economic reforms, gender equality and LGBTQ rights. The young generation is firmly at the vanguard of social change. There is little doubt that it will be the catalysts for change and a source of critical momentum for the Great Reset.
Economic Systems: The alarmists keep telling us their concern about global warming is all about man’s stewardship of the environment. But we know that’s not true. A United Nations official has now confirmed this.
At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said.
Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”
The only economic model in the last 150 years that has ever worked at all is capitalism. The evidence is prima facie: From a feudal order that lasted a thousand years, produced zero growth and kept workdays long and lifespans short, the countries that have embraced free-market capitalism have enjoyed a system in which output has increased 70-fold, work days have been halved and lifespans doubled.
Investors Weekly
Indeed. But the feudal system and zero sum game was mostly all there was from the beginning of agriculture, making the change to an capitalist/engineering/modern farming model even more remarkable and important.
But you know this already.
Greta parrots her groomers-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/music/greta-thunberg-it-s-time-to-overthrow-the-west-s-oppressive-and-racist-capitalist-system/ar-AA13Ebby