So, What Is Greta Thunberg Accomplishing?

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  1. drluggit

    drluggit Well-Known Member

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    LOL.. so tell us, is that what you really wanted to make yourself look like???
     
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    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Poor Greta is being exploited by politicians. They use her as a human shield to draw criticism so they can say critics are attacking a child.
     
  3. FatBack

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    Yet you care enough to have criticism of the criticism....
     
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    Clearly
     
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    She's got to be 19 by now, I have a sneaking suspicion where her career is (PORN) headed. Is it legal to film doing porn to asbergers people? Or is that just a different kind? special olympics porn seems like a different category.
     
  6. independentthinker

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    I don't know what you mean by science deniers. I don't really know of any denying that the Earth is warming.
     
  7. independentthinker

    independentthinker Well-Known Member

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    Ummmmmmmmmm, the rest of the world has been sitting around waiting for the US to do something. Why?
     
  8. Bluesguy

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    This thread merely demonstrates that "talking about", "having a conversation about", "rasing consciousness" are great accomplishments to the leftest. You don't have to really accomplish anything tangible to be a success.
     
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    She has aced the trick of skipping school. Every speech I've heard she started with "I should be at school right now".
     
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    Understanding AGW starts with the Beer-Lambert Law and then gets complicated. Just in the last year, I guess it would be, the fear of a vicious positive feedback mechanism has started looking very unlikely.

    It was wise for global warming activists to be concerned about the risk of climate catastrophe, I totally agree.

    Now we have to stop this war-mongering and make this planet into one to have a good life on. Maybe end government lobbying, particularly by the weapons makers...

    Global warming is no longer in the top 20 concerns so we need the good people to fix something else.

    And well done for eliminating CFCs Etc. that was a job well done!
     
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    You don't??? There certainly are. Just like there are science deniers who refuse to accept the fact that the abnormal warming is due to human activity. There are all sorts of science deniers here
     
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    Every Progressive and Greenie I personally know or know of, has a huge carbon footprint. Much bigger than the average working class luddite.

    Until these imposters actually start walking the talk, it's all BS. They're LARPing for their own amusement. They think someone else will get their hands dirty fixing it, so they can keep up their profligate lifestyles without guilt.
     
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    That's WHY they vote they way they do.

    If they thought it meant giving up their own comforts and pleasures, they'd switch teams in a heartbeat.
     
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    Those people are not the biggest problem. It's the people who travel, and absorb gargantuan quantities of goods and services (due to their urban lifestyles), who are the greater problem.
     
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    Well, doing anything more might mean you have to give up your overseas travel. Or your constant eating out. Or your 24/7 climate control in your urban box.
     
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    Remember when Harris traveled to Central America to talk about it.............................and did anything tangible happen?
     
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    Do Republicans want climate change?

    Personally, I do not think we can stop it, I think science will have to come up with answers, just which countries scientists will play with the weather, what if they mess up the climate even worse?

    now we know many on the right say man is too small, they can't affect the climate, but most of us know they could mess it up

    can a small group of humans change the climate whereas millions doing the same thing over and over and over can't? I think both are true, both can
     
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  18. independentthinker

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    Most everyone admits the Earth is warming, just like it has several times over the last 5 billion years, even before man was here.
     
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    We're not going to do anything that will reduce temps. It's simply not going to happen. The left are not being honest in telling everyone the true science that no matter what we do, the Earth's temps will still rise, no matter how much money we spend and no matter how many things we do. You can't win a war against mother nature. And, the left refuse to accept the science that man, just being man, increases global temps. Translation: The population is growing exponentially and everything you do to fight global warming doesn't make up for the ever increasing population. That is also a losing battle. If leftists are serious about attacking global warming then billions of people will have to be culled because or what I just said, the ever increasing population negates every damn thing we do to fight climate change.
     
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    Greta's just a distraction, the mouthpiece for everyone to fall into the scripted narrative. If what she bangs on about, why haven't steps been taken to seriously change anything? It's all about carbon credits, traded like shares in a company.
     
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    So - let me get this straight.

    As we sit on our asses, typing bull crap about really stupid topics, really just passing time in front of our computers ... WE (and I mean YOU) are
    going to pass judgement on a 19 year old who SPENT HER TIME AND ENERGY on a topic she actually has some passion for, a topic
    which allowed her to travel the world, meet international heads of state, speak at the UN, win numerous international prizes ( she donated most
    of the money to children's charities) - and YOU are going to pass judgement on HER?

    YOU'RE going to pass judgement on HER for being involved in SOMETHING - ANYTHING, she was passionate about, while your own kids were working at McDonalds or playing video games, SHE was being named Time's Person of the Year, receiving 3 honorary PHDs, getting nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three years running.

    Now you may not subscribe to her agenda - but by god, only sorry-ass losers would judge her life as any less than a success given what she
    had to overcome (Asperger's and death threats). At the age your kids were struggling to pass their SAT's, she had already assured herself
    of admittance to ANY University in the world, been named one of the 100 most influential women in the world, donated millions to charity,

    So sure, you can whine about her agenda, but NONE of you have the right to call her "a failure" in life.
     
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    unless people start dying in mass and property damage is high, you're right, we will wait until it is too late, then the scientists will have to do something drastic

    just like Bacteria in a petri dish, we wont stop
     
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    Soooo, why are you mentioning Greta?

    The article you linked to doesn't mention her, and yet you seem to veer this thread in that direction of wanting to talk about Greta. Why?

    Why are you so perturbed by a teenager? What is it about her that bothers you to fantasize about her relationship with her parents? I find that really odd?

    Doesn't anybody else find this a little weird?
     
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    You can blame that on climate change. Everything else is.
     

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