You Are Stealing Our Future: Greta Thunberg, 15, Condemns the World’s Inaction on Climate Chan

[timosman]

[timosman]

School Strike for Climate: Meet 15-Year-Old Activist Greta Thunberg, Who Inspired a Global Movement

[Swordsmyth]

Ugly and stupid is no way to go through life, kid.

[Kilrain]

This isn't just some random kid. She's the daughter of a "prominent" mouthpiece for leftist causes, primarily asylum seekers and climate nonsense. And by sheer coincidence [sarcasm], she pulled her little school strike stunt just as the family was releasing a book. Part of one feels a little sorry for the kid being used by her parents, though I'm sure she enjoys being in the spotlight, and it's a little difficult to feel sorry for her given the ideas she's promoting.

Her mom (and I suppose this kid) is just like every fake environmentalist in Sweden: "We need to stop climate change, so let's import as many people as possible to a subarctic region where their resource use and emissions will increase by a factor of X."

[timosman]

Jan 25, 2019

Greta Thunberg, a Swedish climate activist, has told world leaders: 'I don't want you to be hopeful, I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day and then I want you to act.' In an impassioned warning to act now on climate change, Thunberg told her audience at Davos: 'Either we choose to go on as a civilisation or we don’t'

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...act-on-climate

[Stratovarious]

This is what happens when you have a kid that your dog
won't even play with.

[PursuePeace]

Shaddup.
Shaddup shuttin' up.

[Working Poor]

'Either we choose to go on as a civilisation or we don’t'

No dear stupid little girl it is more like we can chose to let the elites weight us and decide how much breath we take in so they can tax it or we decide against it.

[timosman]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...protests-teens

February 11, 2019

Students are going on strike around the world to demand action on climate change, in a movement led almost entirely by teenage girls.



LONDON — A huge student protest movement led almost exclusively by teenage girls and young women is sweeping Europe, and it's on the brink of breaking through in the US.

So far this year, tens of thousands of high school–age students in Belgium, Germany, and Sweden have boycotted class and protested against climate change. The loose movement’s inspiration, a 16-year-old girl who began a solitary picket last year outside the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, has compared the protests to the March for Our Lives movement organized by the Parkland teens in the wake of a shooting at their school that left 17 dead.

In the latest mass climate strikes, large crowds took to the streets in The Hague on Thursday, in the largest such protest in the Netherlands so far. The teens leading the climate strike across the border in Belgium were in Leuven, the country’s eighth-largest city, where they told BuzzFeed News they had 12,000 people on the streets in one of many actions across the country.

A climate march last weekend in the Belgian capital, Brussels, drew more than 100,000 people, and one of the country’s environment ministers resigned this week after falsely claiming intelligence services had told her the protests were a plot against her.

The protests are injecting a new urgency into the debate around climate change, and calling attention to a lack of action by governments. They are also a sign of the new political power of young women, especially in Europe. Climate strikes have also been organized by students in Australia, and US organizers are planning to participate in an international day of action on March 15.

Jamie Margolin, the 17-year-old founder and executive director of Zero Hour, a group working on the March 15 protest in the US, told BuzzFeed News that climate activism has given young women like her a chance to be heard.

“There aren’t very many spaces that I can be in charge of, and what I’m going to say is going to be heard,” Margolin said. Her group is led largely by young women of color, which she said should come as no surprise, because people who are already vulnerable are going to be disproportionately hit by climate change. A 2014 report by the World Health Organization outlined that women are more likely to be harmed in the kinds of natural disasters made more likely by global warming, bear greater responsibility for getting access to water, energy, and other basics of domestic life, and often are shut out of opportunities when resources decline.

“If you’re a victim of a system of oppression, you’re more affected by the climate crisis — that goes for women,” she said. “Nobody is going to hand us this. We have to step up and raise our voices.”



Some of the most dramatic protests have come in Belgium. For the past four Thursdays, mass walkouts by students have taken place, and at the heart of those actions is a 17-year-old called Anuna De Wever.

De Wever and her best friend, Kyra Gantois, filmed a video and posted it online; they called on students to protest in early January. They expected only a handful of people to turn up, but were stunned to find a crowd of around 3,000. The protests have now grown as large as 30,000 on Thursdays across the country, with even larger protests on the weekend.

“When we started it, Kyra and me, we thought it would be just 20 people,” De Wever said in a phone interview with BuzzFeed News from her home in Antwerp. “I’m so thankful to my generation that they really care about it.”

De Wever was inspired to act after seeing the video of another teenager, Greta Thunberg from Sweden.

Thunberg was 15 when she launched a solitary protest last August by boycotting school every Friday and picketing in front of the Swedish Parliament to demand the country meet obligations under the Paris climate accords.

Thunberg, who has Asperger's syndrome, has become a celebrity since. She addressed global climate talks last December, the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, and has given her own TED Talk. She has an Instagram with more than 250,000 followers where she posts pictures of world leaders, protests, and her dog. From the very beginning, she called for young people to follow her example.

“We are on a school strike for the climate. … We urge everyone to do the same wherever you are,” she said in the video about her climate strike that first popularized the protests. “Sit outside your Parliament or local government building until your nation is on a safe pathway to a below two-degree warming target.”


^{Anuna De Wever}


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[timosman]

https://twitter.com/ThisIsZeroHour/s...52758093619200

[AngryCanadian]

https://twitter.com/ThisIsZeroHour/s...52758093619200

I guess the youth who will be going to that climate strike will be supportive of more carbon taxes eh?

[Brian4Liberty]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...protests-teens

Already here.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...-Sen-Feinstein

[timosman]

https://twitter.com/globeandmail/sta...62852777132033

[Swordsmyth]

https://twitter.com/globeandmail/sta...62852777132033

They are grooming her for something bigger, they intend for her to be a big name in politics someday.

[Danke]

https://www.cfact.org

[timosman]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/w...kes-youth.html

March 14, 2019

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^{Greta Thunberg, who began a global youth movement calling for action on climate change, after a protest in Stockholm last month}

What began as one student’s vigil calling for action on climate change has gone global, with school strikes planned in more than 100 countries on Friday. Here is a look at how the climate protests spread and how political leaders are responding.

A lonely start to an international movement
When a Swedish teenager, Greta Thunberg, sat before her country’s Parliament in August, she was a solitary protester, armed with fliers that said she was refusing to attend school to protest adults’ lack of concern for her future.

She sought to draw attention to the perilous state of the climate: Data from NASA has shown the past five years to be the warmest on record, and a report last year by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that without aggressive action, the world will face worsening wildfires, food shortages and other catastrophic effects as early as 2040.

Ms. Thunberg’s protest quickly drew notice, with others joining in. After the Swedish elections in September, she made her strike a weekly event most Fridays. Then it began to spread, both online under the hashtags #climatestrike and #FridaysForFuture and on the streets.

In Australia, students from more than 200 schools skipped class on Nov. 30 to protest their country’s climate policies and call for a ban on any new coal or gas projects.

A shy teenager becomes a leader
Ms. Thunberg, 16, is in some ways an unlikely figurehead for a worldwide movement.

An introvert prone to crippling depression who did not like to speak in class, she was powerfully shaken by lessons about pollution, species extinction and humans’ influence on climate.

As her protest drew attention, she attended a United Nations climate conference in December in Poland, where she criticized negotiators. “You are not mature enough to tell it like it is,” she said. “Even that burden you leave to us children.”

In January, she traveled by train to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where she told a group of elites that many of them had made “unimaginable amounts of money” at the expense of the planet’s future.

A Norwegian lawmaker said on Thursday that he and two colleagues had nominated Ms. Thunberg for the Nobel Peace Prize. She said she was “honored and very grateful.”

Now the face of a global movement, Ms. Thunberg says her work has given her a welcome sense of purpose.

“I’m happier now,” she told The New York Times last month. “I have meaning. I have something I have to do.”

A critical response from some leaders
Some school officials and politicians have criticized the protests, calling them a naïve misuse of class time.

Ms. Thunberg has responded sharply.

When Theresa May, Britain’s prime minister, called the walkouts a waste of lesson time last month, Ms. Thunberg tweeted: “That may well be the case. But then again, political leaders have wasted 30 yrs of inaction. And that is slightly worse.”

More than 1,600 events planned worldwide
Last year, Ms. Thunberg called on the Swedish government to adopt policies in line with the Paris climate agreement, which sets a goal of limiting the global temperature rise from preindustrial levels to well below 2 degrees Celsius.

Students from other schools followed, and Friday’s protests could be the largest yet. By early Thursday, more than 1,600 events were scheduled in at least 105 countries, according to organizers.

“Tomorrow we schoolstrike for our future,” Ms. Thunberg tweeted. “And we will continue to do so for as long as it takes.”

[timosman]

Apr 16, 2019

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, made an impassioned plea for the planet at the European Parliament on Tuesday (16 April), urging MEPs to “start panicking about climate change” rather than “waste time arguing about Brexit”.

In another impressive speech to EU officials, this time in front of the Parliament’s environment committee, Thunberg told MEPs that “I want you to act like the house is on fire. I want you to panic.”

The activist acknowledged that “some parties don’t want me here today because they so desperately don’t want to talk about climate breakdown” but reiterated that “it’s ok if you ignore me but you can’t ignore the science”.

Drawing parallels with Monday night’s tragic inferno that ripped through the roof of Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral, Thunberg hoped “that our civilisation’s foundations are even stronger than Notre-Dame’s. I fear that they are not.”

She added that “if the house was falling apart, you wouldn’t waste time arguing about Brexit” and that “permanent and unprecedented changes” are needed, including making sure that emissions are cut by at least 50% by 2030. The current target is 40%.

[AngryCanadian]

A lot of a Italians arent very happy the fact that a child like her whose being used a political poly saw the pope as well. Rather then focusing on immigration it seems the EU are now deflecting.

[UWDude]

This must be one of those superior white people I hear so much about. So brave.

Like the scene in that one movie where the sweet little girl puts a plastic bag over the face of some villager, because Pol Pot... ...oh yeah, the Killing fields, that was it.

[RJB]

https://twitter.com/globeandmail/sta...62852777132033

When I see a child with a microphone, I am overwhelmed with anticipation to hear the great wisdom they learned in their ten years.

What a crock! Of course they pick kids. They have knowledge of what was indoctrinated into them. They are not wise enough to question what they have been taught with what they see in the real world.

[enhanced_deficit]

Have to say have not seen young ones so fired up since Tea Party rallies during Obama years when big gummit used to spend away their future.

[devil21]

Intentionally placed Masonic tressleboard pattern in that pic above.^^^^^

It means that it's a deliberately staged "movement" to help usher in global socialism using easily manipulated children as emotional triggers.

[angelatc]

Man, Pippi Longstocking used to be cute and funny.

[timosman]

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...lygskam-no-fly

26 Apr 2019


^{Greta Thunberg in Rome in April. She chose a train-only travel agency to book the trip.}

When Greta Thunberg stepped on to the platform at Stockholm Central station on Thursday after completing her European tour to raise awareness of climate change, an unassuming 69-year-old who runs a tiny travel firm was there to greet her.

Ivar Karlsson has found his business in the spotlight as appetite grows for alternatives to flying. It was Karlsson, whose company specialises in rail-only holidays, that Greta and her father contacted to book their trip, which took in stops in Strasbourg, Rome, London before heading back to Sweden.

The success of Sweden’s “flygskam”, or “flight-shame”, movement means that Karlsson struggles to respond to calls or emails from less high-profile customers than Greta. He said he had been working 16-hour days, nearly seven days a week, trying to meet the surge in demand, with bookings at his Centralens Resebutik agency increasing eightfold this January compared with two years ago.

“We were already stretched to a limit last year and now we’ve doubled that,” said Karlsson, who is based in the city of Kalmar. “If we had greater resources, then we could have done much more. The demand and interest is much, much bigger than we can cope with.”

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[buck000]

Heard on NPR a few days ago: "We need to defeat climate change!!!"

And while we're at it, let's keep the sun from shining.

[AngryCanadian]

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...lygskam-no-fly

Her beloved hero al gore meanwhile flys in a private jet just like her family member that owns a private jet.

[timosman]

https://medium.com/incerto/pedophras...s-c84bd70a29e8

Definition: Argument involving children to prop up a rationalization and make the opponent look like an $#@!, as people are defenseless and suspend all skepticism in front of suffering children: nobody has the heart to question the authenticity or source of the reporting. Often done with the aid of pictures.

Can also describe the exploitation of babies by professional beggars who rent them from their parents and use them as potent appendage in their trade(remember that children tend to grow and need to be replaced).

Pedophrasts prey on our maternal (and paternal) instincts.

Pedophrasty has its most effects on actors, journalists and similar types who are intellectually insecure, deprived of critical judgment, and afraid of being classified as violators of some norm of political correctness. For instance, pedophrasty has been commonly used in the Syrian war by such propagandists as Julian Roepke continuously supplying the German public with pictures of dead children. Or the various lobbies hired by Saudi Barbaria (and allies), such as the Middle East Institute in Washington DC, to promote Sunni Islamist policies under the cover of “think tanks”.

The Nayirah testimony: a false congressional testimony by 15-year-old girl who provided only her first name, Nayirah (she turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S.) was a bit responsible into tipping the US into the war. Nayirah claimed that she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators a Kuwaiti hospital, and leave the babies to die. Nobody dared to question the veracity of her claims. Her claims, it turned out, were all fabrications; but it’s too late to reverse the war.

[Danke]

Autism and A.D.H.D


Greta Thunberg, the sixteen-year-old climate activist, says that all she wants is for adults to behave like adults, and to act on the terrifying information that is all around us.


"....On Tuesday, as members of Parliament returned to work, Greta Thunberg, the sixteen-year-old Swedish environmental activist, was in Westminster to address them. Last August, Thunberg stopped attending school in Stockholm and began a protest outside the Swedish Parliament to draw political attention to climate change. Since then, Thunberg’s tactic of going on strike from school—inspired by the response to the Parkland shooting in Florida last year—has been taken up by children in a hundred countries around the world. In deference to her international celebrity, Thunberg was given a nauseatingly polite welcome in England. John Bercow, the speaker of the House of Commons, briefly held up proceedings to mark her arrival in the viewing gallery. Some M.P.s applauded, breaching the custom of not clapping in the chamber. When Thunberg spoke to a meeting of some hundred and fifty journalists, activists, and political staffers, in Portcullis House, where M.P.s have their offices, she was flanked by Ed Miliband, the former Labour Party leader; Michael Gove, the Environment Secretary and a prominent Brexiteer; and Caroline Lucas, Britain’s sole Green Party M.P., who had invited her.
Thunberg, who wore purple jeans, blue sneakers, and a pale plaid shirt, did not seem remotely fazed. Carefully unsmiling, she checked that her microphone was on. “Can you hear me?” she asked. “Around the year 2030, ten years, two hundred and fifty-two days, and ten hours away from now, we will be in a position where we set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control that will most likely lead to the end of our civilization as we know it.”

Thunberg—along with her younger sister—has been given a diagnosis of autism and A.D.H.D.

In interviews, she sometimes ascribes her unusual focus, and her absolute intolerance of adult bull$#@! on the subject of climate change, to her neurological condition. “I see the world a bit different, from another perspective,” she told my colleague Masha Gessen. In 2015, the year Thunberg turned twelve, she gave up flying. She travelled to London by train, which took two days. Her voice, which is young and Scandinavian, has a discordant, analytical clarity. Since 2006, when David Cameron, as a reforming Conservative Party-leadership contender, visited the Arctic Circle, Britain’s political establishment has congratulated itself on its commitment to combatting climate change. Thunberg challenged this record, pointing out that, while the United Kingdom’s carbon-dioxide emissions have fallen by thirty-seven per cent since 1990, this figure does not include the effects of aviation, shipping, or trade. “If these numbers are included, the reduction is around ten per cent since 1990—or an average of 0.4 per cent a year,” she said. She described Britain’s eagerness to frack for shale gas, to expand its airports, and to search for dwindling oil and gas reserves in the North Sea as absurd. “You don’t listen to the science because you are only interested in solutions that will enable you to carry on like before,” she said. “Like now. And those answers don’t exist anymore. Because you did not act in time.”

The climate-change movement feels powerful today because it is politicians—not the people gluing themselves to trucks—who seem deluded about reality. Thunberg says that all she wants is for adults to behave like adults, and to act on the terrifying information that is all around us. But the impact of her message does not come only from her regard for the facts. Thunberg is an uncanny, gifted orator. Last week, the day after the fire at Notre-Dame, she told the European Parliament that “cathedral thinking” would be necessary to confront climate change.

Yesterday, Thunberg repeated the phrase. “Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking,” she said. “We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.” In Westminster, Thunberg’s words were shaming. Brexit is pretty much the opposite of cathedral thinking. It is a process in which a formerly great country is tearing itself apart over the best way to belittle itself. No one knew what to say to Thunberg, or how to respond to her exhortations. Her microphone check was another rhetorical device. “Did you hear what I just said?” she asked, in the middle of her speech. The room bellowed, “Yes!” “Is my English O.K.?” The audience laughed. Thunberg’s face flickered, but she did not smile. “Because I’m beginning to wonder.”

Sam Knight is a staff writer at The New Yorker based in London.


https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily...=pocket-newtab

[timosman]

https://twitter.com/Huw_Cook/status/1121075116115484673

[timosman]

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/...de-in-the-air/

May 2, 2019


^{Greta Thunberg in front of the Swedish parliament in Stockholm, August 2018 – image: Wikipedia}

At first, I thought this had to be a joke. Then I thought it must be some sort of misinterpretation. Sadly, no.

From the website Afrinik, quoting the book –Scener ur hjärtat by Malena Ernman, Svante Thunberg

According to her mother Malena Ernman (48), 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg can see CO2 with the naked eye. She writes that in the book ‘Scenes from the heart. Our life for the climate’, which she wrote with her family.

Greta was diagnosed as a child with obsessive-compulsive disorder and Asperger’s syndrome, just like her younger sister Beata. The activist also has a photographic memory. She knows all the capitals by heart and can list all the chemical elements of the periodic table within one minute. In addition, she has another gift according to her mother.

“Greta is able to see what other people cannot see,” writes Malena Ernman in the book.

“She can see carbon dioxide with the naked eye. She sees how it flows out of chimneys and changes the atmosphere in a landfill.”

Of course, with a ~ 410 parts per million concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, we know that is a physical impossibility. Carbon Dioxide is a colorless and odorless gas:

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/com...on=ICSC-Number

It also does not reflect or absorb any light within the light spectrum that humans can see. Even if Greta had some special ability to see into the near infrared, the absorption spectrum of CO2 is far removed from the human range of color sensitivity.

Source:
http://www.ces.fau.edu/nasa/module-2...fect-works.php

But, this claim underscores how bizarre her activism has become, and people seem to want to look the other way instead of questioning her abilities and cognitive understanding of the information she professes to know.