Posted on 04/17/2019 12:27:01 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Strasbourg (France) - Sweden's teenage activist Greta Thunberg choked backed tears on Tuesday as she warned of climate disaster and urged Europeans to vote in next month's elections to press for decisive action on cutting greenhouse gases.
In a speech to a packed committee of the European Parliament, Thunberg, 16, warned time is running out to stop the ravages of global warming.
"I want you to panic, I want you to act as if the house was on fire," Thunberg told the environment committee of the assembly in the French city of Strasbourg.
Citing scientific reports endorsed by the United Nations and holding back her tears, she warned of accelerating disasters like mass species extinction, erosion of top soil, deforestation, air pollution, loss of insects and the acidification of oceans.
She received a warm round of applause before composing herself and continuing her speech.
"You need to listen to us, we who cannot vote," Thunberg said, referring to the tens of thousands of students taking to the streets worldwide to fight climate change.
"You need to vote for us, for your children and grandchildren," she said. "In this election, you vote for the future living conditions for human kind."
Voters in EU countries will elect on May 23-26 a new European Parliament, which will also play a role in chosing the head of the European Commission, the bloc's executive arm.
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Yes. It’s time for the Teletubbies to step up and get the message out to the World.
I hope they have lots of wood.
Sweden is finished.
"You...don't.....hate....children......Do you?"
muslim immigrants overrunning her country and she worries about climate change....what an idiot
‘Sweden’s teenage activist Greta Thunberg...’
One would think that in a country where they freeze their balls off for 8 months a year they’d welcome Global Warming.
“Children’s Crusade.”
Yep. Because when a crying teenage girl makes an appeal to emotion, everyone should agree to spend trillions of dollars and destroy the world economy.
THIS is why Leftists want the vote for 16 year old kids.
Mark my words: They will make the voting age in Europe 16 years old, and we will be pressured to do it by the Left because Europeans do it.
No Virginia, Santa Claus is not real.
You need to listen to us, we zombies.
The first Children’s Crusade ended with the kids mostly sold into slavery. This time won’t be very different.
Josh Gates History Channel just had a clip about the Salem Witch Trials last night.
It was a young girl acting possessed that got an innocent woman hung.
This sounds like history rhyming.
China.
India.
Do what you want in your piddly little country.
Meanwhile.
China.
India.
India.
China.
The Great Greta Thunberg, new ultimate authority of the moment.
Surrender all autonomy, quit trying to think things through. No time for that anymore - Greta wants us to act as if the house was on fire.
Give her a Lollypop and send her home to her crazy overpowering brainwashing parents
Because the smartest people on earth are 16 year olds. Just ask any one of them, they will tell you it’s true!
Stupid self important know nothing degenerates need to STFU.
If CWII begins, I’m not asking for ID. Them first and then the parents if necessary or possible.
This is the real "Hollywood power" (wealth) pushing their daughter out there....Her mother and father....Opera singer Malena Ernman with husband actor Svante Thunberg
Its like taking world strategy advice from the cast of Sesame Street.
What would Big Bird and the Purple Dinosaur do?
Today’s youth are paraded out there as the sacrificial lambs for the ruling elite....Thunberg’s famous family..... her celebrity mother, Malena Ernman ( Environmental Hero of the Year 2017)
“the targeting of ‘female’ youth as a key “femographic”
Al Gore and the Planet’s most powerful ‘capitalists’ are behind today’s ‘manufactured youth movements’.........well established corporate environmental entities: Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, 350.org, Avaaz, Global Utmaning (Global Challenge), the World Bank, and the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The signatories stand ready to assist in the process, in support of transforming our society and the wider world into a low-carbon economy: Mats Andersson, Vice Chairman of the Global Challenges Foundation; Erik Brandsma, CEO of Jämtkraft; Malena Ernman, Opera Singer; Antje Jackelén, Archbishop; Staffan Laestadius, Professor Emeritus KTH; Kristina Persson, former Minister of the Future; Ingmar Rentzhog, Chairman of the Global Development Challenge; Johan Rockström, Professor of Environmental Sciences SU; Daniel Sachs, CEO of Proventus; and Anders Wijkman, Chairman of the Club of Rome.”
Anders Wijkman, cited in the above signatories, is a former member of parliament, chairman of the Swedish Environment Council and the former co-president of the Club of Rome. He is also a member of Global Utmaning with a special commitment to climate issues and circular finances.
Also cited in the above signatories is Malena Ernman, mother of Greta Thunberg.
Looks like Sweden has its very own Occasional Cortex
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