Posted on 09/01/2019 4:27:41 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Back in May I wrote here about the newest celebrity among the climatistas, the Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg who was adorning the cover of Time magazine, giving TED talks, appearing at the World Economic Forum, and, soon, speaking at UN climate change summit of some kind. This, after sailing across the Atlantic to get to New York to avoid the carbon footprint of a plane flight, never mind that she made the voyage in a sailboat made largely from oil and constructed in an energy-intensive manufacturing process, and never mind that a crew of four is going to be flown over from Germany to sail the boat back, meaning the total carbon footprint of this stunt is higher than if she had just taken a plane in the first place. But I suppose the climatistas need their heroes, since Al Gore, while certainly a comic figure, is no marvel any more.
I compared Thunberg to Samantha Smith, the 10-year-old schoolgirl from Maine who was exploited by the media and the anti-war left in the 1980s, before being killed in a light plane crash that arose because of her artificial celebrity, and thus I decided to leave Thunberg alone. It is highly likely that in 10 or 20 years the media and the activists will have completely forgotten Thunberg and tossed her aside in favor of the next shiny new thing, and there will be a large hole in her soul when she finds that activist “meaning” is quite meaningless.
But I can’t resist observing the significance of this tweet:
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
she has her own bumper sticker in Germany...
Hard to argue with that ...
heh heh heh heh... 8^)
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Let me guess:
Make
Anthropogenic
Global-warming
Ancient history
Guess she could import the stickers from these United States!
;^)
Michael Crichton: Environmentalism is a religion
http://principia-scientific.org/crichton-environmentalism-religion/
Crichton's novel "State of Fear" covers environmental extremism.
https://www.amazon.com/State-of-Fear/dp/B000776JN8/
I wish he had not died. We still need him.
There are environmentalists and violent liberal nihilists who want us ALL to die. The voluntary human extinction movement, for example.
The environmentalists typically define the perfect world as a mythical garden of eden, the world depopulated and cared for by the small remnant of true believers.
Whether the rest of us die in a plague sent by mad Mommy Earth as vengeance for our sins of industrial civilization or we voluntarily in penance sacrifice children until 90%+ are dead depends on the environmentalist you talk to.
Tom Clancy’s “Rainbow Six” captured this perfectly.
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