Posted on 10/04/2019 1:25:32 PM PDT by Red Badger
IOWA CITY, Iowa (Reuters) - Hundreds of people gathered in Iowa City on Friday to watch teenage activist Greta Thunberg speak at a rally to demand that political leaders and institutions take urgent action to combat climate change.
Demonstrators, including many young activists, held signs that read If you breathe the air you should care and Science not silence as they waited for the young Swede to take the stage on the campus of the University of Iowa.
I am more than excited, said Iowa City resident Philinise Hamlin, 41. Change doesnt start until we put our foot forward and try to make it happen.
Thunbergs campaign demanding that world leaders tackle climate change began as a lonely vigil outside the Swedish parliament, but saw her rise to address the United Nations on the issue last month, and took her to Iowa City on Friday.
The 16-year-old stopped in the Midwestern city, located in the state that will hold the first of next years U.S. presidential nominating contests, as part of her tour of North America ahead of a U.N.-sponsored climate conference in Santiago, Chile, in December.
She is the face of climate change, said Lena Kosinski, a 21-year-old student at the University of Iowa. Its nice to have not only a young person, but a female leading the change.
In recent weeks, millions of people have poured onto streets around the globe in protests inspired by Thunberg to demand governments take urgent action on climate change.
Students in Iowa City said Thunbergs visit was a testament to their efforts to demand change from local leaders.
We are honored. We are inspired. We are emboldened. And we say, no more excuses, Student Climate Strike Iowa City, which organized the visit, said on Twitter ahead of the event.
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I propose we send her on a rocket ship to the sun to adjust the thermostat. Of course we’ll send her at night when it’s cool.
All her ‘appearances’ are tightly scripted, questions prescreened..............
I just wonder if she realizes what would happen if the climate stopped changing....
Sell that fossil fuel guzzling car, Philinise. Then you can really put one foot forward. And the other foot forward. Then the first foot forward again. Ad infinitum.
Get back to us when you have turned the gas and electricity off to your house, eating twigs, sold the car, sworn off airplane trips for the rest of your life and given up on the internet and phone service.
Or you could just go live in Venezuela or North Korea.
Isnt this the eat the babies Swedish girl?
I hope nobody shoots SOROS and uses him as a gun control poster boy ......tomorrow or monday.
no reasoning with this little moron. she is just HATE. Look at those eyes! Pure evil, just the way she was raised by her parents. EVIL and HATE
Iowa is a major producer of hogs and cow.
Greata should fit right in there.
Oh, corn too.
Id like to hear Philinise explain to us how green tractors that dont use fossil fuels are going to plant and harvest all that corn in Iowa and how they plan to fertilize the crops without natural gas derived fertilizer. And I dont mean John Deere tractors.
Because it's foreign interference in U.S. elections that the MSM-Democrats like.
There is a church in Mesquite Texas that makes my blood boil any time I drive past and make the mistake of reading their sign out front. The one today?
Climate deniers, pants on fire
Using Gods rainbow for their innuendo
Theyre usually saying what a monster President Trump is.
Did philinise walk to see Greta of the corn? If not, theyre all hypocrites coming to see a programmed hypocrite scold Iowans.
no I don’t see what you are referring to
What denomination? First Satanic Church of Mesquite?...............
She will be a suicide before that happens. Nobody can go through life that scared and that much of a harridan / scold. Shes got to be one of the worst people on the planet.
Our Savior Lutheran. I never thought to look, but they have a website:
If you look on Google Maps, one side says, By age 12, Jesus had already crossed 7 borders. The other days, Only King Herod tried to separate Jesus from his mother.
So, whats the process to get a churchs tax exemption stripped?
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