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 doesn’t start until we put our foot forward and try to make it happen.”
Thunberg’s 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 year’s 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. “It’s 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 Thunberg’s 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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Look at the yellow text in the second image under Greta hatin’ on President Trump.
I didn’t nt understand that either.
If you are a true believer in fighting global warming, what difference does it make if either males or females are leaders?
I bet most of the attendees came to see if Greta would actually summon a demon.
Tell them to get back to you when each and every person that agrees with that sign takes in 5 immigrant families (at least 20 people) and hands the immigrants their debit cards, their credit cards and their checkbooks. Oh and the keys to their cars.
Then, they can lecture the rest of the world.
I’d guess that they will never ACTUALLY do it.
“We are honored. We are inspired. We are emboldened.”
We are delusional.
5.56mm
The Green Nazis like Greta are the worse racists in the history of our world!
What does it mean to live off the grid?
It means life stops when the sun goes down. It means shutting the doors of your business at nightfall and losing out on money to support your family. It means spending up to 15 percent of your limited income on kerosene that gives off fumes that are responsible for more deaths a year than malaria, tuberculosis and HIV combined.
It means getting treated at a hospital unequipped to store medicine, power incubators or operate medical equipment.
It means not getting the education you deserve because your school lacks proper lighting, air conditioning and computers.
It means living without a sense of security and feeling disconnected from the rest of modern society.
For many of us, it’s hard to imagine a life without power when electricity is the undercurrent of nearly every aspect of our lives. Yet this is the reality for more than 1.3 billion people around the world who lack access to energy.
Excerpted. The link below has the oped:
https://acumenideas.com/what-does-energy-have-to-do-with-poverty-everything-a41abae3b738
Putin Slams Greta: Why Should Developing Countries Continue to Live in Poverty?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3783617/posts
“Why is this abused, manipulated mentally ill brat still in our country causing trouble?”
You can say the same thing about AOC. It’s call Lame Street Media frenzy. Without frequent airtime they would both just fade into oblivion.
It’s really sad that a church chooses to anger people instead of leading them to Jesus. I hated Obama’s guts, but I wouldn’t want a message about that on a church sign.
um...who us paying for all of her meddling in our election? need to find out, and shout from the rooftops
I hope she gets lost in a Corn Maze!
Here’s the text of a great response to the whole “Greta” phenomenon by author Michael Z. Williamson, on his blog http://www.michaelzwilliamson.com/blog/index.php?itemid=512
Well, both.
God, what a dumpster fire.
Greta is home-schooled, so the BS claim that “she turned her parents around on the climate” is BS. They had to allow it, feed it, and encourage it. Though of course, they taught her a lot of propaganda. No actual science like the chemistry of carbon sequestration, thermodynamics, electromagnetic frequency absorption, etc.
They claim she’s Asperger’s, but apparently that’s her younger sister. Greta looks more like a victim of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Just how many wild parties did her “opera singer” mother go to?
Then, she’s vegan, which in children is provably damaging to brain development and drops your IQ. Add that to the above, and this teenager is credibly an idiot studying to be a moron.
And what is her message?
“You have to do something.”
Sure, kid. This is important to you. You’re smart, right? So I assume you’ve studied something useful and have a proposal on how to reduce consumption? Or increase efficiency? Or reduce waste? Even a fraction of a percent will matter. So, whatchya got? Nothing? Well, then shut the fuck up, the adults are talking.
You see, lots of teenagers HAVE done credible research, into decay processes, efficiencies, even curves and trends. All you’ve done is whine. And as far as your “stolen childhood,” you can go back to it any time you choose. Unlike children who are sex slaves in the third world, forced to fight in tribal conflicts, or work grueling hours in sweatshops to help feed their family. You’re just about the single most white-privileged little bitch on the planet. Shut the fuck up, and go to your room. You’re not getting dinner.
Of course, that would be a vegan dinner, so there’s not much to miss.
I’ll point out here that that attitude is TEXTBOOK “liberal.” “X is a problem, do something!” “We’re doing Y.” “Y is all wrong! YOU RUINED MY LIFE!” “Okay, we’re doing Z.” “CAN’T YOU EVER GET IT RIGHT? DO SOMETHING ELSE!”
And the predictable response is:
“Shame on you for attacking a child.”
Well, were people attacking a child, it is true that would be wrong. But that’s not what is happening here.
First, if you stick yourself into an adult conversation, as a young adult, you should be expected to be treated like an adult. This means you should have education, presentation, a description of a problem, and a proposed solution. Otherwise, yes, you may get treated like a child.
If a child kicks my leg, they get disciplined. This is not an “attack.” It is a response.
The things subhuman “liberal” shitbags did to comedian Mini-AOC, complete to death threats, is shameful. Fabricating an attack on a teenage boy at an abortion protest (And I’m on the opposite side from him), and trying to claim he was the aggressor, and to destroy his future is shameful.
Pointing and laughing at an ignorant, underage troll, who was so carefully imported, scripted, and propped in front of cameras is just normal politics.
Now, Greta and her whole presentation are carefully crafted. I want you to consider this parallel:
There is a short video that shows an Israeli man revving his engine through a group of presumably Palestinian teenagers. What a monster!
Of course, if you view the five seconds before the “Attack,” it turns out they were throwing really big rocks at his car and trying to jam the undercarriage with a bigger rock.
If you find the two minutes of video before THAT, you see where they’re being coached by an adult, provided with a pile of rocks, and cameras set up to capture this “hate crime.”
You can find the same in the former Irish Troubles, in Iraq, Afghanistan, other places. Behind the “hate crime,” you find manipulated terrorism, using children as the actors because they’re more easily manipulated, and you get to play victim cards for them.
Greta’s parents, her handlers, indeed the entire liberal apparatus are terrorists. They are willing to use a child to do their dirty work, attack you for responding to the child, and insist you’re the bad guy for not giving them what they want. (And in that latter way, liberals are pretty much like children themselves. “But I waaaaant it! It’s not faaiiir! Give it to meeee!”)
A smart polity does not deal with terrorists. It exterminates them. It is far past time that civilized society stops tolerating liberal terrorism and ends it.
And it starts by telling Greta Goebbels to shut her face, and her abusive parents to be the ones who are ashamed, and then take her away for her own safety. She deserves better than to be the puppet of terrorists.
And we’re going to need a bigger helicopter.
Can’t we deport her as an illegal alien?
Wait one. When she was in Canada didn’t someone smirk that she looked happy by leaving the US?
“So, what’s the process to get a church’s tax exemption stripped?”
Support President Trump and the immigration laws, and you can lose your tax free status.
how’d she get there?
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