Posted on 10/02/2019 11:49:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday took aim at teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, telling an energy forum he did not share the excitement about her United Nations speech last month.
The 16-year-old Swede electrified the U.N. summit in New York when she denounced world leaders for failing to tackle climate change, unleashing the outrage felt by millions of her peers by demanding: “How dare you?”
Putin, chairing a session at an energy forum in Moscow, said: “I may disappoint you but I don’t share the common excitement about the speech by Greta Thunberg.
“No one has explained to Greta that the modern world is complex and different and ... people in Africa or in many Asian countries want to live at the same wealth level as in Sweden.”
U.S. President Donald Trump mocked Thunberg and Canadian Member of Parliament Maxime Bernier called her alarmist and mentally unstable. Thunberg said their mockery of children showed her message had become “too loud to handle”.
Putin said young people who paid attention to environmental issues should be supported, adding: “But when someone is using children and teenagers in personal interests, it only deserves to be condemned.
“I’m sure that Greta is a kind and very sincere girl. But adults must do everything not to bring teenagers and children into some extreme situations.”
Inspired by Thunberg’s solitary weekly protest outside the Swedish parliament a year ago, millions of people have poured onto the streets around the globe to demand governments take emergency action on climate change.
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I actually enjoy listening to Putin. He is one of the few rational world leaders out there.
I am certain there’s a Jeffrey Epstein-like character behind Greta. How else do you manipulate a child in such a way?
Why is it that Putin makes perfect sense and the US Democratic Party sounds like a pack of baying hyenas.
Welcome to 2019!
“How else do you manipulate a child in such a way?”
Did you see the family picture with her parents wearing their Antifa T-Shirts? I think that might be a clue.
RE: I actually enjoy listening to Putin. He is one of the few rational world leaders out there.
Then, I think you’d enjoy listening to him sing the 1940’s pop song: BLUEBERRY HILL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4IjHz2yIo
If you’ve lost Vladimir Vladimirovich........
Just random shirts they “borrowed”. Right............... Sure didn’t see that pic many places.
I agree with him!!
You tell um Vlad .
Thunberg is a dunderhead
I don’t share excitement either. I would be glad to share excrement, however.
What excitement?
i wish the girl all the best for a bright and happy future, but her speech content was a waste of everyone’s time
[[Why is it that Putin makes perfect sense and the US Democratic Party sounds like a pack of baying hyenas.]]
Because he doesn’t allow the baying hysterical left in the nation to contradict anything he says- We started allowing that here- we gave an inch, and hte left took a mile and now we’re dominated by lying leftists screaming at every chance they get-
The intersection of the secular climate cult with the classic Christianity religion.
They'll either hang her from a cross and crucifier her or give her a Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing but bitch at world leaders.
actually it was just one person on a church blog that named her the second coming
Putin is authoritarian and imperialist, but he’s not a looney.
The demonicRAT Party are full-bore totalitarian communists, and detached from reality.
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