Posted on 03/16/2019 7:26:07 AM PDT by Libloather
Last August, when she began her climate strike outside the Swedish parliament, 16-year-old Greta Thunberg was all alone. I tried to bring people along to join me, Thunberg recently told Rolling Stone, but no one was really interested, and so I had to do it by myself. But around the world, children and teenagers worried about their future and exasperated by adults overwhelming failure to address climate change soon took notice.
Thousands joined Thunberg, now a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, on Friday, gathering at some 1,600 strike locations in more than 100 countries around the world Sweden, Germany, the U.K., France, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Finland, Uganda, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Korea, Japan, India for the School Strike 4 Climate.
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"I started to realize, Wow, Ive lived in climate change my whole life my earliest memories were of the droughts, she says. Our reservoir dried up one time where we got our water supply. I just started to realize that Ive always been around this. She came across a story about Thunberg, read about the speech she gave at the 2018 United Nations COP24 climate conference in Poland and her call to action.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
Our reservoir dried up one time where we got our water supply. I just started to realize that Ive always been around this.
I’m guessing she also lived during the rains that refilled the reservoir.
Rolling Stone made Boston bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, into a rock star so why not run this, too?
Tilting at windmills.
I hear you.
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 18:00
Bezymianny (RUSSIA): ERUPTION AT 20190315/1730Z FL500 EXTD E REPORTED OBS VA DTG: 15/1740Z (Tokyo VAAC)
Note: FL500 is 50,000 feet... That's a ten mile high blast just yesterday that gives us those pretty red sunsets. But I'm the polluter, (rolls eyes)
You can no more change the climate than you can change your sex, fools.
They found an excuse to take a day off from school.
How does one fight the climate [weather]?
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Sometimes I wear a coat, maybe a hat. Beyond that there is nothing I, or anyone, can do.
I don’t take any advise for Tide-Pod eaters.
Let them mow lawns with the old push-reel mowers. It should be quite entertaining.
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