Posted on 10/09/2019 11:46:07 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Russia’s parliament has invited Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg to address young Russians concerned about the environment.
The 16-year-old schoolgirl has catalyzed global school strikes and inspired Russia's nascent climate protest movement. Thunberg’s impassioned speech at the United Nations General Assembly last week sparked a fierce backlash in Russian society.
“I invite you to give a speech to Russian youth in the State Duma on any date convenient for you,” lawmaker Vasily Vlasov wrote to Thunberg, according to excerpts of his letter published by the state-run RIA Novosti news agency Tuesday.
Vlasov, 24, a senior member of the Duma’s Natural Resources Committee, highlighted his youth in the letter sent to the Swedish embassy.
“I’m aware of young people’s concerns in Russia about global environmental issues and how difficult it can be for adult politicians to come to a compromise even on such vital issues,” he said.
“We as the younger generation must not remain silent when it comes to our future, and we won’t allow ourselves to be condemned to extinction,” Vlasov wrote.
Recent natural disasters in Russia such as the wildfires that raged across Siberia earlier this year have turned the public’s attention toward the effects of the global climate crisis, according to Greenpeace Russia.
The Natural Resources and Environment Ministry this month acknowledged that Russia, the world’s fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is heating faster than the rest of the world. While the country is in the process of ratifying the 2015 Paris climate accord, outside trackers say Russia still lags behind the rest of the world in climate action implementation.
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how DARE they !
This is typical journalism for the Moscow Times, which is actually based in Finland.
ONE GUY invites Greta.
Title reads....
Russia invites Greta.
Russians just want to study this biological specimen for further insights into the decline of the west,
So no more science. Just social media stars.
How can she get there without using fossil fuels?
This could be interesting. I’m of the impression that Russia and, particularly, Putin, think this whole global warming thing is nonsense. But considering where their country is, they would welcome it. :)
She wants Russian kids to skip school on Fridays? What does Putin day about that?
Try that with school kids in China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore or Korea . You wouldn’t get very far
Somewhere someone is having a good laugh over this.
Needs to go back to school,put on meds while doctors manage her multiple conditions of Asperger and Depression,and her parents charged with child abuse. This is like the world listening to a 16 year old Adolph Hitler. Listening to this fidiot and having people follower her like brain dead cultists is sickening. It used to be when children start telling adults what to do and run the world that was limited to dystopian novels. We know full well why the left uses children such as this because it has worked very well as in Nazi Germany.
Ridiculous
Surprised unless you consider her goal is to destroy capitalism....
This ought to be good! Russian Meme-makers ARE JUST AS GOOD A WE ARE!...................
Same way Napoleon did...................
Ah yes... the old partnership of russian commie oligarchs and the ridiculous remnants of Sweden’s dependent monarchy. Now having riots by islamofascist gangsters and rapist.... assaulting Nordic/Swedish white privilege.
Seems the mass murderer guy was prescient, and.. right. Get them out of their country... perhaps too late.
But.. Russia is happy with Sweden’s continuing guilt idiocy.
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I wouldn’t wish this demon child on my worst enemy.
Russia today is fine with Capitalism. Certainly they are more pro-Capitalist than most Democrats these days.
LOL, Greta leading a march on Moscow. LOL.
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