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Greta Thunberg Is Sailing Carbon-Free to UN Climate Summit But What About Youth Activists of Color?
https://earther.gizmodo.com/greta-thunberg-is-sailing-carbon-free-to-the-un-climate-1836790652 ^

Posted on 07/29/2019 2:09:27 PM PDT by sasherm13

Youth activist Greta Thunberg is hopping on a carbon-free racing boat to make the United Nations Climate Summit in New York on September 23. The Swedish founder of Fridays for Future—a now-global effort where youth skip school on Fridays to protest in the name of climate change and their future—figured out how to make it to the United States without destroying the planet.

She’s headed to New York, which is cool. But what about other youth activists, especially those in the Global South? Thunberg’s success—while rightly deserved—is also a reminder of how our efforts to stop climate change continue to ignore the voices of those most affected by the crisis while uplifting more privileged, white voices.

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However, part of me can’t help but wonder how many other 16-year-old climate activists have been invited to speak at the United Nations and can commandeer a free ride across an entire ocean. I imagine that if most other kids her age—especially any in the developing world—refused to fly to such a summit, they simply wouldn’t be able to go. Namugerwa, for instance, told Earther she’s never been to the U.S. and would “surely” want to be here, especially on a sailboat “if it’s for the good of my planet.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; fakescience; globalwarming; gretathunberg; sweden; thunberg
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If I didn't know any better, I would have thought this headline was a joke.
1 posted on 07/29/2019 2:09:27 PM PDT by sasherm13
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She’s 16? I guess going to school is also destroying the planet.


2 posted on 07/29/2019 2:12:58 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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i bet she shows up late...

and has to take a cab.


3 posted on 07/29/2019 2:15:53 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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Brainwashed kid

CO2 in Necessary for life.

without CO2 we would ALL die, first the plants, then us.

CO2 is a Vita-gas.


4 posted on 07/29/2019 2:18:25 PM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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They will shun her for this. They cannot live up to standards they want us to.


5 posted on 07/29/2019 2:18:27 PM PDT by IC Ken (Stop making stupid people famous)
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“The ship she plans to hop on is the Malizia II, a four-year-old racing sailboat pimped out with solar panels and underwater turbines to power the ship “

uh, NOT carbon-free: it took LOTS of carbon based materials and energy to make this contraption. Figure the number of people-miles/hour this thing is capable of and divide that into total cost and then compare that to the same metric for planes, trains, automobiles, or ships.


6 posted on 07/29/2019 2:29:39 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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If she’s a true eco-warrior, the boat should be a hollowed out log with locally produced sustainable organic hemp sails.


7 posted on 07/29/2019 2:31:32 PM PDT by dainbramaged (My dog can drive a stick shift and the cat is jealous.)
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How much carbon was released making the carbon free boat?


8 posted on 07/29/2019 2:32:22 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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She looks 10 years old...


9 posted on 07/29/2019 2:32:48 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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It would be a shame if she “fell” off the boat....


10 posted on 07/29/2019 2:34:46 PM PDT by Popman
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I bet she put ZERO thought into just how huge a carbon footprint it took for all the materials to build that beast. Blows away a couple hundred gallons of marine diesel a thousand fold.


11 posted on 07/29/2019 2:35:07 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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She looks pissed. Just like most libs.


12 posted on 07/29/2019 2:38:45 PM PDT by albie
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She simply puts out a bunch of emotional nonsense she has been fed.

The idea that 16-year-old children are smarter/wiser than adults is a stupid version of “the noble savage”.

It is daft, but many want it to be true, because it does not require thought or intellectual effort.


13 posted on 07/29/2019 2:41:28 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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If these people were serious about stopping CO2 “pollution” they would stop exhaling.


14 posted on 07/29/2019 2:41:41 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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I guarantee building that yacht was more destructive to the environment than a coach ticket on a plane.


15 posted on 07/29/2019 2:43:53 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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I don’t think she looks pissed at all. I think she looks like some self righteous little liberal punk having had her mommy, and daddy fill her head full of shit.

The kid is too young to know anything other than what she has been told, so the blame for stupid goes to the parents IMO.


16 posted on 07/29/2019 2:45:58 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: sasherm13

Tell the fetal alcohol syndrome poster child to hold her breath until she turns blue, then she’ll be a person of color.


17 posted on 07/29/2019 2:50:01 PM PDT by LambSlave
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More proof the liberals want to send us back to the 18th century.


18 posted on 07/29/2019 2:52:42 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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If I didn't know any better, I would have thought this headline was a joke.

Though it is hard to tell these days, it's not satire. Intersectionality is very real and lily-white Greta Thunberg just fell victim to it.

19 posted on 07/29/2019 2:52:58 PM PDT by Drew68
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The snark is strong in this one.
20 posted on 07/29/2019 2:53:00 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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