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Swedish teen now face of climate activism: 'Act now or we will'
wnd.com ^ | 8/30/2019 | staff

Posted on 08/31/2019 8:59:24 AM PDT by rktman

Fresh from her transatlantic sailboat crossing, teen climate activist Greta Thunberg was joined by hundreds of American teenagers on Friday at a protest outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

They carried hand-drawn placards with messages such as "United behind the science" and "Act now or we will." And they chanted "System change, not climate change” and "Don't just watch us, join us," the Guardian of London reported.

While boasting of a carbon-free trans-Atlantic trip, it turns out her sailing team will fly back to Europe and another team will fly to the U.S. to take the boat back across the Atlantic. Reacting to criticism, Thunberg's team insisted the flights would be "offset" with carbon credits.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: angelamerkel; climageddon; climatechange; dumbassery; europeanunion; germany; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; gretathunberg; loser; nato; sweden
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To: Skywise

re: “Be interesting to see young children like her advocate for gun rights and limited government.”

Yes ... I still have to look back though and recall how many ‘children’ signed the Decl. of Ind., were members of the first congress ...


61 posted on 08/31/2019 10:27:26 AM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: BenLurkin

We’ll say the EU leadership, since liberal bullies in power punished children who did NOT participate in sanctioned climate protests.

Swedish schoolgirl who refused to take part in one of campaigner Greta Thunberg’s ‘climate strikes’ is ‘bullied by her own teacher’ and labelled a ‘climate denier’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7062517/Swedish-girl-bullied-not-participating-Greta-Thunberg-climate-strike.html


62 posted on 08/31/2019 10:33:19 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: rktman

Oh, there have been a few comments along the lines of “stop picking on a little girl who’s just trying to save the planet.”


63 posted on 08/31/2019 10:35:33 AM PDT by Fair Paul
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To: AppyPappy

Bingo. She could have Skyped from Sweden. Instead she wanted her publicity stunt which would pump lots of carbon into the atmosphere.


64 posted on 08/31/2019 10:37:12 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: cgbg

No. They’re telling kids to have one or no kids ... for the planet.


65 posted on 08/31/2019 10:48:12 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: PIF

Liberals define morality based on feelings. Do what feels good, it is good, follow your heart, listen to your heart to know what is true.

Conservatives base morality on rules/laws, especially divine laws. Morality is following those rules, regardless of your feelings.

For liberals, looking good IS good and the positive feelings are thought to make others be more good/moral. Hence moral peacocking like this and public acts of guilt-tripping are MORAL. That they don’t do good or may harm people is irrelevant - we meant well is good enough an excuse for it.


66 posted on 08/31/2019 10:50:09 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Fair Paul

Yup! Bullying deniers is okee dokee. Calling out the liars, not so much.


67 posted on 08/31/2019 10:51:18 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

What a joke! Yeah! Go ahead and act you feckless teenagers! You and your beta adult helpers will solve the worlds problems! Ya sure, you betcha!


68 posted on 08/31/2019 10:57:59 AM PDT by vpintheak (Stop making stupid people famous!)
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To: rktman

We’ll be waitin’ for ya, Sweetie.


69 posted on 08/31/2019 11:07:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.")
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To: rktman

She will be offered free college at her choice of American colleges. Her career path in politics is guaranteed.

“Carbon free.” She is not carbon free. She is composed of complex molecules involving carbon. As all living creatures. She means “CO2 free,” but that concept is too difficult for her.

Animal creatures emit CO2. That is used by plants. This is known as an equilibrium. CO2 is not a poison.

Hating fossil fuels is deception. They actually hate the industrialized society in which we live. We could not have what we have without petroleum products. Solar and wind won’t cut it. I invite her to truly live without petroleum products and not be a hypocrite about it.


70 posted on 08/31/2019 11:24:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: PIF
Shes a rich twit who sailed a 60 foot Hi Tech yacht belonging to some rich German (i think) and a new crew is being flow in to take the boat back to the hell hole it came from.

She really just went along for the ride an a multi-million dollar racing yacht. It won't be going back to a "hell hole" unless you consider the Monaco Yacht Club to be a "hell hole" and in some ways you may be right.

The boat is a toy of the richest of rich, people who spend millions of dollars racing a yacht instead of spending money on something "important" like "saving the planet" or "ending poverty". The boat's main sponsor is BMW, that company that makes wood fired sports cars that don't have any carbon footprint.

It is all a giant scam perpetrated by wealthy, elite European globalists. Somebody put up a lot of money to have a racing yacht and its 18 person management team (not counting sailors)go out to spout climate change propaganda.

You can read about the boat here, and the sponsors here.

71 posted on 08/31/2019 11:43:35 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: rktman

72 posted on 08/31/2019 11:47:28 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: I want the USA back

“Animal creatures emit CO2. That is used by plants. This is known as an equilibrium. CO2 is not a poison.”

Just curious, what are your thoughts on Bolsonaro’s refusing foreign aid to stop the fires in the Amazon? What you say is scientific truth, but kill off enough plants and equilibrium is lost.


73 posted on 08/31/2019 1:36:43 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker (Keep calm and vote your conscience.)
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To: smokingfrog

Thanks. That’s exactly what I figured. The “carbon footprint” of building a boat like that is horrendous. Those stats I posted showing the amount of CO2 emissions to make carbon fiber give the lie to the notion it’s a “green” boat.

Greenies are largely technological idiots and don’t understand complex systems or total product emissions cradle to grave.


74 posted on 08/31/2019 1:59:14 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: null and void

Stomp her feet and hold her breath until she turns blue.


75 posted on 08/31/2019 1:59:54 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Gay State Conservative

“This little girl is just the most recent in a very long line of Swedish nobodies.”

:-)

The nobody hall of fame.


76 posted on 08/31/2019 4:25:18 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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