Posted on 12/11/2019 1:39:33 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg on Wednesday accused wealthier nations of inventing ways to avoid slashing their greenhouse gas emissions, branding their climate action "misleading" at a summit in Madrid.
The UN climate forum tasked with saving the world from runaway global warming has become an "opportunity for countries to negociate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition" to act on climate, the 16-year-old told delegates.
"Countries are finding clever ways around having to take real action."
Nations are at odds over how the fight against climate change should be funded and how carbon trading schemes should be regulated.
In addition, there has been preciously little progress over the issue of "loss and damage" funding -- how countries already dealing with the worst impacts of climate-related extreme weather and drought should be compensated.
Thunberg, who started her one-girl climate strike in her native Sweden a year ago but has since been catapulted to international stardom, told negotiators that their promises were a world apart from what was needed.
"Recently a handful of rich countries pledged to reduce their emission of greenhouse gases by so and so many percent by this or that date, or to become climate neutral or net zero in so and so many years," she said.
"This may sound impressive at first glance, but even though the intentions may be good this is not leadership. This is not leading, this is misleading."
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For this child to be taken seriously is a true case of the Emperor’s new clothes!
I see Veruca Salt has returned to the headlines.
This little girl is a virtual Einstein when it come to climate change.
Now, I’ve got a bridge to build between here and the moon, so, anybody that believed what I said above should endorse my statement by contributing $100 each for my building of that bridge.
She’s pissed off, that some countries pledge to become carbon zero at a future date??
That’s not good enough for her? Working towards zero net emissions is not good enough????
What the hell does she expect? And why is the world fawn over her?
Does she expect all the needed changes to happen tomorrow?
If so, then she’s an ignoramus, no matter how much Time Magazine and the enviro extremists worship her.
Greta needs to learn that politicians cannot be trusted to do what they say or pledge.
She thinks people who cannot fill potholes can save the planet.
Go
Away
Already
kkthx!
Just like drug gangs use children to sling drugs or do hits, so do liberals use children to push their agenda. Being the cowards they are, they use children as a buffer. Children cannot be criticized and they receive leniency, it really shows how low liberals will go.
STFU and take your thorazine, you noxious little turd.
This must come as a shock to a 16 year old idealist.
Little sh## needs to be taken to the shed
When I was sixteen I was taking High School Chemistry and trying to get to second base with my girl. In other words I had a skull full of mush, but I knew it, too. She’s a moron and doesn’t realize it.
‘Greta needs to learn...’
God bless her. She doesn’t have the brains to learn. She is being exploited by her parents. Someone needs to protect this child from the parental abuse.
Why is anyone listening to this nasty, MENTALLY ILL little SH*T!?!
She is literally F-ing CRAZY, she has a long history of serious mental illnesses including suicide attempts. Before she was hysterical about “climate change” she was hysterical and self-destructive about other things. She’s been insane for her entire life, she belongs in a lunatic asylum.
Words can’t adequately describe the massive collective f***tardery of these “climate change” idiots (supposedly adults) who encourage this deeply, deeply disturbed little brat.
What if “climate change” has little or nothing to do with CO2? I think it’ll turn out that way.
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