Posted on 01/22/2020 6:45:36 AM PST by Kaslin
Greta Thunberg, in her latest opinion column for The Guardian, has called for an end to today’s business as usual. She believes current economic activity is a crime against humanity as it increases the global warming rate.
As a citizen of a developing country, I protest!
Greta and other schoolchildren camped at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Their primary objective was to peddle lies, demand economic suicide, and ridicule world leaders who are trying their best to uplift economies.
In her brief column, written as a forerunner to the World Economic Forum, Greta outlined her demands.
“We demand that at this year’s forum, participants from all companies, banks, institutions and governments immediately halt all investments in fossil fuel exploration and extraction, immediately end all fossil fuel subsidies and immediately and completely divest from fossil fuels,” she said.
“We understand and know very well that the world is complicated and that what we are asking for may not be easy,” she continued.
But in reality, Greta does not understand what she is demanding.
Almost all products we use in our everyday lives are made from or by means of fossil fuels. Yes! That includes your toothbrush, toilet seats, kitchen utensils, house paint, pens, mobiles (yes, your mobile phones and the rotating plastic toys that hang over infants’ cribs), computers, roads, vehicles, clothes, and thousands of other things that the majority of us—except forest dwellers—would not be able to live without.
Ironically, even Greta and her friends don’t live without them. The lettered placards used in their protests couldn’t have been made without fossil derivatives.
The boat Greta used to cross the Atlantic was also manufactured with the help of fossil fuels. Her recent train journey—about which she was caught lying—was also made possible only because of fossil fuels, even though the train was powered by what the company called “100 percent eco-friendly electricity.” Fossil fuels went into mining and transporting the minerals from which the steel of the cars and wheels and track were made, and into the composition and manufacturing of the plastics and most other materials in its cars.
Even worse, the very same energy technologies which Greta calls “clean”—solar and wind—are manufactured with the direct help of fossil fuels and fossil derivatives, besides releasing toxic substances into the environment.
Immediate, comprehensive disinvestment from fossil fuels would halt not just fossil fuel supply but the entire global economy. Even the countries that use the highest percentage of renewable energy cannot sustain their economies for a single week without the use of fossil fuel-based products.
Eighty percent of all energy consumed globally (2018) came from oil, natural gas, and coal. In 2015, 65 percent of all electricity produced came from fossil fuels.
More than 70 percent of the electricity consumed in China and India—for around 3 billion people—came from coal alone. Both these countries are adding more coal plants to their existing fleets, not shutting them down as Greta demands.
Given the extremely high inefficiency and costs of non-fossil fuel based energy sources, economies are nowhere close to increasing their dependency on “clean” energy. A call for disinvestment in fossil fuels is asking for humanity to cease functioning.
Not to forget, there are still 850 million people in the world (including hundreds of hospital patients in Africa) who do not have access to electricity at all—and many more whose access is highly unreliable.
Even without implementing any of Greta’s mind-boggling demands, the world is struggling to implement 100 percent electricity access in developing countries.
Greta herself enjoys the benefits of living in a developed country and continent whose economies were driven by the fossil-fuel based industrial era.
To turn a blind eye to those of us in developing countries, and those in much worse economic conditions, is certainly not admirable or praiseworthy. In fact, it is detrimental to the economic progress that billions in the developing world are aspiring to see in our lifetimes.
The mainstream media, especially the leftist leaning media from the West, must stop treating school dropouts like climate experts and economists.
In their sustained effort to promote climate alarmism, the positions Greta and the loony media are pushing might very well be destroying the hopes of those at the very verge of death in poor countries.
For one thing, I don't believe for a second that she wrote the thing. When she speaks, it's always parroting what someone else told her to say. Writing? She doesn't need to do it, because someone else will.
I believe nothing from her.
“She believes current economic activity is a crime against humanity as it increases the global warming rate.”
She better pray her daddy doesn’t croak and she ends up speechless.
Retard greta at Davos said we must stop using fossil fuels not tomorrow but starting right now today!
Can you imagine all those attendees trying to figure out how to get home if her ridiculous statement was taken literally:-)
Greta is a child with a mental disability. How has she become the voice of the climatards worldwide? Does anyone really care? She’s another David Hogg. Today’s Democrats remind me of Lord of the Flies.
Used to be a time where adults told kids to shut up, get back in school, and made them realize they don’t know jack because they have to love experience.
Used to be a time where adults told kids to shut up, get back in school, and made them realize they don’t know jack because they have no life experience.
That may not be true in just a while. When muslims overrun her country completely they will destroy the infrastructure rapidly with their 7th century mindsets.
Be quiet, tiresome little girl. Go “fix” your own country, or even your own city, according to your precious sensibilities first before tackling the whole world. See how that works out for you.
Greta, take your little pals and go do a proof-of-concept exercise. Televise it. I dare you. I’m look forward to “Survivor: Greta’s Goons”.
"I was viewing CNBC this morning and a fund manager from San Francisco stated that since Grrreta Thunberg was born, that 62% of global CO2 emissions were produced by China, 18% by India. That's 80% of all CO2 emissions by two countries that Grrreta never mentions."
abortion of as many babies as possible + death of billions of adults = anti=life agenda of leftard loons
This bitter, acrimonious child has been taught that hatred and anger are effective disciplines for social change. In truth they are not. The elite isolationists who praise her bravery are themselves sniffling cowards who will never confront the human tragedies their solutions demand. She and those who praise this damaged child are contemptuous ignoramuses lacking altogether in human decency.
Greta is a media creation. She has zero substance and makes no attempts to present any solutions that make any sense at all. There is nothing about her that does not scream scam. She is a classic magician’s slight of hand distraction. Look at Greta while we enact legislation that moves us closer to Marxism and one world government where talentless hack insiders steal the wealth from everyone else.
Post Turtle, woman child with Aspergers
heavily manipulated obsessive behavior
I feel sorry for her
https://pics.me.me/while-stitching-a-cut-on-the-hand-of-a-75-30638829.png
HOW DARE YOU!
Environmental thugs put their words in a child to spout because a silly hysterical 40 year old man would NOT be effective.
Little Greta and her climate alarmist cohorts should throw away their smart phones, assume a stone age life and warm their porridge over a wood fire.
Reminds me of the Emperor’s new clothes.
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