Posted on 03/06/2020 11:23:41 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
BRUSSELS - Protesters at a rally led by climate activist Greta Thunberg on Friday denounced governments for taking urgent action against the coronavirus outbreak but failing to treat global warming as an emergency.
Several thousand people braved the rain in Brussels with the 17-year-old Swede, marching through the city that is home to the European Union’s main institutions.
“It is shameful that for so long the climate and environmental emergency has been ignored. We are still in a crisis that has never once been treated like a crisis,” Thunberg told the demonstrators in a speech.
Some supporters said they had put aside concerns about being infected with the coronavirus in a crowd to join the march.
“It’s pick your evil. Do you want to die from global warming or from coronavirus?” said Gorkem, 40, wearing a face mask.
“One of them gets much more attention than the other, so we are trying to raise a bit more awareness about what is already affecting all our lives.”
Flo, a filmmaker from the Belgian city of Ghent who attended with her baby daughter, said the rapid spread of the coronavirus had demonstrated that governments can respond to crises.
“You see people all crazy with coronavirus and you see that governments can do things to make everybody aware about a situation, to make things happen ... But they do so little about climate change,” she said.
Organisers said some 4,000 people attended the event, fewer than expected, probably because of the weather and concerns about the spread of the virus in large crowds.
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Just go away.
Hm.... what if I want *both* coronavirus and climate change to come to Europe? :P
People marching to demand their own enslavement.
They’re unhappy about a competing hype crisis.
Need to get the focus back on themselves.
Coronavirus epidemic is real.
Climate crisis is not.
Climate Change is real, with one caveat — THERE’s NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT. We haven’t been able to control it since time immemorial and we won’t be able to control it today.
How about the asteroid heading our way?
I bet global warming will kill back the coronavirus.
wouldn’t a warmer planet snow down any virus?
Thank you global warming
I’ll take whatever’s behind door “T” - for Trump - thanks.
We’re all gonna die today or in ten years. Geez.
I’d be fine with that as well, as long as we can confine the effects to Europe.
As Morrissey said, “Come, come, nuclear bomb.”
Climate change is not real.
Zero evidence for it.
Both are real.
But both have cults around them to pump them up to crazy proportions.
Have everyone slit their wrists and jump off a bridge. No need to wait for Captain Trips or the ocean levels rising.
How dare you!
This crap is getting tiresome. People should focus on family and careers, not this fictional bullshit and “the flu.”
When were thermometers invented? How exactly were these measurements taken and who recorded them? Asking for a friend.
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