The snark is strong in this one.
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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She’s 16? I guess going to school is also destroying the planet.
i bet she shows up late...
and has to take a cab.
Brainwashed kid
CO2 in Necessary for life.
without CO2 we would ALL die, first the plants, then us.
CO2 is a Vita-gas.
They will shun her for this. They cannot live up to standards they want us to.
“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.
If she’s a true eco-warrior, the boat should be a hollowed out log with locally produced sustainable organic hemp sails.
How much carbon was released making the carbon free boat?
She looks 10 years old...
It would be a shame if she “fell” off the boat....
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.
She looks pissed. Just like most libs.
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.
If these people were serious about stopping CO2 “pollution” they would stop exhaling.
I guarantee building that yacht was more destructive to the environment than a coach ticket on a plane.
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.
Tell the fetal alcohol syndrome poster child to hold her breath until she turns blue, then she’ll be a person of color.
More proof the liberals want to send us back to the 18th century.
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.
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