Posted on 09/27/2019 12:46:10 PM PDT by Steely Tom
Sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg is rejecting the criticism she's receiving from "grown-ups" who she says should instead spend their time "acting on the science" that shows the environment is in serious danger.
Thunberg, a Swedish native, addressed the flak while visiting Canada on Friday as part of her multination tour to draw attention to the climate crisis.
That we should take as compliment that we are having so much impact that people want to silence us, Thunberg said at a Montreal rally, as reported by The Associated Press. Weve become too loud for people to handle, so people want to silence us.
Following her appearance at the United Nations General Assembly earlier in the week, Thunberg was the subject of aggressive criticism online and in conservative media, with Fox News personalities comparing her to the "Children of the Corn" and calling her "mentally ill."
President Trump poked fun at her on Twitter on Tuesday, posting a video of one of her more dire warnings with the message "She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!"
Thunberg replied Friday, saying that she didn't get "why grown-ups would choose to mock children and teenagers for just communicating and acting on the science when they could do something good instead.
In addition to the Canadian event Thunberg attended Friday, countless other climate rallies were held around the world. These rallies come a week after the Global Climate Strike that saw more than 4 million people around the world protest.
As part of her trip to Montreal, Thunberg sat down with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was also present at the city's demonstration.
She is the voice of a generation, of young people who are calling on their leaders to do more and do better, Trudeau said. And I am listening.
As with other world leaders with whom she has met, Thunberg said Trudeau isn't going far enough to address the rapidly warming planet.
He is of course obviously not doing enough, but this is just a huge problem, this is a system that is wrong, Thunberg said. My message to all the politicians is the same: Just listen and act on the science.
How dare you!
And yet, somehow, a Leftist supposition, that is based on picked over statistics, is an ironclad prediction of future behavior...
This kind of criminal stupidity shouldn't be allowed to live...
You know, I was thinking the same thing.
Greta is a truly miserable, seriously depressed and anxious girl. The antipsychotic meds she takes obviously dont work very well. I predict she will eventually commit suicide when she finally realizes she isnt the center of attention anymore.
Greta is a SERIOUSLY mentally ill girl.
Maybe she'll try to get home by train. We can always hope.
She believes what she’s been fed is “science?” How cute, and wonderfully naive.
She’s a future Elizabeth Warren.
This little tool of the Left wouldn’t know Science if it came and bit her on her pasty white ass. All that she can do is spout rehearsed lines of feigned outrage. She needs medication.
Does she know that governments support these scientists research? If you don’t sign on to the governments agenda you don’t get funded and you don’t eat. But little miss fancy pants knows everything about the world
Climate Change Army led by a mentally unstable child.
Gretas handler is Luisa-Marie Neubauer : Funded by ~ George Soros, Common Core - Bill Gates , and pals.
why do the FR crowd give this loud mouth any action? We should ignore this brat.
#FakeScience #EcoTerrorism #Antifa
Believers: Just turn off your thermostats and leave your vehicles parked.
She’s a retarded little kid who is being abused by her parents to do all this.
Because your “science” is lies, and you are a moron.
“I don’t understand why...”
You don’t understand PLENTY, girl.
Your parents ought to be punished for what they’ve inflicted on you and turned you into.
How about because it isn’t science but socialist hysteria disguised as science.
***Doesnt this girl have school?***
Why go to school. The world will end in 11 years.
“acting on the science”
You mean like, back in 1910, when people committed suicide rather than be gassed to death when the earth passed through the tail of Haley’s Comet? It was supposed to wipe out all life on earth.
She has the science IQ of a gerbil.
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