Posted on 09/28/2019 5:45:02 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
'This brave young woman essentially sent a message to the future'
Senior editor of the Atlantic and NPR news analyst Jack Beatty commended Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg for sending a powerful "message to the future" on climate change.
"I think her j’accuse will echo through the years," Beatty told host David Folkenflik.
Folkenflik said the young activist "drove conservatives, Republicans nuts" and that she's making a valid point because she and others her age stand to inherit a world affected by climate change. Beatty agreed and went further in praising her vision.
"This brave young woman essentially sent a message to the future: We care, you should care," Beatty said. "And when she said, ‘you're talking about fairy tales of eternal economic growth'—in 2018 a report from 13 federal agencies warned that failure to rein in warming could shave 10 percent off the country's economy in this century."
"In other words, she's right."
Beatty noted that the governments of leading industrial nations did not make any commitments on reducing pollution at the United Nations.
"China, the biggest polluter, made no new commitments at the summit, the U.S. was quiet, other countries said little," Beatty said.
Thunberg grabbed headlines for sailing to New York to plead her case at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. She even drew the attention of President Donald Trump, who said, "She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future."
Thunberg sent the media into a tizzy when she changed her Twitter bio to reflect Trump's sarcastic comment, a move reporters declared an "A-plus troll of the president.
Greta will go through the pages of history as merely a blip - another case of child exploitation - a rag-doll puppet.
Kid activists get old quick in every sense. “Will echo though the years?” She is a fart in an elevator.
and in 12 years they’ll say the World will end in 20 years ,LOL
The human race will be extinct in 12 years, so wha does it matter
Reason #9367 for defunding PBS!
St. Greta’s handlers should be charged with child abuse.
A sullen Greta Halloween mask. That’s the ticket. Scare the hell out of whoever opens the door.
Who is this guy Beatty and why should we listen to him?
Ok so i checked out your link.
The Stupid. It Burns.
Snort, the only thing resonating will be how utterly ridiculous she and her handlers are.
This is a display of toxic femininity at the core of social justice. If you love me, you’ll do everything I want. If you don’t, I will shame, nag and shun you until you do. Continue to disobey me, and I will hate you and hurt you to protect those who do love me.
One of Dr. Jordan Peterson’s proteges studies the psychological profile of the social justice warrior. They are less intelligent (lower verbal skills) than the average liberal. This is associated with greater tendencies to violence in the population, since you can’t argue your way out. They are also far more likely to be mentally ill - literally. They are several times more likely to have a diagnosed anxiety disorder and to have a family member with a formal diagnosis of a mental disorder.
The social justice cause would attract them. It says whoever is the most irrational / insane is morally correct. It endorses whatever delusion you have. It enables the lynch mob that some of these types want to feel empowered. It gives adrenaline addicts an outlet and support system. And when you’re as anxious as Greta, latching onto that environmentalist or equity cause gives you a sense of purpose and a reason to attack everyone else - backed up by your “peeps”.
She’s already diagnosed. Per her mother’s book, she was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety and autism/Asperger before the age of 10. Reinforcing the diagnosis is the fact that her non-famous sister has been diagnosed with Aspbergers and attention deficit disorder.
They’ve cried wolf - “12 years til the end of the world” - for decades.
U.N. predicts disaster (by 2000) if global warming not checked - June 29 1989, Peter Spielman
https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
The echo is between Beatty’s ears.
there is a reason Jack Beatty is on NPR...
A young girl used as a tool of idiot leftists... yeah, that’ll echo through time - just not the way NPR thinks it will...
“I think her j’accuse will echo through the years,” Beatty told host David Folkenflik.
Right. A facist calling out other UN fascists that they aren’t facist enough. She’s not even cute enough to have their UNICEF workers to molest.
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