More than Just the 'Anti-Greta'; Greta Thunberg has met her match

American Thinker ^ | 02/28/2020 | Marc Sheppard

[SeekAndFind]

When climate alarmists first presented their poster-child advocate, then-15-year-old Greta Thunberg, she was taken by realists with the appropriate grain of salt.  While the MSM rushed to gush all over this "brave" little girl who had somehow mustered the temerity and selflessness to skip school in the service of humanity, many dismissed her "how dare you?" message as yet another banal alarmist slogan.

So when news hit of 19-year-old Naomi Seibt, the so-called "anti-Greta," I must admit to being more than a bit skeptical.  After all, is the proper response to an opponent's deployment of a preposterous puppet (she really is a hoot) a rush to Maestro Geppetto's workshop to acquire a marionette of your own?

Hardly.  But, as I soon learned, unlike Greta, Naomi is nobody's puppet.  And she knows it.  She made that quite clear when she explained to Rebel News in December (video), "The reason I don't like the term 'anti-Greta' is because it suggests that I myself am an indoctrinated puppet, I guess, for the other side."

Ouch.  But there's so much more to like here.

You see, while Greta deliberately incites panic with words such as those she spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last year ("I want you to panic"), Naomi takes a decidedly different, more rational, approach ("I don't want you to panic"). 

Stark contrast, indeed, as further apparent in the girls' respect for their followers.  While one pushes devotees deeper into obedient alarm ("I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.  And then I want you to act."), the other's guidance is less visceral, more cerebral, less dictating, more empowering — more mature ("I want you to think" before you act).  Nice.

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Meet Naomi Seibt, the Anti-Greta Thunberg

Naomi, who decries climate alarmism as "a despicably anti-human ideology," has a personal revulsion to the brand "climate denier," a particularly odious term we first dissected here in 2007.  As she explains in the YouTube video she created with our good friends over at the Heartland Institute, "especially as a German, it is so rude to refer to someone as a climate denier because obviously there is a connection to the term 'holocaust denier', which carries a lot of weight in Germany."

She prefers the term "climate realist," a phrase first coined by James Taylor at Heartland's International Climate Change Conference III back in 2009.  As it happens, Naomi has just joined the free-market think-tank, which recruited her talents based primarily on her previous YouTube efforts.  Theirs was a natural union, with her "Don't Panic — Think First" message aligning perfectly with the institute's "There IS no Climate Crisis" slogan, the latter dating back to the very first International Climate Change Conference in 2008.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Greta hasn’t met her match, that’s silly. The kind of audience who listens to her isn’t going to give a hoot about what the anti-Greta has to say, facts on her side or not.

[nuconvert]

19? She looks about 15.
I wonder if young people will care what she says or how many will even hear her?

[Jakarta ex-pat]

Unfortunately true. The cult of climate change is embedded in schools throughout the world.

[CarolinaPeach]

Maybe a few will listen. Mostly, I think they have been indoctrinated to not listen and will just continue to hurl insults and mock her.

Peach

[bigbob]

Neat, but if we still taught critical thinking skills she wouldn’t be needed, as anyone can see that Greta has the intellectual depth of an actual poster.

[glock rocks]

Naomi looks like a normal human.

Greta looks retarded. I’m Asperger, but this sad Greta clown has been forced into a role from which she won’t recover.

Wasted life. Thank her “parents.”

[griswold3]

True. But Naomi is better to look at than some old geizer.

[outofsalt]

I will pay for a cage match on PPV!

[poconopundit]

Thanks. You SoughtAndFound a rational alternative to Greta’s finger pointing. The message and style are far more compatible with maintaining a sustainable human society.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Greta -the IKEA of protestors.

[LouAvul]

I guess I’m old. Cause that kid doesn’t look 19. I’d think she was 12. 13 maybe.

[Cinnamontea]

I checked out her latest YouTube video, and it's very good, very reasoned. The Greta Loons have attacked it with loads of thumbs down, however, so if you go to YouTube, give the girl a thumbs up. We need to support reason and logic, especially when it's found among young people.

[I want the USA back]

Greta, stop this nonsense and have a normal teenage girl’s life. You got this bs from your parents, who brainwashed you at an early age. Do you really want to go back to a time when there was no electricity, no air travel, no cars, and no indoor toilets?

[SmokingJoe]

You see, while Greta deliberately incites panic with words such as those she spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last year (”I want you to panic”), Naomi takes a decidedly different, ..

Plenty of coronavirus Greta's on FR lately pushing that crazy “I want you to panic” meme.

[SeekAndFind]

GRETA 2080

[higgmeister]

Never heard of her.

[real saxophonist]

19, who looks 15, against 17, who looks 12.

At least Naomi doesn't look like she has to painfully force a smile.

[skimbell]

That pic of Greta in post 2 looks a little like FAS.