Greta Thunberg

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LeMson said:
If she was so into the environment she would have seen the damage being done and helped them all pickup rubbish and sort it all out? Not just bounce to the pub for a lambrini
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That's interesting, I've not seen any pictures of rubbish nor seen any mention in any news articles.

As I'm completely certain you would have checked your facts before making this post, how much rubbish was left after the rally?
 

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Nasher said:
Anyway, there are some differences between races, but brain power isn't one of them.
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I thought it was an evolutionary thing to do with environment and specifically winter.

Some peoples were more nomadic and didn't settle so got good at a surviving in harmony with the land. Others who had to endure winters had to be good at organising and problem solving (beating nature). Natural selection selected for logical thinkers in these harsher environments.

Or do you think this is all nonsense? Anyone recommend a book / audio book on the topic.
 

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It is. White skin absorbs more sunlight (for vitamin D) and light coloures eyes are more light sensitive. That developed from living in cold and darker climates.
 

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MookJong said:
audio book on the topic.
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excellent podcast

How to Argue with a Racist (Omnibus)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fg0s
Dr Adam Rutherford offers a scientific toolkit to separate fact from myth in understanding how we are different and how we are the same.

Adam Rutherford has a PhD in Genetics and a degree in evolutionary biology, is an honorary Research Fellow at University College London and a former audio-video editor at the journal Nature. He is a presenter of BBC Radio 4 's Inside Science and also The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry with Dr Hannah Fry. He has also presented several TV documentaries and written regularly for newspapers and journals. He has published several books related to genetics and the origin of life.
 

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tang0 said:
SNIP
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Oh an image! It must be true...

https://apnews.com/afs:Content:7740750778

CLAIM: Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has a “handler,” Luisa-Marie Neubauer, who has ties to the “ONE Foundation managed by Bono, Bill Gates and George Soros.”

AP’S ASSESSMENT: Mixed. Neubauer volunteers for the ONE Campaign, an international organization that fights extreme poverty and disease. But she does not serve as a “handler” or “supervisor” for Thunberg, whose environmental activism began a little over a year ago in Sweden.

THE FACTS: Facebook and Twitter posts attempting to link Thunberg to the One Campaign through Neubauer began circulating widely in recent weeks as the 16-year-old Swedish activist promoted worldwide rallies to call attention to climate change and spoke at the United Nations Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23.

The posts featured pictures of Thunberg and Neubauer, and falsely identified Neubauer as a “handler” or a “supervisor.” They also claimed Neubauer has ties to the “One Foundation,” an apparent reference to the One Campaign, co-founded by U2 frontman Bono.

Neubauer, a German climate activist, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that she met Thunberg at the 2018 United Nations climate change summit in Katowice, Poland. She described Thunberg as a friend and inspiration.

“I was inspired by the way Greta acted while everyone seemed speechless,” said Neubauer, speaking to the AP from Berlin.

The teen, who landed in New York City on Aug. 28 after traveling across the Atlantic Ocean in a zero-emissions sailboat, was accompanied on the trip by her father, who travels with her, according to the AP.

According to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation website, “One originated in conversations between Bill Gates and Bono in the early 2000s about the need to better inform Americans about extreme poverty around the world.” The One Campaign has ties to Soros, founder and chairman of Open Society Foundations, which works to build democracies.

Brooke Havlik, a communications officer with Open Society Foundations, told the AP that the organization has given $10 million to the One Campaign since 2011. Havlik said Soros had not had any interactions with Neubauer.

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This is part of The Associated Press’ ongoing effort to fact-check misinformation that is shared widely online, including work with Facebook to identify and reduce the circulation of false stories on the platform.
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