The evidence is OVERWHELMINGLY clear and agreed by nearly all of the scientists in the world, who account for a significantly high proportion of the initelligence of the human race.
Not trying to underplay the current presumed consensus, or undermine your belief in it - but - it helps to understand that each generation has had its own environmental wickerman to burn and its own version of doomsday clock striking milliseconds to midnight. And believe me - each of our respective generations before you or Greta also had a file/folder/stone tablet of the accumulative supporting works by the world class scientists, that "accounted for a significantly high proportion of the intelligence of the human race" of their time and in absolute unison proclaimed consensus that "this **** is real", "the end is nigh" and "something must be done now".
For my generation it was the acid rains and rivers polluted by the factories built by the generation before me. The looming evil of dams and nuclear power stations built on top of idillic rivers and nature reserves. And the upper class perfumed bourgeois burning holes in ozone layer and causing global cooling with their overuse of fancy deodorants.
For Dimples (SexyGreyFox), I'm sure, it was probably steaming chimneys of coal powered factories, the looming evil of concrete jungles and council estates replacing leafy green parks and suburbs and the inevitable threat of cold war global destruction. I bet he was pleading with the warmongering generation before him to "give peace a chance".
And I suppose, at least up until this generation, there was nothing particularly wrong with cultivating such hippy attitude, generational environmental scare of an impending doom, introducing green awareness and providing common globalist/corporate enemy to fight. And just like each and every generation should always have some sort of imprisoned martyr(s) to cheer for at big, televised concerts - every generation should also have camp fire tall tales about some distant relative saving whales/dolphins/tuna/swordfish by throwing molotov cocktails against third world fishing vessels from a pontoon boat in far away parts of the world in the name of Mother Earth. Nothing particularly wrong with that. A cleaner, healthier planet is universally appealing idea regardless of a decade. Tree planting, fighting for cleaner waters and learning how to produce less rubbish is good for every generation.
But what I particularly dislike about this generation and their "global climate change" wickerman altar, is not that their version of doomsday is just a rehash of old, tiresome, mostly debunked and overplayed (come on, that hockeystick data's been in play since seventies, just that back then Hansen and his glorified
weathermen climatologists were using it to prove 'global cooling' for money). And it's not that they use now manufactured, weird, "spectrum" kids like Greta for shields.
For me it's the shameless crudeness and lack of finesse employed by the current "green agenda" constructs. I hate that this time it's not "the people" demanding from billionaires to stop killing the planet for money, it's literally billionaires jetting around the world in private planes to tell YOU, that YOU have to change. This time it's not "the people" shouting at the gates of parliaments to stop grubbing up green belts for profit, it's the Eaton toffs in .gov positions creating special fines, taxes and tolls because YOU should stop stop driving across Dartford bridge, or driving at all in YOUR fuel cars by 2030, YOU meat eating, methane farting, iceberg melting, ocean polluting, arctic bear drowning, rainforest prime next day delivered microplastic spreading planet murderers.
And I hate that this time it's so crudely put together that it's practically gone "full cretin" mode. It's no longer problem->solution agendas. It's not some "two thousand trees each for 2000", or "feed them, let them know it's Xmas time". The movement is aimless. Devoid of clear demands and lofty solutions. What do we want? (shouts voice on the tannoy) "Don't know but not this" (replies the crowd). When do we want it? "Right here right now".
"You destroyed our planet. How dare you?" pouts Greta. Well, I have some terrible news for you Greta. While you continue skipping primary education, some 75% of the worlds population continue to live and breed in forgotten a-holes of this world, in complete poverty and aspire to the lofty conditions you dwell in Greta. That vast majority of the world's population, mostly in Asia and Africa, look at you The OnePercent Greta and they would also like to have more than one set of clothes, washing machine to go with it and clean water on tap. They would also like to dwell in cities, shop in shopping malls and live by an asphalt road in a brick house with insulated roof above their heads. They would also like for their dwellings to be furnished by sustainably sourced wood byproducts, burn fossil fuels to cook three meals per day and heat or cool their rooms all day. They would also like to have electric power, internet, television and playstation, so they can also be full of green ideas and skip their local centrally heated, green energy lit up schools for some great environmental reasons or ef off to yacht across seas and zoom around the world with their family to proclaim lofty ideas to world leaders and billionaires. And what's more important - they have a gawd darn right to grow up like you and live like you Greta.
But unfortunately your agenda depends on keeping them chained to the sewers of this planet, in absolute poverty because we can't allow another 4 to 5 billion people to reach the same level as us, and live, travel, work, have a carbon footprint and emit like we do. We can't allow it because you know - that's like - 3 times more "How dare you"'s than we have in the "first world" at the moment, right?
But what I hate the most about Greta's generation of their environmental boo-hoo Ouiji board - is the narration that the basic gases our bodies emit and breathe out are the pollutants that will kill the planet in the next few milliseconds and it has to be stopped right here, right now, at all cost. Now, that is some amazingly evil ****, ef me. Once we stop all the cars, and that's not enough, then we'll stop breeding animals for meat, but that's not going to be enough. Then what? Hello eight billion people, Greta would like to know what have you done today to deserve your 20,000 CO2 emitting breaths per day?
Chill the **** out. The planet will survive. There is undeniable scientific consensus that the planet, over hundreds of millions of years, survived much worse things than anything you may do to it by eating burgers, driving cars and breathing out CO2. So far all the doomsday scenarios and environmental fears of all the generations before you never materialised. Cold war didn't annihilate human race. Acid rains didn't turn Europe into deserts. Nuclear power stations are, oddly, now considered one of the cleanest energy sources. We didn't die of global cooling, global warming and we are not going to die because of any mixture or the two. But there is like - 4 to 5 billion very unhappy people living in poverty out there and it's because we are actively blocking them from reaching our level of civilisation. Now, historically, evidence is OVERWHELMINGLY clear that we and our family lines are more likely to expire from their sticks and stones if we keep ignoring their needs than from some artic melt or presumed instability of weather.
