Greta Thunberg

FoxEye said:
People on social media are easily influenced too. A lot of young people base their whole outlook on life on what they are told on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, funnily enough. Substance not required.
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Sadly this is too true, I've lost count the amount of times people 'share' the fact that Apple have 5000 iPhones they simply cannot sell due to the cellophane being opened or Land Rover have to 'give' away 20 brand new Range Rovers as they cannot sell them due to being over-ordered.

Post something on social media and all of a sudden it becomes 'fact' for most of the plebs that seem to occupy this planet.
 
Maundie said:
Sadly this is too true, I've lost count the amount of times people 'share' the fact that Apple have 5000 iPhones they simply cannot sell due to the cellophane being opened or Land Rover have to 'give' away 20 brand new Range Rovers as they cannot sell them due to being over-ordered.

Post something on social media and all of a sudden it becomes 'fact' for most of the plebs that seem to occupy this planet.
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Where can I get me a free Land Rover? :p
 
had listened to radio4
- she admitted she was just repeating the same message
- did not seem that self-aware of her asperges condition, but agreed with the interviewer, this cause, had got her out of a depression, currently has a year off (!!) school to do this, .... what child wouldn't want that.
- attenborough suggested he had been climate aware for 20years, when he made a program about ex easter island civilisation.
- rare parent interview suggested they had changed their life to meet her needs veganism .... (coercive parent control is natural I guess)

still - is Boris going to include a carbon import/offset tax in any chinese/Indian trade agreement ? I guess he has to do whatever is consistant with eu thinking, for an eu agreement to also proceed.

[incidentally if you also heard r4 interview with Laparouse father - he had a religious epiphemy/vision - and, at least is now involved in research/funding of why children get allergies]
 
Not that there is anything wrong about trying to care for the environment etc... but some of the hysterics re: we must do X by Y date or the world will end etc... leading to the mobs of people who block roads and demand immediate and massive changes to society along with additional goals like dismantling capitalism etc... get a bit silly.

I mean if you were prone to getting too carried away with predictions/forecasts (frankly people making forecasts over periods of a decade or two are generally idiots) you'd surely be getting hysterical about what is going to happen as of Wednesday - supposedly we're due to turn into Siberia in two days time:

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.
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Scary stuff - not sure which European cities are going to sink this week or where the mega droughts are due to occur.
 
Janesy B said:
She probably has more balls that anyone else in this forum.

'i dont need no kid telling me what i can or cant do, im gonna eat more meat and run my car in the morning to warm it up now hahah'
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What a pathetic come back, how about sending her to China and seeing some yellow faces that don't agree with her, or about some brown faces in India. They'd all laugh at her and probably kick her out. Or are you just using a little girl like other are to hide some anti-white bigotry?
 
robgmun said:
They'd all laugh at her and probably kick her out.
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Gosh, really? Every single last one of them? Last I heard in both those countries there is a lot of media attention being drawn to the state of their air pollution due to factories and vehicles etc, and is quite a big issue especially among the poor who are the most affected. I'd be suprised that every single one of those faces would laugh and laugh and laugh.

I just don't know, maybe some white faces need to change the record then take a good long look at themselves in the mirror.
 
Threepwood said:
Gosh, really? Every single last one of them? Last I heard in both those countries there is a lot of media attention being drawn to the state of their air pollution due to factories and vehicles etc, and is quite a big issue especially among the poor who are the most affected. I'd be suprised that every single one of those faces would laugh and laugh and laugh.

I just don't know, maybe some white faces need to change the record then take a good long look at themselves in the mirror.
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Why is this now a stick to beat "the whites" with?

Greta is white, isn't she? How it can it be "the whites" at fault...

Oh, "some whites"?

OK, so "some blacks" need to do some soul searching too, then? Also "some Asians", and "some attack helicopters".

Why even mention "the whites" at all? Hmmmmmmm?
 
re: pollution - chinese are concerned by their health budget funding - but trump side-stepped that by cancelling Obama plan


love how bbc can't even report their own interviews accurately ... so god help how they skewed brexit
- like, greta saying Attenborough inspired her climate cause - the interviewer volunteered/prompted that narrative
- Their, Attenborough, re-imagined eco warrior cause ... he does say he started because taking pictures of animals is a fun career (frank & honest)
 
He [Attenborough] has also said his privileged position in seeing the natural word (and its decline) is what prompted him to become the protagonist for said world.

I'd be surprised if Greta has not watched all the recent Attenborough stuff, lots of youth (and adults to be fair) have. And his stuff has deffo affected thinking among people who did not think that way before with certain things, demand for less single use plastic stuff like normal soap instead of bottled liquid soap dropped quite a bit after his war plastic blue planet films, just as an example.

It's hard to escape hypocrisy on some levels though, I heard they found a plastic blue planet dvd inside a whale (joke) I guess you just have to weigh up total change against all that.

Edit: spellings.
 
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dowie said:
Hey guys, totally original thought here.... but, lol, why are all these grown men getting angry over a teenage girl.
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Quite. It's funny how often they get triggered by this sort of thing.

:D

Oh no. Misread. Sorry. You're making that robust argument that once a thing happens enough, or is pointed out enough, it somehow loses validity.

Of course. Why'd I go looking for some sincerity in a post of yours.

:rolleyes:
 
garnett said:
Quite. It's funny how often they get triggered by this sort of thing.

:D

Oh no. Misread. Sorry. You're making that robust argument that once a thing happens enough, or is pointed out enough, it somehow loses validity.

Of course. Why'd I go looking for some sincerity in a post of yours.

:rolleyes:
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It's the vacuousness of social-media driven society and opinions that narks me right off.

By her own admission she knows only what she's read or watched on TV. Which is fine, there's plenty of stuff to read and watch.

But it's painfully obvious when she's interviewed that often she can't even articulate herself very well. People might say I'm being mean and she has ass burgers or whatever.

But she's a global superstar, basically, for just repeating verbatim (or not even that well) what she's been told.

She's a glorified parrot, basically. And I don't think anyone is denying this.

So far, then, she's not even that much different to millions of others, who get their facts from what they read online and have arguments about it online.

But she's got this mammoth PR team behind her to jet her all over the world (she doesn't canoe everywhere, and she pops up all over the place...) and give her massive publicity, and put her on the news 24/7.

And all she's doing is saying, "How very dare you, muh childhood, feel bad you awful white men."

And that's ... that's it. She's a global superstar, about to win the Nobel peace prize and... she's too young to have had a single, original, thought about the climate or done a single thing that's added to our scientific understanding.

She's basically like the YT celebs. No different to Pewdipie or whoever. A celebrity.

Sorry but I'm sick of hearing about her. How she's gone to India to talk to the Pope or whatever. I'm sure it was a riveting conversation. Maybe she told him he was an awful climate destroying white man?
 
FoxEye said:
It's the vacuousness of social-media driven society and opinions that narks me right off.

By her own admission she knows only what she's read or watched on TV. Which is fine, there's plenty of stuff to read and watch.

But it's painfully obvious when she's interviewed that often she can't even articulate herself very well. People might say I'm being mean and she has ass burgers or whatever.

But she's a global superstar, basically, for just repeating verbatim (or not even that well) what she's been told.

She's a glorified parrot, basically. And I don't think anyone is denying this.

So far, then, she's not even that much different to millions of others, who get their facts from what they read online and have arguments about it online.

But she's got this mammoth PR team behind her to jet her all over the world (she doesn't canoe everywhere, and she pops up all over the place...) and give her massive publicity, and put her on the news 24/7.

And all she's doing is saying, "How very dare you, muh childhood, feel bad you awful white men."

And that's ... that's it. She's a global superstar, about to win the Nobel peace prize and... she's too young to have had a single, original, thought about the climate or done a single thing that's added to our scientific understanding.

She's basically like the YT celebs. No different to Pewdipie or whoever. A celebrity.

Sorry but I'm sick of hearing about her. How she's gone to India to talk to the Pope or whatever. I'm sure it was a riveting conversation. Maybe she told him he was an awful climate destroying white man?
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So you state all this, and yet also state that she hasn’t raised awareness of climate change.

You’re basically arguing with yourself, and getting increasingly angry about it!
 
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