GRA said:
At the end of the day, I am very concerned about some of the potential outcomes of climate change but I don't in any way think that my kid's dreams and childhood have been stolen or that children should live their life in fear of the future. I think that current children have the brightest future of any children that have ever lived so I really don't know how to feel about the world is going to end approach but I guess urgency is needed for action and measured speeches haven't produced much urgency.
golfcart said:I always have mixed feelings about this kind of political theater. I believe that the world, for humans, has never been better and the technological advances of the last couple of centuries, many of which have been powered by fossil fuels, are directly responsible for that. ...
No idea on her background but I agree. She is a puppet and evidencing in my amateur opinion alarming behavior in somebody of any age let alone 16. If her childhood has been ruined as she claims it is certainly not the fault of SUV drivers. Something far more personal is the cause. I'd look first a home life and second at home life.powersurge said:Watching this young lady on TV, as she addressed the UNITED NATIONS..... Made me want to HEAVE !!
I am incensed that this young girl is being used as a figure head to promote a political agenda. A 16 year old girl does not just get invited to the U.N. because she is a caring citizen of the planet.. Otherwise she would be pitching girl scout cookies at her local supermarket entrance.... She is groomed and promoted like a product by a powerful force.
She is a finely crafted product that has been specially chosen to look androgynous. She speaks with speech-writers skill, in a highly practiced manner, with even fake emotional cries in her voice. As I have researched, she is backed by BMW, and has ties to big money, and has even been brought to the U.S. (In a sailboat) by a multi-million dollar professional racing sailboat outfit to show how environmentally responsible she is. YES, she will not use a polluting plane!! They don't tell you that Europe is flying a new crew of sailors here to bring the boat back to Europe.
This girl is the perfect Ventriloquist Puppet - to say all of the outlandish things that the adult "climate" power hungry forces would like to say but cannot. After all, anyone who criticizes a "child" must be evil and heartless.
Regardless of your or my beliefs on the actual facts of this climate cause, there is one issue... This girl has been used like a human "Mickey Mouse" product for a giant Communist movement to change the world's economy with FEAR. There can be no other explanation for this worldwide fame of a teenager that is just repeating statistics and fake anger at the world---- That someone has taught her.
Both the right and the left just seem to love creating mandates for the average American without thinking through how it will impact them.
LeftieBiker said:Both the right and the left just seem to love creating mandates for the average American without thinking through how it will impact them.
The Left (not that we actually have a Left government) tends to think less about short term affects than long term effects, but in the case of AGW that is exactly what needs to be done. Short term thinking is what got us to the edge of this abyss.
Using swamp coolers where the sun shines a lot is really a waste of water. PV panels tied to electric A/C units should be subsidized instead.
Seriously? You can't grant the possibility that it's genuine? Sure, some powerful people helped her out. Plenty of people believe in the cause.powersurge said:Regardless of your or my beliefs on the actual facts of this climate cause, there is one issue... This girl has been used like a human "Mickey Mouse" product for a giant Communist movement to change the world's economy with FEAR. There can be no other explanation...
LeftieBiker said:I was already aware of the Ca water situation. I don't believe in unfunded mandates that hurt average people either, and no like-minded socialist would. The thing I'm not seeing in this thread is how very much runaway AGW will hurt the non-rich and, especially, their children. It is just barely possible that the current adult 35+ YO population will mainly avoid the worst of what is to come (although I doubt it). It is certain that their children will not.
One slip ahead of me. Powersurge may as well be a sock puppet for Al Gore because of the cartoonish things he writes. I wouldn't waste a lot of effort responding seriously.
danrjones said:Apologies I use the left and the right for the two political parties, as I find neither fits me. I suppose that's grammatically lazy on my part.
powersurge said:PS - edit - Since I first wrote this, I read that this young woman is a person with Asperger's Syndrome. Now I really feel more angry that a person with a social disability is being manipulated to make social commentary at this level. I consider this child abuse..
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