jimboston wrote:Dukasaur wrote:jimboston wrote:NomadPatriot wrote:jimboston wrote:Ok... watched these videos... but had to stop.
I agree with most of what this little girls is saying.
She didn’t write this shit though. So why do we all pretend she did?
who is pretending she did...?
So the comparison to Macaulay Culkin is more apt than it originally seemed... since she’s essentially an actor delivering someone else view and pretending it’s her own. Why do we can about this specific girl again?
Because she's done a really good job of calling out governments on their do-nothing attitude toward global warming. 90% of the world's governments have done sweet f*ck all to address global warming, besides some trivial token measures. The people who were calling them out on it were getting no attention, while the only people to get attention were soft-pedaling it and saying mealy-mouthed things like "governments aren't doing enough" instead of "governments are doing pretty much f*ck all".
Greta is the first person to cross the line and do both, to actually call them out on their inaction and to get some major attention while doing so.
I’m not saying I disagree with what she read.
I agree with it.
I’m just saying she didn’t write it.
It’s sad we can’t believe our scientific community and they can’t get attention... but you have a young girl read something her mommy wrote, and now she’s Time’s Person of the Year? How about making some scientific team who actually has given us real data or provided real options that we still ignore??/
This is a kinda weird hill to be fighting on. I don't think the scientific community minds having a young activist be one of the faces of the climate change movement, since youth are going to be the people who get the worst of what coming, making her/them compelling? It's not like there's a real scientific debate to be had, since 98% percent of scientists agree anthropogenic climate change is happening. It's a political problem, and having a face on a political problem is effective.
