Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on cover of TIME

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  • Lerxst1992
    Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,899
    brianlux said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    https://www.facebook.com/Channel4/videos/1541380209331192/
    What stands out here to me is when the interviewer asks Greta what she would say to people who think climate change isn't real or that it is an opinion, not a fact and she says, "I don't say anything to those people.  They have nothing to say to me and I have nothing to say to them."  At this late point in time with global warming, this makes perfect sense to me.  I try harder and harder these days to ignore the foolish people who still cling to the notion that global warming is not real.  Any more, trying to talk to them is a waste of breath.

    Although Greta shows incredible poise its unfortunately futile to speak of "those people" since "those people" have a disproportionate share of power in the american Senate and the Electoral College.

    So convincing many of "those people" might be the only game left in the North American "town."
  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,421
    Start the countdown to when the currently elected U.S. president starts tweeting insults at Greta
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,626
    Bentleyspop said:
    Start the countdown to when the currently elected U.S. president starts tweeting insults at Greta
    No doubt the only ones he won’t rile against are Rocket man , Putin , Saudi’s ! Everyone else is game ...
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,421

  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    It's so depressing and infuriating to see the smug masses of morons who barely passed high-school science classes slagging on this brave, passionate girl and calling her misled and duped.
    Real bummer.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • Renfield
    Renfield NYC NY Posts: 1,054
    edited September 2019

    ‘This Is All Wrong,' Greta Thunberg Tells World Leaders At U.N. Session

    https://youtu.be/KAJsdgTPJpU

    This is not a “mentally ill Swedish child.” as the conservative pundits are saying.  

    Post edited by Renfield on
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    rgambs said:
    It's so depressing and infuriating to see the smug masses of morons who barely passed high-school science classes slagging on this brave, passionate girl and calling her misled and duped.
    Real bummer.
    Right on and well said. 

    But, my god, she is tough!  She can take them all on and she knows we stand with her!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    Renfield said:

    ‘This Is All Wrong,' Greta Thunberg Tells World Leaders At U.N. Session

    https://youtu.be/KAJsdgTPJpU

    This is not a “mentally ill Swedish child.” as the conservative pundits are saying.  

    She is so brave,  impassioned and knowledgeable beyond her years.  Only a fool would call her mentally ill.  Only a very disturbed, stupid, and fucked up individual would say that.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Sick of reading bullying comments directed at her on Facebook.
    She's been called brainwashed, a puppet, a Nazi, Joseph Goebbels, deranged etc.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    Sick of reading bullying comments directed at her on Facebook.
    She's been called brainwashed, a puppet, a Nazi, Joseph Goebbels, deranged etc.
    All we can hope for is that for every trolling, nasty, childish and weak comment she gets 100 messages of love and thanks. 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Here in Australia, people are saying teachers are brainwashing kids to attend climate protests. I saw one guy say teachers should be bashed.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    Here in Australia, people are saying teachers are brainwashing kids to attend climate protests. I saw one guy say teachers should be bashed.
    They should at least be ashamed.  These kids are fighting for their future, possibly their lives.  When their elders try to shut them down, they are being totally selfish.  They might as well say, "Shut up you brats, your spoiling our party!"  I stand with the students.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,474
    edited September 2019
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    Sick of reading bullying comments directed at her on Facebook.
    She's been called brainwashed, a puppet, a Nazi, Joseph Goebbels, deranged etc.
    Only see people sharing her videos and articles on Facebook. 

    My little social media safe space bubble rocks.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,474
    edited September 2019
    There should be a "Greta doctrine" established for companies to choose adhere to and live up to.

    I these times we are living in, and with her socialmedia power and everything - that would have a bigger affect than old-fashioned countries and there old-fashioned Paris Agreements they don't really in an old-fashioned way needs to live up to (they can even leave it, it seems without much consequence - not to lose any privileges on here but that is fact).

    I bet a lot of people would have it easier boycott a company that do not live up to that "doctrine" than their own sustainability agendas and whatnot.
    Post edited by Spiritual_Chaos on
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,474
    edited September 2019


    Such a great guy


    Post edited by Spiritual_Chaos on
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • CM189191
    CM189191 Posts: 6,927

  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,421
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    Here in Australia, people are saying teachers are brainwashing kids to attend climate protests. I saw one guy say teachers should be bashed.
    Wasn't there a regular poster on here who also claimed that teachers were brainwashing the students??
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    Bentleyspop said:
    Start the countdown to when the currently elected U.S. president starts tweeting insults at Greta
    you called it.

    ONE. DAY. 
    By The Time They Figure Out What Went Wrong, We'll Be Sitting On A Beach, Earning Twenty Percent.




  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,626
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    Start the countdown to when the currently elected U.S. president starts tweeting insults at Greta
    you called it.

    ONE. DAY. 
    Like I said the only ones he doesn’t rile against ,Putin, Rocket man , Saudi’s..
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • dignin
    dignin Posts: 9,478
    Be best.

    https://twitter.com/NebraskaMegan/status/1176374412490285057

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