Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on cover of TIME

Sooo...that Greta is some young lady, huh?

what those climate protest/strike want is a long way from happening.  Technology is no there yet.  It will eventually catch up...they’ve have discussed electric cars for as long as i can remember...yet world wide electric vehicles make up 2% of the vehicles.   I just upgraded to a Jeep Cherokee...no electric vehicle can come close to my Cherokee in terms of price...and electric can not even come close to affordability.

Tesla model 3 Short Range is about the same price as a Jeep and probably cheaper considering savings from gas over the long run.

Meltdown99 said:

what those climate protest/strike want is a long way from happening.  Technology is no there yet.  It will eventually catch up...they’ve have discussed electric cars for as long as i can remember...yet world wide electric vehicles make up 2% of the vehicles.   I just upgraded to a Jeep Cherokee...no electric vehicle can come close to my Cherokee in terms of price...and electric can not even come close to affordability.

I'm not sure what you're going on about here. First you say technology isn't there, then you say that nothing comes close to your Cherokee in terms of price - so is it price or technology?

You also say we've discussed electric cars for so long yet only 2% of road vehicles today are electric. Why did you think people are discussing electric cars - to say how exciting that everyone has converted? No. It's because the need to convert still exists and time is running out.

And I like driving too. And flying. Both of which happen (to the best of our current knowledge) exclusively on this planet which we are destroying by driving and flying. See the irony? Multiply your behaviour/attitude by just 10% of the globe's population, assume a random distribution of that population (meaning enough would be from high-pollutant cultures like North American), and consider that impact. On this point, your blatant selfishness did get me thinking (one silver lining) about how I'm going to mitigate my impact. If anyone knows about good carbon offsetting initiatives that have good efficiencies, I'm all ears!

HughFreakingDillon said:

Meltdown99 said:

brianlux said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Meltdown99 said:

Why do some of you not leave i_lov_it alone?  This person owes none of you any explanation for why or how they feel about a certain topic.  Jeesh.  

because if you come to a thread to drop an incendiary comment like that and refuse to explain it, that's what we call: TROLLING. 

Being the curious person that I am, I wish i_lov_it would have explained why he is not a fan of Greta Thunberg but the reactions to his initial comment sent the whole thing whirling into the AMT abyss and we will likely never know.  So my thought is, let's move on and see what Greta is up to.

...hold on...

...OK, here's what new:

Apparently the Republican party has a teenage girl problem.  Here's what The Guardian has to say about that:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/01/greta-thunberg-teenage-girls-donald-trump-opinion

It up to that person to decide if they want to share their opinion with you.  But how could you blame someone with the opposite opinion of the masses on this message board for not sharing more with you?  People here like to pile on.  Example A...the post above yours.  Good 'ol Hugh has me on ignore but can still see my comment.  And that's what some were doing with i_lov_it.  

There is a thing called moving on.  Or as I say sometimes, "we will just have to agree to disagree" and this place needs more of that.
 

Meltdown99 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Meltdown99 said:

Why do some of you not leave i_lov_it alone?  This person owes none of you any explanation for why or how they feel about a certain topic.  Jeesh.  

because if you come to a thread to drop an incendiary comment like that and refuse to explain it, that's what we call: TROLLING. 

Get over yourself.  YOU ARE NOT that IMPORTANT...

so we get "there is a thing called moving on, or as i say sometimes "we will just have to agree to disagree" and this place needs more of that, and seconds later, "get over yourself, YOU ARE NOT that IMPORTANT". 

HAHA. seriously, meltdown, you are a fucking loon. you are so incredibly inconsistent in your views and comments you aren't even worth engaging with either. which is why, yes, you are on ignore. if only the quote function actually functioned with the ignore feature on. 

i ignored you a long time ago. then you decided to demand that i ignore you, when i already had. lol. but you continue to try to engage with me. why is that? if i'm not that important, stop acting like i am. 

brianlux said:

Lovely Greta

Meteorological Swede

Nothing can stop this ruckus

Give us a wink

And the boys a drink

... and  da da da da da daaa daaaaaaaaa.

Yikes

Well since that Lovely Rita parody is on the "I love her" side of the "yikes" spectrum, here's one from the "I hate her" side of the "yikes" spectrum. I don't get it. Why are some people up in arms about this girl to the point where they'd say crazy stuff about her? I watched her UN speech, agreed with most of her points, laughed and cringed at her overdramatic performance, and moved on. This guy should be more like that. Just watch it and move on....

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/greta-thunberg-post-soccer-coach-fired

Meltdown99 said:

And I refuse to ride public transit...I like driving.

“I’m not going to do anything that causes me inconvenience” and “I’m not going to give up driving because I enjoy it” are two of the main attitudes that are destroying the planet.