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| Thunberg Rips UN - Sub Par Overacting: "How dare you“ | |
| 2019-09-24 | |
"This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean," said the visibly emotional 16-year-old Swedish girl, who recently sailed across the Atlantic aboard a zero-carbon sailboat. The Ingrid Bergman movies didn't help one bit. "Yet you have come to us young people for hope. How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words," she added. Thunberg told the UN that even the strictest emissions cuts being discussed only give the world a 50 percent chance of limiting future warming to 0.72 degrees Fahrenheit from now, which is a global goal. "We will not let you get away with this," she thundered in an impassioned speech opening the UN's Climate Action Summit. "Right now is where we draw the line." The young activist has become the global face of a growing youth movement against climate inaction that mobilized millions in a worldwide strike on Friday. UN chief António Guterres him again, that stupid son of a bitch called the summit to reinvigorate the faltering Paris agreement, which 66 nations have responded to with promises to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. They've pledged to become energy based entities, floating ectoplasm. | |
| Posted by:Dron66046 |
| #23 Wow, what happened to my cartoon? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-09-24 14:37 |
| #22 The financial crisis is basic math that our children will for certain inherit our huge credit debt. Visiting with trailing daughter #2 and her husband, now thoroughly grown up. Td#2 mentioned she is very privileged — her colleagues at the big international company — university graduates, all — not only have absolutely no idea about saving for retirement, but they know nothing about limiting spending to match income, nor have any concept about budgeting at all. They didn’t grow up working for their spending money, they not only had no idea what their parents made, they didn’t even know what their parents did for a living — if they wanted something their parents either bought it or gave them money. She has been gently educating those around her, because the need is so clear. I am flabbergasted. I never knew what my parents earnt or the household expenses — they thought that children had no business knowing such things —but I knew what they did to get paid for it, and sometimes was drafted to help; we had to do chores for our allowance; and I knew at least that when all the money is spent, stop until more money comes in, which it always does eventually. They tried to teach us to save, but as that wasn’t a skill either of them had, it didn’t really take. I was clever enough to let Mr. Wife teach all that to the tds, starting with setting up three piggy banks for each as soon as she could count — one each for spending, toys&presents, and university (short term, mid term, and long term goals); and then their weekly allowance came in three coins — and later multiple coins that divided evenly into the total for the math of the thing — which they got to deposit properly, then count up totals until they were large enough to open savings accounts with. When they started earning outside money as soccer referees, they divided it similarly. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-09-24 12:40 |
| #21 You're assuming she'll try to understand instead of throwing a temper tantrum, ruprecht? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-09-24 12:08 |
| #20 They should show her the data on how China produce the most carbon and how they are far, far worse then the western nations. then give her an plane ticket. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2019-09-24 12:07 |
| #19 “The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”. ― Adolf Hitler |
| Posted by: Dale 2019-09-24 11:50 |
| #18 Do I understand correctly that eating Tide pods is a sure fire way to stop climate change? |
| Posted by: Tom 2019-09-24 11:43 |
| #17 I always take my advice from teenagers with a well-defined point of view. Ever since I had three in my house, telling me what to do. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2019-09-24 11:37 |
| #16 "We're very proud of her" |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-09-24 10:56 |
| #15 "Bless her heart" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-09-24 10:52 |
| #14 Nobody could've said it better than Trump. Awesome. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-09-24 10:42 |
| #13 @realDonaldTrump She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see! That is magnificent. Simply world-class! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-09-24 10:32 |
| #12 Young Greta Thugburg pushes the climate change scam with the UN, a group long-experience with scams. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-09-24 09:54 |
| #11 Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-09-24 08:13 |
| #10 By the way Greta, if it wasn't for Global Warming, you wouldn't even exist nor Sweden. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-09-24 07:59 |
| #9 Mr. Trump knows how to work with out of control children. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-09-24 07:44 |
| #8 Burning the "urgent child" card down to ash just like the race card, but in true internet time. Faster please... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-09-24 07:21 |
| #7 AM 870 KRLA has a radio show Sunday night where California Taxpayer’s Union, Mike Alexander, California public employee and union wage grift. There are public employees who have annual salaries above $200K who get to retire at young ages with full %100 of salary pensions for the rest of their lives. These huge future financial liabilities are not reported in any budgets because they would explode the budget. Many California cities are going bankrupt during good economic times because of these huge pension liabilities. No one talks about it as the true financial crisis that it is. Rather they want to talk about some other bogeyman crisis of another name, e.g. "climate change". Any crisis can be used to generate funds to help backfill the pension crisis. But these other revenue generators will never be able to fill all the holes in the public purse. The financial crisis is basic math that our children will for certain inherit our huge credit debt. Global warming predictions are based on very complicated forecasting models that can be easily fudged to produce outcomes in either extreme. The bottom line is we don't know the future. I believe only God knows the future. Anyone claiming to know what the future is or who believes man alone can change the future is playing God. No weather forecaster warned the Bahamians that hurricane Dorian was going to stall over their islands and and wreak great destruction. I did not hear any weather forecaster apologize to the Bahamians for failing to recommend evacuations. If only Thunberg would rip the politicians for not donating their huge pensions to help fight climate change. |
| Posted by: boomerc 2019-09-24 06:14 |
| #6 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-09-24 05:48 |
| #5 The theater reminds me of the misbegotten Strode family that Oprah paraded on her show a few years ago, just to spite christians and insult evangelicals. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-09-24 02:45 |
| #4 Send Biden to calm her down. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-09-24 01:44 |
| #3 Also,tell your Parents what the hell for me. |
| Posted by: newc 2019-09-24 01:37 |
| #2 No one asked you to be up there. |
| Posted by: newc 2019-09-24 01:35 |
| #1 The goal here is to create mass hysteria. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-09-24 00:09 |
