Greta Thunberg

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  1. Joshua Van

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    Yes i got past high school. Most of my other education is in the trades. However i spent 30 years of my life in the Christian church and have read the bible cover to cover more times than i would like to admit. It is full of contradictions, lies and some of the most horrid excuses for mistreating people ever written.

    If you only argument is to question someone's education and resort to grade school insults. That shows even more that your arguments in the area of climate change should be take with a grain of salt.

    I can also see why you may have an issue with Greta Thunberg As you wonderful bible states. As a female she should shut up and do what men tell her to do. You know take care of her mans house, kids and service him sexually when ever he tells her to. Well I'm happy to tell you it is the 21st century and women have more value than that.
     
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  2. granite45

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    One of the benefits of education is the ability to observe the world around us, see changes and relate those changes to testable hypotheses. Of course that doesn’t mean only University level classes but certainly does not exclude them. A few examples….in the last 3 decades of the 20th century, I worked for the U S Forest Service and sometimes worked with fire statistics. The annual acreage burned in forest fires averaged around 2 million acres; now the average is over 4 million acres. This has coincided with a warmer and dryer climate in the West, not a change in forest management as alleged by T——. Or talk to a ski area manager in the Midwest about the length of ski season. Or the Western snowpack. The recession of ice caps is a measurable phenomenon which has not happened historically in such a short period of time as now. All these occurrences are perfectly consistent with climate change derived from human generated co2 increases.

    People who run casinos make fortunes from people go for the least probable outcome all the time. Ignorance is not a trait likely to foster the long term health and welfare of our species.
     
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  3. newo

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    Greta was put on a shelf and largely forgotten during the pandemic but now that we're on "code red for humanity" she's being appreciated again.

    Deny climate change? Deny that before you go on a summer road trip you need to check for where there are wildfires. Deny that when you go to a campground you're not allowed to have a campfire because the fire danger is too high. Deny that this summer we saw heat warnings in the Yukon, and last winter we saw a huge blizzard in Texas.

    And this is still just the beginning, though it's happening faster than expected. I'm 67 so I have perhaps another 20 years or so, but I'm concerned about what younger generations will have to face. Massive weather events, expanded wildfires and famines will eventually increase the death rate above the birth rate. Drastic action must be taken now, if it's not already too late.
     
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  4. Joshua Van

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  5. Harrison Miller

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    For me, this girl is an idol.
     
  6. hotwater

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    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    she does seem to make a great deal of sense...


     
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  7. newo

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    Idol, not idiot. ;)
     
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  8. hotwater

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    Easily corrected ...lol..
     
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  10. scratcho

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    The Arctic has had it's first 100 degree day. The fires in Russia are larger than all the fires elsewhere in the world. The fires in California and Nevada are destroying towns again. The Amazon is burning. 31,334 fires burning worldwide.

    But more importantly: BUY MORE. BUY MORE NOW.
     
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  11. wooleeheron

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    Babylonians call themselves "liberal" if they approve of regulating handguns, when Americans have lower handgun regulation than most of the third world. Liberal is a relative term, explaining why liberals who think of themselves as more rational, are still attempting to reason with republicans and act as if they have a functional government.

    The second half of the Tao Te Ching was written by academics, all anonymously using advanced linguistics and mathematics to criticize their own institutions, and embarrass them enough to change the entire country for the next two thousand years.

    Greta only wishes she could do what I can with words, and academics will live to regret their fucking choices.
     
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    You've made some astonishing presumptions that have nothing to do with anything I said at all. We should probably quit here. Enjoy your day.
     
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    "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."
    Friedrich Nietzsche


    I think the reason why many people hate Greta is because they saw her initial vid, felt accused, which prompted them to become defensive, and refused to listen anymore.
     
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  14. wooleeheron

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    My work includes designing bots, that will encourage academics to empty their minds completely, to blame their students for destroying the world, and produce more weapons of mass destruction, at cut rate prices! They will blame Greta for every economic problem.
     
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    Great video, thank you very much for sharing it.
     
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  16. newo

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    Wildfires in the west...hurricanes and tornadoes in the northeast...flooding in NYC...and Louisiana gets wiped out again by a hurricane. But Greta is still a spoilt brat, right?

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  18. Vladimir Illich

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    So your alternative answer to global warming is ...... ???
     
  19. newo

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    Drastic action.
     
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  20. Vladimir Illich

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    Specifically ????
     

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