It’s easy to dislike Greta Thunberg, a scowling enfant terrible with, as my Mum used to say, “a face like a smacked bum”. But that may be too hasty a judgement. As more details emerge of Thunberg’s self-confessed cognitive disabilities, one is more inclined to pity. Thunberg, if all that she says about herself is true, quite literally believes the false tales of climate apocalypse she has been fed.
The anger is better directed at the adults who have deliberately scared the living daylights out of Greta and her army of literal-minded child soldiers. These gullible children are being terrified into a mental health crisis by unscrupulous adults.
It is nothing short of a disgrace that young people are being used in this way.
A youth mental health organisation has found four in five Australian students are “somewhat” or “very” anxious about climate change. And half of them report being so on a weekly basis.
There is no other way of putting it — school students and university students are being brainwashed…
But the real test of these students’ beliefs is just how far they are willing to go live up to them. It’s easy to do the soft stuff – wagging a day off school and hanging out with your friends, collecting social media backpats and taking selfies – but if they really believed their own bs, there’s nothing they wouldn’t do to avoid the catastrophe they say they believe is bearing down on the world.
The bulk of the electricity we use for now and well into the future will be provided by coal-fired power.
So, if you are going to turn yourself inside out about coal-fired power, turn off your iPad, your phone and your laptop, instead of charging them with life-threatening coal-fired power.
Turn off the washing machine. Hand-wash your clothes.
dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/climate-strike-children-could-solve-the-crisis-if-they-got-off-their-electronic-devices
Transportation generates about a third of global carbon dioxide emissions. Walking or cycling everywhere, including to and from school every day, as well as refusing to ever, ever take an overseas flight, would be one of the most effective personal actions these kids could take. Yet, less than 13% of students walk to school. As for long-haul flights:
Youth travel has become one of the fastest growing segments of international tourism, representing more than 23% of the over one billion tourists travelling internationally each year.
wysetc.org/about-us/facts-and-stats/
Meanwhile, the kiddies’ hysterical alarmism is badly distorting public policy and wasting trillions of dollars on useless green vanities.
[Bjorn Lomborg] “This year the world will spend $230 billion subsidising renewable energy … the Paris Agreement on climate change will cost the world from $US1 trillion to $US2 trillion a year by 2030.
“Astonishingly, neither of these hugely expensive policies will have any measurable impact on temperatures […]Doom and gloom distort our world view and can lead to bad policy. The future is bright and we need smart decisions to keep it so.”
So, climate strikers, instead of posing for happy snaps with buddies (and the sea of smiling faces posing for selfies at the climate strikes lead me to regard claims about “climate anxiety” with deep scepticism: these kids are clearly having the time of their lives), challenge your teachers and your “woke” elders to swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. Assuming that they even can.
It’s time we had a royal commission into what’s happening to our young people on this climate change issue. Let the apologists and the hoax brigade swear on oath the veracity of what they are preaching in the classroom.
It might be the only way to slow a few people down.
Our children are entitled to the truth and they are not getting it.
dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/climate-strike-children-could-solve-the-crisis-if-they-got-off-their-electronic-devices