Axl S wrote:

James wrote:

Interesting. Something always rubbed me the wrong way about her too and yeah ... climate change is all too real.

My only worry about Greta is less her or her family. I don't think she's some front for some globalist eco agenda or whatever like some rightwingers speculate - not everything is a conspiracy.

Do worry about her though, it's a lot of attention for a 16 year old to have (kind of in the same way you worry about child tv and pop stars etc) and by her own admission it's ridiculous that she's having to go on a school strike and congress is having her speak in front of them instead of scientists.

Also Id, she's Swedish.

Agreed about fears of the climate crisis movement leading to eco-terrorism. It's borderline already there. They shutdown bridges and trains in London a few months back. On the one hand I get it, in that they want to see some tangible action on this before it's too late, and this stuff is the next step of non-violent protest, but as I pointed out to people by disrupting civil infrastructure you cause deaths due to simple things like ambulances not being able to get to hospitals etc.

If world government's don't do something about it soon it's gonna get worse. Both in terms of activitists' actions and the planet just dying...

My bad, yeah, she's Swiss. I once dated a Swiss girl who went to school in France and I kept referring to her as French. I have a long track record with mis-identifying the Swiss