Greta

[jobjockey]

The silence from Greta has been deafening,
the world is so close to a world war that will
destroy our planet and she is still worrying about our carbon footprints.

[Atheist]

ymb; "Greta and her ilk are a good deal responsible for this situation IMHO."
And you then referred to giving Putin a huge war chest. I presumed that you were saying that Greta was encouraging less use of fossil fuels and that that worked to Putin's advantage. I'm surprised that the anti-Greta people can claim that she is at the same a hysterical uneducated teenager and also a mover and shaker.

[William51]

Fridays for future. Once every seven days and fifty two times a year, and 4,264 times a lifetime.

[Togo]

They are going to live every other day "in the past" William and blame every body else when the bins aren't emptied.

[Deskdiary]

I’ve missed this.

What is Fridays for Future? What does it mean?

[Peter Pedant]

Crazier and crazier said Alice

[Togo]

//What is Fridays for Future? What does it mean?//

Missed it of course we haven't noticed they themselves say "Fridays for Future specializes in “youth strikes” that involve students marching out of their classrooms to demand action on their climate change agenda." Youth strikes? Who knew ... they do buggerall that is likely to be missed by the rational and engaged with reality baddies.

[Togo]

“We are running a demonstration at 12 p.m., in the middle of the day, because the lives of the Ukrainian people have been stopped, not by their choice. We also want to stop our lives in solidarity with them,” a Fridays for Future activist student in Warsaw said"

Don't blink or you will miss it.

[ToraToraTora]

it's ok she's made a statement:
https://thumbsnap.com/JoLHaQrF

[Togo]

"Fridays for Future rallies have been planned in Germany, Portugal, Italy, and Nigeria, and the group says it might change the global climate protest they planned for March 25 to focus on the Russian invasion instead." But we will have to ask our mams first.
I wouldn't mind seeing the one in Nigeria mind. Perhaps that prince will turn up who owes me £10million in unclaimed lottery money.

[douglas9401]

Who'd have thought she'd be one of the cool kids?

[fcc]

If Greta wants to do something constructive to help save the planet why doesn't she go to Chernobyl and help out there?

[Hopkirk]

Why are so many people agitated by Greta?

Is it because they would prefer to ignore the truth, and don't like being forced to face it?

[Gromit]

Always greatly amuses me that ABers are frightened of a little girl.

Her every utterance pounced on and criticised. And now apparently her silence offends yo too.

[Zacs-Master]

One of THE weirdest OPs / threads on AB. And that’s saying something.

Some people’s views on how the world works makes me wonder how they survive in it.

[jim360]

// Unbelievable that you have done that jim. //

That's because I didn't.

[Zacs-Master]

Don’t let them drag you down to their level, Jim for gawds sake.
A thread which starts by suggesting there’s only one version of the apocalypse which deserves attention at any one time is obviously barmy in the first place.

[jim360]

Indeed. Still, I may as well point out that -- once again -- people have jumped to the wrong conclusions about who deletes their posts/comments. One of these days, you'd think they'd learn...

More on the topic of the thread, it's surprising that anyone could plausibly link Thunberg, who wants no use of fossil fuels at all, to the large dependence on Russian oil, which of course by definition is the exact opposite of what Thunberg wants. Completely illogical, and not least because increasing a reliance on renewable energy sources would be far more damaging to Putin's war chest.

[mushroom25]

// increasing a reliance on renewable energy sources would be far more damaging to Putin's war chest. //

indeed. but we're years away from achieving that, and the need right now is a little more immediate.

[Gromit]

mushroom25

// indeed. but we're years away from achieving that, and the need right now is a little more immediate. //

No we are not. We have already achieved it. We just need to keep doing it more.

// For the first time, renewable energy overtook fossil fuels to be the biggest source of electricity in the UK in 2020.
Wind, solar, bio-energy and hydro (water) power generated a record 42% of UK power last year, while fossil fuels - mostly gas - produced 41%, according to a report by energy experts //