A few weeks ago, Greta Thunberg, 16-year-old climate activist, berated politicians for their lack of action in Climate Change policy. There are a number of things that makes me raise my eyebrows at the speech that she delivered, but there are a couple of things on which I want to hone in on. The first is her youth. The second is the message she is touting.
To begin, I am not picking on her for how young she is, but rather how elevated she has become. Because of how young she is, the left go into an uproar whenever someone criticizes her. Which is very difficult when trying to have a conversation on such a controversial topic, such as climate change. The fact that someone is a certain age should not make them invincible to questioning.
My second point is that of the rhetoric that she uses. It is extremely radical:
"You are failing us, but the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you and if you choose to fail us I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up and change is coming whether you like it or not."
And then on her Facebook Page:
"Around the year 2030, we will be in a position where we probably set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control, that will most likely lead to the end of our civilization as we know it. That is unless in that time, permanent and unprecedented changes in all aspects of industrialized society have taken place. Including a reduction of our CO2 emissions by at least 50%. And please note that these calculations are depending on inventions that have not yet been invented at scale. Furthermore these scientific calculations do not include most unforeseen tipping points and feed back loops. Nor do these calculations include already locked in warming hidden by toxic air pollution." [My emphasis.]
The thing that I take from this is that this is more than just a discussion about climate change. This is about world order and civilization as we know it. It is really easy to just brush off the conversation that the left is pushing, because it doesn't seem to be that big of a deal. But for whatever reason, it is the discussion we are having now, and it is more than just climate change - they are going for the jugular. It is time to realize that now.
To begin, I am not picking on her for how young she is, but rather how elevated she has become. Because of how young she is, the left go into an uproar whenever someone criticizes her. Which is very difficult when trying to have a conversation on such a controversial topic, such as climate change. The fact that someone is a certain age should not make them invincible to questioning.
My second point is that of the rhetoric that she uses. It is extremely radical:
"You are failing us, but the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you and if you choose to fail us I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up and change is coming whether you like it or not."
And then on her Facebook Page:
"Around the year 2030, we will be in a position where we probably set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control, that will most likely lead to the end of our civilization as we know it. That is unless in that time, permanent and unprecedented changes in all aspects of industrialized society have taken place. Including a reduction of our CO2 emissions by at least 50%. And please note that these calculations are depending on inventions that have not yet been invented at scale. Furthermore these scientific calculations do not include most unforeseen tipping points and feed back loops. Nor do these calculations include already locked in warming hidden by toxic air pollution." [My emphasis.]
The thing that I take from this is that this is more than just a discussion about climate change. This is about world order and civilization as we know it. It is really easy to just brush off the conversation that the left is pushing, because it doesn't seem to be that big of a deal. But for whatever reason, it is the discussion we are having now, and it is more than just climate change - they are going for the jugular. It is time to realize that now.
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