Wow.
Just, wow.

Age does not command respect. People should be respected because they are respectable. People who are doing nothing to solve this Global Crisis do not deserve respect. She was invited to speak at the UN so it is absolutely her place and if the leaders she is scolding are doing nothing about the burning of fossil fuels, then they deserve to be scolded.

If you want to refute her arguments, do so. But calling her a "child" does nothing to address her arguments. It would be as if she dismissed your arguments by calling you an "old man," It is hard to take someone seriously when he dismisses "the masses" (whoever they are?) as being unintelligent and follows that absurd generalization with, "they needs fancies or they get bored very soon." At least proofread your condescension.

@ToolGuy She traveled in a yacht from Sweden and gave press interviews will full camera crews along the way to the U.S.

Read more about what was involved behind the fucking farce here... [google.com]

She is a person with whom you can trust sincerity. The significance of her youth: she has so much life ahead with which to deal with a messed up environment. She has every right to cry out. And thank goodness she is. She is getting noticed around the globe. She must be affecting millions that affect politicians.

@linxminx
What works at the UN?

1. Children killed by chemical attacks in Syria?
2. Genocides in Rwanda?
3. US and Saudi indiscriminate bombings in Yemen?

What has worked there? This is the place that passed a resolution for America and others to bomb and invade Iraq.

Maybe because we don't have a white Caucasian face hero in a rich country talking about other dire problems?

Even today just 60 countries promised to do more but it is barely barely enough. World leaders have too much on the plate and the UN as it is... is not working.

Even if we try, the damage to the Earth cannot be stopped or certainly cannot be reversed. Scientists are not telling you that.

@MrDMC I am crying because there is no golf course in my neighborhood, Paris Hilton is crying because her pink colored poodle is not eating the fancy food just imported from France.

Gimme a break. Children are dying of starvation daily in poor countries and she is crying over the planet?

@St-Sinner Your right. Those things arn't happening on the planet.

@ToolGuy More answers will start coming out but she saved no emissions.

"Greta Thunberg’s two-week trip across Atlantic in ‘zero-carbon yacht’ may generate more emissions than it saves as two of the crew have to FLY to New York to bring the boat back to Europe.

The person who's made it possible is perhaps even more surprising: Monegasque royal Pierre Casiraghi, Grace Kelly's grandson."

Greta fans, read and weep... [google.com]

@Castlepaloma The earth will be here and poverty, starvation, disease will kill more humanity before anything severe happens to Earth.

@ogator There is no need to proofread, I am not in your English class, am I? This is a fucking discussion board. If you do not understand what I am saying, ask me. I will explain.

I have read extensively about her. I stand by my opinion.

"How dare you!" She is absolutely right. AND it is effective. People are talking about that phrase. This is a time for sharply telling it like it is. This is very serious. Nothing else is as serious as this. We have to cut to the chase and put those other things behind the climate crisis.

@think-beyond
This is not serious because nothing or nobody can stop a massive phenomenon like that. We should immediately begin saving the dying human beings around is which is all on hold due to this fancy, rich man's obsession.

Whaaat?

AND, that is one of HIS good points I presume....LOL.

LOL, NOT on your life, you'd never know where they've been.

@Triphid I'm so sorry, sweetie. I meant to say, fuck him with a
Saguaro cactus. Or a pineapple. Or a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire.
Whichever is handy.

I wouldn't dream of encouraging anyone to actually touch one of
them. They're nasty.

@KKGator That's okay Babe, no need to apologise, though I do think using a pineapple, etc, would be far too enjoyable for scumbags like him.
Maybe clamping his lying, deceiving tongue in a vice, welding it shut and giving him a butter knife with NO edge on it to cut himself free with might come close to a fitting punishment.

@Triphid I'm pretty sure he wouldn't enjoy anything I'd like to see happen to him.

@KKGator I too often imagine 'suitable' punishments for scumbags like him.

@KKGator You are very angry about men.

Fucking a man with a Saguaro cactus will kill him and that is a deliberate manslaughter. No man really deserves it. We even give a tolerable mix of 3 drug lethal injection or IV in executions.

@St-Sinner No. I'm really not. Just assholes.

Btw, it's never a good idea to try to psychoanalyze someone you don't know.
You don't know me. Keep your armchair analysis to yourself.
It's completely wrong.

I can add to a post, too.

No shit that fucking a man with a cactus will kill him.
45 deserves it. So does Pence.

I also didn't threaten to do it.
It's just a sincere wish.
We're done here.

I like to see how Trump will insult Greta's character like the reporter with the handicap.

Or bow his head in shame.

In this context God feels like the dude who was never there in the project (and also literally) and got the entire credit!

The Evangelicals are part of the group fooled by "the chosen one."

Our two Christian like prophecy would do well together as an atheist prayer. Lol.

Let's bow our heads now in prayer.

Oh imaginary God, why do we Christians Fuck up this natural planet most.

Unless it's the fundies saying they don't believe in climate science.

@Notlost, well yeah. That's my point. Belief is irrelevant when it comes to evaluating a truth claim. Belief is the result of your opinion on a truth claim.

It's funny how Asperger's is being used a ground to outright dismiss her opinions. Lack of education, sensitiveness and of course independent thinking capabilities.