Who's in? Me (obviously) and everyone I've asked so far. Here's a list of Australian companies . What's happening where you are?
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Perhaps there is still time to mollify some effects. Sadly, I fear no amount of public outcry will move those uncaring monsters of capitalism, corporations, and the politicians that they own. I guess, we'll see.
BILL McKIBBEN: So, a few minutes later, this was my favorite moment. You know, as usual, the congressmen can’t help themselves, are just gassing on for minute after minute, unable to take a cue from Greta’s concise eloquence. One Republican, just on and on and on, “China this, China that,” “Why should we do anything? China’s not doing anything,” yadda yadda yadda. It goes on like this for five minutes.
And Greta looks up at him and says — she said, “I come from a small country called Sweden. In Sweden, sometimes people say, 'Why should we do anything, because the United States is so big and wastes so much?' Just so you know.” It was my favorite moment of congressional testimony in a long time.
The president of the US is shitposting on twitter about 16-yo Greta Thunberg, for those, who are keeping track of the people who he puts in his cross hairs. That the whole world is clamoring for her to get a Nobel Prize is really chapping his hide.
Even FOX News issued an apology for allowing one of its guests to go off on her.
Thank all the stars for the young people leading on this issue. Whatever history we have left, they're on the right side of it.
Knowles joined commentator Christopher Hahn to discuss efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, and immediately started in on Thunberg.
“The climate hysteria movement is not about science,” he said. “If it were about science, it would be led by scientists, rather than by politicians and a mentally ill Swedish child who’s being exploited by her parents and by the international left.”
For one thing, scientists have spent decades screaming from the quickly-melting rafters about impending climate doom—if anything, politicians have only just now jumped on the bandwagon. For another, reducing a 16-year-old activist on the autism spectrum to a “mentally ill” child is downright despicable, and Hahn told Knowles as much.
“You’re a grown man and you’re attacking a child. Shame on you,” Hahn said. When Knowles tried to protest, Hahn cut him off:
"Relax, skinny boy, I got this. You’re attacking a child. You’re a grown man, have some couth. Maybe on your podcast you can get away with whatever you want because nobody’s listening, but you’re on television. Be a grown up when you’re talking about children. She’s trying to save the planet because your president doesn’t believe in climate change. You should apologize on national television right now...You called her mentally ill. You’re despicable."
I'm gobsmacked by some of the criticism of her that I'm reading. Some people are simply disgusting, there's no better word for it.
I'm gobsmacked by some of the criticism of her that I'm reading. Some people are simply disgusting, there's no better word for it.
Clearly my sister’s paycheck is more important than the world her three adopted kids will inherit. I can no longer apologize for a sibling who I no longer recognize. I can and will continue to call out the monstrous behavior and the bully commentary born out of anger.
A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.
“Freak yachting accidents do happen…”
That was how British businessman, Trump ally, and Brexit bankroller Arron Banks responded to the news that Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen who inspired the school climate strikes movement, was sailing to America to attend the UN Climate Action Summit. His scorn was not unique.
Many people have already spilled thousands of words of commentary explaining how personal attacks on Greta — often lobbed by old white men, sometimes mocking her Aspergers — are unacceptable. But understanding where those attackers come from, ideologically and professionally, casts an important light on some of their dark statements.
That’s because a large subsection of the commentariat driving the abuse of Greta is part of an established network of radical free-marketeer lobby groups — a network that has firm ties to the fossil fuel industry and funders of climate science denial.
... the Brexit Party MEPs join other far-right populist parties in Brussels, including Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (formerly the Front National) and Alternative for Germany (AfD). All are united in their hatred for Greta. Two National Rally MPs recently boycotted her visit to France, and AfD representatives have made coordinated attacks on social media.
Those aggressions were orchestrated by the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) — an organization known for co-sponsoring events with U.S. free-market think tank, the Heartland Institute.
It’s perhaps unsurprising to find that many of the U.S. commentators verbally assaulting Greta also have ties to the Heartland Institute, given the organisation’s Big Oil funding and long-history of promoting climate science denial.
It's disgusting. No doubt she gets the same death and rape threats all prominent women on the Net get.
I think Greta Thunberg is the first 16yo girl in a long time who has been presented to the public outside of a sexual lens and a lot of men can’t handle it.
Oh God, now Dan Simmons has had an incredibly mean-spirited go at Greta. Never have heroes (or just pick your favourite creators from those who died young). This one’s physically painful.
What benefit do these morons think there is to be had from taking digs at a teenager, even if they don't agree with her political positions?
I can only assume they're not terribly bright. Of course, they're climate deniers, so...
Eeew. Who in the f*** is this guy?
This is the thing about the era of social media that baffles me the most--the surfeit of people whose only claim to fame, as far as I can tell, is their ability to say stupid, offensive, and completely irrelevant things on Twitter (and their podcasts) and have people actually follow them.