Greta Thunberg is a Pain in the proverbial

Alegrias1

With all due respect Holysox, you are talking rubbish.

Right, moving on...

I seem to remember you boasting about your work on renewable power. But you're happy for a slip of a girl talk down scold you, as part of our generation? Ironic really.

If someone came on here and said that vaccines were going to kill us all and that the Queen was a lizard, would you let that stand without questioning it because the poster is non confrontational and passive?

Not well said, not well said at all.

Alegrias1

If someone came on here and said that vaccines were going to kill us all and that the Queen was a lizard, would you let that stand without questioning it because the poster is non confrontational and passive?

Not well said, not well said at all.

I thought you were moving on

HolySox

Alegrias1

With all due respect Holysox, you are talking rubbish.

Right, moving on...

I seem to remember you boasting about your work on renewable power. But you're happy for a slip of a girl talk down scold you, as part of our generation? Ironic really.

Ohh, good memory...

She's not scolding me, or you, she's scolding the governments. I said that before. Keep up.

Quote from Greta:

"The grown-ups have failed us.”

www.environmentshow.com/greta-thunberg-quotes/

I don't think she meant me and you specifically Holysox. ??

Well not me, certainly.

From the same page:

Greta tells like it is. Clearly, bluntly, with passion. The reality of climate change. What the science is telling us and what our leaders are doing about it (or rather not doing.)

Personally, I think the more she rants the fewer people will take of notice her even if her cause is justified. Who has ever taken notice of teenagers?
She let herself and her worthy cause down yesterday singing crude songs in Glasgow.,did Sir David Attenborough join in the chorus?
Her actions also encouraged thousands of youngsters to travel across the world to join her in London and Glasgow, what carbon footprint have they left. Did they set off on their bikes months ago to get there no they had to fly?
Maybe it's time for Greta to calm down and not intensify what a lot percieve as her bratish teenage behaviour.

Did they set off on their bikes months ago to get there no they had to fly?

www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/19/devon-teenager-plans-cycle-to-glasgow-for-cop26-climate-summit

HolySox

Alegrias1

I'll say this again - Her Majesty who thinks that the week after telling the world that we all need to work together to save the planet, flies from her big house in Windsor to her big house in Sandringham for the weekend?

I'll stick with Greta, thanks.

Not really a royalist but am impressed with the service our Queen has given our world. She is in a unique position to comment and advise ... as she has done over the years. Wasn't she quoted as saying world leaders need to do something not say something, albeit 'accidentally'. This will have had more impact than anything a ranting teenager is saying that is really about getting attention and self promotion.

It’s really about getting attention and self promotion

Attention yes of course …the issues need attention! Self promotion? Do you really think that ? I beg to differ.

This is a good one:

www.independent.co.uk/tv/cop26/cop26-man-metal-ball-video-vd82a18e2

And there's this one: marcha-a-glasgow.net/en/home/

Agree with allegri, Holysox is talking non confrontational, passive (& dangerous) rubbish.

Well give me Greta over some of the nasty judgemental posts on here
If a few old biddys are ranting on here without any agreement what chance is there for the world !!!
The trouble is so many of you dont want to be in the wrong and to be told by a young girl that you are deficient is really grating on you Open you brains open you ears and get on with doing something, anything, every journey starts with one step as the saying goes

That’s probably the most judgemental nasty post on this thread.

Alegrias1

^Did they set off on their bikes months ago to get there no they had to fly?^

www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/19/devon-teenager-plans-cycle-to-glasgow-for-cop26-climate-summit

Wow, well done. One teenager among thousands though.

Agreed BlueBell

It was indeed a very nasty and judgmental post. Many, I hope most, of us are careful to do all we as individuals possibly can BlueBelle and have been doing so for a long time, because we are intelligent people who care about the world we inhabit not as a result of Greta’s very rude ranting. I think the only disagreement on this thread has been about Greta’s way of addressing her audience.
And btw I am sure I am not the only one on here to object to being called an old biddy.

Kandinsky

That’s probably the most judgemental nasty post on this thread.

Really ? Including the delightful one about the cabbage patch doll?

Lincslass

Alegrias1

Did they set off on their bikes months ago to get there no they had to fly?

www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/19/devon-teenager-plans-cycle-to-glasgow-for-cop26-climate-summit

Wow, well done. One teenager among thousands though.

And the man who walked from Germany? And the group who walked from Spain?

There is a general assumption that all those people surrounding Greta are all hypocrites who all flew there and don't practice what they preach. Why do you think anybody flew there just to march with Greta? The march was full of Scots, and unlike, oh, I don't know....Queens, Duchesses and Prime Ministers, they didn't take a flight to get there.

Of course there is that young Polynesian woman who flew here, probably because it was too far to swim. She doesn't know how she's going to get home but she's here anyway. How anybody can try to denigrate these young people for trying to make a difference is beyond me.

Of course the duchess of Cambridge flew there on the back of a pig but wasn't her dress nice

Lucca
I very much doubt Greta is reading this thread - but I am, & I’ve just been called a deaf, stupid, ‘old biddy’ - an extremely ageist derogatory term.
But you carry on sticking up for your mates no matter how abusive they are.

In all fairness she went by Network Rail JaneJudge. Her dress was nice though. Probably eco-friendly, recycled etc.

So are we allowed to be rude to people who aren't here? That's ok is it?

That opens up lots of possibilities...

Casdon

In all fairness she went by Network Rail JaneJudge. Her dress was nice though. Probably eco-friendly, recycled etc.

She flew home.

Apparently ??

The words chosen by the OP were extremely rude and personal in the extreme and set the tone- and was truly abusive.

Compare 'a brat having a tantrum' to 'old biddy' ! I am an od biddy, doesn't bother me.