Greta Thunberg is a Pain in the proverbial

So what did any of us achieve by the age of 18? It wasn’t till I had children that I started to care about the world I’d brought them into. I’m grateful that she is speaking for me and them. So she has got a million pounds? Just remind me how much that other girl earned for winning a tennis match….

I'm afraid she seriously blotted her copybook for me over the yacht to USA business in 2019. She received a great deal of publicity over her refusal to fly, instead accepting a lift in a boat unavailable to the rest of us. She was acclaimed for her integrity. What wasn't publicised half as much was the two crew members who made way for Greta and her father who took a plane ride to USA in order to be there to crew the yacht on its return trip. So there was a carbon footprint involved just shelved off to somebody else's profile. Bit like those who condemn China for its carbon footprint churning out plastic rubbish, but are happy enough to buy it in this country and feel no responsibility. I can't deny that irritating as she is, she gets the message aired and does seem to prompt discussion. I'd like to see there be more emphasis on practical, reasonable solutions though.

Not a very good role model for the younger generation in encouraging them to support climate change!

^ Just remind me how much that other girl earned for winning a tennis match….^

If you mean Emma Raducanu please afford her her name. She may not be an eco warrior but she has achieved something in the world of tennis never before achieved. You don't have to disrespect one in order to respect the other.

This is Greta’s world and she and her friends will be living on this planet for a lot longer than us. I can quite understand her pain and dismay. Very few adults are taking the situation seriously. David Attenborough is one and he has been talking about global warming etc., and making programmes about it for years. But still the people with the power to do something, do nothing. They bleat on about cuts in this and cuts in that, but it is not enough. Our children’s children will have a difficult time. Greta is doing her best and I just hope that when she is on her death bed in 60 or 70 years time, her last words won’t be ‘I told you so.’

Calmlocket

Not a very good role model for the younger generation in encouraging them to support climate change!

Please tell me this is sarcasm

Germanshepherdsmum

I understand the situation perfectly well and don’t need to be lectured and patronised by a rude little brat who assumes we all have the mentality of a gnat.

Ditto

I disagree with this thread - the heading at least. I think Greta is wonderful and speaks to the condition of so many of her generation.
I wish there was someone of my own generation I could admire.
I am in my 70s now and although I was always "alternative" and as green as I could be, the fears in my youth were concentrated on war, nuclear war, drought, poverty, starvation (not necessarily in that order) and very little on the planet itself which I think we always thought of as a self healing organism.

Now we know it isn't, our children and descendants are being left with a daunting crisis to deal with.
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Visgir1

Germanshepherdsmum

I understand the situation perfectly well and don’t need to be lectured and patronised by a rude little brat who assumes we all have the mentality of a gnat.

Ditto

And perhaps she is right about that.

Perhaps those who are telling us they understand the situation very well can enlighten us about the forecasts for global temperature rises in the next 100 years and how they relate to the pledges made at COP26? Then explain how that converts into sea level rises and the impact on global weather patterns. Then explain about how much we need to invest in renewables and how we are going to manage the economy during the transition to net zero?

Then I'd love to know all about how we are going to support the developing world during the next 50 years and what the plans are for the mass migrations that are about to happen.

Because unless you can then sorry, you don't understand at all.

Yes, she is annoying. But that's great!

It's what the world needs - somebody to keeping pricking consciences like an irritating needle. She has every right to fight for the planet and I hope she continues.

I agree LilacChaser. She is very brave.

Yes, she has shown she can be happy and carefree too, the Never Gonna Give You Up dance to cheers in Stockholm.

Elless

....... and we used to walk to school not get driven by our parents.

Yes and you can blame the parents for that too. They're far to busy with their lives and wanting to protect their darling little ones from all the nasties out there.

One reason why the baby boomers are relatively healthy is because the daily walk to and from school was good exercise and gave our young bodies a good grounding.

No it’s not just you.
I switch the TV off whenever she comes on.
One of the best things about coronavirus was we didn’t have to put up with her whinging.

I didn't get driven to school and walked, bussed or biked.
The reason was we didn't have a car.

My parents generation was greener because that is just how they and then we lived then.

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The vitriol from some is truly shocking.

all the celebs jumping on the band wagon, virtue signalling & preaching
I have to agree about that highlanddreams

this thread is unbelievable

Greta Thunberg is a Pain in the proverbial

Yes!
That's what the world needs.

Love to see her having a go at Xi Jinping.
Bet he’d be shaking in his boots

Did any of you see her interview with Andrew Marr last week.
She was articulate and happy and responded politely to his questions.

Frankly, I fear the worst. The South American countries have 10 years to stop de-forestation. I don't understand quite why the delay because the forests will continue to be cut down right up to the last minute. Shell has agreed to make chances but they will only apply to their own business and not to their customers.

Whilst 40 countries have pledged to stop burning coal the largest coal dependent countries - Australia, China, America and India have not.

A group of 20 nations also pledged to stop all funding of fossil fuel projects abroad and divert about $8bn of spending to green energy instead from next year. However, China and Japan, two big funders of fossil fuel development around the world, shunned the initiative.

More than 90% of children around the world breathe toxic air today, with fossil-fuel burning largely responsible. Coal, oil and gas are responsible for 8.7 million premature deaths a year, one in five of all deaths.

Finally, for those of you who are critical of Greta Thunberg, try reading what other nations have to say about Johnson's performance at COP26

www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/05/bit-like-a-clown-boris-johnson-makes-impression-cop26

I am adding my voice to those who find this is a very nasty thread.

That took courage to post this thread tidyskatemum criticising Saint Greta. It did look as if some of the fame may have gone a wee bit to her head when she was with a group of young protesters. Difficult not to I suppose.

25Avalon

That took courage to post this thread tidyskatemum criticising Saint Greta. It did look as if some of the fame may have gone a wee bit to her head when she was with a group of young protesters. Difficult not to I suppose.

No, it didnt.

It's a thread started on a forum by an unknown person.

It takes courage to stand up in public and say what's needed and risk making yourself unpopular in the process.

Why can’t people criticise her?
Are we only allowed to criticise Boris on here?