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She appears as a looming symbol of unwanted change. There are a *lot* of folks out there, who despise nothing more than that, change, especially among right-wing reactionary types.
Then they will get some more drastic and unwanted change 10 years down the line unless they have the economical ability to move somewhere less changed.
Perhaps it's easy to hate a person with extreme/radical outlook irrespective of their socio-political leanings. And in a way, comments from Macron etc about her not understanding or trying to oversimplify a complex issue, holds true too. Disdain is turned into hate by extreme people of other side of spectrum. Personal attacks unfortunately are part and parcel of the political climate she now operates in.
It is simple though. Macron and others are complicating it because the solution is inconvenient
I don't believe it is. It's not a snap your fingers and problems will go away problem. Plus I don't believe we can fix "climate change". We just fix the underlying factors (overpopulation, fossil fuel use) etc and those aren't simple.
That's such a weird way to describe a situation where one side of the spectrum is supplying all the hate. It's "both sides", Climate activism edition.
She appears as a petulant child, just as you would expect a 16 year old girl to. We need to provide a platform for experts with solutions, not kids throwing tantrums.
it was a generic comment. E.g. the feelings between fossil fuel companies vs climate change activists are mutual.
let the meltdown begin ...
Well, quite a few associations of experts have already congratulated her activism because it increases the visibility of their work in a way they couldn't do themselves.
Such a platform would be the scientific community where nowadays 99% of scientists agree that we're doing way too little and will exponentially see drastic impact within the next decades. Btw. these scientists weren't in hiding or anything and their platform was pretty much accessible to everyone. Too bad that political decision makers have overly been guys like Macron or EAP with their heads so deep up in corporations rectum and into neoliberal values like "growth" that these experts were more or less throughout ignored. And given that the "pragmatic" and "rational" way has failed to deliver accordingly for decades now it is about time that emotions become part of norm setting. But it's no surprise that patriarchic conservative circles loath the idea of the voice of a young girl becoming popular so they respond in their classic reactionary way by discrediting her as petulant and the youth in general as spoilt. Yawn.
The american government can stop giving Exxon Mobil 4bn a year. Theres a really simple solution towards fixing one of your problems. Theres hundreds more really simple, obvious solutions that could be changed. Macron is the exact person who could be making them changes and his excuse not to is total nonsense.
This so called petulant child has done far far more to raise the profile of man made climate change than all those scientists.
That platform has existed for a long time. Scientists all agree we need to take action, but not enough people care/believed it to do so.
Both are being ignored for 'complicated' reasons, so it doesn't really matter
Experts have been ignored for decades. Greta is mobilizing people. Do you want results or talk?
Their ire makes me happy.
So true.
What results has she given? I don't see a single solution or policy that's come from her involvement, just some people that got to feel good about themselves and a kid who is probably going to be screwed up for the rest of her life.
Young people (many teenagers and younger) all over the world admire her and have taken an interest and a stand regarding this issue. As they become voters politicians will have to provide answers for them. No amount of scientists in the last decades have done this.
Politicians already take it seriously. The problem is nobody knows the answers, we barely know the question. She doesn't change that one bit, and she is not somebody we should be looking to for it. She's great for clicks and follows but she'll be forgotten by this time next year.
I don't think they do take it seriously. I think most take seriously what gives them votes. Greta and others like her are creating an environment where taking action against climate change gives you votes, so they will take action because of that.
If we hadn't been ignoring and dismissing experts for decades she wouldn't need to tell us what a bunch of cnuts we are.
She isn't speaking to you because she knows you have no interest in her message. If you can't see how her message is resonating with younger people then it's simply because you're choosing not to look. I've just done a bit of research among 4,000 folks in the UK which had a big environmental slant, and the influence of her message among the youngest generation is striking. Maybe it's worth trying to look at it from their perspective, before making such sweeping generalisations on this petulant little girl?
Where?
Not sure about that.
If your wife is in her early 20s and you're a bit older she's not a millennial and you are.
