Society's Child
Now they've pivoted into the parental act of every stage-parent looking to secure the next generation of fame. Apparently, the Swedish version of a Teri Shields pimps their kid out — not to Penthouse, but to the cause of climate apocalypse.
For all that conservatives have rightly griped at the performative pointlessness of Thunberg's schtick, and for all that liberals have rightly griped that a waning but still significant segment of conservatives deny the reality of anthropogenic climate change, the biggest travesty lost in the hype about the Swedish activist who recently sailed to American shores is that her parents, the media, and the climate alarmist left are basically engaging in child abuse.
Cases of kids entering public discourse out of sheer discourse, such as Parkland survivors Cameron Kasky and Kyle Kashuv, are sometimes inevitable and sometimes valuable. Some political causes require spokesmen with lived experiences. But even as we saw in the aftermath of Parkland, putting children in the public spotlight is more likely to backfire on them than not.
The case of Greta Thunberg is even more egregious. Thunberg began suffering from depression as a child, by her own admission, in part because she learned about climate change at age eight. She was later diagnosed with autism and obsessive compulsive disorder and gradually became despondent as she obsessed over her fear of climate change. She developed mutism and an eating disorder so severe that she once went two months without food, and she stopped going to school. Her only sibling, a sister named Beata, also suffers from Asperger's and OCD, as well as ADHD.
Now tell me, does it seem healthy to place a child with this many mental illnesses under the spotlight of public scrutiny, with a sole focus on the very phenomenon and associated alarmism that triggered her in the first place?
If you're a fading opera starlet married into a family of fame, and your only two children are having exceptional trouble even attending school, then I suppose you can secure a bit more fame by milking your child's clinically diagnosed obsession. But given that Greta's mental struggles and triggers actually led her to the brink of death, the whole thing smacks of child abuse.
Conservatives shouldn't mock her. They should worry for her. Social media has made it too easy to prop up children as moral authorities — even children especially predisposed to crack under the pressure.
Comment: The cult of Greta Thunberg - child crusader of the eco-warriors
...the green cult has pushed Ms Thunberg into the position of its global leader, its child-like saviour, the messiah of their miserabilist political creed. What they have done to Ms Thunberg is unforgivable. They have pumped her - and millions of other children - with the politics of fear. They have convinced the next generation that the planet is on the cusp of doom. They have injected dread into the youth. 'I want you to panic', said Ms Thunberg at Davos, and the billionaires and celebs and marauding NGOs that were in attendance all lapped it up. Because adult society loves nothing more than having its own fear and confusions obediently parroted back to it by teenagers. They celebrate Thunberg because she tells them how horrible they are: it is an entirely S&M relationship, speaking to the deep self-loathing of the 21st-century elites.See also: Greta sues civilization for disappointing her, unleashes tirade at world for 'stealing my dreams'
Young people, Ms Thunberg isn't your leader. She's a patsy for scared and elitist adults.
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Anyway, if you decide to do your own research, I like Tony Heller's vids among others. [Link]
" Every long term graph I've seen shows complete correlation between CO2 and global warming,"R.C.
I’d guess that includes Mann’s infamous and fraudulent ‘hockey stick’?
"During the month of May, CO2 levels averaged 414.8 parts per million -- levels not present on Earth in millions of years." -UPI.
WOW! I’m shocked! ...........(That there’s still someone who believes everything he reads.)
(Sarcasm / satire at times.)
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Seems to me there's a lot of people around the world willing to put their time and energy into demonstrating agreement with GT.Oh yeah great point! Just like the “truths” spoken by Hitler and Nazi Germany.
A mass movement like this doesn't spring from a weak or unpopular idea, it must resonate with truth on several levels to inspire so many the same way on a global scale.
I do find the
or keep your disinformation to yourself.offensive.
I hope the reward for the "faithful" is swift and the lesson lasting.
Her mother sang opera internationally until the teenager convinced her to quit due to greenhouse gas emissions from flying,So now this child, who sailed to the US, will fly around the country, then fly back to Europe? Umm......
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I suffered through 4 mins of her strident speech. That's about all I could take. "We" aren't to blame for her "suffering". If anything, corporations and governments are to blame. But I don't buy that Co2 is the root of all evil. Co2, what plants need to live. If we decrease Co2 emissions, plants will suffer and in return the animals who eat those plants. But my main problem with it is that prior to electricity being available to the masses, EVERYONE burned wood or coal for both heat and to cook. Despite the population being smaller, a LOT more Co2 was added to the atmosphere then as opposed to now. So how is Co2 the enemy?
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The screwed up part is that I believe humanity has harmed the environment, well corporations really. But I don't buy their plans to fix it. It's just a way to enrich themselves, put the blame on "us", the 99%. They'll increase taxes and lower the standard of living, all the while their wealthy lifestyles won't change. Just like these wealthy environmentalists taking private jets to climate scare conferences. Hypocrisy, same as it ever was..
I think one of the biggest issues is that instead of adapting to the changing environment, humanity seeks to change the environment to adapt to "us". There are corporations that don't want to change what they are doing, even if it's harmful to the environment or to people. To them profit is more important than people's lives or the environment. But there are also corporations that stand to make massive profits if they can guilt people into accepting the blame for changes in the earths temperature. I hear it said often in the media that "people want cheap fuel" or "people want cheap food". Using this as an excuse to explain their unhealthy or unsafe practices, the products they make and sell. I don't buy that. No one wants to get ripped off, sure. But it's not like we are gathering together and demanding that companies make gas guzzling vehicles or GMO Ladin foods. No, it's the greed of these corporations, their unwillingness to make any concessions to maximum profits that are causing much of what we see today. (I know I'm getting off track here. But all this is tied together, I believe anyway).
A mass movement like this doesn't spring from a weak or unpopular idea, it must resonate with truth on several levels to inspire so many the same way on a global scale. The only people I see disagreeing are large corporations who exist by selling fossil fuels along with their bought and paid for politicians and 2nd rate scientists. They do so by promoting ad hominem smear pieces like this one and spreading misinformation supported by demonstrably shoddy, contrived research.
When someone produces before and after pictures of glaciers around the world getting larger I'll reconsider my opinion. Until then, I refuse to believe those who stand to profit from climate change denial.
"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser" - Socrates