© Cropped from YouTube VideoAngry Greta.
Well, that didn't go over too well.
Here's what the two parents wrote: (in German)
Thanks Greta.... thanks Fridays For Future!Every parent should make their activist children really practice what they preach.
Oh oh... doors slamming, loud screaming
Our daughter recently got back from more stupid FFF truancy. She was teed off because we didn't pick her up (climate friendly) and so she had to tough it out in a bus and train for 3 hours to get home.
After having a chalky vegan soy cake (only for her - we had real cheesecake) there was a surprise. She now has to take the bus to school in the morning. But that's a drag, because the bus only leaves every hour and she either arrives at school an hour early or arrives too late. We suggested to stop heating the bus, because it still uses oil. But she also doesn't want to go by bicycle because of all the hills and grades - besides soon it'll be winter and it's too cold and windy. But she says she might consider the option if she gets an e-bike for Christmas.
"Christmas? But that's totally anti-eco," I told her. "All those lights and CO2 emissions from candles!" This sparked the first pre-pubescent protest, which was amazingly similar to her defiant phase between the ages of 2 and 3. 'E-bike? Hasn't our little daughter even seen the devastated areas that result from the extraction of rare earths for the batteries?'
Now she's sitting upstairs in her room at 8°C (46°F), moping. We have already turned off the heat there to be ecologically conscious. Maybe she's keeping her fingers warm typing angry mails about her "shitty parents" to her friends on her i-Phone. But here we've announced to her that she will be rid of this iPhone at 7 pm. After all, it's irresponsible to keep wasting electricity to have more or less useful conversation and, secondly: again the lithium extraction and its ecological consequences.
In response to her protests against this expropriation, we assured her in a calm voice that we would either send the iPhone directly to needy children in Africa, or sell it and then donate the financial equivalent to help save the South American rainforest.
But the real fun starts on Monday. That's when we swap out her trendy clothes for jute, wool and hemp fiber woven stuff. Her Nikes with the cool plastic soles will be replaced by Dutch wooden shoes. And if someone thinks this is satire: No, we are GOING THROUGH IT!
If she then still screeches on, she has two possibilities:
1) recognize what brainless eco-fascists she's listening to
2) recognize what brainless eco-fascists she's listening to!
Thank you Greta. You have inspired us, as no one else would have done in educational matters. Mommy and I have just shouted up to our daughter: 'We're going to Mc Donald's, want to come along?' We hope the hysterical screaming will stop by the time we get back.'"
Reader Comments
Greta and her ilk are living in a fantasy world.
The West offshored: production, middle-class careers, and POLLUTION to China and the East.
Pretending that all our gadgets and plastic crap at Walmart doesn't produce pollution is beyond naive.
Why will globalization be an environmental disaster? Western companies couldn’t wait to off-shore to low cost China, where they could make higher profits.
Maximizing profit is all about reducing costs.
China had coal fired power stations to provide cheap energy.
China had lax regulations reducing environmental and health and safety costs.
China had a low cost of living so employers could pay low wages.
China had low taxes and a minimal welfare state.
China had all the advantages in an open globalized world. Environmentally friendly measures cost money and reduce profit.
The goal is to maximize profit. Why do firms move to Mexico and export into the US?
Companies prefer Mexico with its cheap labor, lax health and safety standards, and lack of environmental regulations.
They can expose workers to hazardous chemicals and just pump toxic waste straight out into the environment, without incurring the costs associated in dealing with them in an environmentally friendly way.[Link]
Every avenue must be explored to reduce costs.
The lower the costs, the higher the profit. The more environmentally friendly you are, the less internationally competitive you will be.“ ..... today, authorities in Inner Mongolia approved restarting production at 38 open-pit coal mines to boost China’s supplies ....”
“Meanwhile, Chinese banks are financing a blizzard of new coal plants across South East Asia as part of the Belt and Road”[Link]
Coal is one of the cheapest forms of energy.
It will help them keep costs down. “Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome” Warren Buffet’s partner Charlie Munger When you know what being internationally competitive requires, coal does look like the answer.
Western policymakers have never really understood international competition and just blather on endlessly about productivity, which is just one of the factors involved. What could possibly go wrong with a net zero strategy?
Western policymakers can’t see any problems.
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Lead author David Coe explains the paper this way: “The concept of this paper is to reduce the complexity of the problem of climate sensitivity determination by the separation of variables, a common technique. We conclude that The atmosphere, mainly due to the beneficial characteristics and impact of H2O absorption spectra, proves to be a highly stable moderator of global temperatures. There is no impending climate emergency and CO2 is not the control parameter of global temperatures, that accolade falls to H2O. CO2 is simply the supporter of life on this planet as a result of the miracle of photosynthesis.“[Link]
Meanwhile weather warfare rages around the planet:
Regarding Greta and her ...'background' well:
".. close the case on Greta, and I still haven’t even touched on the
biggest jaw-dropper about her. She is related to the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Svante
Arrhenius. Never heard of him? Don’t worry, Wikipedia will clue you in:
Arrhenius, in 1896, was the first to use basic principles of physical chemistry to calculate
estimates of the extent to which increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) will
increase Earth's surface temperature through the greenhouse effect. These calculations
led him to conclude that human-caused CO2 emissions, from fossil-fuel burning and
other combustion processes, are large enough to cause global warming. This conclusion
has been extensively tested, winning a place at the core of modern climate science.
So Greta just happens to be related to the father of modern climate science. Seriously??..." [Link]
Yeah. Talkin' about...long-term-agenda. Yep. She's just a stage actress playing in the Family Tradition.
Regards & Tack Så Mycket
Duckduckgo-svante arrhenius greta thunberg[Link]
Great grumpy: [Link]