Weltsmertz wrote: » Official CSO stats Percentage of secondary school students being driven to school by car has increased from 9% to 42%. Significant decrease in numbers walking or taking bus. Percentage cycling down by over 90% And again these are the teenagers that are lecturing us about climate change.
Weltsmertz wrote: » It is more your perception of the world that has changed. Children is other countries routinely walk or cycle to school. It is the narrative about how dangerous the big bad world is in Ireland that has changed.
Weltsmertz wrote: » I specifically posted about teenagers going to secondary school and you try to use stats for college students. The stats are very clear. There has been a 90% fall in teenagers cycling to school and a significant fall in numbers walking. Do you remember school gates in the 80s being clogged with SUVs dropping children?
Mules wrote: » That's the parents decision, it's not the fault of the children.
Dravokivich wrote: » I see lots of teenagers walking to school in the morning. Not too sure what you're getting at OP?
Steyr 556 wrote: » I grew up in an era where literally some underpaid Russian conscript in a freezing nuclear missile command bunker could misinterpret the readouts from his faulty console and trigger nuclear armageddon. On several occasions this was very close to happening. CND was pretty big but nobody was getting anxiety from it, I didn't lose any sleep. This was even after Chernobyl and tv shows like Threads and When the Wind Blows.
Weltsmertz wrote: » There may be something in that. However if that is the case maybe the teenagers concerned about climate change would make a real difference if they had a quiet word with their mothers rather than going on protests and making demands of other adults.
Weltsmertz wrote: » Do you remember school gates in the 80s being clogged with SUVs dropping children?
Badly Drunk Boy wrote: » Did you consider that a lot of these teenagers protesting on the streets of Dublin and elsewhere are doing so for the day off school, or even just for something different to do? Obviously, some are really genuine about it, but I reckon a significant proportion are doing it for the buzz/bandwagon-jumping/missing school.
Dj Stiggie wrote: » It was certainly a thing in the States. People built fallout shelters and stockpiled food. Sitting presidents received letters from children begging them not to push the button. There's documentation of night terrors. But it didn't happen to you directly, so of course it's not real.
Paddy Cow wrote: » This was before my time but I was told that the Irish government sent out iodine tablets. Did this actually happen or was I being fed a porkie?
mrsdewinter wrote: » The iodine tablets went out in the wake of 911 when the Govt got a bit antsy remembering that Sellafield was just across the water and if people were flying planes into high-profile/sensitive targets, a nuclear power station may well be on their radar. So, no, that happened long after the Cold War ended.
Aaden Sticky Skullcap wrote: » If my kids spoke to an adult like Greta what's her face did they'd get an almighty slap for such disrespect. I've taught them better. The kid has autism and is being abused by whoever is behind her.
Weltsmertz wrote: » However are they not being hypocrites. If they are concerned about climate change should they not look at their own behavior first and realise that being driven everywhere in a gas gusling SUV means that they are part of the problem and not part of the solution.
Better Than Christ wrote: » I've never heard her speaking in anything other than a polite and respectful tone.
Better Than Christ wrote: » an era when children were supposed to be seen and not heard.
Better Than Christ wrote: » Also, it's a low blow using her autism against her.
DrPhilG wrote: » Bull. Even if you agree with her doomsday predictions, the "how dare you" speech could never in a million years be described as polite or respectful. It was the fact that it was the very opposite of polite and respectful that made it so popular.
Weltsmertz wrote: » Teenagers these days are fragile and easily upset. One of the things that seems to upset them the most these days is climate change. It makes them anxious and they even have protests and strikes to admonish adults for their irresponsible behaviors that contribute. However many Irish teenagers unlike children years ago or children in other countries can no longer walk or cycle to school. The roads are dangerous, stranger danger, they might get cold, they might get wet and catch pneumonia, they might hurt their backs from carrying schoolbags etc However are they not being hypocrites. If they are concerned about climate change should they not look at their own behavior first and realise that being driven everywhere in a gas gusling SUV means that they are part of the problem and not part of the solution.
Victor wrote: » They are still children and they are being controlled by their parents. It is the parents that say that they can't walk, cycle or use public transport, not the children.
Better Than Christ wrote: » Whatever about disagreeing with her views (which also happen to be the views of almost every climatologist in the world), I've never heard her speaking in anything other than a polite and respectful tone. But I suppose, if you're into slapping children, then your idea of what constitutes respect probably emanates from an era when children were supposed to be seen and not heard. Also, it's a low blow using her autism against her.
