Greta Thunberg (Continued...)

Ten of Swords · 13-03-2020 03:24PM

We still talking about Greta Thunberg?

Beasty · 13-03-2020 04:05PM

We have a number of threads discussing the Coronavirus - this should not be one of them

Now back on topic

Poldsgold · 13-03-2020 05:12PM

Ten of Swords wrote: »

We still talking about Greta Thunberg?

Did someone say Greta Thunberg?

Jimmy Garlic · 13-03-2020 05:24PM

Poldsgold wrote: »

Did someone say Greta Thunberg?

Greta is gone guys. Dumped by the media. Get over it.

13-03-2020 11:38PM

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Greta is gone guys. Dumped by the media. Get over it.

No, there's just a global crisis that has taken control of the news cycle. Climate change is sadly not going away.

Jimmy Garlic · 14-03-2020 02:32PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

No, there's just a global crisis that has taken control of the news cycle. Climate change is sadly not going away.

It's much scarier for the average person than the vagueness of climate change to be fair. Was watching BBC news there this morning, wall to wall fear mongering on a loop. The grim reaper got a new gig. Lidl was cleared out yesterday, even all the dog fod was gone lol.

ScallionAyter · 14-03-2020 02:33PM

Thank goodness for single use plastic, and private cars. So much more sanitary and safe during a pandemic.

AllForIt · 14-03-2020 04:32PM

The funny thing is for me I said on more than on occasion in relation to climate change that there could be many other things that could wipe us out other than climate change before it happens , and we're currently getting a taste of what that might look like now.

14-03-2020 06:12PM

AllForIt wrote: »

The funny thing is for me I said on more than on occasion in relation to climate change that there could be many other things that could wipe us out other than climate change before it happens , and we're currently getting a taste of what that might look like now.

The thing is, something like this even unhandled wouldn't wipe us out. It would drastically diminish populations. Climate change will eventually make it impossible for humanity to survive.

RandomViewer · 15-03-2020 01:29AM

Deleted User wrote: »

The thing is, something like this even unhandled wouldn't wipe us out. It would drastically diminish populations. Climate change will eventually make it impossible for humanity to survive.

people live in the Artic, people live in the Sahara, people even live in Offaly, what temperature fluctuations would be required to make your dream come true?

biko · 15-03-2020 01:41AM

It was lucky for Greta she had rich lefty parents that could support her struggle to become really famous.

No-one would have given a **** if little Aisha from Malmo would strike for the climate.

Pa ElGrande · 15-03-2020 10:51AM

biko wrote: »

It was lucky for Greta she had rich lefty parents that could support her struggle to become really famous.

No-one would have given a **** if little Aisha from Malmo would strike for the climate.

First class train fares are not free, Public relations don't work for free, security don't work for free, outsourcing social media management is not free. There is serious money behind this girl from the get go, her parents met with the organisers several months before she went on strike (and just before the mothers book was due to be published) and low and behold who happened to be passing, take a photo of her and get it published in a national paper, then is off to a United Nations conference in Poland where where she gives a press conference to an empty room and then goes to Davos in Switzerland as the publicity machine builds for the UN September conference she gets a ride on millionaires yacht across the Altlantic and then gets to scold the UN. She then goes on a tour of the US in a millionaires electric car and gets to pose with Hollywood celebrities, however poor people protesting in Chile scuppered that shindig and her publicity machine had to find her way to get to Spain, so someone hired a skipper for the catamaran to get her to Europe, while the other activists on the hired boat had to divert to another port in Brazil (with an Airport) and make their own way home. How did her Dad get home to Sweden from the USA? packet steamer or flight?

I do have sympathy for Greta, you do get glimpses into how she got to this state based on her mothers book and how the lack of attention from her parents created a situation whereby she and her mother externalised their family issues through climate change. She is naïve, stubborn and brave in pursuit of her cause, the downside is she is being manipulated and may or may not realise this or have yet figured out how to resolve this.

suicide_circus · 15-03-2020 11:09AM

ScallionAyter wrote: »

Thank goodness for single use plastic, and private cars. So much more sanitary and safe during a pandemic.

ScallionAyter · 15-03-2020 11:20AM

Hopefully the Corona lockdown is scaring the jaysus out of her and she can finally put climate change into perspective...she must be ragers that all the other kids are off school now too.

alastair · 15-03-2020 02:17PM

Pa ElGrande wrote: »

She then goes on a tour of the US in a millionaires electric car and gets to pose with Hollywood celebrities, however poor people protesting in Chile scuppered that shindig and her publicity machine had to find her way to get to Spain, so someone hired a skipper for the catamaran to get her to Europe, while the other activists on the hired boat had to divert to another port in Brazil (with an Airport) and make their own way home. How did her Dad get home to Sweden from the USA? packet steamer or flight?

A Tesla costs the same, irrespective of who owns/lent it - millionaire or otherwise.
Nobody hired a skipper to get her back from the US - the boat was sailing around the world regardless, and she hitched a ride - along with her father.

https://twitter.com/sailing_lavaga/status/1191442943581859848?s=21

Potential-Monke · 15-03-2020 02:24PM

alastair wrote: »

A Tesla costs the same, irrespective of who owns/lent it - millionaire or otherwise.
Nobody hired a skipper to get her back from the US - the boat was sailing around the world regardless, and she hitched a ride - along with her father.

https://twitter.com/sailing_lavaga/status/1191442943581859848?s=21

So she's ok with using other peoples pollution to get around. Cool.

Pa ElGrande · 15-03-2020 02:50PM

alastair wrote: »

A Tesla costs the same, irrespective of who owns/lent it - millionaire or otherwise.
Nobody hired a skipper to get her back from the US - the boat was sailing around the world regardless, and she hitched a ride - along with her father.

https://twitter.com/sailing_lavaga/status/1191442943581859848?s=21

Wouldn't we all like to have friends are so wealthy they can offer us a free subsidised car to wander around. The skipper's name was Nikki Henderson and Gretas father retuned to Sweden on a plane. They needed to fly in an experienced skipper as the boats owner could not get her to Spain in time. The people who own the boat in question had intended to hang around the lovely warm Caribbean for the Winter. They also have an outstanding debt on the boat to pay off they are not giving Greta a lift for free.

alastair · 15-03-2020 03:25PM

Potential-Monke wrote: »

So she's ok with using other peoples pollution to get around. Cool.

Which do you imagine was the most polluting? The electric car or the sailboat?

alastair · 15-03-2020 03:28PM

Pa ElGrande wrote: »

Wouldn't we all like to have friends are so wealthy they can offer us a free subsidised car to wander around. The skipper's name was Nikki Henderson and Gretas father retuned to Sweden on a plane. They needed to fly in an experienced skipper as the boats owner could not get her to Spain in time. The people who own the boat in question had intended to hang around the lovely warm Caribbean for the Winter. They also have an outstanding debt on the boat to pay off they are not giving Greta a lift for free.

They got a loaner electric car. So what? They could have hired one either. Greta’s father, like Greta, travelled to Portugal on La Vagabonde. Skippered by Riley Whitelum. They eventually got a train back to Sweden.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-05/the-real-greta-thunberg-emerged-aboard-la-vagabonde/11766208

Pa ElGrande · 15-03-2020 03:41PM

alastair wrote: »

They got a loaner electric car. So what? They could have hired one either. Greta’s father, like Greta, travelled to Portugal on La Vagabonde. Skippered by Riley Whitelum. They eventually got a train back to Sweden.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-05/the-real-greta-thunberg-emerged-aboard-la-vagabonde/11766208

I stand corrected on that point of her father travelling with her.

AlekSmart · 15-03-2020 06:43PM

Pa ElGrande wrote: »

I stand corrected on that point of her father travelling with her.

Well,as long as you take your lashes like a man,I'm sure we can make allowances for you.

The current lack of Climate Change Armageddoning from the Thunberg Channel is only temporary.

Normal service will resume just as soon as the creatives can find a means to segway the (by now) long running Greta plotline into the somewhat more dynamic Covid-19 thing.

However,do not fret,as these folks are well adept at flogging bottles of coloured smoke.

As you mention earlier in thread,the scale of the entire Thunberg programme is impressive of itself,however it also underlines some very worrisome elements relating to exactly why the young Greta found herself mired so deeply in the midst of a vipers nest.

Now,off with you agus Glán do lamhaí

Jimmy Garlic · 16-03-2020 07:35AM

Well guys..If Chinese bat flu takes me away then this is my last breath...

Thelonious Monk · 16-03-2020 10:58AM

Just forget about Greta and live your life Jimmy... I worry about you

18-03-2020 03:54AM

have to enjoy a snicker at the idea that the posters hovering for a hint of any questioning or criticism of the greta project so that they can immediately rush in to protect the honour of their princess have any platform at all from which to wonder about whether anyone else has anything better to do with their time.

id say the money behind gretas platform is absolutely furious that their

what is it again, oh yes, 'awareness'

has been superceded by the cov

NSAman · 18-03-2020 04:25AM

Green policies will have to be implemented after this.... there will be F*** all money for anything unless it is cheap and replenishing after we are finished keeping the human life on this planet alive.

Not a fan of Greta, she is a PR puppet.

Whatever is cheapest to operate will be the future of energy. You can forget the massive investment in Green Technology unless it offers a quick payback. There will be massive tax rises. BUT, before all this, we have to make sure that people survive this and the next pandemic (this will happen again)

Thelonious Monk · 18-03-2020 11:17AM

Deleted User wrote: »

have to enjoy a snicker at the idea that the posters hovering for a hint of any questioning or criticism of the greta project so that they can immediately rush in to protect the honour of their princess have any platform at all from which to wonder about whether anyone else has anything better to do with their time.

id say the money behind gretas platform is absolutely furious that their

what is it again, oh yes, 'awareness'

has been superceded by the cov

They're probably delighted we're taking the standard of living drop required to stop all the pollution, and planes are grounded, and CO2 levels over China and Italy have dropped dramatically. Maybe Greta made the virus herself!

Fr_Dougal · 18-03-2020 11:24AM

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

They're probably delighted we're taking the standard of living drop required to stop all the pollution, and planes are grounded, and CO2 levels over China and Italy have dropped dramatically. Maybe Greta made the virus herself!

Aren’t you using a car?

Thelonious Monk · 18-03-2020 11:26AM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Aren’t you using a car?

Yesterday my gf drove us to Killiney yes, I don't own a car. Why?

Fr_Dougal · 18-03-2020 11:45AM

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Yesterday my gf drove us to Killiney yes, I don't own a car. Why?

Look how clogged our towns and cities are with cars. Gridlock at times. No room for pedestrians and cyclists on inner city streets. It's ridiculous.
It will only get worse if we head in a direction of everyone owning a car.

Well yeah I'd love all cars banned from the city but that's because I cycle to work. We could take away civil servants parking for starters, there are 1000s of parking spaces in the city for civil servants of a certain grade and above. Ridiculous.
Unfortunately we don't have the public transport system to justify taking cars out of the city but the traffic is only going to get worse and worse and we have no infrastructure projects in motion to improve it, in the middle of a boom.

You depend on cars because you are idiots with your brainless planning.

We need to move away from private cars.

Ah but we might, you may have to go right around the centre eventually or be really inconvenienced! We need to get private cars out of the city no matter what, and it's slowly moving in that way.

Seems like your previous posts are quite hypocritical.

You live in the city centre, plenty of DARTs to Killiney.

Thelonious Monk · 18-03-2020 12:17PM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Seems like your previous posts are quite hypocritical.

You live in the city centre, plenty of DARTs to Killiney.

I stand by all those quotes, that's not to say I don't be in cars from time to time, like everyone else. Normally take dart or cycle everywhere. Didn't want to get on a dart because of virus yesterday. You must have a lot of time on your hands, weirdo.

Greta Thunberg (Continued...)

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