Greta Thunberg (Continued...)

Gretta is a professional activist for every cause!

The mass distribution protests are planned to stop people getting to work for the maximum impact and publicity. That impact was disruption rather than anything positive. Most of the just stop oil pledges from governments were rolled back after Ukraine war and the realisation that you need to extract any energy possible locally.

I didn’t mention that date specifically in that post. I was referring to these protests generally. Anyone spending their free time going to this hasn’t got much going on in their lives.

You didn't show me impact. You just restated what you said earlier.

BTW, Greta is in favour of nuclear energy.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/greta-thunbergs-pro-nuclear-comment-stirs-german-runtime-extension-debate

Also, i don't see why you're bringing in migration into this, but you do realise that the population of the planet doesn't increase when people move. And unless you're against people from another country having the same standard of living that we do, I can't see why it should matter in the climate discussion.

If you do think that our carbon output is too high, are you in favor of massive cutbacks in carbon producing in western countries? For example heavily taxing meat to encourage a vegetarian lifestyle. Especially since the biggest industry contributing to greenhouse gases in Ireland, not to mention deforestation and depletion of wildlife, is farming.

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/environment-at-a-glance-country-notes_59ce6fe6-en/ireland_b15fb7fb-en.html#:~:text=The%20per%20person%20production%2Dbased,but%20decreased%20again%20in%202022.

https://www.epa.ie/our-services/monitoring--assessment/climate-change/ghg/agriculture/

Can you prove me wrong by pointing out a few environmental campaigners/protesters that you fully support. People that have the same policies as Greta but you feel are better than her. It would also be great if you could provide any actual damage that she's done.

You specifically quoted a post about this very event. In fact you bought the event to light on this thread. Again, who told you it was a weekday protest and who told you about the demographics of the people that were there?

I take the point that it can be read as insulting, but it wasn’t intended to provoke individuals or bait responses. It was a general comment on the tone and behaviour across the discussion rather than a reply to any specific post or poster. If the forum rules require only direct responses to individual arguments, that’s fair, but commenting on wider patterns in a thread is also a common and legitimate part of discussion. If you feel triggered and are worried about your balls or the fact that you could be a keyboard warrier that's on you.

I suppose Elon jettisoning a Tesla in orbit is one less Tesla on the road to bettering our planet. Way to go!

It will only result in a green tax, a great excuse for the government the take more of your money while doing nothing, other than regulating local industries making them uncompetitive through taxation.

No you don’t, as I have said before if you don’t fly you can massively reduce your carbon footprint as it is one if not the biggest polluters individuals create, then don’t own a car and you are in the top percent of low carbon footprint individuals. Those are all personal, they require no government intervention and are all personal choices. They would achieve more than green taxes.

If you spend your life travelling to different countries to protest you can’t have a low carbon footprint, you are still travelling more than the average person.

Green taxes go into the same tax pot, they are not ear marked for only climate projects, the first down turn they will be cut but the taxes won’t and will remain just like USC.

The earths oceans are extremely big, trans Pacific and Atlantic boat trips take weeks, a plane takes hours. If Greta used a boat, she would arrive too late to speak while people are still listening. Flying helps her stay relevant, so her message is heard at the right time.

It also keeps her relevant and people like you who have literally hundreds of posts about her keep her causes alive.

For instance I didn't know about the Venice protest until you started posting false information about it here.

It’s all unnecessary travel by a professional protester that doesn’t have a real job or is impacted by inflation or these taxes like regular people.

You can’t expect people to make sacrifices that you are not willing to make, just because a small group of people turn up to protest doesn’t mean that their cause should be put over the masses, what they want will increase prices and just offshore any industry they don’t like. It doesn’t get rid of them.