Greta Thunberg (Continued...)

Ah right so no evidence at all then, no surprise there.

Her foundation gave money to Sudan.
https://thegretathunbergfoundation.org/news/humanitarian-aid-to-people-impacted-by-armed-conflicts/

And as far back as 2022 she's been campaigning for the people of Sudan
https://x.com/GretaThunberg/status/1511601617807806464?lang=ar

You know, you can just google this stuff.

It's a catch 22. If someone only attends events for one cause then they're biased and don't care about other stuff.

If they care about multiple things than they're narcissists who don't actually care.

This means that they can claim the people are hypocrites whatever the person does.

A month or two ago she went on holidays all the way from Sweden to Mykonos, just to save the planet. Wonder did she walk? I suppose she had to recover from her Mediterranean cruise during the summer.

Reminds me of the time she sailed across the Atlantic to save the world but forgot to mention (a) the very large yacht was made, very expensively, from fibreglass, an oil based product (b) that to bring the yacht back a crew had to be flown in from all over the world.

You have to admire her, as someone else said "she has discovered the secret for a work free life and getting all the good things life has to offer like nice meals and travelling the world to nice places while being flattered by the fools." 

If you want to change the world, why not stop people like Patrick Kielty commuting by airplane for work? Every Friday he flies in to Dublin from London. That is unsustainable.

On the other hand the airplane Kielty flies on may carry - at a rough estimate - 50 million ( 50,000,000 ) passengers over its lifetime, given it is in use perhaps 15 hous a day seven days a week. The very expensive yacht Greta sailed on to America costing a million euro may be used by only thousands of people over its lifetime.

Will Greta thumb to the Late Late studios and give out to Kielty?

On many levels, no chance of that happening.

NB having been to Sweden recently, it is not the same Sweden of 40 or 50 years ago. Greta has done nothing to help that.

Firstly, when was she in Mycanos? Are you referring to when she was deported from israel to Athens? Because being deported to Athens wasn't her idea.

Secondly, she travelled to the flotilla over land and sea, not using planes.

Thirdly, she's not against using plastics and she didn't build the boat. Plastics exist. manufacturing exists. It's possible to be against unnecessary consumption and still allow plastic. Do you think that I'm against single use plastics in hospitals because I'm against single use packaging in general? they're different situations. We're not all as dogmatic and unbending as you. I can see the benefits in one while still being against the other.

Who is Patrick Kielty? Only the host of the longest running chat show in the world, and the presenter of the main tv programme in Ireland. If Greta condemns unnecessay air travel - the likes of the squeezed middle escaping from Ireland to the sun once a year - should'nt she condemn the likes of Patrick Kielty who flies twice every week?

That ship is entirely powered by renewable. It's also a sailing ship. How many tonnes of CO2 were generated in it's production?

The average Transatlantic passenger generates 1000kg of CO2. The average transatlantic flight generates hundreds of tonnes. So you're complaining that someone hitched a lift on a boat?

And are you actually saying that to be against the excessive use of commercial travel, someone has to go and protest at everyone who travels excessively. And if she doesn't go to RTE and complain to Kielty, she's a hypocrite? Thing that maybe you're setting the standard a bit too high there?

Who knows how many tonnes of CO2 were generate in its production, but I'm sure it was considerable, with specials flying in from over the world to work on such a one-off, large custom project. And a French Newspaper reported that several crew flew to New York to sail the yacht back to Europe, after they took Greta from Europe to New York.

If we want a serious discussion or debate on climate change, why not do it on the main platform in the country, the Late Late. Gay Byrne would have done so, as he often had debates on topical issues. And he did not fly from London every week and back.

Byrne got the ferry when he started out. He did not fly weekly like Kielty does.

People flew across the Atlantic specially to take back the boat the Greta crossed the Atlantic on. She would have been better going on an airplane herself in the first place.

As regards entertainers travelling, yes of course singers and so on do, to reach different audiences. Kielty is different, the Late Late is always, or practically always, hosted from Dublin.

In 2023 Greta T. travelled to the Swedish city of Malmo to participate in mass demonstrations demanding a young Israeli singer be banned from participating in the annual Eurovision song contest. Greta Thunberg insisted that her voice be heard in opposition to the Israeli singer, yet she stayed silent as Hezbollah rockets set fire to thousands of acres and caused damage in northern Israel. "How dare you," indeed. She is well able to travel herself.

 She started out as a single issue climate change activist, then as interest that faded, she sailed across the Atlantic, which backfired as it just came off as “rich girl goes on sailing trip” rather than a protest. If she wanted to cross the Atlantic by boat, she should have done it on an old wooden boat, a boat that would cost a fraction the cost of the high tech racing carbon fibre machine she went on, all made from unsustainable materials.

Now she’s on to selected war protesting, but ignores many many conflicts around the world. Her brand is diluted now, but would love to see her challenged on the Late Late Show. Byrne would have striven to get her, but no international celebrities want to come to Kielty's effort. Anyway Kielty would be afraid to have her on, someone would pull him up on the way he takes planes the way some of the rest of us ordinary plebs take trains.

There’s plenty to criticise a middle class secondary school dropout with no life experience telling others how to live their lives even before she decided to hop on that cause, I’m sure she will be out protesting the UK government for their decades long coverup of grooming gangs too, or is that not popular enough.

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