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Kids From At Least 112 Countries, Including the US, Go on Strike To Protest Climate Change
It started 29 weeks ago when 16-year-old Swede Greta Thunberg began skipping school on Fridays to protest climate change by standing outside of her nation's parliament building. Today, kids from more than 110 countries, including the United States, are following Thunberg's lead and will play hooky from classes for something they think is ultimately more important: preventing the warming of their planet. Live updates, from The Guardian. Further reading: Thousands of scientists are backing the kids striking for climate change.
Time to stop creating climate policies based on the personal opinions of old people with only a few more years to live.
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Go to school, kids. If you want to protest, do it in more productive ways--like cornering Diane Feinstein and asking her why she hates puppies.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
School administrations are not going to get in the way of the cause du jour. The ensuing recreational outrage will not be worth it.
Maybe they should protest the sky being blue?
Or, water being wet.
3 day weekends in the name of justice!
Hmmmm..... I may need to implement this policy for myself....
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
How brave... As they dab at home playing Fortnite and eating hot pockets.
It doesn't take much to get a kid to decide not to go to school. But are they willing to make real sacrifices for the environment? Probably not. You have to give up meat. You can't buy electronics devices. You can't use plastics. Can't drink milk or consume many other animal products unless they are expensive sustainable varieties. You have to give up on shopping at the mall and do all your clothes shopping at thrift stores buying only highly durable clothing that lasts more than a season. Give up any sports or extracurriculars that require you to travel by bus.
When kids do those things, they will be standing on firm moral ground.
Someone told these kids a story about the future and they believed it. Childrens' belief in stories about the future is not a reason to do anything one way or another.
People should stop pretending they know the future. They don’t.
I'm just thinking how envious we should be that a kid found a way to play hooky that has the publicity and backing to keep them out of detention.
Wish I'd thought of this when I was in high school (the assholes in charge would never have let it fly though!)
Protest gravity (I wanna fly damnit), how time only moves in one direction (bullshit I tell you!), the speed light travels in a vacuum (way to damn slow!). And fuck weather, fuck it! I'm either too cold or too hot, usually too cold, so we should protest that also. I'm also offended how others are so offended about being offended by others being offended. "Think of the children" people.
This madness must end!
Wind up toy jitters around after key is turned.
lose != loose
Have them start by changing their lifestyle to combat global warming without having the suck on the teat of government. We'll see how much traction it gets then.
Don't worry kids, adults are hypocrites too. They like to backpedal and make up shit when the science doesn't favor their lazy ass lifestyles too.
Yeah sure because every gods-be-damned thing has to be about DEMOCRATS and REPUBLICANS and nothing else matters. Who cares about anything that's going to happen 100 years from now? Only what happens the next election, or the next fiscal year, or the next gods-be-damned news cycle has any relevance whatsoever to anyone anywhere.
Go see your optometrist, myopian; apparently your prescription is so out-of-date that you can't see past your own nose anymore.
Greta's argument is this: If we don't care about her future, why should she?
It's disgusting how adults manipulate children to promote their own agendas. How on earth is this legal?
No one listens to kids. This is how it must be, because most of the time they spout ill informed drivel.
Missing 20% of your school days doesn't seem like a good way to achieving their goals. If you don't have a good education, how do you expect to be able to effect positive change in the world? Fixing things takes more than good intentions.
Last week they protested bedtimes, and the week before that, having to brush their teeth.
Do you? Go watch this: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/... if you really think that's 2 hours of lies and bullshit and so-called 'libtards' and their 'liberal agenda' then you don't belong on slashdot or in any science or technology-based career, go to seminary and become a goddamned priest.
...as they try to change their world.
Are immune to your consulations.
They're quite aware of what theyre going through.
- David Bowie
Good onya kids, more informed than the denialist fucktards on Slashdot, silly old men united in their greed and denial.
K-12 students in the US can't go on strike, they're compelled by law to attend school and therefore what these kids are doing is being truant.
That being said, if thousands of scientists didn't convince you that human activity was causing climate change, the opinions of thousands of children shouldn't really be the tipping point.
Kids aren't doing this because they genuinely give a damn about Climate Change.
They're doing it because it's a convenient excuse to get out of school.
Fail those who exceed the maximum number of days they can miss in a School Year.
Once you introduce consequences into the equation, you'll figure out who is serious and who isn't.
( Those who are willing to watch their friends move on to the next grade level while they repeat it are the serious ones )
Adult lesson of the day:
It isn't much of a strike / protest unless you risk something in return.
For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.
Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
It has blood on it!
ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
Sound of Silence
Sun researchers find strange eclipse reading
Greta's argument is this: If we don't care about her future, why should she?
Oh, she shouldn't. Doesn't matter in the slightest what she cares about. In Sweden, the law says that you have to attend elementary school (the first 9 years, and she is still in 9th grade) whether you care about learning or not.
Don't act like you all have never "taken up a cause" during test week. lol
That video was great, if you understand what was going on.
A bunch of lefty hacks went to Diane not to engage her in dialog, but to start shit.
Diane Feinstein is a hardened old politician and at 85 she's not going to take anyone's shit, so she dropped the hammer, ignoring the cute kids they brought as human shields.
Then they went and posted an edited video because they were butthurt about being brutally dunked on by an old grandma.
I disagree with Feinstien on a lot of policy items, but she's a party elder and she's put in her work. When I watched that video I was never more proud.
Greta's argument is this: If we don't care about her future, why should she?
Counterpoint: You don't actually know what is good for you when you're a teenager.
Who's coordinating this behind the scenes? Who are the adults in charge of this? "Get a free day off school if you just go with our political program" is too good to be true. Our investigative journalists are asleep at the wheel. This is big, very big. There's a Pulitzer Prize waiting for the one who busts this open.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
"you don't belong on slashdot" Thanks for the input Adolf.
We heard you the first three times you posted this. If you have to resort to spam you might want to consider the quality of your argument.
Kids, don't let school interfere with your education. And stop believing everything you read on the Internet; it's full of idiots like elrous0 and AC.
Bite me, myopian. Now go to your priest and tell them the Bad Bad Science People are trying to tempt you with Satan's lies again. Or whatever your problem is.
Yup, the protest is stupid.
These kids are being manipulated and exploited for someone's political agenda.
Who KNOWS for sure what's going to happen in 100 years? I've listened to too many sky-is-falling proclamations from scientists and politicians alike in the last 30 years. I have no faith that they can predict that far in advance. In fact, according to 10+ years ago we only had 10 years to fix things or we're done for. When they quit flying to their "climate change conferences", when they start practicing what they preach, until they come up with solutions other than "Give me money" "Give me power" then I'll believe them. Until then, this whole thing is too politicized to believe EITHER side as having the gospel truth.
Why renewables can’t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxDanubia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Why we base public policy on what 14 year olds think is part of the problem.
Skipping school (e.g. skipping knowledge) to protest something that requires a lot of knowledge to understand is not productive.
He's not wrong. You're shelling out insults as usual though.
They're obviously products of a libtard ejumacation.
But look at all the attention they are getting. And they get to be on TV and the Internets!
I think someone is 'Triggered'
Please stop reproducing, these O2 sucking, CO2 dropping tiny monsters.
Well, obviously a liberal education lets people actually learn how to spell... which suggests that, based on your post, anyone should trust you about as much as a drunken bum on a corner selling Rolex watches.
Try going back and watching some episodes of All in the Family (Show from the 70's) and Archie and Mike get into about our government, I bet you believe the show was made now. It is the same arguments Democrats/Republicans and Climate
You're the world's most willfully stupid faggot. The End. (True story.) You have no future, faggot. You will never matter.
Well, maybe if she was informed by more then one source(like most adults). She would know that people are trying to do things.
Myself, I think pollution is where we should start. Most pollution is plastic(fossil). It has clogged our rivers and oceans. It seeps into our ground water through either our land fills or trash left on land.
If we were to move away from plastic products, don't you think our co2 or what ever other pollutant that contributes to global warming would decrease?
Most western nations have already moved away from coal for producing electricity. Gas, wind, geo, Hydroelectric, nuclear. All of these has ALREADY contributed to lowering the effects of Global Warming. Research has already shown that people are moving away from everyone must own a car. People are again finding ways to survive without driving everywhere. At the very least, only driving when it is long distance.
The research into finding other methods of energy, that do not contribute to global warming has never stopped.
for her to say that we don't care shows that she really doesn't understand what has been done, what currently is being done, and what is trying to be done. In other words, she should stay in school so she can help intellectually to solving the problem.
Bull shit, she is ABSOLUTELY wrong that "we don't care". Again, bull shit. Uninformed, brain washed.
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
PBS is not a good source of unbiased information.
It's not my fault you're a goddamned idiot.
That's why it's a good idea to listen to people who are both smarter than you, and who have performed repeatable experimentation over and over to prove a theory. I guess what you are saying is that Greta doesn't actually know what is good for her, so she shouldn't be tricked into listening to scientists? Who should she be listening to?
Who cares about anything that's going to happen 100 years from now? Only what happens the next election,
100 years from now? The world's going to end in 20 years! Or so I hear every few years. Nuclear war between the US and Russia was a real threat to all humanity. Everything panic after is at most "meh".
But. yeah, the Dems and GOP are both almost-entirely owned by the .01%. They only actually disagree about things that don't matter to the economy. Everything else is for show (e.g., Republicans crossing the aisle to stop the wall being built - can't let the economy be affected by that pesky democracy!).
I'm not sure we can vote our way out of problems with economic consequences any more in America. Pity.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
They're obviously products of a libtard ejumacation.
Hey Anonymous Coward - At least they have an education and aren't proud to be ignorant of basic facts - Unlike you, apparently.
Do you? Go watch this: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/... if you really think that's 2 hours of lies and bullshit and so-called 'libtards' and their 'liberal agenda' then you don't belong on slashdot or in any science or technology-based career, go to seminary and become a goddamned priest.
Great, so you know there is a problem. Now how about a science based solution...as in nuclear...anything else is just a rounding error and a feel good solution that does nothing. The first step is knowing there is a problem. But that's not the stage we are at right now. We know there is a problem, we just can't get anyone to invest in a realistic solution. Instead we get feel good solutions that do nothing to solve the core problems and likely make things worse in the long run. Until you (and your side) goes all the way to a realistic science based solution...stop using science as your sword. Because its only a sword if you use it to find a solution too. Otherwise, you are a fake using the word science to give yourself credibility while you try to amass more control of others.
"Those that start by burning books, will end by burning men."
This particular teenager clearly does know. Don't project.
Manipulating kids on a global scale to push a political interest while pretending it's grass-roots and then reporting it that way in the news.
It's time we call this what it is every time we see it. It's all about consolidated control.
The people in charge of these movements don't give a rats ass about the environment, in fact they intentionally trigger and prolong real environmental disasters to justify more regulation. That's why the BP disaster in the gulf took so long to plug and rivers in Indian reservations were intentionally polluted by the EPA.
They have to make each of us feel guilty in an individual basis too push their agenda. That's why stuff like this news article gets published.
You want to really clean up the environment on a personal basis? Bring back deposit bottles, less manufacturing overhead and it gives kids and homeless something to make some money with. Stop the single use craze by buying in bulk and from farmers markets. Intentionally but things with less packaging.
Want to address the larger scale? Legalize newer nuclear reactors that are less dangerous, like pebble bed reactors. Recycle the existing spent full no matter how Jimmy Carter feels about it. Get the ethanol out of our has engines. Start making Sterling Engines that run in ethanol to keep the corn lobby happy and to fuel local backup power and even supplement the grid. Use it to purify water while you're at it.
This is propaganda people, recognize it, shine a light on it.
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Right, because there's clearly no future for stupid people who get lots of media attention. A few days of school will certainly do more to prepare you for a successful future than getting international headlines for doing nothing of any consequence.
Life on earth depends on water. So let's cover the entire surface of the planet with water. That should make things infinitely better, you stupid fuck.
Just start ANY new kind of PROTEST (of anything & by doing anything), or, ANY new kind of "CHALLENGE" (@YOUTUBE)!!! :-)
If you really, truly believed the bridge was out, you'd obviously pick B. Environmentalists have forced us to pick C. We've had a solution to man-made climate change for over half a century - nuclear power. The only reason we haven't switched from fossil fuels to nuclear power is because of opposition by environmentalists. They suffer what I call just right-itis. To them there's just the right amount of global warming going on. Enough that we need to ditch fossil fuels and switch to renewable power to ensure the survival of the human race, but not enough that we need to switch immediately to nuclear power to buy us more time to work on developing renewable power technologies.
If you really, truly believed global warming was a threat to the human race, you'd accept that nuclear power was the lesser of two evils, and that the obvious smartest course of action is to switch immediately from fossil fuels to nuclear power. Thus giving ourselves decades if not centuries to work on developing renewable power technology to replace nuclear power. That these environmentalists and liberals completely reject nuclear power suggests that they themselves don't really believe global warming is a real threat, and instead they just see it as a way to pressure others into implementing their preferred power solution faster.
In my country of birth there were no tornadoes in the recorded history. Until a few years ago.
Sure people have heard of them and seen them on TV, but never experienced them, so the first time one happened, they did not know what it was.
Yes, and kids in that same country did hear the story about the Wizard of Oz.
Do you think they believed that they were about to meet the Tin Man and his friends?
Or that global warming may have something to do with what they experienced ?
From the link:
“The idea of a climate strike is innovative. It’s provocative, and I think it’s the right form of non-violent civil disobedience,” says Gail Whiteman, a social scientist at Lancaster University, UK, and one of many academics who have voiced their support for the strikes.
In fact, according to 10+ years ago we only had 10 years to fix things or we're done for.
We did. Those predictions still stand. There's fuck ton going wrong with the world at an ever increasing rate and even cutting back now won't actually solve the problem.
until they come up with solutions other than "Give me money" "Give me power" then I'll believe them
I know. Those evil mad scientists with their Ferraris and their evil lairs keeping you down. I to pollute the world just to spite them.
Until then, this whole thing is too politicized to believe EITHER side as having the gospel truth.
Oh I get it now. You've been getting your science from politicians rather than scientists. It's an easy mistake to make. May I interest you in some conspiracy theory? You likely to love those.
You lie about nuclear on a daily basis. YOU are the FUD. Nuclear is a dangerous technology done on a market rate budget. Fact, the waste can contaminate drinking water for thousands of years. It's a concern. You're a moron who has never worked in a nuclear reactor. I actually have. I respect the fact that a long term storage facility and framework is required to shore up the safety problems we already have, but there's no forward motion on that right now. You should respect the fact that the MARKET has decided nuclear power sold at market rates IS NO LONGER ECONOMICALLY VIABLE without government monies put in, essentially socializing it. If you were honest about that fact it'd be a lot more supportable, but you're not. Solar and Wind are inexpensive technologies that do the job better for the money, that's just an objective fact when you consider the long-tail supply chain and waste / cleanup issues associated with nuclear power, which right now taxpayers pay. Natural Gas 0-emissions power generation is going online as we speak, they have found a way to sequester the carbon without much cost at all.
You're obsolete and spreading non-functioning bullshit. Like the Republican crying because sick people are concerned about health care, you need a new life. A better life. One that doesn't involve so much BS whining.
This kind of shit is absolutely disgusting.
Let them have a childhood.
"Who KNOWS for sure what's going to happen in 100 years?" - Republican setting fire to a building.
Eh, Manchester (UK) kids are protesting by blocking the trams, one of the friendliest to the environment mode of transportation available for the city. If they don't realize the stupidity of that now, they sure won't in the future by missing more school...
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...or should the title really be "Kids skipping school opportunistically use some current cultural thing as excuse to avoid punishment"?
I'm not sure I'm going to really follow the 'moral leadership' of a group who had to be repeatedly told to STOP EATING TIDE PODS.
-Styopa
You lie about nuclear on a daily basis. YOU are the FUD. Nuclear is a dangerous technology done on a market rate budget. Fact, the waste can contaminate drinking water for thousands of years. It's a concern. You're a moron who has never worked in a nuclear reactor. I actually have. I respect the fact that a long term storage facility and framework is required to shore up the safety problems we already have, but there's no forward motion on that right now. You should respect the fact that the MARKET has decided nuclear power sold at market rates IS NO LONGER ECONOMICALLY VIABLE without government monies put in, essentially socializing it. If you were honest about that fact it'd be a lot more supportable, but you're not. Solar and Wind are inexpensive technologies that do the job better for the money, that's just an objective fact when you consider the long-tail supply chain and waste / cleanup issues associated with nuclear power, which right now taxpayers pay. Natural Gas 0-emissions power generation is going online as we speak, they have found a way to sequester the carbon without much cost at all.
You're obsolete and spreading non-functioning bullshit. Like the Republican crying because sick people are concerned about health care, you need a new life. A better life. One that doesn't involve so much BS whining.
You can't spell "liberal" without "liar."
Just maybe in 100 years people will have more advanced technology that allows them to solve their own problems.
Just maybe the 100 year predictions are wrong, after all - all the global warming predictions over the last 30 years have been.
But your Quixotic plans to control the climate will definitely decimate the economy and ruin the lives of these children.
" This is big, very big. " - You are stupid, very stupid. I love how kids protest and you cry like a bitch on fire. Good work kids, you made the uneducated Republican trashminds jealous again!
When Trump hangs we'll round the rest of these treasonous GOP faggots up for re-education, their greatest fear and mortal enemy - information.
Ugh. Sooo stupid. I don't have words.
1. Kids don't produce anything, striking saves resources
2. Education is for their benefit
3. Their parents may be liable for them not going to school
4. This is obviously mostly done because of they want to skip class. That is why it is a Friday.
5. Who are they are they trying to influence? You protest at a bank because of the policies of the bank. Schools are not causing CC
6. Are they doing "productive" things during the time? Or just playing games or whatever?
Ok. I lied, I guess I do have words.
The idea that this activity plays a great part in 'climate change' aka 'global warming' is debatable: look at the sun.
How much more power does it send in our direction?
Did you count the sun spots?
Shhh. Warmists get angry when you point out that the Earth is warmed by the Sun. They like it even less when you point out that as limited as our climate models are, they're still way better than our models of the solar atmosphere and internals.
There's a consensus, you moron; know your place and don't argue with your betters.
Oh, well, there goes my karma.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Half the arguments these days tend to go something like:
Employee: "I'm taking Fridays off to protest global warming!"
Boss: "How is that related to global warming?"
Employee: "I can't believe you'd say something so racist!?!?!"
Boss: "That had nothing to do with racism, and if you don't come in Friday you won't get paid."
Employee: "How could you try to deny my existence!?"
I'm not going to deny that global warming exists, but to speak bluntly: it doesn't much matter if we dump X amount of CO2 into the atmosphere in 100 years or 8000 years. On a global/geologic timescale they are approximately equal. Regardless of how fast we do it, every single fossil fuel on this planet will be used up and burned. All we can really do is cross our fingers and hope that however much CO2 that happens to be isn't so much that it kills everyone.
If it's below that threshold, then we'll eventually create renewable energy sources out of necessity - essentially that will be our way of evolving through this change. If it's not, then whatever does survive will evolve to live in whatever new climate the planet settles into.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
Counterpoint: You don't actually know what is good for you when you're a teenager.
Speak for yourself. I got my first PhD at 17.
It's not really "playing hookey" if the teachers are giving the kids extra credit to participate.
It's obvious that you listen to too many crackpots. You should learn to be more skeptical!
If you think being wrong once in the past makes a person wrong now, then you are an easy person to manipulate. You should learn to be more skeptical!
go to seminary and become a pastor.
After 30 years in technology, doing exactly that. Great advice!
The few (some fraction of 1% or the 7.5 + billion population) who are controlling the correction of the climate issue need to get their ass in gear and get it done instead of just talking about it all the time. For certainly they are not allowing the rest of us, the mass majority of the population to participate, otherwise http://3seas.org/Voice_of_Glob... would happen. Isn't it Obvious?
Who cares. Technically, if they are not fishing it's not "hookey". You are missing the point. School children are often looking for any excuse to avoid going to school. Extending extra credit is just pushing an agenda. The children should be in school.
cook up a reason to skip school! We can all feel secure that some day these enlighten/educated?/smart individuals will be running things.
;)
Just my 2 cents
Who's orchestrating this bullshit and why aren't liberals aware that if clean technology is not affordable for the masses (read the 99%), it is a no-starter!
Can't all of these NPCs stop ruining their kids lives?
Everything a joke now (was it ever not?).
You can't stop it, enjoy your time.
I guess that they haven't figured out that the only solution is overpopulation control, which will make kids extinct.
Good thinking. Trying to get businesses and people to stop doing things that impact climate change isn't doing much, so let's tackle it from the other end: protest global warming! Once that works out, let's protest erupting volcanoes. After that, I nominate mosquitoes as a protest target. /s
(Hint: nature doesn't give a flying fig about protests. The climate will continue to change, no matter how much you stamp your foot at it and tell it to stop, unless people do something about it, and the clock is running out on that option.)
What's unrealistic about wind and solar energy? What's realistic about nuclear? Nuclear is a religion.
The carbon problem will be solved by people who stay in school, get themselves a solid STEM education, and manage to get energy and sequestration projects going in places where the student activists can't "deplatform" them.
This is not yahoo news, bitch. Go home
Here in Denmark certain schoolkids brought along acrylic-based painting in which they wrote slogans on public walls and whatsnot while it was raining... Sure a great way to demonstrate against climate change by polluting the nature. >_
I'm a registered Democrat (only recent; was Independent) and I'm an advocate of nuclear power. We can make it safer and it solves the majority of our problems in one fell swoop. Now if we can convince everyone else...
See: https://slashdot.org/comments.... :-)
Don't assume that 'climate change believers' and 'anti-nuclear power' always go together.
hurr durr triggered
You're impessing me less and less. Get lost.
It's a more immediate threat.
Oh, and protest storm surges.
On the bright side, they're skipping classes that don't teach them much.
Now, if they were striking by NOT using their phones and other things that use electricity generated from non-renewable sources...
These kids aren't making a sacrifice of time and effort to make a statement. They are using "protesting" as an excuse to justify getting out of an unwanted responsibility.
Get the brats back in class. They can do mass letter-writing campaigns or something if they want to get involved in politics.
Once they have jobs and responsibilities that they care about, THEN they can protest and have it actually mean something.
if they actually strike then yeah, this is a real sacrifice.
First off, 7 companies are responsible for the bulk of carbon emissions. Climate Change is an industrial problem. We need to get mega business to clean up and we need to switch to clean renewables. Not eating hamberders isn't going to help. The companies making those hamburgers will just pollute the same with vegetables. Cow Farts are overrated to make climate change sound silly.
As for the Kids, I don't know about the rest of the world but the kids in my high school were terrified to miss school. They're painfully aware of how competitive life is. They see how shitting their parents lives are and they're scared of that. This is by design, btw. Putting pressure on your working class is a great way to keep them under control.
So yeah, it does take quite a bit to make kids skip these days. Times have changed old man. Seeing your mom and dad spend 10 months looking for work and constantly hearing "We can't afford that son" changes things.
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We need more kids to do this. It is their future that old fogies are destroying.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Those students should be protesting the color of the sky instead. It would make basically the same amount of sense, however people might actually get together to make it happen. No moronic carbon taxes. Just pump some rare earth metals( in atomized form) into the atmosphere. It would be like coloring eggs for easter, except the whole world could get in on the action without religious persecution.
Disclaimer: I would weep for the ignorance and stupidity of Humanity in general, but then my popcorn would get wet.
So, get rid of the people and the planet gets better...I'm sure these kids would jump on that bandwagon. Systems try and achieve a steady-state and on its way to that stability some crazy things happen. Kids are dreamers until the harsh reality of life hits, and then they wake up and realize...around 27 or 28...that policies don't change things...people's choices do. Resentment is what happens when you're platitudes collide with others' attitudes.
What her stance was on nuclear power, she replied she doesn't know cause she is just a kid.
This is just a big PR sham without content exploiting a young girl
There's a consensus, you moron; know your place and don't argue with your betters
There was a consensus that the Earth was flat and at the center of the universe, too; look how that turned out.
I wonder if some of them even know why they are skipping? Several that skipped for the gun restriction stuff didn't even know why, they just didn't want to be in class. My fiancé had to report 2 kids fighting and one saying they were going to get a gun and shoot the other. These were 2 kids that were supposedly protesting guns. Another kid at her school in the protest was pretending to shoot a machine gun at people.
Not that I don't think some are legitimately doing it. I just wonder how many are just having fun skipping?
Many climate denial organizations are led by right-wing influencers with no scientific background and sponsored by the largest coal and polluting energy companies.
Those who line their pockets for the sake of disinformation don't care about the long term, they're getting their money's worth now.
They are all inadvertedley supporting worldwide socioeconomic genocide. I say that because when climate change becomes a severe problem, the wealthy will be more insulated from the negative consequences.
It's a travesty that this disinformation campaign has bred a counter movement that denies the work of thousands of scientists who have spent years of education and decades of painful research to provide us with information as a public service. Living in Antarctica for years does not sound like a vacation, these people care about their work that much.
It is the job of these professionals to observe our objective reality and warn us of any problems that may arise in our environment and advise us on solutions.
The scientific community's collective experience should not be competing with the assumptions and opinions of political proponents and TV pundits. It is safe to say we should probably heed their warning.
Science and politics are two different things. The greatest difference is climate change is scientifically supported while climate denial is politically supported.
Someone told these kids a story about the future and they believed it. Childrens' belief in stories about the future is not a reason to do anything one way or another.
People should stop pretending they know the future. They don’t.
You are referring to Christianity?
What are you smoking? The "consensus" you ignore is the consensus of the people who study this stuff full time, for a living, professionally, and who know what is happening.
You and your other ignorant mate send cheap snarky posts to (a surprisingly denialist filled) forum.
I know which one I'll be paying attention to!
By the way, I am 100% behind these school strikes. They are the only good news I've heard this year. We have some chance of saving civilisation if the youth of today are interested in having civilisation saved.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^This guy gets it. Zero recorded incidents of kids eating tide pods. OVER 9000 incidents of conservatard politicians, pundits, and people reporting that they were
Believers in âoeconsensusâ and âoepeer reviewâ are priests:
http://dresdencodak.com/2011/0...
If this Jewess gets what she wants, BILLIONS will die. Kill her and her handlers.
The human population has swelled and that is stressing mother earth. If these kids really want to save the earth the should terminate their lives and drastically reduce the population. That should cool the earth down, right?
Climate change is a natural occurrence and there has been zero evidence to show that humans play any role in it. In fact, it's arrogant for you to believe that humans have the power to influence the climate of an entire world.
Of course AGW "scientists" will keep spewing bullshit to continue receiving funding and idiots like you will continue to parrot everything they say without questioning anything.
Kids go on strike? LOL
Yeah just plain old skipping school is the real motivation.
We're all kids once.... so we know ;)
Okay, Doogie.
From the comments I have read, they are metastasing at an alarming rate.
It's not old people, it's Americans.
Why not; god did it.
You cant spell âRepublicanâ(TM) without liar either, fuckface
If you think being wrong once in the past makes a person wrong now, then you are an easy person to manipulate. You should learn to be more skeptical!
Quite.
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Whoever us using them, is a total piece of shits. Any oarent qho drags their kids to a demo is a total garbage and there is nothing to be proud of when that garbage pool ia the size of that garbage island in Pacific
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
Join the protests! its easy to do when you can then just return to comfortable parents house who take care of you and there is absolutely nothing
to lose by protesting, cause you know "its just kids, aren't they cute".
Also nobody gives a shit about what they want - show me one example when their 'protest' actually changed things. Its a fucking joke. Protest however does work when you have something the 'other side wants' and you deny them that until they start to take you seriously - missing element here.
climate change: 2019
gun control: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/03/08/parkland-shooting-kids-can-protest-guns-but-we-shouldnt-assume-they-know-more-goldberg-column/401160002/
gun violence: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-house-gun-law-protest_us_5a8b0642e4b05c2bcacdfb39
motorist idling: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/01/31/idling-sucks-kids-protest-10-billion-to-get-nowhere-habit-that-poisons/
for trump: https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/local/gilbert/2019/03/04/perry-high-school-protesters-president-trump-maga-gear/3053470002/
against trump: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-arellano-student-walkouts-20161117-story.html
school dress code: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/teens-protest-school-dress-code-right-go-braless-013339549.html
Plenty of evidence has shown we impact it quite a bit. You just want to stick your head in the sand and ignore it.
We have done planetary level things all over for generations. Great Wall of China, Pyramids, ozone depletion, garbage patch in Pacific, micro plastics, oil spills, glow of earth at night, nuclear, de/reforestation, extinction of species, farming, fishing.... the list goes on and on.
You cant protest natural events, fucking morons.
Climate doesn't bow to protests. Anthropomorphize nature all you like, it couldn't care less about the puny protests of ephemerals.
Maybe "protest government apathy on climate change" or "protest government inaction against businesses poisoning the planet" or "protest scumbag businesses that put short-term profits ahead of life on the planet" would have been a more accurate headline and summary.
Not one shred of evidence has been shown to link humans to climate change. Correlation != causation.
None of those things are planetary scale and the vast majority of the planet's surface is untouched. You obviously have no clue how big the planet is and more worryingly, you don't seem to understand that the world is three dimensional.
Ozone depletion can be caused directly by the sun and other natural events such as volcanic eruption. The "ozone hole", which no longer exists and whose existence is questionable and unverifiable by normal people, was blamed on shit like aerosols and CFC emissions by humans, yet it was claimed to be located over Antarctica, where nobody lives (maybe the people at the scientific outposts really use a LOT of hairspray, LOL) and, conveniently, no normal person could measure or observe it. Gotta keep that fake science funding going though.
Species go extinct on their own all of the time and have done so since long before humans were around. Every single mass extinction, for example. Most of them happened due to drastic climate change, before humans existed. The planets Venus and Mars underwent drastic climate change and no human has ever been there.
You need to ditch your delusional fantasy that everything in the universe is supposed to be static, set in stone. It's not. Everything is constantly in a state of change, decay and renewal, and eventually decay will win out and the entire universe and everything in it will die. Get over it.
"god" is a fantasy character that was fabricated by uneducated men to control others and to handwave away explanations for why things happen because they were too stupid and/or lazy to figure it out. In order for someone in this day and age to believe in that faerie tale, you would either need to be under the age of 5 or batshit insane.
Funny you mention uneducated people.. the great Carl Sagan said there is no current evidence to prove that a God doesn't exist. Einstein believed that basically God was the sum of all physics-based rules that controll the universe. That is a wild thought but interesting non the less. Now I'm admittedly no where near that level of intelligence although I do rank above the 135 mark and my wife is way smarter than me. We both believe in a God. Our close friend is a member of mensa with an iq of 186 as of the last test he took and he is stout Christian who graduated college as a physicist as well as a retired navy LT Commander and was in both gulf wars. There are many others of very high intelligence who also believe a God. I actually feel that those who are unable to handle the concept of a superior being are usually stunted emotionally and are unable to find those things that don't fit in a box. In other words they only can see black and white.
All that proves is IQ doesn't make you smart. Believing in a god is stupid and means you are stupid.
> The only reason we haven't switched from fossil fuels to nuclear power is because of opposition by environmentalists.
And politicians. And everyone refusing to having the nuclear waste transported near them. Or put into long-term storage near them. Or be near a Chernobyl/3-Mile Island/Fukushima/whatever-who-cares.
There are plenty of fearful people out there - you don't have to go blaming environmentalists for everything.
And I for one am waiting for estimates as to when the Pacific Ocean will lose the rest of its new radioactive glow so people in Hawaii can once again eat their local seafood. Or, y'know, go swimming safely.
Hey kids, skip school....ya....OMG...look how many kids are skipping school to support the environment.
Okay kids, can you spell the world "environment"...
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Now if they showed up at school on a Saturday or showed up an hour early. That would really be something. Teacher supported and sponsored skipping of classes. Oh gee, how many of these kids skipped and just went home....