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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.
3 day weekends in the name of justice!
Hmmmm..... I may need to implement this policy for myself....
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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!)
Wind up toy jitters around after key is turned.
lose != loose
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
They are probably being trained by whoever it is trying to get the voting age lowered to 16 so children can dictate adult policy.
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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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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.
...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.
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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
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.
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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