The false arguments against Greta Thunberg – and why you should ignore them
Emotion: Greta Thunberg was fighting back tears when she spoke at the UN Climate Change summit – because she knew many people would try to undermine her simple, common sense message?
Who would have thought a teenager who isn’t in showbusiness could have such an impact on the world?
This is a really strong speech:
Admittedly, Greta Thunberg has yet to persuade financiers and business leaders to stop the climate change-related harm they are doing to our environment, but this is probably because she has hit such resistance from the false-equivalence brigade.
For example:
https://twitter.com/Dorling83/status/1176170985172688906
Who are these people? I, for one, face no such contradiction in my thinking as I said Ms Begum did know what she was doing when she ran off to join IS at the age of 15. I argued that she should be treated as an adult now because she is an adult now.
That is an argument about Ms Begum, rather than Ms Thunberg. It also ties in with this:
“If climate change is bad, then sex trafficking must be good.” pic.twitter.com/hn4PQYd8H3
— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) September 25, 2019
There is a huge difference between these two subjects, of course: Epstein was alleged to be exploiting teenagers – Ms Thunberg is expressing her own opinions.
And haven’t we been encouraging our young people to develop opinions on such subjects?
This Writer can remember television programmes going back to the 80s, at least, in which young people were canvassed for their views on political matters – and young viewers were encouraged to think about them.
And what about William Hague?
He was the poster boy of the Conservative conference in 1979 when he made a speech… at the ripe old age of 16.
Had he been exploited? Or was he perfectly capable of forming his own opinion? If the latter, then serious questions will have to be asked about political parties that have any kind of youth wing at all.
And that should not happen, because they are perfectly capable of thinking and acting properly at the age from which they may become members of such organisations.
The matter of sex is different because younger people are not always equipped to deal with the consequences of it. Legally, they are not considered capable of consenting to sex. Practically, they may be unable to access contraception, meaning pregnancy is more possible – with financial and social consequences. There is the huge issue of sexual exploitation. And not everybody is the same; some are mature enough to behave responsibly about such matters, and some are not.
Consider this: If a young teenager were to become pregnant, would she (and her partner, of course) have the maturity to understand that they are bringing a person into the world, with needs just like their own?
Answer: Some would, and some wouldn’t. The law is there to minimise tragic consequences, as much as it is there to prevent unwanted demands on medical and social services.
Turning to Ms Thunberg’s arguments: It is incredible that people are trying to marginalise them by saying she isn’t mature enough, or that she is being groomed, when they are the same arguments being used by adults across the world.
Look at Harrison Ford:
He used the same “house on fire” metaphor as Ms Thunberg. Are her critics suggesting that he has been groomed?
The fact is that this young lady has come to a mature conclusion about the consequences of business decisions across the world and has struck a chord with young people around the world – as well as adults.
People attacking her are in fact revealing their own inadequacies.
And who are these people?
None of them ever seem to be named.
I want to know who’s messing up the future for us all – don’t you?
Who are the businesspeople whose decisions are clagging up our air with carbon dioxide?
Who are the financiers who are funding them?
Who are the government ministers – worldwide, not just in the UK – who are helping them to vandalise our environment?
If they are named, they can be watched, criticised… ultimately prosecuted.
If not, they will get away with murder – billions of times over. And Ms Thunberg’s critics are their cynical little helpers.
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Another youth perspective
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2019/02/26/through-the-eyes-of-the-doomed/
This excellent series of cartoon’s illustrate Mike’s arguments.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/27/the-greta-thunberg-problem-so-many-men-freaking-out-about-the-tiny-swedish-climate-demon
I had formed more or less the same views as Greta Thunberg back when I was eleven years old. (1959.)
If anything the last few years have reinforced those views.
It’s noticeable how the virtue-signalling news channel pundits who pontificate about Thunberg being “exploited” unconsciously reveal and acknowledge their guilt over their and their peers’ cushy lifestyles. It really burns them up to have a teenager totally own them on this. It’s this refusal to face up (in time?) to the fact that massive changes are required, particularly of the affluent, that I fear will doom us all.
I was 16 in 1970. I knew about holes in the ozone layer even back then and stopped using spray deodorants. I knew that killing wild animals for profit was wrong and would lead to extinctions. “Climate change” wasn’t mentioned back then but we all knew that there were problems. I wasn’t “groomed”, I read newspapers and watched TV. I haven’t changed my opinions since then either, in fact my convictions have grown stronger. You are certainly old enough to know your own mind at 16.
This excellent series of cartoons give a light-hearted perspective on the above.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/27/the-greta-thunberg-problem-so-many-men-freaking-out-about-the-tiny-swedish-climate-demon
given that she has got most of the information correct there are a large number of people out there blaming her parents for using her to gain the notariety they missed in their own careers. however, the idea she could stand and answer unscripted questions that have not been documented, that I have seen yet, is another of the ways some are using to try to negate her concerns.