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What can one person do ? Tens of thousands of students around the world have spoken up about the effects CC will have on the world we are leaving them. But why did these students decide to take action.
They were inspired by another young student from Sweden. Leadership.
'Our leaders are like children,' school strike founder tells climate summit
Greta Thunberg, 15, told UN summit that students are acting in absence of global leadership
Damian Carrington in Katowice
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Tue 4 Dec 2018 22.10 AEDT Last modified on Tue 4 Dec 2018 22.38 AEDT
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Thunberg during her Friday climate change protest. Photograph: Hanna Franzen/EPA
Action to fight global warming is coming whether world leaders like it or not, school student Greta Thunberg has told the UN climate change summit, accusing them of behaving like irresponsible children.
Thunberg began a solo climate protest by striking from school in Sweden in August. But more than 20,000 students around the world have now joined her. The school strikes have spread to at least 270 towns and cities in countries across the world, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the US and Japan.
“For 25 years countless people have come to the UN climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future,” she said. “I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.”
“Since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago,” she said. “We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with. We have to make our voices heard.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ounder-greta-thunberg-tells-un-climate-summit
If you think you can change basic human biology (which is the basically biology of all living things) on a global scale, hey, knock yourself out tryingIf you want to call me weak for understanding that this task is literally impossible, then I will consider you to be wrong, perhaps even delusional. I could even say you are weak, in that you lack the courage to face the reality you wish was not there.
Ding ding dingThese idiots are hilarious! They are the problem. They say they want 'someone else' to fix the problem, when they are the problem. Basic human nature is to consume resources and do it as cheaply and efficiently as possible for the individual. These people 'demanding action' are still consuming processed foods sourced from all corners of the globe, consuming oil and electricity, etc etc. They, like the majority of the people whining about 'someone needing to do something' simply do it because they are lied to about the causes and don't understand that they are the problem. What do they want to politicians to do? Tell people to stop consuming resources? Actually enforce people to stop using resources (these people would be the first to complain about that). Resources are available because people want them, and people consume them. If coal was banned, people would starve/freeze. If oil was banned, people would starve. If it was heavily restricted or taxed, things would get too expensive and people would riot and demand the system be relaxed. Yet when they get what they want, they demand that someone else is the problem and the problem needs to be fixed in some nebulous way.
On overpopulation, how are you going to stop the urge for children.
Ding ding ding
This is just sooooo spot on.
Ferchrissake those kids just need a smack in the head on so many levels...
...actually, it is the activist teachers who deserve a nulla nulla to the temple. The kids are pawns.
Yep, Im consistently on the side of logic bas.Ah Wayne.. You never disappoint do you. Completely ignore the fact that these student strikes were in fact inspired by a student in Sweden. She has decided that if the politicians and so called leaders can't recognise what is happening with CC then someone else has to. And that spark is traveling around the world.
Much like the little boy in The Emperors New Clothes
Makes little difference to some. Grew up on a farm, monitored the weather all my life, only 73 now and many say I do not know and wrong.Yep, Im consistently on the side of logic bas.
As if 15year olds have any feckin idea mate.
Yep, Im consistently on the side of logic bas.
As if 15year olds have any feckin idea mate.
Ah Wayne.. You never disappoint do you.
Climate is not basic science, it is extremely complicated and chaotic. Additionally, at 15 they will not understand the politicization of the science, nor true scientific debate.Well it looks like they understand basic science and the consequences of creating uncontrolled amounts of Greenhouse gases on our climate.
Quite unlike people who parade their wilful ignorance on such matters as a matter of pride.
The trouble is that temperature is not the same as the actual temperature. They go oh it's only 1.5C rise but fail to understand that temperature is not the same as feels like. Meaning taking into account, the heat radiating from the ground, the sun and the ambient temperature. This is why you have idiots who don't understand that just because it's a small percentage rise doesn't mean that it's going to feel the same temperature.I've noticed that warm days with a maximum temperature of 30 or above were far more common this Spring than they were in Spring 2017.
That I have moved from Tasmania to SA during this time may explain it however.
Wow, so many statement to try and understand. So lets start linearly;
1. I don't think I can change human biology and are not trying to on a global scale, all it takes is a seed, one person to try and make change, this has happened in history, time and time again.
2. Literally impossible doesn't mean impossible, there is always a chance and in this case chance/hope is all we have.
3. Wrong or delusional, not the first time I have been wrong and I am delusional, so nothing new here.
4. To say I am weak, is what it is, maybe I am, maybe I am not, I have faced reality, death more than once, so you make your own mind up.
In conclusion, if it is delusion or weak to believe in hope and you are what the masses believe this planet is f---kd.
I hope you rethink your position, gain hope and conviction to fight what you think is right, we need more leaders and people with PASSION.
The trouble is that temperature is not the same as the actual temperature. They go oh it's only 1.5C rise but fail to understand that temperature is not the same as feels like. Meaning taking into account, the heat radiating from the ground, the sun and the ambient temperature. This is why you have idiots who don't understand that just because it's a small percentage rise doesn't mean that it's going to feel the same temperature.
http://media.bom.gov.au/social/blog/379/when-the-temperature-isnt-the-actual-temperature/
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/antarctica/south-pole
Look at the temperature deviation for Antarctica. We are so screwed. This is a start of a chain reaction and a snow ball effect.
adapt your own position/lifestyle if you want to have a clear conscience of having done what you can personally
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