As Secret Agent Maxwell Smart from the Get Smart television show would say, “Missed it by that much!”
The Left was almost close to getting young conservatives and libertarians to start jumping onto the climate alarmism bandwagon.
Then came Greta Thunberg’s temper tantrum at the United Nations.
The 16-year-old media darling became famous for leading children around the world in climate change strikes to stay home from school. Greta’s rallying cry: radical government action is needed to prevent a so-called “climate crisis.”
Her speech at the United Nations this past week was supposed to be the climax of her week’s long journey across the Atlantic in a boat – all to avoid using carbon dioxide emitting air travel.
It was supposed to be her crowning moment, the moment when the climate skeptics were backed into the ultimate corner on the world stage: How could anyone attack this passionate, young girl who cares so much for our planet?
But that’s not how it went.
Greta’s speech was passionate, that’s for sure, but it was angry. Instead of appealing to the world’s compassion in asking for climate action, Greta chose to attack even those at the United Nations who were on her side.
“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.”
Within minutes after her speech, young conservatives and libertarians were criticizing Greta’s angry rant across social media with memes.
For those unfamiliar, a “meme” is a humorous image or video that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by internet users. When someone is “turned into a meme” it is typically not a flattering thing.
“Greta memes” began spreading online like wildfire.
As Director of CFACT’s Collegians program, I am connected with many young leaders in the conservative and libertarian movements on social media.
Almost without exception, every one of these leaders was posting their criticism of the angry young girl who wanted them to install global socialism to save the environment.
Young Americans who still have a penchant for liberty don’t like it when anyone angrily demands them to give up their freedoms – whether its in the name of saving the planet or not.
The Left’s climate plan blew up in their face – just when it seemed to be going so well.
For years, the Left has transformed American public education, from kindergarten through college, to instill radical beliefs about the climate and the environment into children.
No dissent is allowed in most textbooks and curriculums. Even those students on the political Right now grow up believing that if we do not do something about the climate, our planet is in grave danger.
I’ve heard this expressed firsthand to me from numerous young conservatives and libertarians in my work with the Collegians program.
Yet, after the election of Donald Trump and his withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, the Left had to regroup; and they did so faster than I thought they would.
Within months they had recruited their American poster child for climate action, now Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The Democrats took back the House of Representatives, and there seemed to be a new climate march every other week.
New organizations like the Sunrise Movement played the PR game masterfully by performing sit-ins in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office to call for radical climate action.
Ocasio-Cortez also became the darling of the media, and her Green New Deal plan was adopted by every Democratic candidate for president.
As Greta’s celebrity status began to soar in Europe, the Left could see the time was right to introduce their child propaganda star to the last remaining obstacle to their global climate plan: The United States.
The fields were ripe for rallying the American public, including the Right, onto the climate doomsday parade.
It is unclear if Greta’s handlers thought that this angry speech would actually play well in the United States, or if Greta wanted to say these things herself.
Regardless, the young activist came off as entitled, arrogant, and, for lack of a better description, like a spoiled brat.
It didn’t help when the internet also went wild over her angry glare at President Trump as he walked past her in the United Nations without giving her the time of day.
It is obvious that Greta cares for the planet. It is unfortunate that she has been led astray by those pushing climate alarm.
If she would have been calling for better management of plastic, cleaning up litter, or demanding access to electricity for the developing world, I would be fully behind her. She would have been an excellent spokesperson for those real problems.
Unfortunately, this is not the case.
Greta’s anger and perceived entitlement to global attention have given young conservatives and libertarians the cover they needed to ridicule the Left’s use of child spokespeople to shield their ideas from criticism.
The climate plan has hit another, serious setback.
But now is not the time to rest easy and think the Left has torpedoed themselves forever.
The Left still has a stranglehold on American education. Even though the Right has rejected Greta’s calls for socialism, some conservatives and libertarians are already trying to justify carbon taxes and mini versions of the Green New Deal.
Whether Donald Trump wins reelection or not, there may come a time very soon when the American electorate, completely indoctrinated by years of leftist education on the environment, allows for radical government action on climate change.
The United States dodged a bullet with the mishandling of Greta’s UN speech. The longer the Left has complete control of our education system, however, the less likely we’ll dodge the Left’s next climate power grab.
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Long past time for the right to demand a balanced education system , it is our tax dollars too..
I hope Greta gets a real education so she can think for herself.
In 12 years the earth will be happily spinning around doing it’s climate change thing . Warming …cooling …warming just like its done for …well ever .
It is human self important arrogance to think we are going to shape the earths temperature to our own happy place .
How does the utter non-sense of scary human caused global warming even get lift off ? The IPCC is a fraud , a cover for organized crimes against humanity . They don’t do their own research …why not ? Because they don’t want to prove their work . They just repackage bought and paid for garbage to create a front of credibility to their agenda . More money for the UN , global governance for communism , and a cash kick back to the scum ball rent seekers retailing their shit .
What is alarming is that it was Greta’s tantrum that stopped young conservatives and libertarians from endorsing the climate change fraud. Greta’s behavior should have absolutely nothing to do with it. They should have taken their course of action because the earth is not experiencing significant warming, the UN climate models are obviously wrong, and the earth’s temperature history more closely follows solar cycles than carbon dioxide levels. The fact that Greta’s tantrum was the reason for the decision shows everything is pure politics.
I don’t know, Steve, sounds alarmist. You’re making me wonder, though. The Democrats have been defiant in defeat, aka, “poor losers” . Their behaviour and radicalism must turn off the swing voters. What would happen in 2020 if the GOP wins all three houses? If there was violence, I agree that the Left would be the instigators.
I think the left assume people will just roll over if they keep screaming in peoples faces like demented loons.
I listen to both conservative and christian news services. The christian position with politics etc is always non violent peaceful putting forward a pont of view.
There are however many on the right in the silent majority who will i think reluctantly literally pick up arms and you will have another civil war in the USA if the Left attempts to impeach a legally elected sitting president. This is not a threat, its an estimation of what i think is likely. I hope it doesnt get to that. There is an old saying that you vote your way into socialism but have to shoot your way out of it. This may prove true in the USA.
Athought – the other angle is that the left may be working with external actors who may provide arms and assistance to a communust uprising within the USA, so while the govt is trying to put down a communist insurgency inside the USA, other actors could attack power facilities etc as a take down of the USA. I sincerely hope this scenario never eventuates.
Who can trust a 16 year old who attended and went to one of those indoctrination centers called a School? this is a Brainwashed Child who serves Big Brother
Paste the Url into your browser. We all know it is not about the environment and these articles confirm this……
https://standpointmag.co.uk/issues/june-2019/gretas-very-corporate-childrens-crusade/
Quote; “Whatever Greta or her parents know or think, her eco-mob increases the likelihood of legislation and investment that will make colossal profits for people like Global Challenge, We Don’t Have Time and Sustainable Energy Angels. For Sweden’s energy titans, saving the planet means government contracts to print the green stuff. Green energy lobbyists use populist scare tactics and a children’s crusade to bypass elected representatives, but their goal is technocracy not democracy, profit not redistribution. Greta, a child of woke capitalism, is being used to ease the transition to green corporatism.”
Skeptics all know this is the agenda and the cancer has metastasized to those government scientists who rely on their incomes to perpetuate this absolute farce of Catastrophic Climate Change and Armageddon …. the World is full of trickery, it is innate in human nature…..
Adam Houser’s conclusions are spot on.
I suspect that the recent Friday school strikes for climate are meant to look like Red Square military parades. Look at our army!