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Greta Thunberg – Patron Saint Of The Age Of Stupidity

by JAMES DELINGPOLE
August 16, 2019, 8:53 AM
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Greta Thunberg YachtSt Greta of Thunberg has made it into the cover of GQ and is now on her way across the Atlantic in a $4 million yacht to lecture Americans about climate change.

Could there be anything more emblematic of the stupidity of our age?

My first question would be: what is a 16-year old autistic school drop-out who has done nothing of note in her life other regurgitate climate propaganda doing on the cover of a men’s magazine?

Call me naive but I thought the point of men’s magazines was to write about stuff that men might find interesting: dodging snipers’ bullets in war zones; free-diving with great white sharks; playing Scrabble with the Medellin cartel; where to track down the coolest leather jacket under £1,000; strafing a remote baboon colony in a Mig-25 Foxbat; the quest for the world’s purest MDMA.

Sure, girls have a place in this universe: as decoration and objects of lust. But spooky Greta with her pigtails and thousand-yard stare of disapproval is not only far too young to qualify for that status but far too earnest and grim.

And boring. What kind of man would be remotely interested in buying a mag whose main feature entailed a finger-wagging lecture (one we’ve all heard a gazillion times before) about how, like, totally endangered the planet is and how totally it’s all our fault and how we’ve got to abandon all the things we hold dear — meat; air travel; fast cars; designer threads — in order to stop all the baby polar bears melting?

A lecture, furthermore, from a child who hasn’t finished her schooling, whose frontal lobes haven’t formed, who has no sense of humor, whose every utterance is the second-hand opinion of alarmist grown-ups whose doomsday claims she is completely unequipped to assess?

No kind of man that I know of, that’s for sure. Unless you count tofu-eating, milquetoast, pantywaist, beta, snowflake, self-flagellating, Mom’s-basement-dwelling, environmental science graduates as men.

Which I’m not sure I do — and they probably wouldn’t identify as men, anyway, so I don’t think I’m being judgemental here. I’d hate to be judgemental because that would be wrong.

But my second and more important question would be: why are so many adults who really should know better by dint of their age and experience hurrying to prostrate themselves before this pigtailed school drop out as if she were the new Messiah?

It’s not merely weird. It’s a form of mass hysteria — with potentially hugely dangerous consequences for the planet because, bizarre though it may seem, lots of adults in positions of power and influence seem determined to use St Greta of Thunberg’s vacuous sloganeering as justification for dismantling Western Industrial Civilisation.

Here, for example, is the former editor of the Guardian, and now, unfortunately, the head of an Oxford college, deploying his prestige to pour lofty scorn on those who dare take St Greta’s name in vain.

Don’t think it’s a great look for the middle aged to mock or denigrate the young over something this serious. Especially if you’ve written almost nothing about the crisis yourself https://t.co/NKzHq6cCte

— alan rusbridger (@arusbridger) August 15, 2019

To appreciate just how irrational it all is, consider, by way of a thought experiment, if a 16-year-old autistic kid with pigtails just as fetching as St Greta’s were to organize a global school walkout in protest at mass immigration; or the oppression of women in the Middle East; or the destruction of rainforest to grow palm oil to make biofuels; or the devastation caused by wind energy to birds and bats; or China’s abuse of Hong Kong.

How many politicians do you think would be giving that child an audience? How many millionaire yacht owners would be offering her free trips across the Atlantic? How many newspapers and TV channels would be giving her coverage of any kind?

The answer is none.

That’s because unlike the fake cause being championed by St Greta, those problems are serious and real and intractable and contentious and not easily soluble by sound bites and vacuous, virtue-signaling gestures.

They don’t suit the mainstream media’s feel-bad-in-order-to-feel-good fashionable handwringing narrative about the “climate emergency”.

So any child — pigtailed or otherwise — who protested against these problems would quickly be crushed by the system. They would be told by their teachers — quite rightly, I think — that these were matters for grown-ups and politicians, not schoolchildren.

And if despite everything, this imaginary 16-year-old pig-tailed child did manage to orchestrate a global protest about wind farms or China or palm oils or the burka or whatever, she most certainly wouldn’t find herself celebrated on the cover of GQ.

Nor, I fear, would she get much fire-support from the wankerati on social media.

But such is St Greta’s protected status at the moment that if you criticize her or make jokes about her, as the Brexit-supporting millionaire Arron Banks did recently on Twitter, you get reported to authorities.

It even becomes a bona fide news story. (Or the BBC thinks it does…)

Arron Banks’ vile tweet about @GretaThunberg makes me sick to the stomach

I have made a formal complaint to Twitter.

— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) August 15, 2019

Green MP Caroline Lucas reports Arron Banks over Greta Thunberg “yachting accident” tweet https://t.co/lRRtxfrzxr

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) August 15, 2019

For children’s author Philip Pullman, Greta is beyond stunning and brave:

You have never done, and will never do in all your life, anything one-hundredth as valuable and important as Greta Thunberg has done already.

— Philip Pullman (@PhilipPullman) August 15, 2019

For heiress’s husband and woke historian Dan Snow, she is almost literally like a cross between Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, and the young Henry V. Imagine! Dan doesn’t need to: he’s on it!

At around Greta’s age Alexander was subduing Thrace and crushing the Illyrians. Joan scattered the English at Orleans. Prince Hal hunted Glyndwr across Wales.

It’s our aged society that is unusual. Not Greta.

— Dan Snow (@thehistoryguy) August 15, 2019

Here is Amanda Abbington — a mummer, one gathers.

If you are a grown up, fully-fledged adult and you are mocking this young girl for trying to save the planet then I genuinely feel sorry for you. I also think you are incredibly cruel, vicious and ignorant. pic.twitter.com/zhCjt5ZFd7

— Amanda Abbington (@CHIMPSINSOCKS) August 14, 2019

As you see, the wankerati have completely lost the plot over St Greta. And maybe if no one listened to them, it wouldn’t matter. But a lot of impressionable people take what these influencers say seriously.

Which is a bit of a worry when you stop to think about what it is that St Greta of Thunberg actually represents.

Here is one of her puppet masters — Ingmar Rentzhog, the Swedish “entrepreneur” behind the tech start-up which has been exploiting Greta’s fresh-faced innocence to push his green agenda.

What motto does We Don’t Have Time live by? What is its long-term objective?

Our name – We Don’t Have Time – is our motto. We also have a manifesto on our website that basically states that climate change is an on-going catastrophe and that we need to act now. We all need to step up and come together.

The political and economic elites are clearly not taking climate change and the threat against our ecosystems seriously enough, or we wouldn’t be where we are today. We can’t trust that political leaders, government officials and financial stakeholders will do enough by themselves – the challenge is too great, the issue too important, the catastrophe too imminent.

We believe that real change will only come if a movement of ordinary citizens from all over the world demands change. We must push them, ourselves, and our peers, to do much more, and faster. By building the world’s largest social media platform focused on climate change, you, me, my friends, your friends, our families, all and everyone – can be the change by the power of many.

If this doesn’t terrify you, it should. Not only is the environmental movement getting more radical — see, for example, Thunberg’s friends at Extinction Rebellion — but it also seems to be picking up more public support, in Europe at least, if not the U.S.

Here, though, are a few things we know:

  1. There is no evidence — beyond repeatedly debunked and falsified computer models — to suggest that recent global warming is catastrophic, unprecedented or significantly man-made.
  2. Even if we could decide what the world’s ideal temperature is, there is no evidence that mankind has access to a knob that can control it — nor one that wouldn’t end up doing more harm than good.
  3. Not a cent of the $1.5 trillion (plus) per annum currently being spent funding the Climate Industrial Complex is having any measurable effect on combating climate change.
  4. Regardless of what we do in the West, India, and China are committed to increasing their carbon dioxide emissions rapidly in a way that will dwarf any puny decarbonization measures adopted unilaterally by Western economies. And those Western economies that do decarbonize won’t include Trump’s U.S. or Bolsonaro’s Brazil, which will make gestures like Britain’s net-zero carbon promise even more pointless and self-defeating.

Yet none of these serious objections to the kind of drastic climate action that St Greta of Thunberg’s controllers is advocating ever gets a look-in.

Instead, when people like me try to raise them we are dismissed as deniers in the pay of Big Oil (I wish!) or we are accused of being heartless and vindictive for picking on a 16-year-old autistic kid.

Well, I’m sorry, but “Let’s bomb Western Industrial Civilisation back to the Dark Ages because a 16-year-old climate activist with cute pigtails made the cover of GQ and is now traveling across the Atlantic on an expensive sailing boat” is not an argument. Really it isn’t.

And the gullible grown-ups who think otherwise should be ashamed of themselves.

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Comments 12

  1. Spurwing Plover says:
    6 years ago

    This has many simularities to The Child Crusades kids recruited to take back the Holy Land and in the end they were all sold into Slavery the youth following this false messiah will be slaves to the Eco-Nazis/Watermelons

  2. Dave of Reedy Creek, Qld. Aust says:
    6 years ago

    Having been closely connected with autistic children, I can see plainly how obsessed they become. I think when greenie/lefty/commos stoop to this level it reeks of sheer desperation. If its not bogus computer projections, its adjusted temperatures or deliberate heat island temperature gauges. Then blatant lies, phony TV and newspaper reporting etc, etc. Two things always pop up in a time like this :- power seeking and good old money! Glad the actual weather doesn’t play along so ofter.

    • Gator says:
      6 years ago

      It is akin to strapping bomb vests to mentally challenged children. If Greta is successful, she will simply torpedo her own future, along with billions of others. Her parents should be jailed for child abuse.

    • Sonnyhill says:
      6 years ago

      Definitely desperately seeking more Greta’s. She’s being used to attract followers. She has no idea.

  3. Gator says:
    6 years ago

    The eco-fascist terrorists are just taking a cue from their peers, Islamo-fascist terrorists, and are placing a young girl in front of them as they attack western society. They expect us decent folk to hold our fire, and allow them to walk over us. This shows the absolute desperation and complete lack of ethics embodying the climate cultists. Shark jumped.

    GQ (Greta’s Quorum) called Greta a “Game Changer”. WTF? She has changed nothing. She is parroting the same old tired and debunked BS to which we have been subjected for decades.

    • Sonnyhill says:
      6 years ago

      Jeez, Gator. Punch to their solar plexus.

      • Gator says:
        6 years ago

        I believe you mean a punch to their “CO2 nexus”.

  4. Sonnyhill says:
    6 years ago

    Just to confirm… I have not witnessed any of Greta’s lectures, I have not google searched her. I am not interested. I only know about her because she’s a regular on CCD.
    I have an idea why she is promoted heavily by the Left. If she has a fundamental perceptual handicap but “gets” Climate Change, what does that say about you, the Skeptic, the Denier? Shame on me.

  5. Amber says:
    6 years ago

    As the middle class gets hollowed out poor people spend their disposable income and debt on high carb food , their cell phones , and shelter .
    The rich will be busy with their offshore accounts and they can only want so many Ferrari’s. Demand for other things and causes tanks .
    As a result the earth has a fever scam runs out of fuel . Other peoples money .
    The scary global warming industry is irrelevent to dung burners and the street people growing populations in the USA . With about 50% of the USA middle class and falling basic survival will come well ahead of the climate industry fear mongering and repeated chicken little the sky is falling nonsense.

  6. Amber says:
    6 years ago

    Lets face it the whole earth has a fever scam was getting long in the tooth .
    Nothing like a new poster child to breath life into a massive overblown fraud .
    Gore and all the other promoters will be in care homes drinking from sippy cups in about 10 years . I sincerely hope they are around to see their current prognostications of climate doom end up where all their other ones have .
    Utter garbage designed to keep a scam going .
    Go Gretta go ! The climate fear industry needs you bad .

  7. Spurwing Plover says:
    6 years ago

    So just wait for her to arrive they will roll out the Green Carpet for her she will get the Key to the City(One of those big big keys)and all Liberals and Eco-Freaks will be there to greet her abd theNew York Pravda(Times)will give her font page coverage and CNN will be there with bells on

  8. Roger Payne says:
    6 years ago

    Towards the end of a long life exploring the human psyche and society, Jung wrote in a letter that in coming years there would be “psychic epidemics”. A strange virus called AGW has spread across the world, So far, no vaccine, it results in psychiatric wards full of computer politicised scientists. Expected to fade out as the climate changes to unexpected patterns, due, of course, to the sun, which happens to rule the solar system.

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