World leaders stole her childhood and now coronavirus has stolen her crisis. So there’s nothing left for activist Greta Thunberg but to go back to school.
The teen campaigner, dubbed the Goblin of Doom for her incessant warnings that carbon emissions are about to destroy the Earth, has spent the past year circling the globe lecturing world leaders and organizing protests.
But the same country that was exhaling a good portion of those emissions suddenly coughed up a flu bug that really did change the environment.
The Chinese flu has now made travel all but impossible. World leaders are suddenly preoccupied with an actual problem.
And mass gatherings to protest a naturally occurring gas are banned for fear of contracting an unnaturally occurring virus.
Moreover, the great Covid-19 lockdown of 2020 has given the world a glimpse of “the new normal” should Greta realize her net-zero emissions dream. And no one likes it.
So last year’s Time Magazine Person of the Year suddenly has a lot of free time on her sanitized hands.
She tweeted Monday: “My gap year from school is over, and it feels so great to finally be back in school again!”
We can all say amen to that. Though, sadly for the Left, it leaves them looking for a new child to take their cues from.
Eleven months ago, Greta was skipping class to scold world leaders at the UN: “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood … how dare you!”
Watching world leaders grovel as the pigtailed Swedish school girl staged a hissy fit from the UN assembly podium was cringeworthy and yet morbidly fascinating.
For all her faults, she at least got to sneer “How dare you!” at UN leaders. What I wouldn’t give to do that! Along with about nine million Israelis, I suspect. But I digress.
Nothing better highlighted the hysteria and hypocrisy of warmists than world leaders inviting a kid to hector them about public policy and “saving the planet”.
The same people who dismissed anyone expressing doubt about climate change with shouts of “but you’re not a climate scientist” suddenly changed their retort to “but you’re not a climate scientist or a Swedish school girl with fiery visions”.
The only thing more absurd than Greta being put front and center on the world stage was the amount of media coverage her every utterance on the weather was given.
“I shouldn’t be up here,” Greta complained at the UN last September. “I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean!”
Indeed.
And now, thanks not to global warming but to global Wuhaning, she is.
Read more at Spectator AU
How Dare You! How dare you bring facts to the narrative! 🙂
Start with biology Greta. There are two basic ingredients to life on earth. One is CO2. The other is water. Without CO2, all life dies. And CO2 has been naturally declining for 600 million years. By getting tied up in earth bound fossil fuels. And by being deposited in calcium carbonate type rocks (limestone). Declining to within 30ppm of lethal lows during glacial phases of our ongoing Pleistocene/Holocene ice age. A little more CO2 has made life on earth 30% greener! (stronger and more abundant) A little more CO2 is shrinking deserts! And a little more CO2 has brought a string of world record crop yields. A little more CO2 has been a Godsend.
“How The Wuhan Virus Stole Greta Thunberg’s Thunder”
But there’s a lot of thunder left in Sir whatshisname, the old guy.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/08/27/this-old-man-was-once-sane-and-a-naturalist/
Yeah, he has completely lost it. I used to enjoy watching the old nature shows with his commentary. Great voice for that. But now there’s nothing left of him.
Maybe the Wuhan virus crisis could be the cure for the climate change crisis.
https://wp.me/pTN8Y-4fA