Why are old men in particular so angry with Greta?

It's fucking crazy, and it's on full display here on DL as well. 🥴

Because she represents both societal change and the fact that the youth are finally rebelling against the adults that have fucked up their lives and robbed them of their futures.

Why is the world listening to a *child* with 3 diagnosed mental disorders? What the fuck is wrong with her parents?

I'm old and I think she's amazing.

Well R3 let's turn that around. Why is the world still listening to the useless self-serving men who've run it for centuries leaving us in the fucked up mess we're in now?

R5 So true, so true.

How many undiagnosed mental disorders does Trump have, R3? How many undiagnosed mental disorders did Hitler and Stalin have?

What the fuck is wrong with R3? Why didn't R3's mother abort him?

Because she threatens their greed and selfishness.

OP, I’m stealing that line.

Notice anyone who opposes Greta always resorts to personal attacks, they never say she’s wrong or disprove her.

Because men, especially old men, don't like to be hectored by women, especially young women.

Because she's a trend making unrealistic demands about complex issues and being exploited in some ways by adults who know better. She is a sideshow. So I don't know if it's anger so much as irritation. She may have a noble cause but she represents all that's idiotic about the social age. I think climate is a massive issue that needs aggressive action. I think it will probably involve a great deal of pain and sacrifice. I'm not even sure it will work. I know we can't no try and try hard and try fast. But I still find Greta theatrics a sideshow.

Uppity female.

"She may have a noble cause but she represents all that's idiotic about the social age." So let's shoot the messenger.

"I think climate is a massive issue that needs aggressive action." As long as only certain select people get to participate in that action (i.e. wealthy white men with a vested interest in the outcome).

" I think it will probably involve a great deal of pain and sacrifice." As long as I and anybody I know are not part of that pain and sacrifice.

"I'm not even sure it will work." Oh hell, let's not even bother, just like we've been doing for the past 50 years.

"But I still find Greta theatrics a sideshow." Speaking of sideshows, did i mention both of my parents used to work in a circus sideshow?

I don’t know but I hope one of them snaps and shoots her.

Well, since you're so open to good faith finding of compromise and common ground, we'll leave it at that, R13.

R13, to eliminate any doubt, people who reason like you don't count.

She has been brainwashed by her parents. Her tirades are getting tiresome.

It’s not just old men.

I read recently that a vast majority of Millennials and younger have a diagnosable mental health condition. In other words, in an earlier era, Greta would just be an awkward teen but in 2018, her condition(s) have been diagnosed.

[quote]Because she's a trend making unrealistic demands about complex issues and being exploited in some ways by adults who know better. She is a sideshow.

Exactly. Climate change is not going to be solved by a teenager.

It’s a complex issue that requires a lot of nuance, and both scientific knowledge and political skills.

But the age of nuance is dead...

[quote] It’s a complex issue that requires a lot of nuance, and both scientific knowledge and political skills.

Well if they don't do something we're all going to die.

Her entrance on the world stage has been orchestrated theatrics. The girl is clearly not right in the head.

[quote] Why is the world still listening to the useless self-serving men who've run it for centuries leaving us in the fucked up mess we're in now?

... says r5, safe & warm, fed & rested, typing on an incredible machine invented by useful men

It's their response to Greta showing them how inadequate they are.

Her intent is brilliant....but she is just to dramatic. She almost comes across as fake or campaigning for an Oscar nom.

Listen to what the teen is saying. Not how the kid delivers her lines in her second language.

Oh bless you R24 - you saw through my hypocrisy, you've totally invalidated my argument! Well done you!

I now agree that climate change is not real, old white straight men should always run the world and we need to make America great again.

Glory hallelujah!!!

Men generally find women ridiculous and teenage girls the most ridiculous of all.

I'm old as dirt, and I think she's great.

"Because she represents both societal change and the fact that the youth are finally rebelling against the adults that have fucked up their lives and robbed them of their futures."

All these old hippies & baby boomers from the 60s who are now 70-80 years ol age said the same thing about "the establishment" when the were Greta's age. The old men are first class losers!

I use Cialis, OP

nobody likes an insufferable bossy boots scold.

Miss Greta is a strident little Capricorn. Shevis so one track minded that nothing can stop that girl. Her moon is in Youranus which means that she is annoying the fuck out of that two faced Gemini,Trump. Republicans hate Capricorns that dont belong to their cult. They love insane Geminis who act like they are 12 but not Capricorn gals who are 16.

Well, I can’t answer because I’m not an old man. I’m an old woman and I’m not angry with Greta, not even a little bit.

But I’m a little worried that she is being exploited.

They are angry at the little girl who knows better and tries to lecture them to do the right things.

First thing first, Greta should have her hair shorn off a bit, it would save lotsa water washing her hair though.

I think Greta represents the future and what many people her age feel about climate change. Why can't they have someone speaking up for them? Adults are not doing it and she comes across as someone very well informed. I think that is what bothers people. Oh yeah- her age, sex and the fact she is foreign is also a problem I imagine? Someone needs to speak up. To me she is a hero.

Have she and David Hogg met?

Is that a stain on her blouse, or just a shadow?

It's not just old men, it's old women and the middle aged. I'm seeing deplorable ramping up their posting of memes about kids getting spanked and entitlement blah blah since she came on the scene. Their whole shtick is leave the status quo as is, old white men (and their obedient allies) in power just because it works for them. Greta messes with their authoritarian ideals and threatens their old white man gravy train.

Greta should tell us all exactly how to accomplish her goals. She suffers from delusions of grandeur.

I liked her earlier speech when she said she didn't want the people in power to offer hope but to act like the house is on fire, but now she's becoming a pain.

The problem apparently unbeknownst to her is that fixing it would probably mean the death of her and billions of others. The fix is getting rid of oil. Without oil no industrial agriculture. Without oil, you cannot feed 7.5 billion people. The other thing you would have to do is sterilize billions to bring the population down.

R41 why don't you suggest some ideas? Be a part of the solution! Don't just leave it to s little girl.

My only problem is with her face, that hairstyle and mostly, the sound of her voice.

Those r45 are very important.

They're the past. They know they've failed. They're near death.

[quote]R41 why don't you suggest some ideas? Be a part of the solution! Don't just leave it to s little girl.

I wouldn't know where to begin. Neither does the scolding, overwrought girl.

She's begun. She's mobilized her generation in many countries. In 3 or 4 years they will be voting.

When they turn 18, they will hate themselves and vote Republicans!

Don't know why, but most of them end up this way.

They'll be old enough to vote, R49, but whether they'll actually do it is debatable.

R50 These are life shaping experiences. But some people do turn conservative in old age. Are you one of them?

How long exactly is this bitch going to be talking for?

As annoying as this girl is, she's only half as annoying as Malala.

Because old men always get angry when young fertile women talk about anything other than sex or trying to be sexy for them.

R55, yes, this.

Teenage girls are just a ripening crop of partially inflated blow-up dolls to them.

Much like teenage boys are to most DL-ers.

It's funny when pets try to act like people. But not when sexual objects do! lololololololololol

R49, you’re not wrong, but who/what are they voting for?

Are there bills in the works to fix it? Is anyone going to broach the subject with China? There’s a whole lot of handwringing, but this only gets fixed with legislation.

R2 My sister is an academic and she told me the same thing. She says that old guys are often resentful of young female colleges, and sometimes even students.

It's the Republican/right wing pattern of smearing their real or perceived enemies.

So why should a Swedish citizen care what a bunch of old, lard-assed, entitled, pompous, white American windbags think about her?

They are furious because she is telling the truth. They're not used to hearing it from ANYONE, much less a child, much less a female child. It enrages them.

R60, she was addressing the United Nations General Assembly. So, old, pompous, entitled lardasses of many nations.

But as I said elsewhere, I don’t think she cares what they think of her. She is probably missing that chip.

Her work gives me hope.

Basically, it's like this. Uncle Bottoms do not like Greta.

Wasn't that David Hogg supposed to get guns outlawed in the US? How'd that work out?

R65 I'm working on it. What are you doing? Volunteering for the NRA?

[quote]she comes across as someone very well informed.

THE GRETA THUNBERG PROBLEM, so many men freaking out about the tiny Swedish climate demon.

I despise her and all children. We always were raised with the idea that children are to be seen and not heard. How dare this immature, uneducated cunt speak out of turn.

But why so angry, guys? Support her! Our kids are.

Iowa teens delighted as Greta Thunberg leads unexpected climate strike

IDK OP, why were "woke" liberals so upset over the Covington Catholic boys wearing MAGA hats? "Woke" liberals were up in arms over those boys, at least until the full video showed that Nathan Phillips deliberately provoked them by walking into their group and banging a drum in their faces.

I think it's because children are easy targets for either side of an argument, either to hold up as inspirational martyrs unfairly being tarred by the "other side" or by their opponents as examples of the "other side's" shameless indoctrination and corruption of youth.

Having said that, I don't like children in general, and I especially don't like children who think I have even a minute interest in what they have to say--I do not because their opining is worthless.

She's condescending and smug. What's not to like?

Of course it's a well known fact that many Aspies are brilliant. If you've ever known one, you know they frequently exhibit intense, sometimes obsessive interest in a particular subject and can become extremely knowledgeable about a singular topic whether broad and expansive such as global warming or very specific and defined such as the cell structure of a snow flake. They often become quite passionate and emotional when describing various aspects of their interests. We encourage pursuit of their passion but equally encourage alternate outlets so as not to overexert their emotional capacity and also to broaden and expand their fields of interest. Greta seems she needs a break, quite honestly, but I presume she's getting adequate care. I hope and trust she's not being exploited for an otherwise important cause.

r3: She's a teenager not some babbling toddler and having a diagnosed mental disorder doesn't automatically make someone wrong on a given topic.

OP: Because the snowflakes on the right are as sensitive as they make the left out to be and can't take it when a female has the balls to tell them they're wrong and stand by her position.

It's good that she's raising awareness, and probably a lot of people are more concerned about climate change after hearing her, but does a 16-year-old really have any viable solutions to the problems being brought up?

A) leaders should come up with the solutions. B) give her time.

She's young and female and not in any way trying to charm the old men. They hate that.

Greta Thunberg is upsetting all the right people

She's over. Last week or whenever it was, was peak Greta.

Because grown ups know that the world is based on competition for resources, and overall conflict, not on altruism. I don’t care about helping other people or future generations to the point that it inconveniences me. Especially when idiot breeders are popping out crotch fruit because of religion, love, or some other ridiculously insane reason.

She’s passionate, and engaging. But she’s not going to change human nature. And human nature is to breed, fight each other and pollute until we can no longer sustain ourselves.

Eat the babies!

She could have gotten her point across without being such a snotty little bitch about it

Snotty little bitches get all the attention.

R2 I’m old and I’d be glad if this kid was calling out the adults who’ve sold you their futures, but I dislike her because she reeks of insincerity. I think she’s a fake whore who would sell us all out for a barrel of oil. I think my age means I’ve seen a lot and I’ve developed a set of critical thinking skills that only (but not in every case) comes with age and life experience.

Climate change is a complicated issue and imploring leaders to "do something" dumbs it down in a way that mirrors what the climate change deniers say. That's one reason I find her annoying.

I would add that I find myself agreeing with PUTIN who said “No one has explained to Greta that the modern world is complex and different and ... people in Africa or in many Asian countries want to live at the same wealth level as in Sweden.”

How dare they! Those people in third world countries should also be cutting back and living simpler lives, so that Greta’s dreams can finally come true in Sweden!

How dare they! Those people in third world countries should also be cutting back and living simpler lives, so that Greta’s dreams can finally come true in Sweden!

They are just making her a star - but they don't realize it. It's kind of funny, actually.

And what exactly has your contribution been to ease/eliminate global warming, R87. Besides buying else sorts of Chinese crap to put in your house, driving a huge ass, gas guzzling pick up truck and eating enough red meat in a year to feet 50,000 people in an under developed country.

We'll wait patiently until you give your completely bullshit answer.

R79 Greta's movement is ignited in 185 countries. Most don't care about or even heard of the im🍑ment

The old men including so-called "liberal" ones who knew Vietnam was wrong have suddenly become the ones defending the war and they can't see it. It doesn't matter what you think of how she delivers the message, the message itself IS important. Sorry she's not some vapid teen moron waiting for Kylie Jenner's new cheek palette.

Allow me to explain something to the morons who keep asking "And what have you done?" Do you fucking understand that the Trump admin is REVERSING policies that even god damned car manufacturers are saying is too much for them? Trump is taking measures above and beyond to fuck over this planet just to fuck over this planet and make a few bucks for a few people. So I get you're "like" making fun of people who use green bags, but why the fuck aren't you livid at Trump for doing things he didn't fucking need to do just to be a fucking dick? I mean he's basically doing the equivalent of if Obama was trying to protect the one unicorn in existence, Trump just said "Get your guns and shoot that one unicorn." You're pissed at a little girl for whatever dumb reason and ignoring the true evil. He pulled out of the PA. He's vomit-inducing,

She’s young, courageous and her parents clearly love her.

I can see where a 16 year old Swedish schoolgirl can utterly terrify and emasculate older men. Why, she could rock the very foundations of the world itself, if compelled on a path other than gluttony and immoral robber-barony. It’s almost like Adam Smith wrote about morality and not just “get rich quick”

Yes, my big old plums are retracting deep inside my pelvis. The horror, l’horreur.

She looks like a retard.....is she?

Erna, how many times do we have to explain “its your mirror, not a television”. If the remote control doesn’t work, you’re looking in the mirror again.

A young girl that is not afraid of speaking her mind? How horrifying! The disproportionate reaction to her is just due to guilty consciences.

Greta's supporters want it all one way because they feel the debate is all one way. They want her to be able to yell at older people and not have the older people not yell back because she's 16. It just doesn't work that way. if she's putting herself out there to yell at people in public (and yes, "yelling" is indeed what she did at the UN), then she's going to get pushback for it. It's hypocritical and exploitative to say she gets to yell, but other people ca't yell back at her.

She shouldn't be this important. She is a sincere young person. Fine. She's made her point. Now the grown ups and the electeds need to act. Greta is fine on principle. She is unqualified on policy. Her moment has passed.

Of course old people should yell. That's what they do best r97. But they should also grow up and not make fun of her, of the way she looks, and other as hominem attacks. Or demand solutions from her because, she dares to critique the situation.

Doesn’t all of this argument assume that humanity should even try to save itself?

SAVE THE PLANET- KILL YOURSELF NOW!!!!!

I have seen many more articles about how old men fear Greta, than I have seen articles telling people how they can support Greta and her objectives.

[quote] She shouldn't be this important. She is a sincere young person. Fine. She's made her point. Now the grown ups and the electeds need to act. Greta is fine on principle. She is unqualified on policy. Her moment has passed.

I agree. And I'm not a man, I'm a WOMAN and I think youth activism is admirable.

Perception I would imagine. She came across as almost out of control, like a poorly behaved brat. Reminded me of the incident withe kid in the MAGA hat a year or two ago who allegedly was making fun of an Indian. He was certainly trashed here and elsewhere, only it turned out that what most thought initially from the what they had been told was not true. Hey, what ever happened with the kid's lawsuit against some news organizations ?

[quote]Doesn’t all of this argument assume that humanity should even try to save itself?

Animals shouldn't suffer our sins. I hope humanity is exterminated and the planet be left to the animals and every other living organism and let them live out the planet's days until the sun swallows it up.

Old white men in general are difficult

Sweden = atheism, socialism and sex perversia!

Animals are morally pure and superior to humans in their values of decency and environmental consciousness. I cry when I think of the animals.

If you think she's not right in the head, what would be the consequence of most people her age doing as she's doing? She's either inocuous or galvanizing; no one can argue she's harmful.

Well, good to see evryone still talking about Greta, and not Epstien being murdered

At least she's not a shit eating, cum guzzling scumbag, R94.

This old man isn't very taken by Greta

That's not Greta, that's -

Look, everybody!

[quote]I think she’s a fake whore

[quote]I’ve developed a set of critical thinking skills that only (but not in every case) comes with age and life experience

No irony there whatsoever!

Hey r111, it's a Kardashian-free thread.

She looks like Shirley Temple’s evil twin.

A girl from a developed country living a privileged life complains she is being robbed her right to live in a clean world while her country, Sweden, built its economic and technological empire at expense of the health and rights of kids living in under developed nations. Am I supposed to feel compassion for her?

She is a puppet. There are puppet masters behind her.

She does look good in fuchsia, though. Obviously you need to look past the bared teeth and the fist, but in fairness, who hasn't had a moment or two you wouldn't want on the front page?

Looks like r117 is the puppet.

Fucking moron.

Your poor reasoning skills speak volumes about you. There's a mirror in front of you R119

Enjoy ignore you ridiculous, infantile, anti-science moron and suck up to the likes of trump, putin and muhammed bin sawbones, r120.

She's a bit imperious for her age and life experience, even though I agree with her concerns. Anyone who talks about climate change is a Marxist conspiracy theorist as far as Trumpians are concerned, though. She is unsurprisingly being crucified.

She’s a teenage girl who for once is not packaged for their sexual consumption. This is very confusing to straight men and makes their wee-wees angry

Probably because they don't want to fuck her.

That's got to be one, if not the only, advantage of that unfortunate face.

Again, your low IQ speaks for yourself. Don't try to look intelligent when you can't understand what you struggle to read R121

STAY AWAY FROM MY BLUE PILL THORNBIRD!

BLESS,

Can I go before the UN and denounce 45?

She looks permanently constipated.

"how dare you!"

"you come to me for hope!"

do a lil research and you can see who's pulling the strings.

"16-year-old Greta Thunberg traveled by boat to the US from Sweden to lecture Americans on Global Warming.

The 16-year-old is an expert we are told.

Greta Thunberg told Americans, “You’re not trying hard enough!” Evidently Greta wants us to travel by boats to and from Europe.

Greta is a media-created phenomenon. What the media does not tell you is who is behind this perky kid.

If you check out her photos young Greta is being escorted around the country by her handler – far left activist Luisa-Marie Neubauer.

She's a member of "ONE Foundation" managed by BONO, Bill Gates and George Soros

Luisa-Marie Neubauer is a 23-year-old German climate protection activist. In Germany, she is one of the main organizers of the School strike for climate movement, inspired by Greta Thunberg. She supports the implementation of Agenda 2030 in Germany and a climate policy that is compatible with the Paris Agreement. Neubauer is a member of Alliance 90/The Greens and the Green Youth.

Luisa-Marie Neubauer belongs to a far left organization called “ONE” foundation.

According to Deutschland-Kurier Luisa Neubauer she is the “Youth Ambassador” of ONE, an international lobbying and campaigning organization.

And “ONE” is financed by wealthy liberals including Bono, Bill and Melinda Gates and George Soros.

It says so on the ONE org. webpage:

ONE’s Roots

ONE originated in conversations between Bill Gates and Bono in the early 2000s about the need to better inform Americans about extreme poverty around the world. Together with Melinda Gates, Bobby Shriver, George Soros, Ed Scott, Bob Geldof, and Jamie Drummond, they created an anti-poverty advocacy organization called DATA that focused on deploying celebrities and other influential individuals to urge world leaders to take action on specific development issues. Within a few years, DATA had joined with several other organizations to form ONE, with major backing from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The goal was to create a political constituency for development priorities—particularly the UN Millennium Development Goals, which in 2000 set specific global targets to address disease, poverty, and other pressing development issues."

So there it is.

some puppet masters have been know to use children.

Because she had big feet.

They are so angry because she is smarter than they are and is sticking to the facts, nor is she being bullied away. She doesn't give a fuck (outwardly anyway) if they talk shit on her looks, her autism, her struggles with MI. She's going to stick to her goal of getting real action on climate change. They can't stand her, because despite their best efforts to get under her skin and completely discredit her, she keeps going and keeps inspiring others. Fuck off to the old farts. Must make them feel good to insult a kid on how terrible she looks. @@

Her facial expressions and body language are disturbing and creepy. Her choice of words is extremist. All not her fault, but still.....

R131 will either shoot up a school or encourage others to do so in his little group of incel douchebags. Let me guess: On Twitter you have that stupid red "x" next to your stupid name.

The only puppets in this affair are the legions of fat, old white Republican men, aka the Fighting Keyboard Brigade, whose strings are being pulled by Faux News, and drunken, stupid Russian trolls, and we all know who is pulling their strings.

this place is filled with titty babies that can't handle ANY opinion that goes against their confirmation bias. lmao what a bunch of indoctrinated cocksucktress bitches.

Actually. cunt, your opinion is MORONIC. Know why? Because you've spent more time obsessing over some teenager than Trump decimating the EPA. You're calling people "babies" for calling you out for your oh so brilliant criticizing of a teenager who is of no actual threat to your fucking, immature ass. You're actually spending time going after her and absolutely none of that energy on anything Trump is actually doing.

You can't even see what a fucking moron you are, R138. You're in no position to call anyone a baby when your attacks couldn't be more childish. You're such fucking idiots and you can't even see it. Why exactly is she a focus for you at all when Trump is making moves that even actual polluters are shocked by? Half-wit. You're not as clever as you think.

r139 you sound hurt. lmao

You sound like a huge, stinking, smelly, steaming turd that just came out of Dotard's fat, white, pimpled, entitled ass, R140.

R140, you sound dumb if you think my response was "hurt" rather than calling out the absurdity of your side. Do you even comprehend how stupid you look being focused on this teenager and pretending as if she is the problem? You're focused on something simplistic and you can't actually respond to what I've said. You're focused more on attacking the messenger and for what? You're a fucking idiot. How is calling out the low IQ, junior high attacks of your side being "hurt"? Are you the same idiot who you used to claim that the left was scared of Palin and that's why we went after her? You're too dumb to understand that you're dumb. Your attacks on her are dumb. Your side is dumb. Whatever it is you think you're railing against is dumb.

It's the same nonsense as when conservative dumbasses started burning their Nikes or throwing out their Keurigs or Gillette razors or whatever other pathetic, childish things the right does to prove that they are such thin-skinned idiots...oh, excuse me, to "own the libs."

So dumb. Very dumb.

r142 is hurt. lmao

Lol clearly hurt

I will applaud her if she calls out hypocritical faux-environmentalist like Dicaprio and all those self-serving celebs who attended the Google camp.

Because no one likes to be lectured by a child who looks like a Down syndrome person.

Also, she is clearly a disinformation agent.

Because she's not dressed up in a school girl outfit, standing in front of a locker, a la Britney Spears, 1999? This is the only image of a teenage school girl that is acceptable to old white men.

Maybe she has mental disorders, but whatever they are, they aren't causing her to want to die. She wants to preserve the world so she can life a long and fruitful life, something we should all be entitled to.

Go Greta.

[quote] Hey, what ever happened with the kid's lawsuit against some news organizations ?

Media attorns stretching it out to pile up billable hours from their deep pockets clients for themselves, and likewise run up the hours for the plaintiffs lawyers whose clients don't have unlimited funding.

[quote] Because she's not dressed up in a school girl outfit, standing in front of a locker, a la Britney Spears, 1999? This is the only image of a teenage school girl that is acceptable to OLD WHITE MEN.

Lol, R148. So, by your logic, Asians, Africans and South Americans are different? Why are you ranting only about "old WHITE men"? That's not even OP's focus. Quit being such a racist.

Because I've yet to see an Asian, African or South American man freaking the F out over Greta? It's only white men who appear to be sent into a fit of rage over the kid. If I'm wrong, post the examples of all these minority men freaking out over her. I will wait.

[quote] Because she represents both societal change and the fact that the youth are finally rebelling against the adults that have fucked up their lives and robbed them of their futures.

R2, the "youth" have always been rebelling. Commie revolution of 1917, French Revolution, Spanish civil war - most of the people "rebelling" were mostly quite young. The deep irony is that some of that "rebelling" turned into an even bigger clusterfuck (because young people aren't generally that great at long-term social planning, they're just good at fighting and yelling). And then the next "young" generation (the new "youth") started blaming the previous "young" generation (the old "youth") - all over again.

It's like the "new 3rd wave" young feminists now turning AGAINST and publicly dissing the "previous 2nd wave" feminists (Germaine Greer).

"Because no one likes to be lectured by a child who looks like a Down syndrome person."

Your statement says so much about your own stupidity, arrogance and massive insecurities that it does about Greta.

Seek psychiatric help immediately.

R151, here you go:

[quote] "Cool response in China for Greta Thunberg’s global warming speech at UN’s Climate Action Summit. Chinese young people prefer tree planting and other activities to [environmental] street protests ... China’s online community was largely unmoved by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg’s emotional message to the UN’s Climate Action Summit in New York this week."

[quote] “She is a poor girl kidnapped by the thought of white leftists and she herself doesn’t know that,” wrote one user on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like microblogging platform.

[quote] “What this girl is doing is just talking the talk. She started to go on strike at age 14. How much knowledge does she have? Without much knowledge in her mind, how can she propose solutions to deal with environmental problems? I think this little sister’s problem is that she studied too little and thought too much,” another user said.

[quote] [bold]“If the economy doesn’t grow, what do us people living in developing countries eat?” a third person commented.[/bold]

[quote] The Weibo topic “16-year-old Swedish girl accusing at UN” had been viewed more than 44 million times, and attracted about 4,000 comments by Wednesday morning, most of them similarly negative.

[quote] On WeChat, another popular social media app in China, one person wrote: [bold]“She is just a performing artist. I’d like to say to her don’t talk, show some action. In the western part of China, many people have planted trees to save the planet. They are MORE entitled to receive the Nobel Prize than her.”[/bold]

And here's an example of African-Americans, R151. Not just "old white men". So please quit being racist.

Just fucking let it die, you old fart at R155. Aren't there some neighbors' kids you can scream at to get off your lawn.

"Fucking", "die", "old fart"... Lol, you're so over-emotional, R156. And how wonderful that you're so 'young' - you must have even not yet gone through puberty :). Don't you have a primary-school math test to prepare for?

And you're way too threatened by a 16 year old girl making a very simple and honest statement, and you're way too emotionally involved in what she has to say. As I said above, all of your petty, vindictive statements says so much about your own stupidity, arrogance and massive insecurities that it does about Greta. Seek psychiatric help immediately.

She's a paid actress, at best. Meanwhile the 19 year old actually doing something? Crickets.

And enough with your bogus racist bullshit, too. As if you and your ilk give two shits about minorities.

[quote] And you're way too threatened by a 16 year old girl making a very simple and honest statement … all of your petty, vindictive statements says so much about your own stupidity, arrogance and massive insecurities

Her statement is not “simple” - it’s [italic]simplistic[/italic] and vague, R158 / R160. There’s a difference. How about I tell [italic]you[/italic] to go fix World Hunger and “how dare you” stuff your face while young people are dying of hunger, “robbed of their childhoods”. And if you don’t act [italic]now[/italic] - kids will die. “I want you to panic. I want you to act like the house is on fire”. So go run out of your house, to the nearest post office and start yelling at them to send 4/5ths of your fridge & freezer contents to Asia and Africa. Go - run. You can thank me now for telling you that “simple and honest statement” and for “raising your awareness”. Because apparently you’re too “stupid and ignorant” and haven’t managed to stop World Hunger - so you need me to [italic]scold[/italic] you to stop stuffing your face, while others are being “robbed of their childhoods”.

Now where is my Nobel Peace prize for “raising your awareness” that every second that you munch on food, kids are dying from malnutrition. How DARE you hoard so much food just for yourself!

And I am a minority (biracial). Don't project your blatant racism ("white" this and "white" that) on me. You dared me to give you proof of various POCs (Asians, blacks) criticising Thunberg for her empty grand-standing. I gave it to you - but now you're hilariously pissed that you got what you asked for.

Ask yourself why you feel the way you feel about Greta. The facts will remain the same.

“We declare clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency,” it states. “To secure a sustainable future, we must change how we live. [This] entails major transformations in the ways our global society functions and interacts with natural ecosystems.”

There is no time to lose, the scientists say: “The climate crisis has arrived and is accelerating faster than most scientists expected. It is more severe than anticipated, threatening natural ecosystems and the fate of humanity.”

Not only old men even mother nature is angry with her

She's young, female, incorruptible, and is calling them out for their failures.

Of course they'll hate her.

Lots of good responses in this lately. r154 is great for rounding out the worldwide reaction, and r161 especially has a great take on the situation and surgically reveals the main fallacy in greta's "message."

r151 and others proclaiming that ONLY white men are upset about greta says more about their media digestion than actual reality. r151 only sees WHITE men decrying her because that's the only media he consumes! As r154 shows, the chinese aren't exactly accepting her "message" with open arms. I imagine the Indian reaction is similar, if not less technologically fluent, so r151 and others with his position are likely ignoring literally one third of the entire planet in their dumb takes.

Whenever white "woke" liberals loudly decry "white people" as THE problematic factor in society, they're generally only showing their own ignorance about the world and their place in it. It's funny because the "woke" are the FIRST to smugly point this out in other contexts, but they remain oblivious to their own transgressions.

Why should I feel sorry? It will be the coastal cities that will be destroyed by climate change, not me!

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She is going to be first female Incel

She is going to be first female Incel

DL Fave Charlie pays tribute:

This bimbo thinks she's all that, mean while she's jetting all over the place polluting the air and missing school. Go back to school bitch

I ❤️ Greta !

Both sides are fetishising her. Men on the left white knighting a teen girl and practically coming all over her are worse.

Right now she is destroying her cred by hanging out with such environmental luminaries as Prince Pierre, Leo and Arnie Schwarzenegger. Greta will be forgotten in a year like all the other children exploited for political point scoring. Who was Malala again?

She’s a disinformation agent. Maybe unwittingly, but she is spreading vague truths with lies, making it seem as though more coercive government control from the top down would bring about positive social change in people’s daily behaviors and attitude to consumerism. Newsflash.. it never does.. quite the opposite.

Government (in all its corrupt shapes and forms, left to right) has been the most destructive force throughout human history.

^the goal is to set the stage for the acceptance of a one world government by the way.

r174 W&W

r175 F&F

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R162 I gave up long ago. People will ignore it until they are literally dying, and then wring their hands and wonder how, oh how could it have possibly happened?

To answer OP‘s very specific (racist and sexist) loaded question: probably because she is ugly and a female incel, as someone smartly observed above.

That's not very smart.

'Greta Thunberg effect' driving growth in carbon offsetting

R11 speaks the truth. Someone is backing her - I wonder who.

Of course someone's backing her, idiot at R182.

Just like the Koch Brothers and ExxonMobil are backing the anti-global warming protesters,

Giant Greta Thunberg mural to watch over San Francisco's downtown

Giant Greta Thunberg mural to watch over San Francisco's downtown

[quote]Government (in all its corrupt shapes and forms, left to right) has been the most destructive force throughout human history.

Wrong. Religion has been the most destructive.

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Were those flights on a private jet, R187?

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She's terrible. Her pissy bitch ass attitude will set us back more than we can afford. She's a useful idiot and nothing more. I'm sorry to say this. I kept my peace throughout her big show and remained silent while I digested it all. I've come to a definitive conclusion that the child must go. She is not helping. She provides fodder to climate change deniers who point to her as yet another weather nutter. If you care about climate, insist she go back to school, get an education in environmental science and until then, shut the fuck up or she will literally usher in accelerated climate change. The politically powerful American Republicans who control the entire fucking climate debate are not taking orders from Pippy Longstocking, for Christ goddamn sake.

Fuck pippy longstocking

She looks like a piggy just like David Hogg

She looks like a piggy just like David Hogg

She would easily beat Hogg in arm wrestling. His wimpy pipe cleaner arms would snap in moments.