St. Greta is applying all her worldly experience and college degrees (sarc) to explain how we can do this
Greta: We must fight the climate crisis and pandemic simultaneously
The world needs to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and climate change simultaneously, and guard against people who try to use the current crisis to delay action cutting carbon emissions, Greta Thunberg has urged.
Sadly, the rest is behind a true paywall, but you get the point. And it’s super easy for people with no responsibilities and no actual financial concerns to push this stuff. She’s a minor, and Someone Else, be it her parents or all the others who are providing aid, is paying for her current lifestyle.
And then this snowflake
Commentary: Outbreak shows we can confront climate change
I’m 18 years old. In the four years I’ve spent fighting for climate justice, I’ve constantly heard the same excuses from the leaders who are supposed to protect me, my future and the future of generations to come: “We just can’t do that. We can’t transform our economy. We can’t change that fast.†(snip)
Well, the coronavirus pandemic has blown their cover. It has exposed how government leaders, and the American public, actually can make immediate, dramatic behavioral changes; even when those changes have serious consequences for the economy and our quality of life. It’s just that, until now, they haven’t been willing to.
Well, yeah, in a real emergency. What has Jamie Margolin sacrificed?
When it comes to the climate crisis, most of the statistics are flipped: Young people will suffer the most. A United Nations study estimates that countries have roughly 10 years to take “unprecedented†actions to cut carbon emissions, before it’s too late. In a decade or two, many of today’s most influential politicians won’t even be around. But my generation will be. And we will be suffering and dying in massive numbers from the countless harms of the climate crisis: air pollution permanently damaging our lungs and immune systems; more pandemics of infectious diseases; severe and frequent natural disasters, droughts and famine; a projected 150 million people displaced by sea level rise.
Uh huh
You want young people to sacrifice — to stop socializing, to shut ourselves inside — so older people can live. But many older people aren’t sacrificing so the youth can live.
The older should pass rules that only apply to those 25 and under who are pushing this stuff, see how they like it. I suspect after 3-4 more months of economic disaster and having to stay home, a lot of young climate cultists will be giving up their religion.
