St. Greta and her disciples Have Spoken
Greta Thunberg Says Norway, Canada Oil Violates Children Rights
Greta Thunberg and 15 other youth climate activists urged Norway and Canada to wind down their oil and gas production, which they said violates children’s rights around the world.
In letters to the prime ministers of both countries, the campaigners contrasted their self-professed roles as international leaders in the fight against climate change against their planned increase in fossil-fuel production, according to a statement from law firm Hausfeld LLP, which represents the petitioners. Higher output breaches commitments under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the activists said.
It’s not the first time Thunberg, 16, has gone up against Norway, which neighbors her native Sweden. In October, she criticized the Scandinavian countries’ emissions record, and cited Norway’s oil policies as one of the reasons for rejecting the Nordic Council Environment Prize.
“Norway must honor its responsibilities to children everywhere,†Thunberg and the 15 other activists said in the letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg. “It must demonstrate how a major fossil fuels producer and exporter can transition away from these pollutants, blazing a trail for other fossil fuel-reliant economies to follow.â€
The same 16 petitioners, including children from Nigeria, the U.S. and the Marshall Islands, filed a legal complaint with the UN in September against France, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, and Turkey for not doing enough to tackle climate change. Their latest missives coincide with the UN’s COP25 meeting in Madrid, where Thunberg arrived last week after sailing back across the Atlantic following her trip to the UN Climate Climate Action Summit in New York in September.
Let’s try an experiment: take everything away from St. Greta and her 15 disciples that has any link to fossil fuels. They can say goodbye to their smartphones, computers, tablets, smart watches, lots of clothes, a goodly chunk of their food, the microphones they screech in, and the reporters who cover them, among others, as they all tend to require fossil fuels to transport them to market. And then let’s slap the kiddies with big taxes/fees. Let’s see if they keep their membership cards in the Cult of Climastrology when they are forced to practice what they preach.
They’ll certainly be happy, right? Or, will they suddenly realize that what they’ve been pushing actually hurts their own modern lives, and that ‘climate change’ policy is great in theory, not so much in practice?
