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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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From: Maple MAGA 11/13/2019 4:23:42 PM
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The Greta Thunberg circus has become a complete farce

It’s a personal choice but I don’t think telling people they’ll never be forgiven, berating them with “how dare you”, does much to bring people on board. Usually it has the opposite effect. It’s just another sad example of serious and complex political issues being reduced to “I’m right and you're an idiot”. That kind of discourse just pollutes the town square. It’s fractious and shuts others out. It is toxic to democratic debate.

The whole trip, the hype and the expense was one big media circus. One can’t help but think it’s more to promote the person than the issue. Given the over-dramatisation of global warming by some, including Thunberg, we now have a generation of children worried about being burnt to a crisp.

Out of all the 16-year-olds in the world, why is it that just one features in the media worldwide? There are other kids who care as much, are just as articulate, just as concerned. If you think the world focussing on this one young girl was just some happy accident you are plugged into a faulty socket.

I’ve seen the photo of her outside her school on her first climate strike. Posed to draw on the haunting concept of the lonely outsider who (surprise, surprise) becomes the involuntary hero. Who took that photo and, more importantly, why?

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