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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1464069)	6/21/2024 11:52:53 PM
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The Sad Tragedy Of Greta Thunberg Daniel Markind Contributor I am an attorney who writes about energy issues and our world. Jun 20, 2024,09:35am EDT Updated Jun 20, 2024, 12:58pm EDT Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is pictured prior to taking part in a 'Fridays for Future' ... [+] AFP VIA GETTY IMAGESLike her or hate her, it was impossible to ignore Greta Thunberg. The Swedish teenager (she's now 21) burst on the world scene in 2018 as a leader for dramatic climate activism. "How dare you!" she demanded of the United Nations at its New York world headquarters. "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood," she said. The extent to which that might be true is a matter of conjecture, of course, but Thunberg certainly got the world’s attention. She seemed to be the natural leader for serious climate action among the younger generation. That all changed after October 7, 2023, when Greta found a more important cause – to her, that is – hatred of Israel. So determined was she to seek to destroy the Jewish state that she travelled to the Swedish city of Malmo to participate in mass demonstrations demanding a young Israeli singer be banned from participating in the annual Eurovision song contest. Miss Thunberg insisted that her voice be heard in opposition to the Israeli singer, yet she remained silent as Hezbollah rockets set fire to thousands of acres in northern Israel. For the first time, the environment was less important to Greta than world politics. "How dare you," indeed. It's hard to see where Greta goes from here. Any future attempt by her to exert leadership of the environmental movement will be met with howls by many who either support Israel, are neutral about it, or are just primarily concerned about the world environment. This is not necessarily good news for the rest of us. As the recent European parliamentary elections show, many Europeans are tiring of the green agenda. With costs rising and a feeling that the burdens of combating climate change are disproportionately shared, environmental activists now are fighting a rear-guard action to maintain momentum in combatting climate change. One thing that people have clearly realized is that environmental issues and energy transition are difficult subjects. They do not lend themselves to simplistic answers or pithy slogans. The tragedy here is that, as she matured and learned, Greta Thunberg seemed to be a natural leader of the green movement. As an adult, she could have led the movement to fight manmade climate change from a more educated and practical standpoint. Greta could have been the spokesperson for the movement as it seeks to push the world forward and educate it about the compromises needed and the priorities that we must follow to defeat climate change, or at least to learn to live with it. That opportunity seems distant now. For whatever reason, Ms. Thunberg aligned herself with the intersectionality that claims somehow that there can be no moving forward environmentally without Palestinian independence, possibly at the expense of the Jewish state. As the Palestinians have no real record of environmental stewardship, it was difficult to understand the connection. However, such is the concept of intersectionality. 00:05 03:12 Read More In yielding her environmental bona fides to anti-Israel intersectionality, Greta Thunberg no doubt has diminished what had been her life's work. We all will be the poorer for it. Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn. Check out my website.

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Greta Thunberg old tweet about humanity being wiped out comes back to bite her ... again Author of the article: Denette Wilford Published Jun 21, 2024 • Last updated 9 hours ago • 2 minute read 57 Comments Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks with journalists as she arrives on May 8, 2024 at the Stockholm district court. PHOTO BY FREDRIK SANDBERG/TT NEWS AGENCY /Getty Images Article contentLast year, we should have all been dead, according to an old tweet from climate activist Greta Thunberg. On June 21, 2018, Thunberg shared a link to a story addressing the planet’s dire predicament with the message, “A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.” So it’s now been six years since that tweet went up. It has since been deleted, but those who aren’t fans of Thunberg certainly like to bring up her old message — and the fact that the world has not come to an end. “This tweet is now six years old,” the account EndWokeness posted, along with a screenshot of the original tweet. This tweet is now 6 years old pic.twitter.com/EcVTV7RDi6 — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 21, 2024 “EVERYTHING ‘top’ scientists have predicted has been wrong about ‘climate change,’” one person wrote. Another added: “Climate extremists are always wrong. That’s why we’re still here. “How many times can they say the sky is falling before people wake up to this nonsense?,” a third person asked. It has since been pointed out by internet fact-checkers that Thunberg didn’t actually write that the world would end five years to the date of her original tweet. Rather, her message was that we should stop using fossil fuels. A, B, C, D’s OF THE CARBON TAX: Emissions have risen despite the carbon tax imposed Postmedia political columnist Lorne Gunter asks what is the Canadian government hiding when it comes to the correlation between the carbon tax and emissions. Especially since there is an internal study showing the carbon tax cost is more than Canadians get back. 0 seconds of 4 minutes, 46 secondsVolume 90% The screengrab of the tweet included a link to an article by the website gritpost.com, “Top Climate Scientist: Humans Will Go Extinct if We Don’t Fix Climate Change by 2023.” While the link is no longer available, there are stories that refer to parts of a January 2018 speech from scientist James Anderson. While Anderson did not say that humanity will be wiped out in five years, an article paraphrased parts of his speech and was published on the site Grit Post — which Thunberg linked to, at the time. That speech was about how carbon levels in the atmosphere were causing Earth’s polar ice caps to rapidly disappear to a point at which reducing emissions wouldn’t be enough to stop or reverse it. RECOMMENDED FROM EDITORIAL WARMINGTON: Greta Thunberg removes 'anti-Semitic' X post as people ask 'how dare' she? Anderson previously told the Associated Press that the focus of the statement was on the floating ice volume and the observed rate of disappearance at that time. “That is a complete fabrication of what I said,” referring to the claims he said humanity would be wiped out in five years. “Thus the statement was clear to those in attendance that the reference was to floating ice volume in the data shown on the slide, not arctic ice in general,” Anderson clarified, adding, “so, the ‘wiping out of humanity by 2022’ is a total distortion of what I said or meant at the University of Chicago colloquium in 2018.”