Trump, Mr Perv-Orange, takes the piss out of GT.
"Appearing close to tears during the speech, Ms Thunberg said: āWe are in the beginning of a mass extinction and yet all you can talk about is money. You are failing us.ā
Mr Trump tweeted a video of the speech late on Monday night and said: āShe seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!ā
Trump had spent only a few minutes at the climate summit, a centerpiece of this yearās UN General Assembly schedule".
Trump knows how to make a child happy, see the delight on his sonās face to receive his fatherās loving embraceā¦
Trump, taking theā¦ magic person in charge of everything,ā¦, anti science standā¦ against fixing global pollutionā¦isnāt he declaring war on the Whole Rest of the World? While diverting attention to micro events and potential, nothing like as destructive, other wars?
The kiddo looks as if breathing his last, suffocating.
Not unlike the dead leopard in the arms of happy shooter, Other Trump Junior, the Hunter.
Bar stewards
@Lily ā¦Iāve got to nowhere, with that, ,ābar stewardā thought, despite some ferocious googlingā¦
Only thisā¦
U.S. President Donald Trumpās son, Eric Trump said an employee of a Chicago cocktail lounge spat on him. Police wouldnāt comment directly about the alleged incident.
Must have been too hard to_resist, if Trump Junior was bragging about his leopard kill.
My view on thunberg might not be very popular here but I feel she is ācontrolled oppositionā and funded by powerful corporate interestsā¦
I agree that plastic should not end up in our oceansā¦and that banned chemicals shouldnāt be shipped to āthird worldā countries for disposalā¦and I agree that fracking should be banned and that we should eat less red meatā¦that we should preserve our pollinators and question the roll out of 5g and much more besidesā¦that we should question the use of pesticides and herbicidesā¦
Butā¦Iām not convinced about āclimate changeā or āglobal warmingā ā¦
Earth is currently in a grand solar minimum and little sunspot activityā¦maybe others can point to specific research that I may have missedā¦???
That picture with the leopard shows two Trump offspring, filth both of them. Utterly disgusting.
Do we need to see research before we accept that the climate is changing or that the planet is warming at an alarming rate? I find it hard to believe that Ms Thunberg is anything other than a bright, intelligent young lady who has inspired thousands if not millions around the world.
There is plenty of research that says the climate is changing and as Greta Thunberg points out the young school strikers arenāt saying anything new or hitherto unsuspected, they are just saying what the scientists say and asking governments to take action.
Iād be amazed Helen if sheās being ācontrolledā by anyone. Her power is that she is well along the autism/asbergers spectrum and has a brutal honesty which my generation and the ones that have followed mine badly need to hear. The power of her speech was her brutal raw emotion. I suspect in years to come it will be compared with Martin Luther Kingās āI have a dreamā. When Attenboroughās film was shown recently where he spoke of our having only 10 years commentators afterwards said that he was ātoo niceā - his mellow tones (even though from a place of anger) were too gentle. No one will be saying that about Greta.
I believe we donāt even have 10 years. Helen, as Greta said in her speech, the research has been there for 30 years - Iām surprised you have missed it. Thatās 30 years we have wasted. I am ashamed of my contemporaries and I ache for what we are handing on to future generations.
And I hope there are powerful corporate interests behind her. Itāll be the only way anything will get done. Waiting for politicians to step up to the mark? Heaven help us!
Helen, I donāt know much about climatology research, and I know you arenāt research illiterate, but it seems to me highly probable that the consensus prognostication of the majority of the best and most extensively and longest committed scientists across the globe must be heeded IMO.
Itās not just research papers that figure in my own calculations, even if I could appraise them, itās the huge population movements from continents blighted by unprecedented changes in rainfall, drought, floods, millions of subsistence peasant facing starvation and death.
I think those of us living privileged lifestyles of plenty need to set aside out quibbles and doubts, and get on board with Greta Thunberg. No corporate dupe she.
The young woman is running herself into the ground to save the lives of others, she sometimes looks near collapse from physical and emotional exhaustion. I believe her, she moves my heart to action.
Sorry Jeanette, just swearing at those low lifes.
Iām ashamed too of the potential future we may be inflicting on future generationsā¦I constantly think about my own grandkids and all the worlds children for that matterā¦
I just think we need to always be mindful of not only our own children but all the worlds childrenā¦just sometimes take a step back and view the bigger pictureā¦???
One of my daughters has just had her third child whilst studying for her degree so she can ultimately work with young people struggling with drug abuseā¦she volunteers for womenās aidā¦she is also a huge advocate for natural medicine and is currently navigating for the third time her way through what she views as an oppressive vaccine industryā¦
We all choose our ābattlesā as each of us can only do so muchā¦
I see my self as amongst many other things as an environmentalist but there is just something that niggles the back of my mind about the focus on āclimate changeāā¦āglobal warmingāā¦ācarbon neutral deadlinesāā¦like itās a distraction from other just as pressing and equally important issuesā¦???
Such as what? Climate change leading to catastrophic weather events is already driving populations from their homes to countries which canāt or wonāt take them in, the weather is arguably the principal cause of the civil war in Syria, the Paris agreement targets are still not being met.
What sort of world are your grandchildren going to grow up in? One rather less stable and pleasant than this one, where malaria, dengue etc will be endemic in Europe again.
And who benefits from not vaccinating people? It is true that higher infant mortality which disproportionately affects poor families keeps the population at a more sustainable level, so you might wonder who is spreading anti-vaccination propaganda in the developing world and elsewhere, and why. Try homoeopathy for eg Ebola. Look at the bigger picture.
Of all the conspiracy theories you could pick, the idea that climate change is no big deal is probably the most pernicious.
I saw a video on line (no idea who the tv show presenter was or the programme, it was from the US I think) in which the presenter was mocking the children of today saying they were the first generation to insist on air conditioning in classrooms, the first to expect mobile phones, spend all their time on electronic games instead of playing outside etc. The list went on implicating that the children of today were to blame, yet we, the older generations (mine and my parents) were the generations who made this all possible, there were no mobile phones when I was a child but itās my generation who have moved technology on in leaps and bounds since the first ones became available.
To see adults blame children/teens for their use of tech and lack of outdoor activity makes my blood boil, they only have these things because we provided them, they only use them because we were too damned lazy (I exclude myself here as I restricted use heavily for my daughter and made her do āold fashioned thingsā which she now enjoys freely) to make sure they did physical activities, played outside, played musical instruments or did crafts, how can this possible be their fault!?
We, along with our parents are the ones who embraced and improved new technologies and are to blame for the state we find ourselves in today, and attempting to shame the children of today who are attempting to reverse or halt the damage we caused is scandalous, we are the ones who should hang our heads in shame.
As for vaccination avoidance, those avoiding it clearly havenāt had the āprivilegeā of seeing measles in all its fine glory, or had to live with the long term effects of polio, these vaccinations were introduced to relieve suffering, they have proved over the years to prevent these diseases and have been proven to be safe. Non vaccination should only be an option when there are medical reasons that prevent it, not vaccinating because itās the trendy thing to do puts the lives of all those who canāt be vaccinated for medical reasons at even greater risk!
I have two sons with Fragile x syndrome and autism and I vaccinated the eldest because it was the right thing to do, the youngest wasnāt vaccinated because of health issues, their autism clearly has nothing to do with whether or not they were vaccinated.
Someone mentioned non vaccination as a way of natural selection, sadly the fools who do not vaccinate are the ones who pass it to those who had no choice and they live to say they werenāt vaccinated and they were fine!
Ok, rant over and work to do
I read the article which sounds like the video you describe. However, my take on reading it was that the writer was not mocking āthe children of todayā but was angry that they so easily criticise this generation without looking at the contribution they themselves are making to the very situation about which they are protesting. And does anyone truly believe that all of those hundreds or thousands of children who protested have a clue about the reality of what they were protesting about? A bit like those who voted āLeaveā.
I donāt think I said that āclimate change is no big dealāā¦???
A little harsh maybeā¦???
My daughter is certainly no fool and like you wants to do the best she can for her 3 sonsā¦
She is well read and her health visitor has left the choice totally up to her conceding that my daughter knows far more about vaccination than she doesā¦
This first vaccination appt is for Dip 1/ Hib 1/ Pert 1/ Pneu 1/ Pol 1/ Tet 1/ Rotavirus 1/ Men B1 / and routine Hep B1ā¦for a breast fed baby not quite 3 months oldā¦
She is certainly not refusing at this stage because itās considered ātrendyāā¦far from itā¦