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How 16-year-old Greta Thunberg’s rise could backfire on environmentalists
CNBC ^ | September 24, 2019 | Jake Novak

Posted on 09/24/2019 10:53:15 AM PDT by yoe

[snip]"But while personalizing a movement, especially with the innocent face of a child, is usually PR gold, Greta’s ascendancy to the forefront of environmental activism could end up being a major negative to the movement – and the environment."

[snip]Her story signals a clear change in environmental movement tactics, and just how much more divisive and ineffective that change is likely to be.

Greta, and the adults guiding her, are seeking to shift almost all the focus from personal responsibility to governments and big corporations to enact environmental reform. Their argument is that individual people can’t do much to save the world from climate change disaster when energy companies and governments focused mostly on economic growth don’t care enough to make the big changes.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antifa; asbergers; backfire; childabuse; childexploitation; envirowhackos; mentalillness; psychotickid; rentfree; soros; swedishbrat; thunberg
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Science is never, ever settled! That is a fact that is being denied these young people, they are in fact, being abused by their elders...hard core environmentalists teachers and parents need to be called out on this.

What the real message is, is about Capitalism and the freedom of prosperity. As long as China and India don't and really can't clean up their polluting ways due to over population and poverty...the USA remains a clean air, sustainable country. The environmental protest puppet masters need to put their toys away and look elsewhere for new $$$$.

Our Founding Fathers laid the ground work with our Constitution and our citizens have fought for that document from the day it was signed by the anti-Republic people.....Greta's belief in global climate change myths is so very sad for her and her generation...they are being taught lies.

1 posted on 09/24/2019 10:53:15 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe

Do you mean to say that an angry 16 year old girl who hates adults and thinks she knows everything isn’t some revolutionary brilliant never-before-seen discovery?


2 posted on 09/24/2019 10:55:14 AM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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That demon child is going to turn a lot of leftists against her.


3 posted on 09/24/2019 10:56:01 AM PDT by bgill
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Since she buys off on the global climate change malarkey, part of which includes disdain for cow emissions, I think we have a natural label for her.

She’s Joan of Fart.


4 posted on 09/24/2019 10:58:18 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent.)
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She looks scary.


5 posted on 09/24/2019 10:58:43 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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Their argument is that individual people can’t do much to save the world

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahaha..... and governments can do even less.

6 posted on 09/24/2019 10:59:38 AM PDT by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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We should write a letter to the Swedish Prime Minister asking them to keep their crazies at home. We have enough of our own................


7 posted on 09/24/2019 11:02:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: yoe

Mouthy glaring teenagers are, by and large, enormously annoying to everyone on planet Earth. No one wants to be lectured by someone who knows so little.


8 posted on 09/24/2019 11:03:17 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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The fact that they are parading around a child, who has several mental illnesses, as their supreme leader on environmental issues, should backfire on them, more than anything else.

Child abuse is being discussed more and more, online, after her performance at the UN.

9 posted on 09/24/2019 11:04:06 AM PDT by TXSearcher (Interesting times we live in...........)
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She’s Joan of Fart.

Greta TheBorg.
Human Shield.
10 posted on 09/24/2019 11:04:51 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: Junk Silver

This is child abuse. This young lady with asperger’s syndrome was brainwashed on junk science and used as a human shield against the druid wannabes of the global warming movement for the purpose of laying a guilt trip on all of us. This is akin to the Islamic terrorists using children as human shields to protect their terror attacks against the Jews of Israel. The propping up of this mentally disturbed girl to push junk science is also reminiscent of those Mafia types who convince a mentally retarded kid to assassinate a target. The Mafia types then kill the mentally retarded kid. At least this Greta Thurnberg won’t suffer the same fate from the lib/commies (I hope).


11 posted on 09/24/2019 11:05:06 AM PDT by Stepan12 (potusm)
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Close ... the Virgin Mary.

https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/09/24/catholic-missionaries-compare-greta-thunberg-to-virgin-mary/


12 posted on 09/24/2019 11:06:19 AM PDT by maggief
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She presents the symptoms of Aspberger’s syndrome- (High performing autism) What is disgusting are the adults taking advantage of this individual’s condition to churn out fed propaganda without a filter. They are at the same slime level as Hamas and other vermin hiding behind women and children while they commit atrocities.


13 posted on 09/24/2019 11:07:06 AM PDT by slapshot ( Speaker Ryan was a sober and less tan version of John Boehner)
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against should read by the druid wannabes. Sorry for the error.


14 posted on 09/24/2019 11:07:11 AM PDT by Stepan12 (potusm)
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So the little darlin’ is going home by plane since her boat was sent home without her.


15 posted on 09/24/2019 11:07:17 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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what junk silver posted 2 minutes before I did...…….


16 posted on 09/24/2019 11:07:51 AM PDT by slapshot ( Speaker Ryan was a sober and less tan version of John Boehner)
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To: yoe

are people ready for multinational corps to join together and go totalitarian on us?


17 posted on 09/24/2019 11:08:25 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: yoe

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi5zYXyherkAhUQrp4KHdLiBvcQzPwBegQIARAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.refinery29.com%2Fen-us%2F2019%2F09%2F8467381%2Fgreta-thunberg-autism-superpower-speak-out-climate-change&psig=AOvVaw2xmCPNRvLTPkD_SpGzN6qy&ust=1569434671576051

She’s being used. When the world does not end in 12 years she’ll be devistated.


18 posted on 09/24/2019 11:08:26 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (You cannot solidify control and power over people who are able to defend themselves.)
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You’re right. She is a wicked girl and the tool of an evil agenda.


19 posted on 09/24/2019 11:08:44 AM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: yoe

That’s nothing innocent about Greta’s face.


20 posted on 09/24/2019 11:09:20 AM PDT by moovova
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