What is the point of the school strikes around the world? (climate change) (drugs, environmentalist)
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I guess most people have heard of Greta Thunberg, the 16 year old Swedish kid who wants the politicians to do more for the environment through organised school strikes. I am an environmentalist. I have completed 4 years of university studying environmental science. So, I definitely do care about the environment and our planet and I consider climate change a huge issue. But, I still don’t understand. What is it really that the kids want our politicians to do?
Now living in Australia and seeing these school strikes it almost makes me laugh. Kids who fly abroad all the time, take the car everywhere, eat imported foods, use imported clothes, have parents in the mining industry and eat the second most meat in the world (after the US). Australians have the world’s worst carbon footprint per capita and they want the politicians to do more hey. They want taxes on fuel, so that their parents can’t drive them to school? They want taxes on meat, so that they have to eat more vegetarian? They want taxes on flying, so that they can’t go to Bali every year? What exactly is it that the kids want?
The way I see it is; they don’t want to give up anything but is it modern and progressive to be “anti -climate change”, so they blame it all on the politicians. They don’t want to take responsibility themselves. But, if a politician would actually want to do something that would make a difference, he would never be elected. So, what the f*ck is it all about?!
Same purpose as all the high school protests against war in the 60's. Young people like to express themselves.
It has been proven that protests, public outcry, etc. have impact on some issues.
..'express themselves' my azz...lol...when i was in high school (60's) we went to all the protests, sit ins and walk outs, not express ourselves but to meet chicks, get laid, buy or sell assorted drugs...
....of course the joke was on me, two years later i fond myself in south east asia, carrying a gun....
Same purpose as all the high school protests against war in the 60's. Young people like to express themselves.
It has been proven that protests, public outcry, etc. have impact on some issues.
Yes, I can see the similarity. But, people in the 1960’s wanted the government to end American participation in Vietnam. What does the protesters today want the government to do? More taxes? Less cars, meat, coal, imported goods, travel? I don’t think so.
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Originally Posted by moneill
Because you don't support the cause.
There were no tantrums -- there were protests to bring awareness to the cause.
But if you don't support the cause -- they are unruly kids....blah blah blah.
I support the cause, but still don’t understand what they want the governments to do?
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Originally Posted by sanspeur
Just remember, these kids are going to have to live in the world we leave them, then you should understand.
Yes, and they are contributing to a better world by lessening their Co2 footprint? No, did not think so.
Just remember, these kids are going to have to live in the world we leave them, then you should understand.
The same world they are messing up just as bad as anyone else is with their energy hungry gadgets and lifestyles, filling of the landfills with throwaway imported junk and polluting the air and environment with their "enlightened" "I want to travel the world" attitudes.
I guess most people have heard of Greta Thunberg, the 16 year old Swedish kid who wants the politicians to do more for the environment through organised school strikes. I am an environmentalist. I have completed 4 years of university studying environmental science. So, I definitely do care about the environment and our planet and I consider climate change a huge issue. But, I still don’t understand. What is it really that the kids want our politicians to do?
Now living in Australia and seeing these school strikes it almost makes me laugh. Kids who fly abroad all the time, take the car everywhere, eat imported foods, use imported clothes, have parents in the mining industry and eat the second most meat in the world (after the US). Australians have the world’s worst carbon footprint per capita and they want the politicians to do more hey. They want taxes on fuel, so that their parents can’t drive them to school? They want taxes on meat, so that they have to eat more vegetarian? They want taxes on flying, so that they can’t go to Bali every year? What exactly is it that the kids want?
The way I see it is; they don’t want to give up anything but is it modern and progressive to be “anti -climate change”, so they blame it all on the politicians. They don’t want to take responsibility themselves. But, if a politician would actually want to do something that would make a difference, he would never be elected. So, what the f*ck is it all about?!
Kids like to raise hell and get out of school. They will grow out of it when they get jobs and have to pay taxes.
I guess most people have heard of Greta Thunberg, the 16 year old Swedish kid who wants the politicians to do more for the environment through organised school strikes. I am an environmentalist. I have completed 4 years of university studying environmental science. So, I definitely do care about the environment and our planet and I consider climate change a huge issue. But, I still don’t understand. What is it really that the kids want our politicians to do?
Now living in Australia and seeing these school strikes it almost makes me laugh. Kids who fly abroad all the time, take the car everywhere, eat imported foods, use imported clothes, have parents in the mining industry and eat the second most meat in the world (after the US). Australians have the world’s worst carbon footprint per capita and they want the politicians to do more hey. They want taxes on fuel, so that their parents can’t drive them to school? They want taxes on meat, so that they have to eat more vegetarian? They want taxes on flying, so that they can’t go to Bali every year? What exactly is it that the kids want?
The way I see it is; they don’t want to give up anything but is it modern and progressive to be “anti -climate change”, so they blame it all on the politicians. They don’t want to take responsibility themselves. But, if a politician would actually want to do something that would make a difference, he would never be elected. So, what the f*ck is it all about?!
It's a plot devised by working parents to keep the kids
busy under the disguise of giving a rat's arse.
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