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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?!
Simple: to raise awareness and to get people involved so changes can be made.
This is the point of almost all protests and is a key part of the American idea.
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?!
The left has turned to children because they are more likely to believe the narrative put forth and want to feel important by participating.
The captain and mate must have stayed below for her photo shoot
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