mancity2012_eamo
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Greta Thunberg
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Chippy_boy
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This is true, and it affects everything, not just climate change.The problem is those people who want governments to do more will not elect a government that promises to spend money doing more...............
People want more money spent on schools, hospitals, police, public transport, social welfare, you name it. And yet there are few people (some, not none) who will vote for paying more themselves. Most people want the above, but want "other people" to pay for it.
Working on a research paper at the moment, and interestingly, people appear to hold business as responsible as governments for doing something about it at scale. With the top CEOs recently advocating shareholder value is no longer the #1 goal, might see some acceleration in big business sustainability efforts in the not too distant future.
Chippy_boy
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Working on a research paper at the moment
Who's funding that, as a matter of interest?
allblackcitizen
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Who's funding that, as a matter of interest?
Probably himself given the state of higher education research funding
This is true, and it affects everything, not just climate change.
People want more money spent on schools, hospitals, police, public transport, social welfare, you name it. And yet there are few people (some, not none) who will vote for paying more themselves. Most people want the above, but want "other people" to pay for it.
Everyone votes selfishly whether they believe they do or not.
As an example I want more money spent on education because I don’t wish to suffer the scrotes in Piccadilly Gardens on my way to work.
Who's funding that, as a matter of interest?
Sorry mate, only just seen this. Big booze client looking to boost ethical credentials essentially.
Chippy_boy
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Interesting, thanks.Sorry mate, only just seen this. Big booze client looking to boost ethical credentials essentially.
The blue phantom
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Cheers for posting this, Remarkable young girl.Well there is truth and there are lies and inbetween there is a wide ocean of spin. Is Dampcles post the truth - no not if you wre to apply Grice's four maxims. It it downright lies, no. What is different about Greta is that she is a teenager talking directly to other teenagers.
I doubt very much Kristina Persson is a billionaire. Her dad ran a chain of Volvo service centres in Sweden and her and her two brothers inherited it. They bought her out years ago. She's wealthy, absolutely, but probably more at the level of "Dragons den" than Warren Buffett.
The Swedish economy is about 45% larger thatn the Norwegian economy. They are not neck and neck, vying for supremacy. It's about the same ratio as Germany to the UK.
It reads as though the whole scenario was manufactured. It is a common error to look at things in reverse chronoligical order and claim there is cause and therofre a conspiracy, when in reality it is merely opportunism. Changing the cover of a book to sell more. Wow. How scurrilous.
Her mum is an opera singer. Her dad is an actor. Her granddad is very famous for childrens television. She's basically like Johnnuy Ball or John Noakes granddaghter. But it is an irrelivance.
The whole thing with Greta exploded because of an off the cuff remartk by a bureaucrat to a local paper. When a general election was called, Greta decided she would bunk off school every Friday and stand outside the Swedish Parliament with a sign. No one took much notice until a local papaer asked the Director of Schools (for the whole of Sweden) what he thought about it. He said that Sweden had a law requiring all children to attend school and that she should do her protesting at the weekends, totally missing the point. The tabloids smelt blood and a subsequent interview with the Schools Director turned into a car crash. And that was news. That exposure allowed Greta to get more exposure for her message. A message from one teenager to other teenagers which was:
"The adults aren't goingto do enough to save the planet we are going to have to live in. If you want to do something about it do what I do - bunk off school every Friday and join a protest."
The seeds of that argument fell on fertile gound among the teenagers of Sweden (shocking, huh) and more started protesting. It snowballed from there.
I posted earlier in the thread that she has Autism. She actually has Aspergers which is viewed as a form of autism. Just to be factually correct.
Chippy_boy
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If not deluded.Cheers for posting this, Remarkable young girl.