Even his wife Melania is lost for words to explain this most powerful man in the world trolling a 16-year-old girl. Then again, she knows best that this is just what Donald does even when he’s trying to “Be Best”:
‘So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!’
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2019
So just imagine his jealous tweeting if/when Greta (16) wins the Nobel Prize. This, especially given that, by then, he’s likely to be all alone at Mar-a-Lago. And one can imagine him there – still whining while licking the impeachment wounds that caused him to end up the most disgruntled, disgraced and disliked former president in the history of the United States.
That said, I’m a little concerned about the performance aspect of Greta’s notorious crusade to combat climate change. After all, performing is all she could have had in mind when she decided to cross the Atlantic on a sailboat to attend the United Nations Climate Action Summit last September.
Thunberg began a global movement by skipping school: starting in August 2018, she spent her days camped out in front of the Swedish Parliament, holding a sign painted in black letters on a white background that read Skolstrejk för klimatet: ‘School Strike for Climate.’ …
The politics of climate action are as entrenched and complex as the phenomenon itself, and Thunberg has no magic solution.
(TIME, December 11, 2019)
“No magic solution” — no sh*t! Yet Greta has spent the past 16 months meeting with world leaders as if Mother Nature anointed her ambassador at large for climate change. This world tour culminated on September 20, 2019, with her presiding over the largest climate demonstration in human history.
Meanwhile, everyone knows planes emit greenhouse gasses, whereas sailboats emit none. But nobody believes even Greta will opt to sail instead of fly whenever she has to travel long distances over water.
Besides, according to the International Air Transport Association, aviation contributes only 2 percent of the world’s global carbon emissions.
Yet according to a 2006 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), our diets and, specifically, the meat in them cause more greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, nitrous oxide, and the like to spew into the atmosphere than either transportation or industry.
(Scientific American, February 2009)
Which means that Greta’s crusade would prove far more effective if, instead of avoiding airplanes, she were championing plant-based diets (including for inflight meals).
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