Is Anyone Else Sick And Tired?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/greta-thunberg-says-claims-that-uk-is-a-climate-leader-are-a-lie-as-unicef-report-finds-1-billion-children-at-high-risk-from-climate-impacts-12385672
She keeps attacking one of the worlds leading climate change responders, yet she ignores the big boys, China, USA, India etc! UK is responsible for 1% of the emissions, we cannot make any difference yet we do put in a massive effort. Go and visit China Greta, open your eyes love.

[Mozz71]

Tora, Greenpeace is a huge organisation. Miss Thunberg is one person trying to change people's mindsets on climate change. I know you take any criticism of this green and pleasant land personally, but like most other European countries, the UK could do more.

[ToraToraTora]

DD, gromit's primary focus is his anti Britishness, he will spin any story accordingly.

[Gromit]

She reckon we are fiddling the stats

// Thunberg said that "if you don't include all emissions then the statistics are going to look much nicer", suggesting things like aviation, shipping, and the burning of biomass have not been taken into account.

She added the UK is "very good at creative carbon accounting" but that "doesn't mean much in practice". //

[ToraToraTora]

TC: "naomi @ 10.00 shows how much notice you take, that's what she is trying to do clean up, also rallying round to get people like you to wake up, " - but why is she picking on the no2 responder rather than the no1 emitter?

[ToraToraTora]

Mozz: "Tora, Greenpeace is a huge organisation. Miss Thunberg is one person trying to change people's mindsets on climate change. " - she's not alone she is a puppet of the massive movement and to be fair I agree with many of their contentions, I just cannot comprehend why any activist outfit would not target the worts offenders rather than one of the best.
"I know you take any criticism of this green and pleasant land personally, but like most other European countries, the UK could do more. " - I welcome constructive criticism but I cannot abide people with an agenda who spin everything against us. Yes the UK could do more and it is doing more, we are one of the good guys, go and pick on the bad guys.

[naomi24]

Poor old teacake. Regardless of how much steam
she lets off her temperature remains unhealthily high. :o)

[THECORBYLOON]

"I welcome constructive criticism but I cannot abide people with an agenda who spin everything against us"

Thank God for folk such as TORATORATORA who have no agenda...

[Mozz71]

She's concentrating on the ones she has a chance of making a difference with. She goes to talk with China or the US and she's basically *** in the wind. She addresses the smaller countries, w ho show willing to change for the better, and she may just have some success in speeding the process up a little.

[ToraToraTora]

mozz 11:16, thanks, that's at least a rational explanation of what she's doing. Seems a bit pointless though, like nicking a shoplifter instead of the great train robbers but I take your point.

[ToraToraTora]

Mozz 11:16, also has she ever heard of the carrot? Continual use of the stick doesn't work. As we are one of the top responders a bit of encouragement now and again may pay dividends rather than alienating one of your best responders, just a thought?

[maggiebee]

Go Greta - some folk need stirring up - can't see the wood for the trees. Believe she is to be a keynote speaker at the next climate change conference but would have to check that one out.

[andy-hughes]

If I want to be lectured by a chippy teenager with no life experience, I'll pop down to my local High school, there's hundreds of them!

[Mozz71]

Well, you have Scotland Yard to deal with the big boys. Greta's is more you're local bobby on a bicycle. She can't be expected to tackle the global superpowers, but by Christ they know about her.

The hope, I imagine, is that if enough (comparatively) smaller nations take affirmative action in tackling climate change, that the bigger ones (well, not China. They're beyond hope) might take notice, and perhaps be shamed into following suit. She has addressed the UN in the past, so she isn't solely picking on the U.K.

[ToraToraTora]

perhaps you could invite her to sla6 Scotland off mags, I know you don't like to be left out!

[Mozz71]

As I said Tora, she's one person. She's not in the position to offer a carrot. She does what she can, and what has worked in the past: she'll shame governments into action, while rallying like-minded people in other countries to take up her cause.

[Gromit]

Scotland.
Is that the place we dump all our wind turbines ?

[ToraToraTora]

mozz: "Well, you have Scotland Yard to deal with the big boys. Greta's is more you're local bobby on a bicycle." - Perlease she is the puppet of a massive movement, she only got involved when her mum wrote a book about climate change. She's been like the Ronald McDonald of the climate change movement ever since. They wheel her out to do some ranting whilst staying anonymous themselves.

[maggiebee]

Who knows, maybe she will TTT and rightly so if it's justified.

The UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow on 31 October – 12 November 2021. The COP26 summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

[Mozz71]

Andy-//If I want to be lectured by a chippy teenager with no life experience, I'll pop down to my local High school, there's hundreds of them!//

Who's accomplished more in her 18 years than you have in your 70-odd.