Vlad
insults teen climate control advocate
(He takes
page from Trump playbook)
Last month, teenager,
Greta Thunberg excoriated attendees at the United Nations climate summit for
their inaction here
in part from this story:
Thunberg reading
paper said: “This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in
school on the other side of the ocean, yet you come to us young people for
hope. How dare you. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems
are collapsing. We are at the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can
talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.”
Trump has rolled back environmental protections
and withdrew from the Paris climate accord seemed to mock Thunberg in a tweet
that included a video clip of her speech, saying: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and
wonderful future. So nice to see!”
Thunberg changed her Twitter bio to
read: “A very happy young girl looking forward to a
bright and wonderful future.”
BTW: Thunberg, who has been nominated for
a Nobel Prize for her work raising awareness about climate change, has become
an inspirational figure for fellow teens. Last month, she sailed from Europe to
the United States on a zero-emission yacht.
Before her U.N. speech, Thunberg
testified on Capitol Hill, urging lawmakers: “To listen to
the scientists who say climate change is real and that humans are responsible”
– which are conclusions that Trump and most Republicans have resisted about
most science in general.
She told Congress: “I
want you to unite behind science. I want you to unite behind science. And then
I want you to take action. This is not political views or my opinions. This is
science.”
Putin’s words parrot Trump to a great extent – what a coincidence.
Two birds, one feather and in sync – not surprised. Putin pretty much matches what
Trump has said and believes about climate control:
Putin said at an energy
forum in Moscow this according
to Reuters’s translation of his remarks: “I may
disappoint you, but I don’t share the common excitement about the speech by
Greta Thunberg. No one has explained to Greta that the modern world is complex
and different. People in Africa or in many Asian countries want to live at the
same wealth level as in Sweden.”
Putin said children who
are passionate about environmental issues, like Thunberg, should be supported.
But he also accused her parents of exploiting that passion, adding: “When
someone is using children and teenagers in personal interests, it only deserves
to be condemned. I’m sure that Greta is a kind and very sincere girl. But
adults must do everything not to bring teenagers and children into some extreme
situations.”
My 2 cents: Not much to add to this except to
say that Trump and Putin are mostly on the same channel as it were by implying:
“Vlad takes the Eastern part of the globe and Donald takes the Western half.”
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