I'm not really a fan, but I don't like to take sides against a teenager, either. She's been made a celebrity by an exploitative media. It doesn't take any courage to come to America and make stupidly ugly faces at our President and other world leaders at the UN meeting. It didn't take any courage to growl "How dare you" as if she has some unique moral high ground. If she thought that she was going to be met with resistance and unacceptance by the elites and the celebrity class, and that she wouldn't become a celebrity by doing that, then she can't be given credit for the intelligence that she obviously has. She is playing the part for an adoring crowd, and she knew it. I think it might be courageous if she went to China and acts the way that she does.
Right now she is still a freeloader in the society that created her. That's all right, she is too young to be responsible for the compromises that are necessary for society to advance. She may understand it someday and learn how to interact with responsible people, rather than denigrate them. She certainly is intelligent enough. But the school disruption that she promotes isn't helpful. It's destructive. Her brand of activism is just a silly way for young people to behave. They hurt themselves when they are irresponsible. But her trips on sailing boats are interesting, and I daresay, she may learn a little bit about authority, teamwork, critical thinking, and risk/reward/compromise in the process. It's too bad we all aren't privileged enough to have that experience. She put herself out there and is reaping some reward, so it's not necessarily a bad thing!
Perhaps she really believes the environment is an existential threat. It's quite possible that she is still that naïve. I don't think climate change is an existential threat. I don't trust anybody whom says that it is. I think it is all about the power to dictate our lives and I will continue to think that way for as long as the elites continue to live the way that they do. (BTW, among the folks whom think the climate is an existential threat, why is there a singular focus on just one topic and it ain't the environment!) I think that two hundred years from now humans will still be adapting to climate and still wringing their hands over some political football, possibly climate change still!
Right now she is still a freeloader in the society that created her. That's all right, she is too young to be responsible for the compromises that are necessary for society to advance. She may understand it someday and learn how to interact with responsible people, rather than denigrate them. She certainly is intelligent enough. But the school disruption that she promotes isn't helpful. It's destructive. Her brand of activism is just a silly way for young people to behave. They hurt themselves when they are irresponsible. But her trips on sailing boats are interesting, and I daresay, she may learn a little bit about authority, teamwork, critical thinking, and risk/reward/compromise in the process. It's too bad we all aren't privileged enough to have that experience. She put herself out there and is reaping some reward, so it's not necessarily a bad thing!
Perhaps she really believes the environment is an existential threat. It's quite possible that she is still that naïve. I don't think climate change is an existential threat. I don't trust anybody whom says that it is. I think it is all about the power to dictate our lives and I will continue to think that way for as long as the elites continue to live the way that they do. (BTW, among the folks whom think the climate is an existential threat, why is there a singular focus on just one topic and it ain't the environment!) I think that two hundred years from now humans will still be adapting to climate and still wringing their hands over some political football, possibly climate change still!
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