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Post by phil70 on Dec 15, 2019 7:57:49 GMT
Our little Greta has had to apologise for saying "All politicians should be put up against a wall" She claimed it was a literal Swedish translation meaning to put them on the spot with tough questioning Does it? or does it mean as it does elsewhere? and that is to have them shot? Answers on a postcard. Phil
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Post by JohnV on Dec 15, 2019 8:12:08 GMT
although part of me agrees with her (for about the first time though)
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Post by bodger on Dec 15, 2019 8:33:50 GMT
anything she says will draw people's attention to the crisis, and in view that we will soon all be singing from the same hymnbook - 'why didn't someone tell us earlier? - it can only be a good thing.
sadly it is already too late for any hope of redemption - growing world population combined with growing expectations from the 3rd world leading to hugely increasing consumption of everything from meat to coal cannot be stopped or reversed, whatever the conference attendees would like to think.
Brexit, the NHS and lore & orda will be seen as mere diversions by future generations.
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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 15, 2019 8:59:17 GMT
Our little Greta has had to apologise for saying "All politicians should be put up against a wall" She claimed it was a literal Swedish translation meaning to put them on the spot with tough questioning Does it? or does it mean as it does elsewhere? and that is to have them shot? Answers on a postcard. Phil Obviously she is suggesting politicians who are obstructing reducing the use of fossil fuels and other resources of the world should be killed. This is encouraging terrorism. Expect a knock on your door, Greta, from the Police. "China and India, the world's No. 1 and No. 4 carbon emitters, meanwhile, have made it clear they see no need to improve on their current emissions reduction plans, which run to 2030." - yeah, thanks for nothing, China and India. Just think how much emissions increased by holding this convention! Everyone flew there; most on private jets. Most could have stayed home and Skyped!
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Post by Gone on Dec 15, 2019 10:03:04 GMT
Our little Greta has had to apologise for saying "All politicians should be put up against a wall" She claimed it was a literal Swedish translation meaning to put them on the spot with tough questioning Does it? or does it mean as it does elsewhere? and that is to have them shot? Answers on a postcard. Phil Obviously she is suggesting politicians who are obstructing reducing the use of fossil fuels and other resources of the world should be killed. This is encouraging terrorism. Expect a knock on your door, Greta, from the Police. "China and India, the world's No. 1 and No. 4 carbon emitters, meanwhile, have made it clear they see no need to improve on their current emissions reduction plans, which run to 2030." - yeah, thanks for nothing, China and India. Just think how much emissions increased by holding this convention! Everyone flew there; most on private jets. Most could have stayed home and Skyped!Before slagging off China and India, try looking at emissions per citizen, then compare E.U. to China and then tell me who is not pulling their weight,
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Post by Jim on Dec 15, 2019 10:20:51 GMT
Obviously she is suggesting politicians who are obstructing reducing the use of fossil fuels and other resources of the world should be killed. This is encouraging terrorism. Expect a knock on your door, Greta, from the Police. "China and India, the world's No. 1 and No. 4 carbon emitters, meanwhile, have made it clear they see no need to improve on their current emissions reduction plans, which run to 2030." - yeah, thanks for nothing, China and India. Just think how much emissions increased by holding this convention! Everyone flew there; most on private jets. Most could have stayed home and Skyped!Before slagging off China and India, try looking at emissions per citizen, then compare E.U. to China and then tell me who is not pulling their weight, Don't forget to include the emissions we have moved abroad, the manufacture of all the stuff we import. Greta got the better of trump in the latest twitter bout, re anger management and watching a film.
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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 15, 2019 12:30:05 GMT
Obviously she is suggesting politicians who are obstructing reducing the use of fossil fuels and other resources of the world should be killed. This is encouraging terrorism. Expect a knock on your door, Greta, from the Police. "China and India, the world's No. 1 and No. 4 carbon emitters, meanwhile, have made it clear they see no need to improve on their current emissions reduction plans, which run to 2030." - yeah, thanks for nothing, China and India. Just think how much emissions increased by holding this convention! Everyone flew there; most on private jets. Most could have stayed home and Skyped!Before slagging off China and India, try looking at emissions per citizen, then compare E.U. to China and then tell me who is not pulling their weight, Just because 90% of the Chinese are too poor to fly, doesn't mean they don't want to. I still see no evidence that people want to change their ways - just go to any supermarket car park and in they come in their cars - and, of course, the more expensive and bigger car you have the better a person you are. I think people could well get by with less - but they just want televisions the size of a snooker table on their wall. We are attending a conference at our kitchen table in our boat next week - I suppose we'll have to fly there. Actually we could have gone by train but Finland and Sweden have severed their rail link. Not very 'green', that. Which brings to mind a dead simple idea, that trains could roll on/roll off the Vaasa - Umeå ferry link between Finland and Sweden, you don't have to go round via the top of the Gulf of Bothnia (although for people living in the city of Oulu, and those in Lapland, that makes perfect sense). Still... no-one ever listens to me.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Dec 15, 2019 12:37:18 GMT
"Climate change activist Greta Thunberg has apologised for any misunderstanding after saying politicians should be put “against the wall”. The teenager has been touring the world rallying support for her green movement".
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2019 12:43:17 GMT
Our little Greta has had to apologise for saying "All politicians should be put up against a wall" She claimed it was a literal Swedish translation meaning to put them on the spot with tough questioning Does it? or does it mean as it does elsewhere? and that is to have them shot? Answers on a postcard. Phil - yeah, thanks for nothing, China and India. Go careful Foxy - anyone might start thinking that you are starting to think 'something needs to be done'.
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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 15, 2019 12:44:19 GMT
Well, they have a very long wall in China.... !!
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Post by bodger on Dec 15, 2019 13:17:51 GMT
I still see no evidence that people want to change their ways - just go to any supermarket car park and in they come in their cars - and, of course, the more expensive and bigger car you have the better a person you are. I think people could well get by with less - but they just want televisions the size of a snooker table on their wall. Absolutely - fine words, foxxy, but what exactly are you doing about it? Surely the whole point is that nearly no-one is prepared to show an example by simplifying their lifestyle (apart from hippy tree-dwellers). Why should we suffer deprivations if you don't?
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Post by Jim on Dec 15, 2019 13:27:15 GMT
Still... no-one ever listens to me. Did someone say something?
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Post by kris on Dec 15, 2019 13:47:21 GMT
Still... no-one ever listens to me. Did someone say something? No one important.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2019 14:42:18 GMT
anything she says will draw people's attention to the crisis, and in view that we will soon all be singing from the same hymnbook - 'why didn't someone tell us earlier? - it can only be a good thing. sadly it is already too late for any hope of redemption - growing world population combined with growing expectations from the 3rd world leading to hugely increasing consumption of everything from meat to coal cannot be stopped or reversed, whatever the conference attendees would like to think. Brexit, the NHS and lore & orda will be seen as mere diversions by future generations. But don't worry, hardly anyone will die as a result of pollution, global warming, or famine. Because they will already have died in the global apocalypse that erupts as the struggle for control of dwindling resources intensifies.
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Post by bodger on Dec 15, 2019 15:15:45 GMT
it all reminds me of Nero in a way.
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