Greta Thunberg has recently been known as the champion of international climate activism. At just 16 years old, Greta has appeared publicly to give speeches to audiences of thousands, even millions, through her numerous appearances on TV. The question I have is this: where is all this anger coming from? At 16 years old, most girls are hanging out with friends, going to school everyday, and generally staying out of any media spotlight. Meanwhile, Greta is chastising the entire planet about pollution and habitat destruction.
Very few girls Greta’s age are as militant about putting an end to climate change, so why all the anger? Some say that as a young person, this issue will inevitably affect her directly as evidence shows effects from climate change progressing rapidly in the next 50 years. But it is interesting that climate activists chose a child to be their champion in the first place. Obviously a scientist with multiple degrees and years of extensive research may seem like a more credible source of information for climate change.
The point I am making is this: the climate activist movement grounds too many of their arguments in emotion. This is not me saying I do not believe in climate change, however, climate activists and the left in general like to drum up emotion and leave facts aside. I don’t want a 16 year old yelling at me to change my ways when I am thinking to myself, “did this girl even learn basic geometry yet?” Give me a climate scientist with years of credible research who is going to give me hard facts and an agenda for exactly what we need to do. This ploy of using a little girl to get me emotional and wanting to do something isn’t going to work.
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