I didn’t realise she was flying home
The argument above sounds like the justification for the monarchy - cos they bring in more than it costs us, honest mate.
But I picked your subtle insinuation that she took down Thomas Cook. Good point.
I didn’t realise she was flying home
She's not a scientist and addressing world leaders at the UN isn't the time to run a workshop on environmentally sound building materials.drcarlos wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2019 12:11 pmAh, so do as I say no as I do then. The perfect thing to do would have been a video address from he home country to the forum explaining that she felt it was the most environmentally friendly way of addressing them. That would have demonstrated understanding rather than a cynical publicity stunt.
I'm sat at home talking to people around the world today (just finished a 4 way conference with someone in Maidenhead, someone in Copenhagen and someone in India) and I rarely travel to meet them F2F, because it's just an inefficient waste of time and resources.
Also forgive me if I'm not just a bit sceptial over the whole carbon thing after being told by previous administrations to buy Diesel as it was better for the environment, only to now be berated becuase they are worse in other ways.
Now there is an element of truth in some of these things but I want to get past the over sensationalised, over emotional bullshit money grabbing side of thing and get down to hard facts.
If she'd started talking plastics (single use and longer term stuff too) and mentioned replacements like hemp based materials for single use plastic replacement (absorbs CO2 while growing too so win, win https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable ... ate-change) i'd be saying that girls done a bit of research and it's engaging me, because it sounds like a good idea.
I don't really care about the monarchy beyond thinking that no one should be allowed to hold such vast amounts of wealth and land .
How can I belittle her?.
It doesn't have to be sciencey and it shouldn't it should be, a high level view is the order of the day to those people. 3 problems, 3 slides and a set of bullets on each on the problems and potential solutions/actions. I dumb down my slide decks for people like this all the time it's not hard stuff. Power generation, single use plastics and Ocean acidification are 3 easy low hanging fruit. it's claimed she knows a lot about the subject but I haven't seen one video of her yet that shows she has a grasp of anything.ZedLeg wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2019 12:33 pmShe's not a scientist and addressing world leaders at the UN isn't the time to run a workshop on environmentally sound building materials.drcarlos wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2019 12:11 pmAh, so do as I say no as I do then. The perfect thing to do would have been a video address from he home country to the forum explaining that she felt it was the most environmentally friendly way of addressing them. That would have demonstrated understanding rather than a cynical publicity stunt.
I'm sat at home talking to people around the world today (just finished a 4 way conference with someone in Maidenhead, someone in Copenhagen and someone in India) and I rarely travel to meet them F2F, because it's just an inefficient waste of time and resources.
Also forgive me if I'm not just a bit sceptial over the whole carbon thing after being told by previous administrations to buy Diesel as it was better for the environment, only to now be berated becuase they are worse in other ways.
Now there is an element of truth in some of these things but I want to get past the over sensationalised, over emotional bullshit money grabbing side of thing and get down to hard facts.
If she'd started talking plastics (single use and longer term stuff too) and mentioned replacements like hemp based materials for single use plastic replacement (absorbs CO2 while growing too so win, win https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable ... ate-change) i'd be saying that girls done a bit of research and it's engaging me, because it sounds like a good idea.
She's raising awareness, it is emotional and a bit sensationalised but it's working.
6 months or a year from now, she'll be largely forgotten and doing her own thing but if half the people who were involved with the climate strikes last weekend are still trying to make a change then that's a positive step imo.
So sixteen year olds are children.
I'm....confused.Broccers wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 5:15 pmPlenty of girls / young women know what they are doing and are dazzled by the glitz of money / drugs. Has always been the case.NotoriousREV wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 5:10 pmYeah, but that whole other conversation is the entire story.
Anthea Turner single handedly stopped millions of margarine tubs being sent to landfill.
mik wrote: ↑Wed Sep 25, 2019 9:43 am Nothing wrong with the desire, but the threats of “we are watching you” and crap like “you have stolen my childhood” and everything being unacceptable - to then jump on a plane and fly back across the Atlantic. Hmmm. Surely she is part of her own problem then? How dare she?
She has already reached the young already hence the strikes and days of action etc. All she suceeded in doing was getting a lot of the older generation (the people shes seemed to be trying to reach) backs up with what basically amounts to virtue signalling and moral grandstanding, because most have seen straight through the appearance to the fact she was part of a staged carbon positive publicity stunt.