Greta Thunberg, teen climate activist, is getting a huge mural in downtown San Francisco

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One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks.
“What’s this?” she asked.
“Pulverized willow bark,” replied her fairy godmother.
“What happened to the carpet?” she asked.
“The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum,” came the response.

Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where, instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles.
“Your old toothbrush?” noted her godmother, “also nylon.”
“Where’s the water?” asked Greta.
“Down the road in the canal,” replied her godmother, “just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it.”
“Why’s there no running water?” Greta asked, becoming a little peevish.
“Well,” said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, “Where do we begin?”
There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it’s impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tires and how ore has to be smelted to a make metal, and that’s tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat. And even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden’s energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon, and rubber for tires, and asphalt for filling potholes, and wax, and iPhone plastic, and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and …

"What's for breakfast?" asked Greta, whose head was hurting.
"Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs," replied her godmother. "Raw."
“How so, raw?” inquired Greta, querulously.

Well, once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans, and in the end was educated about how you can't have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore.
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2020 has been a crap year but, on the plus side, we have not had Greta Thunberg rammed down our throats.
 
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ghoti said:
The hate for Greta is beyond me. I dont know why people are so upset at someone who wants to help the planet survive.
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it’s a global warming joke, geddit?
 
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ghoti said:
The hate for Greta is beyond me. I dont know why people are so upset at someone who wants to help the planet survive.
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These same people like only epstein island type of teenagers; not other ones.
 
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Currantly said:
The only one giant hole in that copypasta is that I don't think anyone is demanding a "petroleum-free world" -just a reduced dependency on fossil fuels.
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I think that it was supposed to be a joke. I waited for the punchline, only to realise that I just read a sermon about the usefulness of petroleum on this xmas morning.
 
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ghoti said:
The hate for Greta is beyond me. I dont know why people are so upset at someone who wants to help the planet survive.
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well for me its not hate, but jest, because its funny seeing peoples reaction acting protective over her, as if it makes any difference to what shes accomplished.

like your reaction for example, its funny.

"/leave britney alone"
 
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ghoti said:
The hate for Greta is beyond me. I dont know why people are so upset at someone who wants to help the planet survive.
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anti-socialist behavior.

Do people who point out her, and her supporters B.S want to destroy the planet?
Is her way the only way?

Perhaps some prefer to not use political science to "solve" climate issues.
 
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Currantly said:
The only one giant hole in that copypasta is that I don't think anyone is demanding a "petroleum-free world" -just a reduced dependency on fossil fuels.
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There's plenty who want fossil fuels banned.
To clear things up, they could maybe have (Except petroleum products) under their banners.


gofossilfree.org

Stop + Ban

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ghoti said:
The hate for Greta is beyond me. I dont know why people are so upset at someone who wants to help the planet survive.
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She rides on the ideology of shaming as a method of trying to convert people to her cause. One just has to listen ot her talks to hear it.
I find the concept of shaming as a method to instill change, or as a method to try and change or sway people to another course of action or ideology to be reprehensible, abhorrent and utterly detestable.
 
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