Since its initial publication, the following op-ed has been read and shared by hundreds of thousands of people. Along with stirring up widespread debate, the self-styled &#8220;heterodoxical&#8221; piece has been reviewed by fact-checkers, some of whom have pushed back on some its claims and conclusions (see summary below).
The following is the full text of an opinion piece written by climate activist and energy expert Michael Shellenberger which was originally published by Forbes but <a href="https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1277611390195216390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1277611390195216390&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fclimatism.blog%2F2020%2F06%2F29%2Fmust-read-on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare%2F">pulled</a> a few hours later. Shellenberger, a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment” and Green Book Award Winner, told The Daily Wire in a statement hours after Forbes deactivated the piece, &#8220;I am grateful that Forbes has been so committed to publishing a range of viewpoints, including ones that challenge the conventional wisdom, and was thus disappointed my editors removed my piece from the web site. I believe Forbes is an important outlet for broadening environmental journalism beyond the overwhelmingly  alarmist approach taken by most reporters, and look forward to contributing heterodoxical pieces on energy and the environment in the future.&#8221; 
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On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem.
I may seem like a strange person to be saying all of this. I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30.
But as an energy expert asked by Congress to provide objective expert testimony, and invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to serve as Expert Reviewer of its next Assessment Report, I feel an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public.
Here are some facts few people know:
<ul>
<li>Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction”</li>
<li>The Amazon is not “the lungs of the world”</li>
<li>Climate change is not making natural disasters worse</li>
<li>Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003</li>
<li>The amount of land we use for meat — humankind’s biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska</li>
<li>The build-up of wood fuel and more houses near forests, not climate change, explain why there are more, and more dangerous, fires in Australia and California</li>
<li>Carbon emissions have been declining in rich nations including Britain, Germany and France since the mid-seventies</li>
<li>Adapting to life below sea level made the Netherlands rich not poor</li>
<li>We produce 25% more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter</li>
<li>Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change</li>
<li>Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels</li>
<li>Preventing future pandemics requires more not less “industrial” agriculture</li>
</ul>
I know that the above facts will sound like “climate denialism” to many people. But that just shows the power of climate alarmism.
In reality, the above facts come from the best-available scientific studies, including those conducted by or accepted by the IPCC, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and other leading scientific bodies.
Some people will, when they read this imagine that I’m some right-wing anti-environmentalist. I’m not. At 17, I lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with the Sandinista socialist revolution. At 23 I raised money for Guatemalan women’s cooperatives. In my early 20s I lived in the semi-Amazon doing research with small farmers fighting land invasions. At 26 I helped expose poor conditions at Nike factories in Asia.
I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for Rainforest Action Network. At 27 I helped save the last unprotected ancient redwoods in California.
In my 30s I advocated renewables and successfully helped persuade the Obama administration to invest $90 billion into them. Over the last few years I helped save enough nuclear plants from being replaced by fossil fuels to prevent a sharp increase in emissions.
Until last year, I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare. Partly that’s because I was embarrassed. After all, I am as guilty of alarmism as any other environmentalist. For years, I referred to climate change as an “existential” threat to human civilization, and called it a “crisis.”
But mostly I was scared. I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned the courage to defend climate science from those who misrepresent it I suffered harsh consequences. And so I mostly stood by and did next to nothing as my fellow environmentalists terrified the public.
I even stood by as people in the White House and many in the news media tried to destroy the reputation and career of an outstanding scientist, good man, and friend of mine, Roger Pielke, Jr., a lifelong progressive Democrat and environmentalist who testified in favor of carbon regulations. Why did they do that? Because his research proves natural disasters aren’t getting worse.
But then, last year, things spiraled out of control.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-climate-change-alarm/2642481002/">said</a> “The world is going to end in twelve years if we don’t address climate change.” Britain’s most <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/12/04/why-climate-alarmism-hurts-us-all/#2f5c614d36d8">high-profile environmental group</a> claimed “Climate Change Kills Children.”
The world’s most influential green journalist, Bill McKibben, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/04/16/713829853/climate-change-is-greatest-challenge-humans-have-ever-faced-author-says">called </a>climate change the “greatest challenge humans have ever faced” and said it would “wipe out civilizations.”
Mainstream journalists reported, repeatedly, that the Amazon was “the lungs of the world,” and that deforestation was like a nuclear bomb going off.
As a result, <a href="https://yougov.co.uk/topics/science/articles-reports/2019/09/15/international-poll-most-expect-feel-impact-climate">half of the people</a> surveyed around the world last year said they thought climate change would make humanity extinct. And in January, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/climate-change-children/one-in-five-uk-children-report-nightmares-about-climate-change-idUSL1N2AV1FF">one out of five</a> British children told pollsters they were having nightmares about climate change.
Whether or not you have children you must see how wrong this is. I admit I may be sensitive because I have a teenage daughter. After we talked about the science she was reassured. But her friends are deeply misinformed and thus, understandably, frightened.
I thus decided I had to speak out. I knew that writing a few articles wouldn’t be enough. I needed a book to properly lay out all of the evidence.
And so my formal apology for our fear-mongering comes in the form of my new book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts/dp/0063001691/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1590609394&amp;sr=1-1">Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All.</a>
It is based on two decades of research and three decades of environmental activism. At 400 pages, with 100 of them endnotes, Apocalypse Never covers climate change, deforestation, plastic waste, species extinction, industrialization, meat, nuclear energy, and renewables.
Some highlights from the book:
<ul>
<li>Factories and modern farming are the keys to human liberation and environmental progress</li>
<li>The most important thing for saving the environment is producing more food, particularly meat, on less land</li>
<li>The most important thing for reducing air pollution and carbon emissions is moving from wood to coal to petroleum to natural gas to uranium</li>
<li>100% renewables would require increasing the land used for energy from today’s 0.5% to 50%</li>
<li>We should want cities, farms, and power plants to have higher, not lower, power densities</li>
<li>Vegetarianism reduces one’s emissions by less than 4%</li>
<li>Greenpeace didn’t save the whales, switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil did</li>
<li>“Free-range” beef would require 20 times more land and produce 300% more emissions</li>
<li>Greenpeace dogmatism worsened forest fragmentation of the Amazon</li>
<li>The colonialist approach to gorilla conservation in the Congo produced a backlash that may have resulted in the killing of 250 elephants</li>
</ul>
Why were we all so misled?
In the final three chapters of Apocalypse Never I expose the financial, political, and ideological motivations. Environmental groups have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests. Groups motivated by anti-humanist beliefs forced the World Bank to stop trying to end poverty and instead make poverty “sustainable.” And status anxiety, depression, and hostility to modern civilization are behind much of the alarmism
Once you realize just how badly misinformed we have been, often by people with plainly unsavory or unhealthy motivations, it is hard not to feel duped.
Will Apocalypse Never make any difference? There are certainly reasons to doubt it.
The news media have been making apocalyptic pronouncements about climate change since the late 1980s, and do not seem disposed to stop.
The ideology behind environmental alarmsim — Malthusianism — has been repeatedly debunked for 200 years and yet is more powerful than ever.
But there are also reasons to believe that environmental alarmism will, if not come to an end, have diminishing cultural power.
The coronavirus pandemic is an actual crisis that puts the climate “crisis” into perspective. Even if you think we have overreacted, Covid-19 has <a href="https://covid19.who.int/?gclid=CjwKCAjw_-D3BRBIEiwAjVMy7KU0ya2ktmSUopVsnznft6PuAjAnIBH9nqxBNJA2yn2eRzXOf8l5yRoCKM0QAvD_BwE">killed</a> nearly 500,000 people and shattered economies around the globe.
Scientific institutions including WHO and IPCC have undermined their credibility through the repeated politicization of science. Their future existence and relevance depends on new leadership and serious reform.
Facts still matter, and social media is allowing for a wider range of new and independent voices to outcompete alarmist environmental journalists at legacy publications.
Nations are reorienting toward the national interest and away from Malthusianism and neoliberalism, which is good for nuclear and bad for renewables.
The evidence is overwhelming that our high-energy civilization is better for people and nature than the low-energy civilization that climate alarmists would return us to.
And the invitations I received from IPCC and Congress late last year, after I published a series of criticisms of climate alarmism, are signs of a growing openness to new thinking about climate change and the environment.
Another sign is the response to my book from climate scientists, conservationists, and environmental scholars. “Apocalypse Never is an extremely important book,” writes Richard Rhodes, the Pulitzer-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb. “This may be the most important book on the environment ever written,” says one of the fathers of modern climate science Tom Wigley.
“We environmentalists condemn those with antithetical views of being ignorant of science and susceptible to confirmation bias,” wrote the former head of The Nature Conservancy, Steve McCormick. “But too often we are guilty of the same.  Shellenberger offers ‘tough love:’ a challenge to entrenched orthodoxies and rigid, self-defeating mindsets.  Apocalypse Never serves up occasionally stinging, but always well-crafted, evidence-based points of view that will help develop the ‘mental muscle’ we need to envision and design not only a hopeful, but an attainable, future.”
That is all I that I had hoped for in writing it. If you’ve made it this far, I hope you’ll agree that it’s perhaps not as strange as it seems that a lifelong environmentalist, progressive, and climate activist felt the need to speak out against the alarmism.
I further hope that you’ll accept my apology.
Follow me on <a href="https://www.twitter.com/@ShellenbergerMD">Twitter</a>. Check out my <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/founder-president">website</a> or some of my other work <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/#37fc7ec7b1b8">here</a>.
Michael Shellenberger is a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” Green Book Award Winner, and author of Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (Harper Collins, June 30, 2020). He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and other publications. His TED talks have been viewed over five million times.
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Update: The fact-check site Climate Feedback published a report on June 28 summarizing responses of six climate science fact-checkers who concluded that “several” of the claims made by Shellenberger are “accurate or partially accurate,” while “others are inaccurate and mislead readers by lacking context and cherry-picking data while overlooking other relevant scientific studies.” Among the claims the reviewers push back on is that “climate change is not making natural disasters worse,” which they said is “inaccurate and contradicts reports from the IPCC as well as numerous scientific studies linking anthropogenic climate change to temperature extremes, drought, precipitation patterns, and wildfires.” The fact-checkers also argued against Shellenberger’s conclusion that “Humans are not causing a ‘sixth mass extinction,’” saying it “contradicts scientific evidence demonstrating that extinctions in animal species far exceed background extinction rates.” Additionally, they refuted some of his claims about wildfires. (<a href="https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/article-by-michael-shellenberger-mixes-accurate-and-inaccurate-claims-in-support-of-a-misleading-and-overly-simplistic-argumentation-about-climate-change/?fbclid=IwAR0cJgnM4_hceJ5VnRJCMhkTbkcbGNZV6D8TZE0p6sp8fnpdzeB1T-8zU3w">Read the full fact-check here</a>.)

Sen. Bernie Sanders And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Housing Green New Deal

SHELLENBERGER: On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Climate Change

Global Warming

Socialist filmmaker Michael Moore is used to fawning media coverage. It started when he unveiled his debut documentary “Roger and Me” and never let up – despite creating a ream of fact-challenged films, including the abominable 2018 “documentary” “Fahrenheit 11/9.”
Until now.
Moore’s newest project, “Planet of the Humans,” is a dire look at climate change and the so-called heroes trying to save the planet.
Falling under the banner is Al Gore, considered an enviro-prophet second only to Greta Thunberg by most global warming advocates.
Not in Moore’s film, a project which excoriates the green movement. And that’s a key reason why some on the Left are all too eager to cancel “Humans.”
Literally.
The most prominent “Humans” denier is Josh Fox. The Oscar-nominated director of “Gasland” declared war on “Planet of the Humans” recently on social media.
Fox didn’t stop there.
Fox, whose work has come under heavy fire from documentary filmmaker Phelim McAleer, crafted a petition to force YouTube to remove “Humans” from the platform.
The film debuted for free late last month on the video service, and it’s racked up more than five million views since then.
Fox teamed with <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/planet-humans-film-moore/">The Nation</a>, which called Moore the “new flack for oil and gas” in blasting the film:
<blockquote>Because the film is so dangerous, so wildly off-track and full of misinformation, fossil fuel industry taking points, and unfounded, wacky statements you could be forgiven for thinking it was created by Breitbart News or Steve Bannon and not the erstwhile bastion of progressive bombast that is Michael Moore.</blockquote>
Several high profile liberals, including climate scientist Michael Mann and Naomi Klein, signed Fox’s petition to “<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-on-letter-to-michael-moore-demanding-an-apology-and-retraction-of-planet-of-the-humans?source=direct_link&amp;">retract</a>” the film as it currently stands. Adding insult to injury? Moore must apologize for letting it loose on the unsuspecting planet.
Among the petition signees include documentary filmmakers Steve Liptay and Gregory King.
Yes, Moore’s fellow artists want to ban a film with an opposing point of view.
YouTube, which happily yanks down content by medical professionals sharing contrarian pandemic views, hasn’t yielded to the woke mob.
Yet.
Moore, whose tales of death threats <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/michael-moore-lying-attacks-life/">have never been investigated by the mainstream media</a>, does have one august body in his corner.
Pen America shared a blistering message attacking those eager to censor Moore’s movie.
“Calls to pull a film because of disagreement with its content are calls for censorship, plain and simple. Those who take issue with the film have every right to make their concerns and arguments heard, but first and foremost, the public also has the essential right to view Moore’s film and make their own judgements,” the message states.
That’s a sound argument for any work of art, even if Pen America has stood down during recent Cancel Culture battles.
Moore, whose marketing instincts far exceed his directorial chops, jumped in with a chest-thumping declaration of his own.
“How quickly the values of an open society – freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the freedom to be wrong (or right), vanish when some people’s sacred cows – or should I say, sacred solar panels – are challenged,” Moore said.
He’s right, of course, even if Moore has been as quiet as Pen America regarding other Cancel Culture-style attacks. This one, apparently, hit too close to home to ignore.
A good way to expand the army against Cancel Culture is to invite liberals to join the battle.
The Left is none too eager to defend free speech today, but when it personally nips them in the butt, they have a change of heart.
That happened last year when both <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/jim-gaffigan-woke-film-critics/">Jim Gaffigan and Sarah Silverman</a> got pulled over by the PC police.
Will Moore get “red pilled” by this experience? It’s doubtful. He remains first and foremost a political creature, and the next time a conservative artist comes under attack, it’s likely he’ll retreat to his cone of silence.
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TOTO: Cancel Culture Comes For Michael Moore

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It was just two weeks ago when media outlets were nearly going apoplectic over the discovery of the “biggest hole” in the ozone layer over the North Pole. A week later, however, it appears that giant hole is already closed.
When the hole was first discovered, CNN explained that, “holes in the ozone layer are reported every year in the Antarctic, where temperatures are much colder, no sizable holes in the ozone layer have been <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2011-ozone-hole.html">recorded in the Arctic since 2011</a>.” The outlet quoted Vincent-Henri Peuch, director of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, as saying, “The ozone has been, in this layer, almost completely depleted.&#8221;
But now, just two weeks later, CNN is reporting that the hole “has closed.” Further, the hole wasn’t caused by human activity – but a really strong polar vortex.
Copernicus’ Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) announced that the hole had closed last week, and further stated on Twitter that the coronavirus shutdown had nothing to do with the closure.
&#8220;COVID19 and the associated lockdowns probably had nothing to do with this,&#8221; CAMS <a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1253273035248975873">tweeted</a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s been driven by an unusually strong and long-lived polar vortex, and isn&#8217;t related to air quality changes.&#8221;
More from CNN:
<blockquote>The ozone layer sits between 9 and 22 miles above the Earth. It protects us from ultraviolet radiation.
Unlike the hole that developed over the Arctic, the Antarctic ozone hole in the Southern Hemisphere is typically caused by chemicals such as chlorine and bromine migrating into the stratosphere. This has caused an ozone hole to develop in the Antarctic annually for the last 35 years.
There has been good news there, too: last year, the Antarctic ozone hole was at its smallest since it was first discovered.
CAMS does not predict the ozone numbers will return to the extremely low levels experienced in early April, offering<a href="https://twitter.com/CopernicusECMWF/status/1254856480118804486"> some hope</a> in these bleak times: the ozone layer is slowly healing, one way or another.</blockquote>
As The Weather Channel reported, the last time such a large hole in the ozone layer was discovered was back in 2011.
“According to the <a href="https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cams-tracks-record-breaking-arctic-ozone-hole">Atmosphere Monitoring Services</a>, this year’s depletion of the ozone layer over the Arctic was very high, as compared to previous years. The observation data from satellites revealed that the ozone layer over the Arctic is severely depleted at altitudes of around 18 km. The last time such strong depletion was observed over the Arctic was during spring of 2011. The rate of depletion this year was slated to get much worse, as per the scientists. Therefore, the closure of this hole has brought some relief to the scientific community,” the outlet reported.
The Weather Channel also reported that the large hole in the ozone layer could have threatened humans if it grew larger and extended south, which obviously didn’t happen because the hole closed.
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Antarctic ozone hole

Remember The Massive Ozone-Layer Hole Last Month? It’s Already Closed.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden told CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta on Thursday night that the U.S. federal government&#8217;s economic recovery package was an &#8220;opportunity&#8221; to &#8220;fundamentally change the science relating to global warming.&#8221;
&#8220;One of the things that I think that we keep coming back to, and I&#8217;ve spent this morning talking to the docs that used to work with Sanjay in our last administration and heads of other entities that a, um, you know, it gets down to testing, it&#8217;s about testing, tracing, and treatment,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;And so, we&#8217;re way behind on the testing piece and I don&#8217;t quite, I don&#8217;t quite understand why we&#8217;re taking so long to do the kinds of things that have to be done.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, there&#8217;s a uh, during World War  II, uh, you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing uh, that uh, you know, was totally different than a, than the, the, it&#8217;s called, he called it the, you know, the World War II, he had the war the War Production Board,&#8221; Biden continued. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why we don&#8217;t set up something like a pandemic production board.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Biden later said that minimum wages should go up and that there should be other wide spread changes to deal with the &#8220;systemic racism that exists&#8221; and &#8220;the systemic way in which we treat people who have not had the opportunity to get the education that they are entitled to.&#8221;
&#8220;One last thing, look, Anderson, you and I have talked about this,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;We have an opportunity now to take in a recovery act, a real recovery, we can fundamentally change the science relating to global warming and we can create, seriously create, 10 million good paying jobs, we can do it, it&#8217;s within our power to do it.&#8221;
WATCH:
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The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-joe-biden-stand-issues-heres-everything-josh-hammer">highlighted</a> Biden&#8217;s left-wing views in a profile piece late last year:
<blockquote>On The Issues: Although Biden now presents himself as a moderate, centrist figure, the totality of his political career, overall, suggests that he is a firm leftist. Biden has dabbled at times in moderation, including previous support for tough-on-crime legislation and his longstanding stance that he is “personally pro-life” despite his support of legalized abortion. However, he has long been a progressive on legal issues, economic issues, and foreign policy issues, and even preempted President Obama’s “evolution” when, in 2012, he confirmed that he was <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/06/nation/la-na-biden-gay-marriage-20120507">“absolutely comfortable” </a>with same-sex marriage.
Constitution: As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987–1995, Biden oversaw two of the most contentious U.S. Supreme Court nominations in recent memory: Those of Reagan nominee Robert Bork and Bush nominee Clarence Thomas. Along with Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Biden helped orchestrate and lead the personally nasty, full-frontal assault that ultimately resulted in the Bork nomination’s failure. Biden’s legislative posture has indicated an expansive view of congressional regulatory power: He helped lead the passing of the Violence Against Women Act, which was partially invalidated on constitutional grounds by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000.
Economy: Biden is best described as a Keynesian who believes in the purported economic benefits of large-scale government investments and deficit spending. Along with then-President Obama, Biden shepherded through a massive fiscal stimulus package in the duo’s first year in office, oversaw the passing of the regulation-heavy Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, dramatically expanded the national debt, and hiked income taxes on the wealthy. Biden has long been supportive of a greater federal role in infrastructure spending. On the issue of trade, Biden voted for NAFTA in 1993. Biden has opposed the privatization of Social Security.
Health Care: Along with Obama, Biden helped oversee the 2010 passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare. Obamacare radically reshaped the individual market for health insurance, infamously included a tax/mandate to purchase health insurance, and generally dramatically expanded the role of government in the regulation and provision of health care. There is likely no Obama/Biden agenda item that conservatives have more consistently opposed than Obamacare. Biden has never indicated any willingness to structurally reform fiscally ruinous health care-related entitlement programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid. As part of his 2020 presidential nomination platform, Biden has claimed opposition to “Medicare for All.”
Immigration: Biden voted for the George W. Bush-era Secure Fence Act of 2006, but has also consistently supported amnesty policies throughout his career — including the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 and the failed “Gang of Eight” immigration bill in 2013. Biden served as vice president when Obama issued two major unilateral executive amnesties, DACA in 2012 and DAPA in 2014 — each of which has been fiercely opposed by conservatives and has been challenged in high-profile lawsuits.
Foreign Policy: Biden has cultivated a largely dovish foreign policy profile, although he did vote in favor of authorizing the Iraq War in 2003. As vice president, Biden was a leading proponent for and cheerleader of President Obama’s 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran — a deal which flushed the terror-supporting mullahs’ coffers with cash and did not place any restrictions whatsoever on Iran’s non-nuclear ballistic missile program. During his 2008 presidential campaign, Biden pushed hard for a solution to the Iraqi quagmire that divided the troubled nation into discrete Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish semi-autonomous sections. Although a self-described friend of Israel, Biden has often been harshly critical of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian-Arabs and <a href="https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/menachem-begin-to-joe-biden-i-am-not-a-jew-with-trembling-knees/2015/04/03/">allegedly once threatened</a> to cut off U.S. aid to Israel. Along with Obama, Biden as vice president took steps to loosen the U.S.’s longstanding embargo on Cuba, although the U.S. received no tangible concessions from Cuba’s communist dictatorship before doing so.
Abortion: Biden described himself as “personally pro-life” while nonetheless believing that Roe v. Wade was correctly decided and that women have a constitutional right to abortion. For decades, Biden supported the Hyde Amendment — which prohibits federal funding of abortion — but <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48137/watch-biden-flips-using-taxpayer-money-fund-james-barrett">flipped his position</a> in 2019 to appease the hard-left Democratic activists who now comprise the base of the party.
Guns: Biden was a leading proponent and sponsor of the federal “assault weapons” ban, a subset of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. Throughout his career, he has generally been supportive of curtailing Second Amendment rights. Biden has also supported mandating five-day waiting periods for gun purchases, as well as closing the alleged “gun show loophole.” Biden supports a ban on the undefinable sub-class of firearms referred to as so-called “assault weapons” — a line of thought that, if taken to its logical conclusion, could <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42837/hammer-kamala-harriss-flirtation-banning-all-semi-josh-hammer">lead to the banning of all semi-automatic firearms in America</a>.</blockquote>

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Biden: Pandemic Relief An ‘Opportunity’ To ‘Change The Science Relating To Global Warming’

2020 Election

Coronavirus

COVID-19

Joe Biden

Over the last few weeks, many key figures on the left have been outspoken about the danger of the coronavirus and claim that President Trump has done little to address the crisis. Democratic presidential frontrunner <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/biden-offers-to-call-trump-with-coronavirus-advice">Joe Biden</a> has urged the president to be even bolder in his actions to combat the virus and condemned him for “wasting time” when the pandemic first emerged. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) made similar comments and has urged drastic action. He <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/politics/bernie-sanders-wisconsin-primary/index.html">argued</a> recently that primary elections should be postponed because “people shouldn’t have to put their lives on the line to vote.” An editorial for the Boston Globe has thundered “that President Trump has blood on his hands.”
This level of fear around the coronavirus is understandable — the case for blaming President Trump for a worldwide pandemic is less convincing. Should we really take these angry voices seriously when just a few months ago these same people and institutions were warning that something completely different was an existential threat to mankind and criticized Donald Trump “not caring” and contributing to the disaster?
I know pre-COVID-19 seems like a lifetime ago, but do you all remember the good old days of climate change? You must remember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that the “world will end” in 12 years if we do not act to stop or slow climate change and Bernie Sander’s warning that “we’re fighting for the survival of the planet.” Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg even said “we’re in the beginning of a mass extinction” because of climate change.
And the “blood on his hands” <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/30/opinion/president-unfit-pandemic/">Boston Globe</a> said then that President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord would lead to “rising seas, higher temperatures, catastrophic loss in wildlife and natural habitats, and the further degradation of the only home the human race will ever know.” The paper said the move “will haunt America and the world for generations to come… imperiling the earth for the narrowest of political advantage.”
It’s quite clear where the liberal left have been focusing in the past few decades and where they have been diverting enormous resources — and it wasn’t the threat of a pandemic. The Boston Globe itself hasn’t shied away from hysterical language when it comes to President Trump and climate change as well. In an opinion piece endorsing left-leaning policies and politicians during the 2020 election cycle, the Globe wrote that both President Trump and the Republican Congress are “reversing progress as the planet careers toward climate catastrophe.”
Spending on energy saving programs and subsidies has matched the increasing hysteria. According to the Government Accountability Office, <a href="https://www.gao.gov/key_issues/climate_change_funding_management/issue_summary">federal funding</a> for “climate change research, technology, international assistance, and adaptation” has increased exponentially over the last three decades. In 1993, the feds spent $2.4 billion on such programs and it keeps increasing. The polling website <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-is-the-government-spending-on-climate-change-we-dont-know-and-neither-do-they/">FiveThirtyEight</a> reported that the federal government has spent $154 billion on “climate change related activities” since 1993. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 tacked on an additional $26.1 billion in spending.
It’s clear that this reckless spending and climate change hysteria were even more damaging to our economy and our nation than opponents claimed. We actually are facing a global crisis that may lead to massive loss of life and a worldwide economic depression. Congress just passed a $2 trillion emergency bill to help address the pandemic and its effects, but Americans continue to suffer. Can you imagine if that $154+ billion in spending on climate change projects was put into virus research or pandemic preparation? How many ventilators can you buy with $154 billion? How many talented researchers were diverted to addressing climate change when they could have worked to prevent pandemics and research vaccines and cures?
There are many loud and vindictive voices telling the world that America is ill-prepared for this event that is threatening lives and our futures. These voices might be more credible if they had not spent the past few decades urging the country to fund and prepare for a completely different scenario. They should apologize for that costly diversion before asking us to listen to them this time.
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Bernie Sanders

Donald Trump

Greta Thunberg

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) panicked on Tuesday night in response to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden having a strong night in the Democratic primary race, saying that she is &#8220;overall, 100%, legitimately&#8221; concerned about the climate.
Ocasio-Cortez, who backed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), made the remarks late during an Instagram Live video after results poured in from the six states that held presidential nomination contests.
Biden blew out Sanders in Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, and Missouri. The two other contests — Washington and North Dakota — were slightly leaning towards Sanders and were too close to call.
&#8220;One thing that I do, that I am concerned about, um, overall, 100%, legitimately, is in our climate,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said. &#8220;And I’m legitimately concerned about, uh, fossil fuels. I’m legitimately concerned about what this means for a just transition. I’m legitimately concerned about what this means for carbon emissions.&#8221;
&#8220;And we’re going to have to organize a lot — there are many, many issues where people’s lives are on the line,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;Whether it’s pursuing decarceral policy, whether it’s making sure that we have humanity at our border, whether it’s, you know, making sure that women have access to reproduct — not just women, all people, have access to reproductive health care. All of these things are life and death issues but, the scale and the feedback and the irreversible nature of climate change is something that I think we need to really pay a lot of close attention to and that’s something that is really top of mind whenever I think about any election, particularly one as decisive as a presidential election.&#8221;
&#8220;So, you know, those — a lot of what we need to focus on, as always as we have always has as we have always needed to focus on are the issues,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez rambled. &#8220;And that’s something that the good news that we have tonight is that’s one area where we are winning.&#8221;
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Ocasio-Cortez on Joe Biden winning: “Um, one thing that I do, that I am concerned about, um, overall, 100%, legitimately, is in our climate. And, um, I’m legitimately concerned about, uh, fossil fuels. I’m legitimately concerned about what this means for a just transition.” <a href="https://t.co/jJvkX9PKrl">pic.twitter.com/jJvkX9PKrl</a>
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About 30 minutes later, Ocasio-Cortez went on a rant accusing people of being racist if they were not eating at Chinese and Asian restaurants if they were worried about the coronavirus.
&#8220;Honestly, it sounds almost so silly to say, but there’s a lot of restaurants that are feeling the pain of racism,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said during an Instagram Live video. &#8220;Where people are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants, uh, they’re not patroning Asian restaurants because of just straight up racism around the coronavirus.&#8221;
Top Democrats rallied around Biden after his sound beat back of Sanders, with some going as far as saying that the remaining primaries and debates should be canceled to protect Biden.
House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-clyburn-shut-down-primaries-debates-to-protect-biden-from-saying-something-he-cannot-overcome">told</a> NPR, “I think when the night is over, Joe Biden will be the prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic nomination, and quite frankly, if the night ends the way it has begun, I think it is time for us to shut this primary down, it is time for us to cancel the rest of these debates — because you don’t do anything but get yourself in trouble if you continue in this contest when it’s obvious that the numbers will not shake out for you.”
Clyburn later added that as the process continues to drag on that Biden will get “himself into trouble” and will say something that he “cannot overcome.”

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AOC Panics Over Biden Wins: I’m ‘Overall, 100%, Legitimately’ Concerned About Our Climate

Radical climate activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/backlash-critics-lambast-melodramatic-greta-ryan-saavedra">Greta Thunberg</a> issued a post on International Women&#8217;s Day addressing sexism and so-called &#8220;climate justice.&#8221;
&#8220;Today is [International Women&#8217;s Day] and we recognise that women are still far from equal to men in today’s societies,&#8221; she wrote via Twitter on Sunday. &#8220;We can not have climate justice without gender equity.&#8221;
&#8220;And remember; what we women want today — and every day — is equality, not congratulations or celebrations,&#8221; the teen added, along with a photo of herself.
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Today is <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/InternationalWomensDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#InternationalWomensDay</a> and we recognise that women are still far from equal to men in today’s societies. We can not have climate justice without gender equity.
And remember; what we women want today &#8211; and every day- is equality, not congratulations or celebrations. <a href="https://t.co/g1CuEN6YLX">pic.twitter.com/g1CuEN6YLX</a>
&mdash; Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1236615590560890880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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It&#8217;s unclear which nations specifically Thunberg was referring to regarding gender inequality, or how gender equality specifically relates to so-called &#8220;climate justice,&#8221; or what exactly &#8220;climate justice&#8221; would look like.
Thunberg was quickly hit with a response from vocal conservative and award-winning actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-twitter-investigates-james-woods-tweet-he-fires-back-two-memorable-words">James Woods</a>, who said women are more privileged than men in the Western world and noted that men can be drafted to die for their country.
&#8220;Just for the record women on the average have more rights and government grants in America than men do,&#8221; the actor posted in his first tweet responding to Thunberg.
In a follow-up tweet, Woods added: &#8220;There is not one single right afforded to men in America that is denied to women, except the lovely privilege of being drafted and killed in war based solely on one’s sex. [#International Women&#8217;s Day].&#8221;
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Just for the record women on the average have more rights and government grants in America than men do. <a href="https://t.co/DKdNyT28vg">https://t.co/DKdNyT28vg</a>
&mdash; James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1236900977766105088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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There is not one single right afforded to men in America that is denied to women, except the lovely privilege of being drafted and killed in war based solely on one’s sex. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/InternationalWomensDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#InternationalWomensDay</a> <a href="https://t.co/DKdNyT28vg">https://t.co/DKdNyT28vg</a>
&mdash; James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1236903285707001857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Thunberg, who was named Time Magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year, has been widely promoted by the media for her far-left activism, though the teen has claimed she is apolitical.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sometimes called &#8216;political,'&#8221; Thunberg posted in 2019. &#8220;But I&#8217;ve never supported any political party, politician or ideology.&#8221;
&#8220;I communicate the science and the risks of failing to act on it,&#8221; the activist added. &#8220;And the fact that the politics needed don&#8217;t exist today, neither to the right, left nor center.&#8221;
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I&#39;m sometimes called ”political&quot;. But I&#39;ve never supported any political party, politician or ideology. I communicate the science and the risks of failing to act on it. And the fact that the politics needed don&#39;t exist today, neither to the right, left nor center. -&gt;
&mdash; Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1205220013034094592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The teen has routinely scolded the United States and &#8220;rich nations&#8221; for not doing enough to slow what she claims is catastrophic man-made global warming, though Thunberg has glossed over or completely ignored major polluting nations like China.
In December, Thunberg was pressured into issuing an apology after saying world leaders should be put up &#8220;against the wall&#8221; for not acting to her liking with regard to the climate. Critics claimed the rhetoric was inflammatory and suggestive of violence.
“We have to make sure that they cannot do that,&#8221; Thunberg <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/474608-greta-thunberg-apologizes-after-saying-politicians-should-be">said</a> of world leaders supposedly skirting their duties on the climate. &#8220;We will make sure they, that we put them against the wall, and that they will have to do their job and to protect our futures.&#8221;
“Yesterday I said we must hold our leaders accountable and unfortunately said &#8216;put them against the wall&#8217;. That’s Swenglish: &#8216;att ställa någon mot väggen&#8217; (to put someone against the wall) means to hold someone accountable,” Thunberg said via Twitter, addressing the controversy.
“That’s what happens when you improvise speeches in a second language. But of course I apologise if anyone misunderstood this. I can not enough express the fact that I — as well as the entire school strike movement — are against any possible form of violence. It goes without saying but I say it anyway,&#8221; she added.

Greta Issues Political ‘Women’s Day’ Post. James Woods Responds With ‘One Single Right’ Men Have Over Women

James Woods

A new study on &#8220;climate anxiety&#8221; found that famed child activist Greta Thunberg is not the only young person who has suffered from severe stress as a result of taking dire predictions about the planet by climate alarmists to heart.
&#8220;Climate anxiety: Survey for <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51451737">BBC Newsround</a> shows children losing sleep over climate change and the environment,&#8221; the BBC Newsround report on its survey of 2,000 eight to sixteen-year-olds declares.
&#8220;Do you feel optimistic, worried or uncertain?&#8221; the report begins. &#8220;We at Newsround know young people are passionate about the environment, so we wanted to find out more about how you feel about climate change and what&#8217;s being done to tackle it. We also wanted to know how you felt about the impact changes to the environment could have on your future.&#8221;
Following that rather anxiety-promoting intro, Newsround highlights its survey&#8217;s findings, and, unsurprisingly, they&#8217;re packed with worry, frustration, concern, and fear.
Young people, Newsround explains, &#8220;are frustrated and anxious about what&#8217;s happening.&#8221; A majority (58%) of the 2,000 children Newsround interviewed told them that they were worried about the impact of global warming on their futures, and about one out of every five of them (19%) have even had nightmares about it.
About the same percentage of the children (17%) said their sleeping and eating habits have been affected by their fears about climate change, as the <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/children-climate-change-sleep-nightmares-eco-anxiety-greta-thunberg-a9371191.html">Independent</a> notes.
Meanwhile, two in five of the children said they &#8220;don&#8217;t trust adults to tackle the challenges that climate change presents and nearly two-thirds say leaders aren&#8217;t listening enough to young people&#8217;s views.&#8221;
Below are some of the study&#8217;s key findings:
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<li data-reactid=".13umrs5frpg.1.4.2.0.0.0.$9">80% said the problem of climate change was important to them, with over a third saying it was very important.</li>
<li data-reactid=".13umrs5frpg.1.4.2.0.0.0.$9">73% said they are worried about the state of the planet right now, with 22% saying they are very worried.</li>
<li data-reactid=".13umrs5frpg.1.4.2.0.0.0.$9">58% said expressed fear about the impact that climate change will have on their lives.</li>
<li data-reactid=".13umrs5frpg.1.4.2.0.0.0.$9">19% said they&#8217;ve had nightmares about global warming.</li>
<li data-reactid=".13umrs5frpg.1.4.2.0.0.0.$9">17% said it&#8217;s impacted their sleeping and eating habits.</li>
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The most high-profile climate change activist in the world now is a child, Greta Thunberg, who, along with her parents, has made a point of emphasizing in her activism how much she is plagued by fear about her future and the future of other young people.
In an excerpt of her memoir on her family published by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/23/great-thunberg-malena-ernman-our-house-is-on-fire-memoir-extract">The Guardian</a> in February, Thunberg&#8217;s mother, Malena Ernman, tells the alarming story of her daughter&#8217;s descent into &#8220;some kind of darkness&#8221; – a period in which she largely refused to speak to anyone but her parents and stopped eating to the point where her family considered admitting her to emergency care.
After struggling for months emotionally and psychologically, Thunberg – who Ernman describes as being diagnosed with &#8220;Asperger’s, high-functioning autism and OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder&#8221; – became obsessed with the state of the environment. She began to speak and eat again, but she also began to see potential causes of &#8220;climate change&#8221; everywhere.
Ernman describes the moment her daughter&#8217;s climate activism, which would quickly bring her to international fame, began:
<blockquote>In school one day, Greta’s class watches a film about how much rubbish there is in the oceans. An island of plastic, larger than Mexico, is floating around in the South Pacific. Greta cries throughout the film. Her classmates are also clearly moved. Before the lesson is over the teacher announces that on Monday there will be a substitute teaching the class, because she’s going to a wedding over the weekend, in Connecticut, right outside of New York. “Wow, lucky you,” the pupils say. Out in the corridor the trash island off the coast of Chile is already forgotten. New iPhones are taken out of fur-trimmed down jackets, and everyone who has been to New York talks about how great it is, with all those shops, and Barcelona has amazing shopping too, and in Thailand everything is so cheap, and someone is going with her mother to Vietnam over the Easter break, and Greta can’t reconcile any of this with any of what she has just seen.
She saw what the rest of us did not want to see. It was as if she could see our CO2 emissions with her naked eye. The invisible, colourless, scentless, soundless abyss that our generation has chosen to ignore. She saw all of it – not literally, of course, but nonetheless she saw the greenhouse gases streaming out of our chimneys, wafting upwards with the winds and transforming the atmosphere into a gigantic, invisible garbage dump.
She was the child, we were the emperor. And we were all naked.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/8-year-old-girls-complaint-about-media-comparing-her-to-greta-thunberg-goes-viral-twitter-suspends-her-account-explains">8-Year-Old Girl’s Complaint About Media Comparing Her To Greta Thunberg Goes Viral; Twitter Suspends Her Account, Explains</a>

Bristol youth strike 4 climate protest

Study: Children Suffering From Nightmares, Eating Issues Over Climate Change Fears

An 8-year-old activist from India took to social media last week to voice a complaint against the news media. She is not &#8220;Greta of India,&#8221; as they&#8217;ve repeatedly described her, Licypriya Kangujam declared in a statement on Twitter — and calling her that is &#8220;deleting&#8221; her story. The truth is, Kangujam pointed out, she started her climate change activism a month ahead of the media-privileged Thunberg, despite the Swedish activist being twice her age.
Shortly after Kangujam posted the complaint, the platform suspended her account, prompting accusations of censorship for dissing Thunberg and claims of white privilege. But Twitter has since offered an explanation for its actions, saying that the brief suspension was a response to her age not her &#8220;Greta of India&#8221; complaint.
&#8220;Dear Media, Stop calling me &#8216;Greta of India&#8217;,&#8221; the 8-year-old activist wrote early last week along with a video of her holding a climate change sign that has amassed nearly 2 million views. &#8220;I am not doing my activism to looks like Greta Thunberg. Yes, she is one of our Inspiration &amp; great influencer. We have common goal but I have my own identity, story. I began my movement since July 2018 even before Greta was started.&#8221;
&#8220;I first raised my voice to world leaders in Mongolia in an UN event in July 4, 2018,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Since then I started my movement called &#8216;Child Movement&#8217;. In Hindi, we called it &#8216;Bachpan Andolan&#8217; to call our world leaders to take immediate climate action. As I felt my work is more important than the organisation, I have less publicity and media coverage. Only media came to notice me when I spend a week in front of the Parliament House of India on July 21, 2019. Before that also, I began my Parliament Movement since Feb. 2, 2019.&#8221;
&#8220;I even dropped out my school since February 2019 (before Grade 1 final exam) when I was just 7 years old due to my protests every week in front of the Parliament House of India,&#8221; she noted, an action similar to that of Thunberg. &#8220;I sacrificed so much of my life in this tender age is not to called me &#8216;Greta of India&#8217;.&#8221;
&#8220;If you call me &#8216;Greta of India&#8217;, you are not covering my story. You are deleting a story,&#8221; she concluded.
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Dear Media, Stop calling me “Greta of India”. I am not doing my activism to looks like Greta Thunberg. Yes, she is one of our Inspiration &amp; great influencer. We have common goal but I have my own identity, story. I began my movement since July 2018 even before Greta was started. <a href="https://t.co/3UEqCVWYM8">pic.twitter.com/3UEqCVWYM8</a>
&mdash; Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) <a href="https://twitter.com/LicypriyaK/status/1221628420611698689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As I felt my work is more important than the organisation, I have less publicity and media coverage. Only media came to notice me when I spend a week in front of the Parliament House of India on July 21, 2019. Before that also, I began my Parliament Movement since Feb. 2, 2019.
&mdash; Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) <a href="https://twitter.com/LicypriyaK/status/1221629930947006464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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If you call me “Greta of India”, you are not covering my story. You are deleting a story.
&mdash; Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) <a href="https://twitter.com/LicypriyaK/status/1221632355644760064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Within a few days of &#8220;calling out the media,&#8221; the 8-year-old found that her account was suspended.
&#8220;It’s a matter of great pain that [Twitter] has suspended my twitter account [Licypriya Kangujam] after writing a posts on media not to call me &#8216;Greta of India&#8217; on 27 January, 2020,&#8221; Kangujam <a href="https://twitter.com/movement_child/status/1222860239122268160">announced</a> Thursday through her &#8220;The Child Movement&#8221; account.
Her supporters quickly let the world know about the &#8220;painful&#8221; suspension, some alleging that it was a result of Western censorship and white supremacy. Amid what she described as &#8220;global pressure&#8221; to get her back online, her account was reinstated by Twitter within hours — with a brand new blue check next to her name.
In a message addressed to Twitter after she was reinstated, Kangujam declared herself and her movement &#8220;UNSTOPPABLE.&#8221;
&#8220;Dear [Twitter], WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE,&#8221; she tweeted Friday. &#8220;Finally my account has been restored after global pressure. Thanks everyone who supported me. This is possible because of all your love. Special thanks to all my Climate Activist friends across the globe. No words to express my feelings.&#8221;
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Twitter</a>, WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE. Finally my account has been restored after global pressure. Thanks everyone who supported me. This is possible because of all your love. Special thanks to all my Climate Activist friends across the globe. No words to express my feelings ❤️ ✊🏻 <a href="https://t.co/rv3S352Zqy">pic.twitter.com/rv3S352Zqy</a>
&mdash; Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) <a href="https://twitter.com/LicypriyaK/status/1223202053930881029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;No one can judge people on age. Age doesn’t matter to make a difference,&#8221; Kangujam told <a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/9-year-old-indian-climate-activist-licypriya-kangujams-twitter-account-restored-after-being-suspended-for-few-hours-277878">WION News</a> Friday after her briefly suspended account was restored. &#8220;This is child power. Twitter shouldn’t attempt to silence the voice of young climate activist in any part of the world in future.&#8221;
Twitter, however, says that her temporary suspension had nothing to do with her comments about Greta but, rather, their policies on the age of users.
&#8220;Licypriya&#8217;s parents said that an email from Twitter suggested they needed to update the account to &#8216;explicitly state&#8217; they are the ones running the account,&#8221; <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/ikrd/8-year-old-climate-activist-suspended-twitter?bftwnews&amp;utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc">BuzzFeed News</a> reports. &#8220;According to Twitter&#8217;s rules, you have to be at least 13 years old to set up and manage your own account if you have parental consent.&#8221;
&#8220;They will restore the account but &#8216;the bio needs to be updated to explicitly state that the account is run by the parents? This is to further prevent suspensions in the future as manage by Team Licy is a bit vague and doesn&#8217;t necessarily imply that a parent or legal guardian is the curator,'&#8221; the outlet reports.
The child activist has also posted a statement of solidarity with Thunberg and took another swipe at the media, accusing them of trying to &#8220;play with the young souls.&#8221;
&#8220;GretaThunberg says she &amp; other young #climate activists are &#8216;fighting for the exact same cause&#8217;: We are all on the same side and support each other, even though the media portrays us differently #FridaysForFuture,&#8221; said Megan Rowling in a post highlighted by Kangujam.
&#8220;Exactly!&#8221; Licypriya replied. &#8220;Media are playing with the young souls!!! No doubt. We support each other and we are on same side! Not only leaders, media also need to change their mindset.&#8221;
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Licypriya Kangujam

8-Year-Old Girl’s Complaint About Media Comparing Her To Greta Thunberg Goes Viral; Twitter Suspends Her Account, Explains

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President Donald Trump responded Wednesday to a radical speech from teen climate alarmist Greta Thunberg, suggesting the activist &#8220;focus&#8221; on nations with rising emissions instead of spending her time bashing the United States.
Trump said at a presser on Wednesday that he did not watch Thunberg&#8217;s speech, though he would have &#8220;loved to,&#8221; while challenging the teen to focus on entire continents and countries producing dramatically rising emissions.
&#8220;Some people put it at a level that is unrealistic, to a point that you can&#8217;t live your lives,&#8221; Trump explained. &#8220;We want to have the cleanest water on earth, we wanna have the cleanest air on earth. Our numbers, as you saw, we had record numbers come out very recently. Our [environmental] numbers are very, very good.&#8221;
&#8220;We have to do something about other continents, we have to do something about other countries,&#8221; POTUS continued. &#8220;When we&#8217;re clean and beautiful and everything is good, but you have another continent where the fumes are rising at levels that you can&#8217;t believe. I think Greta oughta focus on those places.&#8221;
&#8220;We are doing better right now than we&#8217;ve ever done in terms of cleanliness, in terms of numbers,&#8221; Trump emphasized.
&#8220;We have a beautiful ocean called the Pacific Ocean with thousands and thousands of tons of garbage flowing toward us, and that&#8217;s put there by other countries. And I think Greta has to focus on those other countries,&#8221; the president concluded.
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-attacks-u-s-admonishes-world-leaders-i-said-i-wanted-you-to-panic">The Daily Wire</a> on Tuesday, Thunberg ripped President Trump&#8217;s decision to leave the Paris Climate Accord, despite the United States leading the world in CO2 emissions reductions, during her speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“One year ago I came to Davos and told you that our house is on fire,” Thunberg started her radical address. “I said I wanted you to panic. I’ve been warned that telling people to panic about the climate crisis is a very dangerous thing to do. But don’t worry. It’s fine. Trust me, I’ve done this before, and I can assure you it doesn’t lead to anything.&#8221;
“The fact that the U.S.A. is leaving the Paris accord seems to outrage and worry everyone, and it should,” the teen continued. “But the fact that we’re all about to fail the commitments you signed up for in the Paris Agreement doesn’t seem to bother the people in power even the least.”
As noted by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/06/greta-thunberg-says-school-strikes-have-achieved-nothing?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco">The Guardian</a>, “greenhouse gas emissions have risen by 4%” since the Paris Accords were signed, while the U.S.&#8217;s emissions have dropped.
Thunberg typically avoids mentioning China when offering her screeds against world leaders on climate change, despite the nation leading in carbon emissions. Notably, the activist has also yet to visit China to give one of her lectures.
“With the world’s largest population and for decades one of the fastest growing economies, China is far and away the world’s top CO2 emitter,” <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/14/china-us-countries-that-produce-the-most-co-2-emissions/39548763/">USA Today</a> reported this summer, using data collecting in 2017. “Close to 10,000 million metric tons of CO2 from burning fossil fuel were emitted by the superpower in 2017. On a per capita basis, China’s CO2 emissions of 7.1 metric tons per person trail that of most countries on this list but still rank in the top 50 worldwide.”
“Driving China’s CO2 emissions is the nation’s massive coal production,” the reported added. “China’s generation of electricity from coal has dropped slightly from 75% in 1992 to 70% in 2015. Still, overall coal production has tripled since 2000 to nearly 4,000 million metric tons – approximately half of all global coal production.”
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Greta Thunberg And President Donald Trump

WATCH: Trump Responds To Greta’s Speech Ripping U.S., Advising Leaders To ‘Panic’

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Actor John Cusack is a big fan of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders&#8217; particular brand of socialism. In fact, as the &#8217;80s actor made alarmingly clear at a Bernie rally in Exeter, NH on Saturday, he believes if we don&#8217;t stop &#8220;predatory capitalism&#8221; in the next &#8220;ten or twelve years,&#8221; we&#8217;re all toast.
&#8220;[T]he billionaires are getting nervous and all the corporate media is — they hate us, they don’t hate us, they&#8217;re confused. And it seems like every conceivable power structure on earth is trying to kill or derail our movement, but we’re still here,&#8221; declared Cusack, in remarks reported by <a href="https://news.grabien.com/story-john-cusack-we-have-10-12-years-save-planet-climate-capitali">Grabien</a>.
&#8220;We know this form of capitalism takes and takes; it takes whatever, whenever, however it wants,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It’ll take our lives, it’ll take our labor, our spirit, our air and water, even our earth.&#8221;
Cusack then echoed an alarmist line often repeated by global warming activist Greta Thunberg, but specifically tying the sentiment to Sanders&#8217; policies.
&#8220;Bernie respects us enough to tell the truth, the hard truth: We have a ten to twelve year window to radically transform our energy systems, or climate change, predatory capitalism, and endless war economies will rob us of the right to any future at all,&#8221; said the actor. &#8220;And as we can see literally every day, the house is on fire.&#8221;
Bernie, suggested Cusack, is our only hope in these desperate times.
&#8220;But as Bernie tells us, this is no time for despair, it&#8217;s no time for anything but action,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Because if we stand together, with him, the future is still indeed unwritten. And there’s nothing more powerful than a movement whose time has come.&#8221;
Cusack then invoked a vaguely defined &#8220;movement,&#8221; by which he appears to mean democratic socialism, which he says is now finally &#8220;close&#8221; to power.
&#8220;We have never had a movement candidate this close to power with a revolutionary movement he’s led and built, ready-to-go, all the way to change the country and help heal the world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;With people of every race, creed, gender, everybody stands together in solidarity when all of us whose labor powers this economy, stop the profiteering and tell the billionaires and the  corporate tyrannies that it&#8217;s time to start treating all human beings with respect and dignity.&#8221;
Video of Cusack&#8217;s remarks below (via <a href="https://news.grabien.com/story-john-cusack-we-have-10-12-years-save-planet-climate-capitali">Grabien</a>):
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Other celebrities who&#8217;ve made millions from Hollywood&#8217;s &#8220;predatory capitalism&#8221; have resorted to Thunbergian rhetoric about climate change in recent months, including &#8220;Aquaman&#8221; (which blew up at the box office) star Jason Momoa, who told the United Nations in September that humanity is &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-aquaman-jason-momoa-says-we-are-a-disease-infecting-our-planet-rips-trump-at-u-n">a disease that is infecting our planet.</a>&#8221;
&#8220;From the atmosphere to the abyssal zone, we are polluted,&#8221; said the &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; star. &#8220;It is a known fact that the great garbage patch floating in the Pacific is larger than the country of France. Even at the depths of the Mariana Trench we are discovering nano plastics. And shockingly, there are more particles of plastic in the ocean than there are stars in the Milky Way. It is shameful.&#8221;
&#8220;Yet, the greatest threat to small island developing states is that entire islands are drowning into the sea due to the enormous volume of emissions generated by the first world countries,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Island nations contribute the least to this disaster but are made to suffer the weight of its consequences.&#8221;
Similar to Cusack, Momoa laid the blame at the feet of capitalism and failure of the government to intervene enough.
&#8220;Our governments and corporate entities have known for decades that immediate change is needed, yet change still has not come,&#8221; said the actor. &#8220;And when the front line is gone, we are doomed. There is no undoing. If you continue to watch unsympathetic to the issues of island nations, this realization will soon come — that you stood by and witnessed the world cross the critical tipping point, ushering in the death of our planet.&#8221;
Momoa&#8217;s speech the U.N. below:
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On Thursday, a Facebook glitch revealed who&#8217;s posting on climate change alarmist Greta Thunberg&#8217;s Facebook page: her father Svantes Thunberg and &#8220;Climate Crisis activist&#8221; Adarsh Prathap.
&#8220;[A] bug that was live from Thursday evening until Friday morning allowed anyone to easily reveal the accounts running a Page, essentially doxing anyone who posted to one,&#8221; <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-bug-page-admins-edit-history-doxxing/">Wired</a> reported Friday.
&#8220;We quickly fixed an issue where someone could see who edited or published a post on behalf of a Page when looking at its edit history,&#8221; Facebook responded to the controversy in a statement. &#8220;We are grateful to the security researcher who alerted us to this issue.&#8221;
&#8220;Still, despite the Friday morning fix,&#8221; Wired explained, &#8220;screenshots circulated on 4chan, Imgur, and social media appearing to show the accounts behind the official Facebook Pages of the pseudonymous artist Banksy, Russian president Vladimir Putin, former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, the hacking collective Anonymous, climate activist Greta Thunberg, and rapper Snoop Dogg, among others.&#8221;
Screenshot circulating online show Svantes and Prathap behind the teen climate activist&#8217;s Facebook page.
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A recent Facebook glitch revealed the accounts posting for Greta Thunberg: her dad and Adarsh Prathap. Greta addressed the criticism on FB: &#39;All texts posted on my Facebook page has of course been written by me, just like everything else.&#39; <a href="https://t.co/abAkdW9RqA">pic.twitter.com/abAkdW9RqA</a>
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Seemingly confirming the screenshots, Thunberg addressed the issue on Saturday.
&#8220;Some people have been asking who manages this page. First of all, since last spring I only use Facebook to repost what I write on my Twitter and Instagram accounts,&#8221; wrote the teen.
&#8220;Since I have chosen not to be on Facebook personally ( I tried early on but decided it wasn’t for me) I use my father Svantes account to repost content, because you need an account to moderate a Facebook page,&#8221; explained Thunberg.
Prathap, Thunberg explained, founded the official Greta Thunberg Facebook page &#8220;long before&#8221; she knew it existed. Since folks already thought it was her real page, she said, she decided to co-manage the page.
&#8220;The rest that is shared on Facebook is reposted from Twitter and Instagram by the guy who founded the Greta Thunberg Facebook page long before I knew it existed,&#8221; wrote Thunberg. &#8220;His name is <a class="profileLink" title="Adarsh Prathap" href="https://www.facebook.com/adarsh.prathap?__tn__=K-R&amp;eid=ARBgb2ffBiAKOEkdGLrIbzbwHqidP9d6_2CVf2ragIlXVo85GXnlYCWK5S19t80UVLV4_sAMByqx4V08&amp;fref=mentions&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARD-WyACegA-8xa3IYEA-u5laJLlSwtYJ7YbGNQPo8d5Ua8OMKI0v4HY62BYc2kuyywugcSEKQjvTlKdxwHnPVqYGnqOsC1aqUZ17IoNzqK-E6eamelRGdGoSJHC_UWoYiYgk0Ub5KyozBSZUeT8wAmdFbdtsf3CSH103Tyb3imlImEH-Q2g-hN2S8AgcBraP4EWro5axnKtwPIPybpFVcXQdSkP-fXUBzwzcwITrH4NWeVpsuvR1TwLNleR0WJVCKCWa_R3r-IvMNmwWsRqUONf5Z6v7jpBLy_foWss-bnYMCH5XmPhjqAbZc3MTVeU4BSv09xv18G0XL4-rgNS_g" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100001563536174&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARBgb2ffBiAKOEkdGLrIbzbwHqidP9d6_2CVf2ragIlXVo85GXnlYCWK5S19t80UVLV4_sAMByqx4V08%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1">Adarsh Prathap</a> and he lives in India. Since a lot of people thought it was my official page in the beginning I asked if I could co-manage it and he said yes.&#8221;
&#8220;All texts posted on my Facebook page has of course been written by me, just like everything else,&#8221; claimed Thunberg.
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&#8220;Thank you for clarifying, Greta,&#8221; responded Prathap. &#8220;It&#8217;s my pleasure to help you out as much I can.&#8221;
&#8220;And a word to people who are running behind Greta and now me to attack on twitter and facebook,&#8221; he added, &#8220;Let’s talk about climate breakdown and solutions. Let’s support each other to overcome this crisis together!&#8221;
Earlier this month, Svantes revealed that he initially thought his daughter&#8217;s far-left &#8220;activism was a &#8216;bad idea&#8217; and that he and his wife were &#8216;not&#8217; supportive of it,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gretas-dad-climate-change-a-question-her-activism-a-bad-idea">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
“She decided to do this. We said quite clearly that we would not support it,” Svante told the media. “Well, obviously we thought it was a bad idea, putting yourself out there with all the hate on social media and the idea of your own daughter sort of putting herself on the very front line of such a huge question like climate change.”

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Facebook Glitch Reveals Father, Activist Behind Greta Thunberg’s Facebook Page. Greta Responds.

While speaking at a climate change rally on Friday, award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix targeted the meat and dairy industries for being &#8220;the third leading cause of climate change.&#8221;
Standing alongside controversial activist and actress Jane Fonda, who organized the event, Phoenix took to the mic to blast the industries while nonetheless admitting his role in an expanding carbon footprint. For example, Phoenix had to fly a plane to the rally, something the actor suggested was out of his control.
&#8220;Something, I think, isn&#8217;t often times talked about in the environmental movement, or the conversation about climate change, is that the meat and dairy industry is the third leading cause of climate change,&#8221; started the &#8220;Joker&#8221; actor, fresh off his Golden Globes win.
&#8220;And, um, I think sometimes we think, what can we do in this fight against climate change, and there&#8217;s something that you can do today, right now, and tomorrow by making a choice what you consume,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;I struggle so much with what I can do at times,&#8221; Phoenix added. &#8220;There are things that I can&#8217;t avoid — I flew a plane out here today, or last night, rather. But one thing that I can do is change my eating habits.&#8221;
&#8220;So I just wanna urge all of you to join me in that,&#8221; closed the actor.
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Joaquin Phoenix: &quot;I struggle so much with what I can do [to combat climate change] at times. There are things that I can&#39;t avoid &#8212; I flew a plane out here today, or last night rather. But one thing that I can do is change my eating habits.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/RaZILYq0La">pic.twitter.com/RaZILYq0La</a>
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During his Golden Globes award acceptance speech on Sunday, Phoenix also zeroed in on climate change, taking a jab at Hollywood for its collective hypocrisy on the issue.
“It’s really nice that so many people come up and sent their well wishes, but we have to do more than that, right?” Phoenix said, referring to the fires in Australia. “I have not always been a virtuous man. I’m learning so much — so many of you in this room have given me multiple opportunities to get it right.”
As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/update-dozens-more-arrested-in-australia-for-deliberately-setting-wildfires">The Daily Wire</a> earlier this week, dozens of alleged arsonists have been arrested in connection to the raging fires in Australia, reportedly setting at least 100 fires.
“It’s great to vote but sometimes we have to take that responsibility on ourselves and make changes and sacrifices in our own lives,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I hope that we can do that — we don’t have to take private jets to Palm Springs sometimes or back, please.&#8221;
“I’ll try to do better and I hope you will too,&#8221; he added.
Earlier in the speech, as noted by <a href="https://variety.com/2020/film/news/joaquin-phoenix-golden-globes-speech-joker-1203456066/">Variety</a>, Phoenix &#8220;lauded the Globes for switching to a vegan meal for the ceremony, thanking the Hollywood Foreign Press for &#8216;recognizing and acknowledging the link between animal agriculture and climate change. It’s a very bold move, making tonight plant-based.'&#8221;
Phoenix&#8217;s stand against meat and dairy has long been a cause of <a href="https://www.peta.org/living/food/10-things-wish-everyone-knew-meat-dairy-industries/">PETA</a>. &#8220;If you’re concerned about the creepy marketing, environmental damage, health risks, economic problems, or ethical issues that plague the meat industry, you can take action immediately,&#8221; the extreme animal activist group says on its website. &#8220;Make a choice to buy less meat (including fish) and fewer eggs and dairy products — or better yet, give them up completely. It’s one of the most powerful things that you can do.&#8221;

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WATCH: Joaquin Phoenix Targets Meat, Dairy Farmers At Climate Rally, Admits He Just Got Off Plane

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Svante Thunberg, Greta Thunberg&#8217;s father, revealed during a recent media interview that he initially thought what she was doing with her far-left activism was a &#8220;bad idea&#8221; and that he and his wife were &#8220;not&#8221; supportive of it.
In the interview with BBC Radio 4 Today released Sunday, Thunberg also notably referenced climate change as a &#8220;question,&#8221; suggesting he is not as bought in on his daughter&#8217;s cause as she is.
&#8220;She decided to do this. We said quite clearly that we would not support it,&#8221; Thunberg said. &#8220;Well, obviously we thought it was a bad idea, putting yourself out there with all the hate on social media and the idea of your own daughter sort of putting herself on the very front line of such a huge question like climate change.&#8221;
The BBC asked, &#8220;So, it’s not that you have pushed her to do this? Because that question often gets asked of young people in the public eye … you haven’t pushed her to do this?&#8221;
&#8220;No, on the contrary, we said if you are going to do it then you’re going to have to do it by yourself, you’re going to have to be incredibly well prepared, you have to have all the answers to all the questions and she says ‘OK’,&#8221; Thunberg responded. &#8220;So she made this leaflet of like 35 facts and with all the sources to all the facts, to all the reports and stuff and she had those leaflets on the ground and whenever the journalists came along she would answer all their questions and that was the surprising thing because she didn’t speak to anyone at the time. She only spoke to me, my wife, her sister, and one of the teachers.&#8221;
Thunberg also opened up about the depression that his daughter has struggled with and how crippling it was to her life.
&#8220;Like 3 or 4 years before she went on the school strike she fell ill and she stopped talking, she stopped eating, and all these things,&#8221; Thunberg said. &#8220;She stopped going to school, she was basically home for a year and she didn’t eat for 3 months or 2.5 months, which of course was the ultimate nightmare as a parent. You have food and you need food to survive, and your child can’t eat it.&#8221;
&#8220;Is there ever a moment when you think, I would just like us to go back to being an ordinary family before all of this began?&#8221; the BBC asked. &#8220;Or do you have the same sense of purpose that she does?&#8221;
&#8220;I can see Greta is very happy from doing this and I saw where she was before, I mean she didn’t speak to a single person, she could only eat in her own home, and when she went on the school strike, I think day 3, someone came along and gave her like Pad Thai vegan and she ate it and that was like, I can not explain how much, what a change that meant to her and to us and it was just like she changed and she could do things that she could never have done before and now she’s just like any other,&#8221; Thunberg responded. &#8220;You think she’s not ordinary now because she’s special and she’s very famous and all these things but to me she’s now an ordinary child. She can do all the things like other people can and she’s happy. She dances around, she laughs a lot, we have a lot of fun and she’s in a very good place.&#8221;
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Svante Thunberg, father of <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GretaThunberg</a>, talks to us about the journey his daughter has been on &#8211; from a time when she rarely left the house or spoke to anyone outside her family, to campaigning globally on climate change. <a href="https://t.co/wMHvNpJoQG">https://t.co/wMHvNpJoQG</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/r4today?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#r4today</a> <a href="https://t.co/WQdDNZS86X">pic.twitter.com/WQdDNZS86X</a>
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Greta’s Dad: Climate Change A ‘Question,’ Her Activism A ‘Bad Idea’

In a bizarre interview on Sunday, David Remnick, author of “The Bridge: The Life And Rise Of Barack Obama” and editor for The New Yorker magazine, expressed his frustration with Trump voters to CNN’s “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter. 
Responding to a question about whether anything will change following President Trump’s impeachment by House Democrats, Remnick stated that, “We’ve seen the Republicans stuck where they are. Their illusions about Trump remain,” adding that “the stakes here are immense.”
The Media Research Center <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/12/22/new-yorker-editor-future-earth-hangs-trumps-impeachment" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reports</a> that Remnick began to connect the impeachment hearing to the “future” of the planet, thereby linking it to one of the Left’s biggest political issues: Global warming.   
“It’s not just about the political future of one man, Donald Trump — it’s about the future of democracy and democratic process. And this is a trend throughout the world. It’s about the future of the Earth. We have a party that has decided to be disbelieving about climate change. It’s about issues as essential as that,” he said. 
Of course, Stelter did not bother to ask how global warming is somehow connected to the House Democrats’ move to impeach President Trump. Instead, allowing The New Yorker editor to continue to pontificate, Remnick went to discuss how the mainstream media are at a loss as to why President Trump remains popular in certain sectors of the country. 
“Right now, you have a country that is split, and to the great frustration of people like you and people like me, we don’t somehow understand,” he opined. “We don’t understand why the evidence of things, why facts don’t penetrate so many of our brothers and sisters in the United States of America. And it’s a source of great frustration for the press and for anybody who is thinking about these issues that are so important.”
He emphasized, “And this is a source of great frustration for the press. And for anyone who is thinking about these issues that are so important.”
Stelter echoed the sentiments, repeating, “for the press.” He then asked about the “eclipse of reason” of the Republican Party.
“Let’s not be deluded here. It&#8217;s not as if reason and fact and truth-telling were pervasive in any political party, much less the Republican Party. But things have gotten markedly worse,” Remnick answered. “So much of the Republican Party, their candidates, their leadership know the score. Everybody in the Senate and the House knows this is a man of low character, of ethical, of ethics run amuck. &#8230; Nobody in the Republican Party thinks this is a good and decent man. These are people who are looking to their political advantages. They think if they act against him somehow or speak against him, they&#8217;ll lose their seats. So, the only people speaking against him are people set to retire.”
This interview highlights a lack of self-awareness that is prevalent across large swaths of the news industry. As they try to connect global warming to the vote to impeach Trump, many Americans grow weary of such showboating by the press and congressional Democrats. 
The Daily Wire’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/klavan-cnn-accidentally-reveals-that-its-a-cult" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Andrew Klavan</a> has previously commented on the direction of the media and of Brian Stelter’s program, in particular. 
“I mean, it is comical that they can’t see themselves,” he said. “So it drives the Right crazy, it drives me crazy. This is the news. You turn on the news, CNN, the most trusted name in news, but that’s what you see on the news, and it drives you crazy.” 
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-yorker-editor-david-remnick-says-trumps-impeachment-is-about-the-future-of-the-earth" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fox News</a>’ Brian Flood noted how the Remnick interview was mocked on social media, with Brit Hume pointing out, “Fortunately for the country and the planet, people seem to have sense enough not to believe this sort of claptrap.”
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Fortunately for the country and the planet, people seem to have sense enough not to believe this sort of claptrap. <a href="https://t.co/X9KyPyhiFy">https://t.co/X9KyPyhiFy</a>
&mdash; Brit Hume (@brithume) <a href="https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1208931836161904641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The 2019 New Yorker Festival &#8211; Terry Gross Talks With David Remnick

New Yorker Editor David Remnick To Nodding Stelter: ‘It’s A Great Frustration’ Why People Vote For Trump

2019 in Washington

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Far-left climate alarmist Greta Thunberg urged political leaders on Sunday to connect the fires that are raging in Australia to &#8220;the climate crisis,&#8221; while ignoring the fact that the <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/arson-mischief-and-recklessness-87-per-cent-of-fires-are-man-made-20191117-p53bcl.html">overwhelming majority</a> of Australia&#8217;s fires are man-made, many of which are intentional acts of arson.
Thunberg made the remarks in a retweet of a video from a local Australian news outlet, writing: &#8220;Not even catastrophes like these seem to bring any political action. How is this possible? Because we still fail to make the connection between the climate crisis and increased extreme weather events and nature disasters like the #AustraliaFires That&#8217;s what has to change. Now.&#8221;
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Not even catastrophes like these seem to bring any political action. How is this possible? Because we still fail to make the connection between the climate crisis and increased extreme weather events and nature disasters like the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AustraliaFires?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AustraliaFires</a> That&#39;s what has to change. Now. <a href="https://t.co/DQcZViKJQz">https://t.co/DQcZViKJQz</a>
&mdash; Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1208682929855041538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Thunberg&#8217;s tweet takes aim at the wild fires that have raged across the continent over the past few months, many of which investigators allege have been started by people, both intentionally and on accident.
In Australia, those responsible for starting fires, especially if done so in a deliberate act, are often referred to as &#8220;firebugs.&#8221;
&#8220;As firefighters remained on high alert, police revealed 103 of the destructive fires that had lashed Queensland since September were deliberately lit,&#8221; The Brisbane Times <a href="https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/dozens-of-firebugs-blamed-for-destructive-queensland-fires-20191220-p53m1i.html">reported</a>. &#8220;Figures obtained by AAP revealed police had dealt with 98 people &#8211; 31 adults and 67 juveniles &#8211; for deliberately setting fires.&#8221;
&#8220;More than 120 fires are still being investigated and more people could be charged,&#8221; The Brisbane Times added. &#8220;The firebug revelations come as fire crews continue to face challenging conditions as a strong upper ridge sweeping across the south-east combines with fresh east northeasterly winds on Friday.&#8221;
Several years ago, the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-21072349">noted</a> that &#8220;firebugs&#8221; are &#8220;arsonists who set alight bushfires, and who often strike on days when soaring temperatures and high winds combine to create the most hazardous conditions.&#8221;
On Twitter, some pushed back on Thunberg&#8217;s assertion that &#8220;the climate crisis&#8221; was to blame for the wild fires in Australia.
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Sorry, Greta, but fires are *not* evidence that trace CO2 causes fires. 
&quot;Arson, mischief and recklessness: 87 per cent of fires are man-made&quot;; fire has been in a long-term *decline* globally. <a href="https://t.co/Pg0T8nsWbz">https://t.co/Pg0T8nsWbz</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateTwitter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ClimateTwitter</a> <a href="https://t.co/ilhA6LaAWn">pic.twitter.com/ilhA6LaAWn</a>
&mdash; Tom Nelson (@tan123) <a href="https://twitter.com/tan123/status/1208720790805532677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The Sydney Morning Herald <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/arson-mischief-and-recklessness-87-per-cent-of-fires-are-man-made-20191117-p53bcl.html">reported</a> last month:
<blockquote>There are, on average, 62,000 fires in Australia every year. Only a very small number strike far from populated areas and satellite studies tell us that lightning is responsible for only 13 per cent. Not so the current fires threatening to engulf Queensland and NSW. There were no lightning strikes on most of the days when the fires first started in September. Although there have been since, these fires – joining up to create a new form of mega-fire – are almost all man-made.
A 2015 satellite analysis of 113,000 fires from 1997-2009 confirmed what we had known for some time – 40 per cent of fires are deliberately lit, another 47 per cent accidental. This generally matches previous data published a decade earlier that about half of all fires were suspected or deliberate arson, and 37 per cent accidental. Combined, they reach the same conclusion: 87 per cent are man-made. &#8230;
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Make no mistake, the current weather conditions in Australia are causing the fires to spread and are making them harder to combat, as December is one of Australia&#8217;s hotter summer months, but that does not mean that climate change is necessarily responsible for igniting all of the fires.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said climate change was “one of many factors” that was contributing to what was going on, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-22/australian-pm-downplays-climate-change-as-cause-of-deadly-fires">saying</a>, “I have always acknowledged the connection between these weather events and these broader fire events and the impact globally of climate change. But I’m sure people equally would acknowledge that the direct connection to any single fire event, it’s not a credible suggestion to make that link.”
Some news publications have <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191223110854/https://news.sky.com/story/australia-bushfires-not-much-left-of-town-near-sydney-as-pm-apologises-for-hawaii-holiday-11893737">reported</a> that climate change was a &#8220;major factor&#8221; in the fires, but did not elaborate or give any evidence to back their claims.
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Based on preliminary analysis, yesterday, Australia recorded its hottest day on record. The nationally-averaged maximum daytime temp was 41.9 °C exceeding the record set on Tuesday, 40.9 ºC. You can view the top ten highest daily maximum temps here: <a href="https://t.co/Cdqm9vD1cI">https://t.co/Cdqm9vD1cI</a> <a href="https://t.co/DRDK9LAvrg">pic.twitter.com/DRDK9LAvrg</a>
&mdash; Bureau of Meteorology, Australia (@BOM_au) <a href="https://twitter.com/BOM_au/status/1207539156483792897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In September, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released data that showed that forest fires are not becoming more prevalent, in fact, they are on a decline across the globe.
“Any reader of the New York Times and other mainstream media outlet would be forgiven for believing that fires globally are on the rise, but they aren’t,” <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/08/30/forget-the-hype-forest-fires-have-declined-25-since-2003-thanks-to-economic-growth/">Forbes</a> reported. “In reality, there was a whopping 25 percent <a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/90493/researchers-detect-a-global-drop-in-fires" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/90493/researchers-detect-a-global-drop-in-fires">decrease</a> in the area burned from 2003 to 2019, according to NASA.”
“For the last 35 years, the world has been re-foresting, meaning new tree growth has exceeded deforestation,” Forbes continued. “The area of the Earth covered with forest has increased by an area the size of Texas and Alaska combined.”

Greta Thunberg: Connect Australia’s Fires To Climate Crisis. Here’s What’s Actually Happening.

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Climate change hysteria has brought people to such lowly depths of despair that they are now refusing to have children in order to protect the environment.
In an op-ed for The Huffington Post, guest writer Mariana Keen declared that she feels a &#8220;responsibility not to have children&#8221; in order to combat the world&#8217;s &#8220;unsustainable population size,&#8221; thus seeming to offer support for something that conservatives have alleged for years: Climate change hysteria can sometimes simply mask an insidious leftist/Malthusian movement for global population control.
&#8220;The world population is growing by approximately 83 million people every year, largely due to a high birth rate and falling death rate, and this is having a devastating impact on the planet,&#8221; argues Keen.
In Keen&#8217;s mind, not to mention <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-05/scientists-call-for-population-control-in-mass-climate-alarm">the scientists who have echoed</a> her sentiments, having children simply translates into &#8220;multiplying my impact on the environment&#8221; — which is further compounded by our &#8220;increased life expectancy.&#8221; The question of having children has weighed on Keen for years and has now reached an apex, given her age of 36. However, after careful consideration, she has decided that children will not be in her future.
&#8220;I don’t want children, and a major deciding factor for me has been the impact this would have on the environment,&#8221; she argues. &#8220;Of course, such a major life decision is multifaceted. I’ve made a lot of choices in response to environmental concerns, but the matter of kids has certainly been one of the more challenging topics to ponder because I’m interested in balancing my duty to our planet with making enriching life choices.&#8221;
Keen says her choice stems from two factors: Seeing that her friends are no more happier after having children and her responsibility to the environment.
&#8220;This, for me, means not adding to my home city’s population density, global population growth, and further destruction of our planet,&#8221; she emphasizes.
Keen then cites a 2009<a href="http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2009/jul/family-planning-major-environmental-emphasis" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:9;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk"> study by statisticians at Oregon State University</a> to support her claim, which argued that &#8220;having one less child in the U.S.&#8221; would dramatically impact the output of greenhouse gas emissions.
&#8220;The study found that under current conditions in the U.S., each child ultimately adds about 9,441 metric tons of carbon dioxide to the carbon legacy of an average parent ― about 5.7 times the lifetime emissions for an average person worldwide,&#8221; she says.  &#8220;For me, this impact has been worth considering. Just as I can do my bit by recycling and limiting my waste, I can help to curb the population by limiting the number of children I have.&#8221;
&#8220;So considering the environmental impact I can have in my lifetime, I’ve decided not to have kids,&#8221; she continues. &#8220;There are so many great people in my world with whom I can share love and companionship, so I don’t feel the need to have my own child in order to feel fulfilled.&#8221;
While certain segments of the climate change activist community have called for more population control, other segments have cautioned against it. The feminist <a href="https://msmagazine.com/2019/09/24/population-control-isnt-the-answer-to-our-climate-crisis/">Ms. Magazine</a>, of all places, even argued that population control would not solve the supposed problem.
&#8220;Today, arguments for population control are reemerging in mainstream and even liberal discussions around limiting women’s fertility in the name of environmental sustainability,&#8221; the article stated. &#8220;This isn’t the first time women’s bodies have been treated as a means to a demographic end. Recall such ugly initiatives, all mainstream in their day, to forcibly sterilize Black, Latina, and Indigenous women, to treat Puerto Rican women like lab rats in contraceptive trials to keep the island’s population down and to fund sterilization camps in India.&#8221;

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HuffPost Op-Ed: I’m Not Having Kids Because I Care About The Environment

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Far-left climate alarmist Greta Thunberg threatened to put world leaders &#8220;against the wall&#8221; last week over her claims that they were not trying to save the planet. She made the comment while also proclaiming last week that she was not &#8220;political&#8221; — a claim that was contested by many online.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sometimes called &#8216;political&#8217;. But I&#8217;ve never supported any political party, politician or ideology. I communicate the science and the risks of failing to act on it. And the fact that the politics needed don&#8217;t exist today, neither to the right, left nor center,&#8221; Thunberg claimed in a pair of tweets. &#8220;If anyone thinks that what I and the science are saying is advocating for a political view &#8211; then that says more about that person than about me. That being said &#8211; some are certainly failing more than others.&#8221;
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If anyone thinks that what I and the science are saying is advocating for a political view &#8211; then that says more about that person than about me. That being said &#8211; some are certainly failing more than others.
&mdash; Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1205220369411518466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Human Events Managing Editor Ian Miles Cheong highlighted some of Thunberg&#8217;s meetings with political leaders, which showed that she only met with leftist leaders.
In one tweet, Cheong highlighted Thunberg&#8217;s meeting with former Democrat President Barack Obama, a meeting in which Obama told her, &#8220;You and me, we&#8217;re a team.&#8221;
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According to CNN: &quot;Before the two fist-bumped, Obama said to Thunberg: &#39;You and me, we&#39;re a team.&#39;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/SzIfUOlCqj">pic.twitter.com/SzIfUOlCqj</a>
&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1206484380614479873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Another tweet highlighted Thunberg&#8217;s meeting with socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who Thunberg called &#8220;incredible.&#8221;
It&#8217;s worth noting that in her meeting with Ocasio-Cortez, which was published in The Guardian as a back-and-forth dialogue, Thunberg dispelled any notion that she is not political and that people are using her.
&#8220;The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can’t think for myself and so on,&#8221; Thunberg <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/29/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-met-greta-thunberg-hope-contagious-climate">said</a>. &#8220;And I think that is so annoying! I’m also allowed to have a say – why shouldn’t I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people’s minds?&#8221;
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&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1206486912464146432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Another tweet highlighted Thunberg meeting fellow climate alarmist Al Gore, a failed Democrat presidential candidate, whom she said it was an &#8220;honor&#8221; to meet because he was a &#8220;true pioneer.&#8221;
Gore is a well-documented hypocrite when it comes to the climate. While he warns of impending doom that <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/environmental-apocalypse-predictions-have-failed-for-half-a-century">does not happen</a>,  he flies around the world on <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/09/hypocrisy-climate-change-activist/">private planes</a> and lives in a home that devours <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/08/02/exclusive-al-gores-home-devours-34-times-more-electricity-than-average-u-s-household/">34 times more</a> electricity than an average home in the U.S.
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Cheong also noted a t-shirt Thunberg wore earlier in the year that drew significant controversy because it appears to promote Antifa, an extremist left-wing group that embraces the use of violence to silence those with opposing views.
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Is this an Antifa t-shirt? Sure looks like it. <a href="https://t.co/tCVMKdlLNe">pic.twitter.com/tCVMKdlLNe</a>
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However, Thunberg eventually denounced the shirt, writing on Twitter: &#8220;Yesterday I posted a photo wearing a borrowed T-shirt that says I’m against fascism. That T-shirt can apparently to some be linked to a violent movement. I don’t support any form of violence and to avoid misunderstandings I’ve deleted the post. And of course I am against fascism.&#8221;
Late last week, Thunberg, at a climate rally, said that she would &#8220;put&#8221; world leaders that did not promote her climate extremism &#8220;against the wall.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GretaThunberg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GretaThunberg</a> shows her totalitarian colors
She threatens world leaders If they don&#39;t do their jobs &quot;We will put them against the wall&quot;
Support <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateHysteria?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ClimateHysteria</a> Or face a firing squad
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&mdash; Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimHansonDC/status/1205662126649544704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Thunberg responded to her controversial remarks by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/greta-thunberg-apologizes-against-the-wall-break-global-activism-time-person-of-year">blaming</a> it on her &#8220;Swenglish,&#8221; claiming that she was only inferring that she wanted to hold them accountable.
Thunberg&#8217;s remarks were actually tame compared to some of her prior statements, including comments she made in an op-ed earlier this month in which she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-snaps-change-everything-climate-crisis-about-colonial-racist-and-patriarchal-systems-of-oppression-fossil-fuel-literally">said</a> that she would promote &#8220;strikes, protests, and other actions&#8221; and would &#8220;become louder and louder&#8221; until leaders did what she thought was necessary.
In a meltdown speech at the United Nations earlier this year, Thunberg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-snaps-we-are-beginning-mass-extinction-how-ryan-saavedra">said</a> of world leaders, &#8220;There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures here today because these numbers are too uncomfortable and you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is. You are failing us but the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you and if you choose to fail us I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now, is where we draw the line the world is waking up and change is coming whether you like it or not.&#8221;

Greta Thunberg Attends COP25 Plenary Session In Madrid

Greta Denies She Is ‘Political’, Gets Brutal Reminder; Threatens To Put Politicians ‘Against The Wall’

On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump said far-left climate alarmist Greta Thunberg should to work on her &#8220;anger management problem&#8221; and &#8220;chill.&#8221;
&#8220;So ridiculous,&#8221; Trump posted to Twitter, reacting to TIME magazine naming Thunberg &#8220;Person of the Year.&#8221;
&#8220;Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend!&#8221; the president suggested. &#8220;Chill Greta, Chill!&#8221;
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So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill! <a href="https://t.co/M8ZtS8okzE">https://t.co/M8ZtS8okzE</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1205100602025545730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-thunberg-wins-time-person-of-the-year-leftists-celebrate-don-jr-eviscerates-them">The Daily Wire</a> on Wednesday, the climate change alarmist was named the magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Person of the Year,&#8221; to mixed reactions. One major criticism launched at TIME was their apparent snub of the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GretaThunberg</a> is TIME&#39;s 2019 Person of the Year <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TIMEPOY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TIMEPOY</a> <a href="https://t.co/YZ7U6Up76v">https://t.co/YZ7U6Up76v</a> <a href="https://t.co/SWALBfeGl6">pic.twitter.com/SWALBfeGl6</a>
&mdash; TIME (@TIME) <a href="https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1204743717132914688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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“Thunberg is not a leader of any political party or advocacy group,” <a href="https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2019-greta-thunberg/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=person-of-the-year&amp;utm_term=_&amp;linkId=78763203">TIME</a> wrote in their article on the activist. “She is neither the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis nor the most qualified to fix it. She is not a scientist or a politician. She has no access to traditional levers of influence: she’s not a billionaire or a princess, a pop star or even an adult.&#8221;
&#8220;She&#8217;s an ordinary teenage girl who, in summoning the courage to speak truth to power, became the icon of a generation,&#8221; the magazine continued. &#8220;By clarifying an abstract danger with piercing outrage, Thunberg became the most compelling voice on the most important issue facing the planet.”
Since 2017, Thunberg has been promoted by politicos on the far-left and their allies in the media to lead the climate change agenda, which conveniently promotes socialist policies as solutions. The teen cemented her role as the leader of the movement in September with a radical, doomsday speech at the United Nations.
“My message is that we’ll be watching you,” Thunberg warned during the speech, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-snaps-we-are-beginning-mass-extinction-how-ryan-saavedra">The Daily Wire</a> reported. “This is all wrong, I shouldn’t be up here, I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet, you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet I’m one of the lucky ones.”
“People are suffering; people are dying,” she claimed. “Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.”
While at the U.N., Thunberg made headlines for giving President Trump a vicious stare-down when he walked past her.
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg stares down President Trump as he arrived at the UN. <a href="https://t.co/1Ot0Dko5w6">pic.twitter.com/1Ot0Dko5w6</a>
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Trump posted his own take on Thunberg&#8217;s doomsday speech, mocking via Twitter: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!”
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She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see! <a href="https://t.co/1tQG6QcVKO">https://t.co/1tQG6QcVKO</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1176339522113679360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As previously noted by The Daily Wire, Thunberg did not mention China during the infamous U.N. speech, nor during her latest address to climate activists in Madrid, despite the nation leading in carbon emissions. Thunberg has also yet to visit China to give one of her lectures.
“With the world’s largest population and for decades one of the fastest growing economies, China is far and away the world’s top CO2 emitter,” <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/14/china-us-countries-that-produce-the-most-co-2-emissions/39548763/">USA Today</a> reported this summer, using data collecting in 2017. “Close to 10,000 million metric tons of CO2 from burning fossil fuel were emitted by the superpower in 2017. On a per capita basis, China’s CO2 emissions of 7.1 metric tons per person trail that of most countries on this list but still rank in the top 50 worldwide.”
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‘Chill Greta, Chill!’ Trump Trolls Greta After Time Names Her ‘Person Of The Year’

On Friday, far-left activist Greta Thunberg struck a somber, defeatist tone while speaking to fellow climate activists gathered at the United Nations climate talks in Madrid, Spain.
The Swedish teen complained that school climate strikes have &#8220;achieved nothing&#8221; and claimed that opponents of her radical agenda are trying to &#8220;silence&#8221; her and her supporters. Thunberg also claimed people are currently &#8220;suffering and dying&#8221; due to effects of supposed man-made climate change.
&#8220;The global wave of school strikes for the climate over the past year has &#8216;achieved nothing&#8217; because greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise,&#8221; Thunberg reportedly told fellow activists, according to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/06/greta-thunberg-says-school-strikes-have-achieved-nothing?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco">The Guardian</a>.
“I’m just an activist and we need more activists,” the 16-year-old said. “Some people are afraid to change – they try so desperately to silence us.”
“We can’t go on like this; it is not sustainable that children skip school and we don’t want to continue – we would love some action from the people in power. People are suffering and dying today. We can’t wait any longer,” Thunberg warned.
The climate extremist expressed little hope in governments across the globe acting in a manner she sees fit to save the world from apparent destruction.
“I sincerely hope COP25 will reach something concrete and increase awareness among people,&#8221; Thunberg said, &#8220;and that world leaders and people in power grasp the urgency of the climate crisis, because right now it does not seem that they are.&#8221;
Since 2017, Thunberg has been pushed by politicos on the far-left and their allies in the media to lead the climate change agenda, which conveniently promotes socialist policies as solutions. In September, the teen cemented her role as climate leader with a radical, doomsday speech at the UN.
“My message is that we’ll be watching you,&#8221; Thunberg warned during the speech, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-snaps-we-are-beginning-mass-extinction-how-ryan-saavedra">The Daily Wire</a> reported. &#8220;This is all wrong, I shouldn’t be up here, I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet, you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet I’m one of the lucky ones.&#8221;
&#8220;People are suffering; people are dying,&#8221; the teen claimed. &#8220;Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.”
As noted by The Guardian, &#8220;greenhouse gas emissions have risen by 4%&#8221; since the Paris Accords were signed.
Oddly, Thunberg did not mention China during the infamous U.N. speech, nor during her latest address to climate activists, despite the nation leading in carbon emissions. Notably, Thunberg has also yet to visit China to give one of her most important lectures.
&#8220;With the world&#8217;s largest population and for decades one of the fastest growing economies, China is far and away the world&#8217;s top CO2 emitter,&#8221; <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/14/china-us-countries-that-produce-the-most-co-2-emissions/39548763/">USA Today</a> reported this summer, using data collecting in 2017. &#8220;Close to 10,000 million metric tons of CO2 from burning fossil fuel were emitted by the superpower in 2017. On a per capita basis, China&#8217;s CO2 emissions of 7.1 metric tons per person trail that of most countries on this list but still rank in the top 50 worldwide.&#8221;
&#8220;Driving China&#8217;s CO2 emissions is the nation&#8217;s massive coal production,&#8221; the reported noted. &#8220;China&#8217;s generation of electricity from coal has dropped slightly from 75% in 1992 to 70% in 2015. Still, overall coal production has tripled since 2000 to nearly 4,000 million metric tons – approximately half of all global coal production.&#8221;

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