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you don't seem to understand how social movements work.
Way to go Greta
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you don't seem to understand how social movements work.
droodzilla
pfm Member
"Smug little bitch" is pure misogyny. Fur's post was disgusting and indefensible.
Rockmeister
pfm Member
I planted 5 trees. See its important that goverments force us to act because some of us (no names ofc) do nothing but moan, but in reality, it's us, the population of earth who need to listen, understand and act, because if we do, it really will be ok and until we do, we are f******d. I think her activity is far more likely to spur people like me into some action, which, in the scheme of things, is a good thing. Explain how it isn't?
Tell him that.
Tony L
Administrator
Greta Thunberg is the latest in a long line of people throughout history that stood up, got counted and helped focus a whole movement; she is the Emmeline Pankhurst, the Rosa Parks, the Nelson Mandela, the Mo Mowlam or whoever of the climate crisis. The only way situations this huge ever get resolved is via focusing the argument, creating real dialogue and then changing minds, and that is exactly what Thunberg is achieving. Spectacularly.
droodzilla
pfm Member
Fair enough. I realise I'm a bit late to this particular "party". Had I seen the post at the time I would have reported it and asked the mods to consider banning him. Anyone who uses that kind of language about a 16 year old girl has no place on the forum, in my view.
Joe P
Memory Alpha incarnate | mod; Shatner number = 2
Greta has got under the skin of reactionary, populist righties, like our very own climate change denying Maxime Bernier.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5846043/maxime-bernier-greta-thunberg-mentally-unstable/
It's hard to put a price on making a grown man and leader of a political party look like an even bigger uninformed idiot, but it's a substantial figure.
Joe
https://globalnews.ca/news/5846043/maxime-bernier-greta-thunberg-mentally-unstable/
It's hard to put a price on making a grown man and leader of a political party look like an even bigger uninformed idiot, but it's a substantial figure.
Joe
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
she hasn't achieved anything. She might go on achieve something, the again she may not. I'd rather wait a see, before claiming her as the next messiah
They actually achieved something and facilitated change for good. The teenager hasn't actually achieved anything, so to compare her with those greats you name undermines their achievements.
No she isn't, that my point, she hasn't done anything yet.
Rockmeister
pfm Member
Fur is here still, not far from here on various other threads. Must admit that I don't know why but it's not my forum.
Rockmeister
pfm Member
Yes but I think you'll find that Pankhurst, Parks, and Mandella weren't exactly household names in their teens were they...give her a chance. She is getting the publicity but it's we who are slow to react it seems, or are we? How do we know how many trees have been planted in her name...action cannot be measure just in newspaper headlines. A small stone in a pond creates ripples that spread.
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
read what I wrote more carefully - I said she might achieve something, but she hasn't yet. And to compare her with those greats at this moment in time, is premature and undermines their achievements.
I said
I think that means giving her a chance.
Marky-Mark
pfm Member
You would have said the same thing 2 years ago about plastic packaging. I've seen it change since. It's early days but as manufacturers we are seeing customers protest about plastic packaging. Crucially they are prepared to pay more for alternatives, and that's a first. So she may not *yet* have changed something as an individual, but attitudes are shifting as a result of comments from people like her. These shifting attitudes are causing consumer behaviour to change. Manufacturers change accordingly, via the retailers.
Joe P
Memory Alpha incarnate | mod; Shatner number = 2
Simon,
Ummm, apart from inspiring an international movement and making Micheal Gove feel a bit bad?
Joe
Ummm, apart from inspiring an international movement and making Micheal Gove feel a bit bad?
Joe
I'm back.
Its not against the rules to disagree.
We don't have thought police, yet.
Shes a flash in the pan, a figurehead, a victim of the publicists who are using her as their mouthpiece.
Crossing the sea on a boat, lovely. A boat made out of carbon fibre and resin, nasty unrecycleable products made in eco-friendly chemical plants in china, no doubt. Sails made of hi-tech plastics, also on their way to landfill, they dont last long, and the mixed materials make them impractical to recycle.
Who is being kidded here ?
It would have been greener to fly, park bottom on empty seat in aeroplane.
Its not against the rules to disagree.
We don't have thought police, yet.
Shes a flash in the pan, a figurehead, a victim of the publicists who are using her as their mouthpiece.
Crossing the sea on a boat, lovely. A boat made out of carbon fibre and resin, nasty unrecycleable products made in eco-friendly chemical plants in china, no doubt. Sails made of hi-tech plastics, also on their way to landfill, they dont last long, and the mixed materials make them impractical to recycle.
Who is being kidded here ?
It would have been greener to fly, park bottom on empty seat in aeroplane.
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
quite, totally unacceptable.