Students around the world skip school to protest and demand action on climate change

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  1. JIMV

    JIMV Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Just regurgitating far left talking points from folk who pretend to know, or worse, be 'scientists' does not make a weak argument any stronger.
     
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    The mayor of New York announced that over a million kids could skip school to protest climate change. They aren't protesting. They are enjoying a sanctioned time from class at tax payer's expense.
     
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  3. Fred C Dobbs

    Fred C Dobbs Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    What a sexist remark that is!
     
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  4. Fred C Dobbs

    Fred C Dobbs Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Evey generation since time began has felt the earth was heading towards extinction but they were only correlating their own inevitable fate.
     
  5. NMNeil

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    Drive past your local high school and count how many students fossil fueled cars are in the parking lot.
    "I'm protesting against climate change and believe that everyone needs to do something to save the planet, but I really need my car" :boo:
     
  6. dairyair

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    No different than when right wing brainwashed you generation with religion.
     
  7. dairyair

    dairyair Well-Known Member

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    You are way way to gullible.
     
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    IMO the Real Issue is the politicization of children and education.
    Back in the days of Global Freezing (1970's) no-one would have
    imagined schools would be politicized with the issue and see their
    kids protesting against the things which were supposed to have
    caused Global Freezing, ie Capitalism, Corporatism, Imperialism
    etc..
     
  9. Poohbear

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    Sorry but I understood that religion wasn't really a topic in schools,
    in fact it was banned in may countries - by traditional, conservative,
    liberal democratic and Capitalist people.
     
  10. AFM

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    The so-called adults that have these kids believing the world is going to end in 12 years are guilty of child abuse. Global warming is beneficial.
     
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    Same could be said about vegetarians and vegans. They would come to our high school and show pictures of animal slaughter. I grew up in Ukraine and saw where food comes from firsthand and personal when I was a kid and I did think their presentations were funny, but I remember seeing some girls cry when they saw the pics.
    That was 20 years ago, I’m sure now it’s a lot worse.
     
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    Some of them will not live to old age. But it won't be the result of global warming, it will be the result of mass shootings directly resulting from the progressive left's policies on restorative justice in the school system.

    Global warming is beneficial. The planet is greening, there is more arable land, there is more water available for irrigation, growing seasons are longer, deaths due to the cold which kill at a rate 10X greater than heat are down, ....
     
  13. Canell

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    Not entirely true. In Soviet Russia there was generations that belived they lived better lives than their fathers. They also thought they were free from religious "end of the world" BS. I guess they were proven wrong but for some time it worked.
     
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    Yes, there are many exceptions but there are always those who follow the guy in te robes up the hill to wait for the comet to strike. In recent times it's been global cooling, starvation, overpopulation, pollution and so on. But the earth is stronger and more resilient than these doomsayers can ever imagine.

    Perhaps a few bucks can be made telling the gullible folks on the left that unless we all move to the left side of the continent to distribute the weight properly the earth will move off its axis and collide with the sun. That could be my next Liberal policy platform because I'm the only one who can save the planet from its own self destruction. Perhaps, if you're a good doom monger, you could be my campaign manager.
     
  15. Canell

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    I don't have a doubt the planet would survive but will humanity? And are the remaining people gonna live in the stone age or the Kingdom come?
    There are many planets that are just bare lands. That should tell us something.
     
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    The Earth will be fine. We might be ****ed. The Earth has had no polar ice and very high CO2 levels in the past, it just tends to take 100,000 years plus to exit out of this.

    The problem is the left markets the issue wrong. Really we should be transitioning to a nuclear grid with household solar, reducing smog in cities, mostly carrot, very little stick.

    Look at Paris for a good example. ¾ of Parisians believe human caused climate change is a thing, but they wildly disagree on the solution.

    They are right that science deniers are a big problem, just look at their own attitude toward modern, safe, abundant nuclear power.
     
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    The issue with "science deniers" is more complex than that.
    People who lived through Global Freezing, Nuclear Winter
    and Acid Rain campaigns are understandably skeptical of
    cause pushers. Many of the people who roll their eyes when
    you mention Global Warming are not making a comment on
    the science but on the advocates.
     
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    FoxHastings said:
    :) You raised such a good little sexist.... will never admit it maybe because girls are SMARTER, MORE AWARE of things outside themselves.......noooo, not in Sexist World.



    ??What "smear" ? If one has sexist ideals/ideas then one is a sexist and they should be proud of that .


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    My son said to me "mum, 90% of the Climate Changers at school are girls" these movements run on pure emotion. """



    Can you make up your mind? THAT is a sexist statement implying mostly girls are in the movement because it's run on pure emotion.

     
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    Actually it's not a really new idea....there have always been the Really Backward People who blame women for every bad thing that ever happened in the world.....
     
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    Well, girls are not more clever...SOME girls are more clever, but the correct and accurate phrase is some PEOPLE are more clever than other people......
     
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    Oh FFS....trying to improve air and water quality and stop pollution doesn't mean we get rid of cars and use horses and buggies... most people are trying to find INTELLIGENT solutions..
     
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    FoxHastings said:
    But it isn't.....these kids seem to know what they're talking about, they have facts to back them up..

    Are they emotional? YES, ALL of them are emotional about having clean air and water to use in their lives....if they had no emotions they would be drones with no thought process whatsoever. and they wouldn't care.



    At least I have an argument...….you posted and said nothing ...just rightie talking points...:)
     
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    So you liked it?
     
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    Oh please where is your sense of humour. I am not my grandson who was 7 yesterday.
     
  25. FoxHastings

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    Then why quote him ?
     

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