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Det finns fler som oroar sig för demokratin, med all rätt.
https://omni.se/thunbergs-retorik-ar-inte-forenlig-med-demokratin/a/xP7kOQ?fbclid=IwAR0YxsGqzfF8iPqWrRxxuZY2od9qgn8g0M TXBTat9eqnKiDc7uNBMLR0YbY
https://omni.se/thunbergs-retorik-ar-inte-forenlig-med-demokratin/a/xP7kOQ?fbclid=IwAR0YxsGqzfF8iPqWrRxxuZY2od9qgn8g0M TXBTat9eqnKiDc7uNBMLR0YbY
Skulle rekommendera alla att läsa originalartikeln - och gärna kommentarerna efteråt.
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This new focus may have the virtue of conveying urgency. But it is going to bring the climate protesters into conflict with democracy, whether they realize it or not.
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Her politics rests on two things. First is simplification. “The climate crisis already has been solved,” she said at a TED Talk in Stockholm this year. “We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is wake up and change.” Second is sowing panic, as she explained at the World Economic Forum in Davos last winter.
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… and frequently refers to herself as a “child” — about the last thing the average 16-year-old would ever do.
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It is difficult to see how any kind of long-term mass immigration is consistent with a desire to lower Europe’s carbon output.
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And that is before we even broach the question of what kind of civilization we want, and at what level of technological complexity. On a planet of eight billion people, it is not just destination weddings that require considerable expenditure of energy. So does food. So does clean drinking water. So does communication.
Kommentarerna, som sagt - jag har bara läst en bråkdel men nästan alla uttrycker förakt för den i åtminstone mitt tycke synnerligen balanserade och välunderbyggda artikeln.
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I've been sitting here shocked for the past few minutes, because I do believe that this is the most insulting article I have ever read in the Times. It is an insult to Thunberg and to those of us who read the Times. We need more youth like Thunberg. Those who are willing to shame the so-called adults in the room for doing nothing, as well as those who profit by denying climate science.
Om Greta har så många skrikhalsar på sin sida även i länder som t.ex. USA, då lär det gå höga tongångar framöver. Nu är snöbollen i rullning och snart sätter väl oljeindustrin in sitt tunga artilleri.
Det kan bli en intressant höst på många sätt.