OPINION:
Greta Thunberg, 23, the world-famous environmental scientist of the left — the one so busy and so smart she doesn’t even need a college degree in anything related to science, or a degree at all for that matter — told a COP31 conference of U.N. globalists that climate change is “threatening everything” and “everything and everyone we love is at stake” and … zzzzz.
It’s always the same with the climate hysteria crowd. The world is about to spontaneously combust! Twelve years until we all die! Stop driving — stat!
Then they board their private jets to their next climate conference in a comfortably air-conditioned luxury hotel where they’re served, for the benefit of the attending press, lab-grown hamburgers and where they scream the same absurdities about cows and carbon emissions.
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Al Gore used to be the brand’s face. Saving polar bears was his game.
Then came John Kerry, who used his political position in the State Department to shove forth the idea that climate change was Enemy No. 1 of humanity; it was the cause of wars, poverty, hunger, droughts, disease and any other ailment that comes to mind. It was, he said, a national security threat. Banning hair spray and making air conditioning unaffordable were his pet projects.
In between, of course, was Bill Gates, advocating for the eradication of cows and creation of laboratory meat. He’s still out there, funding the latest Eat Bugs endeavor.
But nobody does climate alarmism like Thunberg.
She made her mark when she was just 15, giving speeches to international audiences in Poland, in Italy and elsewhere.
At a U.N. conference in Katowice, Poland, in December 2018, Thunberg told the watching world that they “are not mature enough to tell it like it is” — so she will. And in that regard, she called for students of the world to engage in a global school strike.
“Our civilization is being sacrificed … so that rich people in countries like mine [Sweden] can live in luxury,” she said.
“We have come here to let you know that change is coming whether you like it or not. The real power belongs to the people,” she said.
At the Youth4Climate summit in Milan, Italy, in the lead-up to the September 2021 COP26 climate conference, Thunberg chastised the world leaders for failing to properly address carbon dioxide emissions, by saying — and this is a quote — “blah, blah, blah.” Then she followed by saying — and again, this is a quote — “blah, blah, blah.” And several more times, to quote, she added, “blah, blah, blah.” And the crowd went wild. And the crowd applauded. And the crowd was amazed at young Greta Thunberg’s daring delivery — or was it her erudition? Hard to tell.
Either way, Thunberg became such an overnight sensation that the leftists who love to use climate change as a means of controlling populations embraced her with both arms and sent her forward to fight for the Gazans against the Israeli people.
She’s not only a walking leftist talking point.
But she’s barely past the age of consent — meaning, in the gleeful minds of leftists, those who attack her ridiculous narratives can be slammed for attacking a poor, innocent child. The left — they do love to exploit the youth. Just look at how far David Hogg has come: from school shooting survivor to anti-Second Amendment activist to Democratic Socialists of America-like political operative.
Thunberg has a long and illustrious Marxist boot-stomping career ahead of her.
All she has to do is say “blah, blah, blah” and her angry, obedient sheep of the left are happy to throw some bricks at whatever source she identifies as enemy. There’s a reason Thunberg has popped up recently in Paris, praising the violent thuggery in the streets. She is not just the face of climate change activism any longer.
“I came here to support the students,” Thunberg said. “The whole world is watching these students fighting back, reclaiming their future that has been taken away from them. And we are also seeing this spread across the country and internationally as well.”
Gen-Zers, she said, “have to take it into our own hands” to fight for — what, fairness? Equity? Climate justice? Social justice? The end of civilization as we know it?
Blah, blah, blah.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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