I really don’t want to pick on poor Greta Thunberg, who has a miserable life ahead of her, but this story from the South China Morning Post is just too irresistable:
Cool response in China for Greta Thunberg’s global warming speech at UN’s Climate Action Summit
China’s online community was largely unmoved by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg’s emotional message to the UN’s Climate Action Summit in New York this week.
Thunberg, a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize [wait—I was only joking about this idea the other day!], criticised world leaders for failing to take action on climate change. “How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,” she said at the UN meeting on Monday. . .
“She is a poor girl kidnapped by the thought of white leftists and she herself doesn’t know that,” wrote one user on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like microblogging platform.
“What this girl is doing is just talking the talk. She started to go on strike at age 14. How much knowledge does she have? Without much knowledge in her mind, how can she propose solutions to deal with environmental problems? I think this little sister’s problem is that she studied too little and thought too much,” another user said.
Maybe we should grant some tariff relief to China just for this.
Meanwhile, our Climate Hypocrite of the Day Award (which falls below a Green Weenie) goes to. . . Harrison Ford!
Chaser: I think Ford actually has way more than one house, but it is certain he has more than one plane!
Car Force One: Harrison Ford’s Car and Aircraft Collection
Harrison Ford’s successful and lucrative career have given him the opportunity to pursue his passions outside of acting: cars, motorcycles, and airplanes. . .
The gallery that follows shows Ford’s seven prop planes (I believe he also has a jet or two) and his helicopter. Then there are the gas-guzzling classic cars. . .
And finally, in the “Is There Anything Climate Change Can’t Do?” file:
Theft of French President Emmanuel Macron’s portrait justified by climate change, judge rules
Two climate crisis protesters who removed Emmanuel Macron’s portrait from an official building in France were justified in doing so because of the severity of the environmental emergency, a judge has said.
The judge in Lyon acquitted the pair of theft in a ruling hailed as historic by campaigners.
Hey—I’ve got an idea: Let’s go steal Harrison Ford’s airplanes, to save the planet!
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