AOC’s Great message from the future … courtesy of The Intercept, as written by AOC ;)
Greta’s Message From The Present: "Our main enemy right now is not our political opponents. Our main enemy now is physics...and we cannot make deals with physics!" … courtesy of Greta’s family
Spirit of St. Joan of Arc meets spirit of Svante Arrhenius:
Greta Thunberg, niece of Svante Arrhenius, brings us the 2nd world-class Swedish prophetic voice in 2 different Centuries, 18th and 21st. Climate change is an even bigger problem than we previously thought. The head-in-the-sand response of many U.S. politicians (including OrangeMonsterDenier-In-Chief impeachable Oval squatter backstopped by a Turtle who are sending U.S. Wep’s & U.S. Troops to defend Saudi oil fields while bombing Yemeni hospitals, school buses and funerals in that blooming climate-wreck international crimes against humanity quid pro quo unitary cartel) and the fossil fuel industry’s active efforts to mislead the public make the problem worse.
Therefore, be most grateful & otherwise thankful that a teenage Swedish activist found a way to rivet public attention on the problem and has inspired more and more young people to take up this cause. You may not feel thankful if you happen to own a coal mine or a gas & oil field or LNG sea terminal — but future generations will be ecstatic.
We don’t have 11 years to 2030 to avert climate catastrophe … today’s teenagers in 2030 will be middle-aged Mamas and the Papas not California Dreamin’ and effects of the 7 hottest greenhouse gases CH4, H2Ovap, CO2, NOx, SO2, CFC-11and CFC-12 will just start being a true cataclysm.
Incremental mitigation is a failed strategy with a tactic of neolithic good-will cooperation to reduce emissions. Adaptation with first century BCE sea walls , agrarian-era drought-resistant crops and the like is as ridiculously simplistic as railroads, pipelines, highways, cables and satellites we can build but we can’t maintain. Reparations to people hurt by climate chaos effects to reduce suffering don’t work as Zinke’s Whitefish Energy scheme based in tiny Whitefish, MT (pop. maybe 7,000) using 2 Whitefish employees to reparate/repair Puerto Rican victims & electric grids blasted and drowned by 2 Hurricanes in 14 days, Irma & Maria, demonstrates. Who trusts or even relies upon geoengineering technologies to limit temperature change by seeding clouds to reflect more sunlight and supply surface dimming or suck carbon from the atmosphere as Amazonia incinerates along side Australia and western North America, Siberia and Greenland?