[TV] Greta Thunberg: A year to change the world

[The Clamp]

Very good new series on the BBC. Amazing how someone so young has dedicated her life to raising awareness of man made climate change. Essential viewing IMO.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

 

[Randy McNob]

an enjoyable watch. I suspect the dark forces will crank up their BBC hate campaign with their defund the BBC nonsense

 

[Soul Finger]

Particularly looking forward to hearing grown men having a pop at a teenage girl thrust into the public eye because she's trying to save the planet. A planet they inhabit, which is dying. Good on her.

Thank goodness we have a ruling party who are acutely aware of how close we are to catastrophe. Oh...

 

[Goldstone1976]

I'm going for 37 posts

 

[KZNSeagull]

Agreed. A very interesting program and am looking forward to the next one. A very brave young lady with an equally supportive and brave family behind her.

 

[seagullwedgee]

Who was the naughty comic who got in trouble for his Greta Thunberg comment ......”as soon as she discovers c*** she’ll change her mind about things wrapped in single use plastics”?

 

[carlzeiss]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNtZEIAG22I

 

[hans kraay fan club]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNtZEIAG22I

What was the point you were trying to make, in posting this video? What was the point of the bitter youtube tw4ts who created it?

That a 16 year old autistic girl, speaking in her second language, isn't a polished professional orator?

Her replies are absolutely fine.

By christ she does great work, in getting up the noses of insecure wankers, all over the world

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Who was the naughty comic who got in trouble for his Greta Thunberg comment ......”as soon as she discovers c*** she’ll change her mind about things wrapped in single use plastics”?

I'm confused because Lee Hurst said it but you specified it being a comic. That hasn't applied to him since 1997 when he had a strop on a TV panel game.

 

[goldstone]

Particularly looking forward to hearing grown men having a pop at a teenage girl thrust into the public eye because she's trying to save the planet. A planet they inhabit, which is dying. Good on her.

Thank goodness we have a ruling party who are acutely aware of how close we are to catastrophe. Oh...

Trying to save the planet from what exactly? Global warming is cyclical. There have been at least five ice ages in the earth's history and apparently we're in the middle of one now! Earth has experienced cold periods (or “ice ages”) and warm periods (“interglacials”) on roughly 100,000-year cycles for at least the last 1 million years. We aren't going to be able to change that however hard a 16 year old from Sweden might try.

And as for "close to catastrophe"? Stop your ridiculous scare-mongering.

If the earth has a problem right now it's over-population. People in certain countries need to be told that two kids is more than enough.

 

[Baker lite]

Very good new series on the BBC. Amazing how someone so young has dedicated her life to raising awareness of man made climate change. Essential viewing IMO.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

Shame she doesn’t go to China to tell them about it all.

More licence fee money wasted on this oddball.


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[blue-shifted]

Trying to save the planet from what exactly? Global warming is cyclical. There have been at least five ice ages in the earth's history and apparently we're in the middle of one now! Earth has experienced cold periods (or “ice ages”) and warm periods (“interglacials”) on roughly 100,000-year cycles for at least the last 1 million years. We aren't going to be able to change that however hard a 16 year old from Sweden might try.

And as for "close to catastrophe"? Stop your ridiculous scare-mongering.

If the earth has a problem right now it's over-population. People in certain countries need to be told that two kids is more than enough.

Trouble is, the change involved in "the 100,000 cycles" are now on course to happen in under 100 years.

We have no way of knowing what the long term implications of this are.

We can have a decent guess at the short term implications for humanity are and "catastrophe" is an entirely proportionate term to use

 

[joydivisionovengloves]

Trying to save the planet from what exactly? Global warming is cyclical. There have been at least five ice ages in the earth's history and apparently we're in the middle of one now! Earth has experienced cold periods (or “ice ages”) and warm periods (“interglacials”) on roughly 100,000-year cycles for at least the last 1 million years. We aren't going to be able to change that however hard a 16 year old from Sweden might try.

And as for "close to catastrophe"? Stop your ridiculous scare-mongering.

If the earth has a problem right now it's over-population. People in certain countries need to be told that two kids is more than enough.

Go on then, I'll bite. Which certain countries

 

[blue-shifted]

Trying to save the planet from what exactly? Global warming is cyclical. There have been at least five ice ages in the earth's history and apparently we're in the middle of one now! Earth has experienced cold periods (or “ice ages”) and warm periods (“interglacials”) on roughly 100,000-year cycles for at least the last 1 million years. We aren't going to be able to change that however hard a 16 year old from Sweden might try.

And as for "close to catastrophe"? Stop your ridiculous scare-mongering.

If the earth has a problem right now it's over-population. People in certain countries need to be told that two kids is more than enough.

And do those countries include the UK? Or is it the just the countries who's carbon footprint per person is between 40 to 50 times less than ours?

 

[The Clamp]

Trying to save the planet from what exactly? Global warming is cyclical. There have been at least five ice ages in the earth's history and apparently we're in the middle of one now! Earth has experienced cold periods (or “ice ages”) and warm periods (“interglacials”) on roughly 100,000-year cycles for at least the last 1 million years. We aren't going to be able to change that however hard a 16 year old from Sweden might try.

And as for "close to catastrophe"? Stop your ridiculous scare-mongering.

If the earth has a problem right now it's over-population. People in certain countries need to be told that two kids is more than enough.

You believe the temperature of the earth is rising because we are in an ice-age?

We are heading for catastrophe. You’re correct that over population is a huge part of the problem. People need food and fuel and places to live. That leads to farming on a massive scale which is devastating for the environment in so many ways. It leads to pollution and destruction of natural environment.
It is catastrophic and we need to reverse the damage. Now. People are scared. People don’t want to face it. So they deny it and insult and discredit people who speak up about it.

 

[Hastings gull]

You believe the temperature of the earth is rising because we are in an ice-age?

We are heading for catastrophe. You’re correct that over population is a huge part of the problem. People need food and fuel and places to live. That leads to farming on a massive scale which is devastating for the environment in so many ways. It leads to pollution and destruction of natural environment.
It is catastrophic and we need to reverse the damage. Now. People are scared. People don’t want to face it. So they deny it and insult and discredit people who speak up about it.

Admittedly some folk do, but most do believe thaty something sinister is going on, but of course are reluctant to change their lifestyle, if it involves inconvenience, which it will surely do. We are all to blame and I am sure that those on here lecturing others will be as unwilling as most to give up their car for example and make some changes. Years ago, on a similar thread, I advocated that for one Sunday a month, the whole world should give up car travel, with the exception of perhaps public transport and certainly emergency vehicles, giving everyone due notice of say 6 months to get used to the idea. I was staggered as to the amount of responses claiming how impossible that would be as they had to eg visit granny in Uckfield on a Sunday. If we really want to, we can make a change, but do we collectively want to?
I also can't help feeling that some of the more extreme doom mongering is not helpful, as folk refuse to believe it, and thet do have a point. I am sure that if we look back, someone of note will have predicted that by 2021 we will all be under water.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Trying to save the planet from what exactly? Global warming is cyclical. There have been at least five ice ages in the earth's history and apparently we're in the middle of one now! Earth has experienced cold periods (or “ice ages”) and warm periods (“interglacials”) on roughly 100,000-year cycles for at least the last 1 million years. We aren't going to be able to change that however hard a 16 year old from Sweden might try.

And as for "close to catastrophe"? Stop your ridiculous scare-mongering.

If the earth has a problem right now it's over-population. People in certain countries need to be told that two kids is more than enough.

Only today a report comes out stating "the world's wealthiest 1% produce double the combined carbon emissions of the poorest 50%, according to the UN." (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56723560) and yet you spout this tripe.

 

[goldstone]

Go on then, I'll bite. Which certain countries

Shan't tell. Go look it up for yourself.

 

[midnight_rendezvous]

Only today a report comes out stating "the world's wealthiest 1% produce double the combined carbon emissions of the poorest 50%, according to the UN." (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56723560) and yet you spout this tripe.

You beat me to it. I’ve this exact discussion with the OP before... it’s not worth the time and effort.

 

[goldstone]

China built more than three times as much new coal power capacity as all the other countries in the world combined last year. That translates to more than one large coal plant every week. If anyone really believes we have a problem, well there it is. Switching to an electric car is not going to make one iota of difference, so run along and get steamed up about something else.