If a kid asks you to help find Bigfoot, do you help? What if they ask you to go through someone else’s garbage? Steal from a store? Blow up a school? Do you help? Nope. But, this is the Cult of Climastrology, which always has some sort of Hotcold take
‘If A Kid Says Help, You Help’: Adults Urged to Join Upcoming Global Climate Strike
As climate activist Greta Thunberg neared the United States on a boat which set sail from Britain on August 14, the global climate action movement called on adults to join in the climate strike begun in part by the 16-year-old Swedish student.
350.org co-founder Bill McKibben wrote Monday in a letter to supporters that the choice to join in the global climate strike taking place in dozens of cities on September 20 should be a simple one.
“If a kid says help, you help,” said McKibben.
The climate strike will take place a year after Thunberg, who is expected to arrive in the U.S. on Wednesday, began a global mass mobilization with a one-person protest outside Swedish Parliament.
Thunberg’s action kicked off climate strikes all over the world, with an estimated 1.4 million students walking out of their classrooms to demand governments end their support and complicity in the extraction of oil, gas, and coal.
As McKibben wrote, Thunberg’s “argument was that if the world’s adults weren’t willing to prepare the planet for her generation, they had no right to demand that her generation spend their youth preparing for the future. Kids across the planet saw the logic.”
Right, right, we’re supposed to listen to this child, backed by big ‘climate groups’, as she makes Pronouncements about coming doom and pushing hardcore Modern Socialist policies, never once considering that this will destroy her adult life. No thanks.
On September 20 and during the Week of Action which will follow, hundreds of thousands are expected to holding sit-ins at pipeline projects, planting trees, or attending rallies and marching in cities around the world to make a number of demands—passage of a Green New Deal, a shift to renewable energy and a just transition, and greater commitments from UN countries to cut their carbon emissions.
Strange that they aren’t committing to reducing their own carbon footprints. How many will take fossil fueled trips to these sit ins and such?
“We strike now, because now is our last chance; because change must occur today; because the future is written in the present,” said Fridays for Future NYC in New York, where Thunberg will speak at one of the strike’s biggest events. “‘Business as usual’ is no longer excusable. ‘Middle ground’ solutions are no longer justifiable. September 20th is not the end goal, but a catalyst for breaking down the status quo, and creating a just, sustainable world in its place.”
Sounds like more of the same, hardcore Socialism.
350.org promoted the strike on social media, calling on adults to join the mobilization after the world’s children have spent a year making the case for concrete climate action. The youth movement has had some success, including a number of official climate emergency declarations by local and national governments and a commitment from the European Commission to spend $250 billion over seven years to fight the climate crisis.
It’s all astroturf by people who aren’t willing to spend their own money and practice what they preach.
