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Why? Well, they’re young climate cultists who have no actual knowledge of the real world, and have been brought up to be hysterics who are Entitled to whatever they want. Oh, and that the EU is cheating on “carbon pollution” numbers

Stealing our future: Greta Thunberg and 3 other activists accuse EU of ‘cheating with numbers’ on carbon emissions

Disturbed by the issues “not being accurately reported”, Swedish climate change activist Great Thunberg got together with three other teen activists to highlight certain key points of why the proposed carbon emission reduction targets for European Union are very far from being in line with the target of the Paris Agreement. The 17-year-old from Stockholm accused EU of “stealing with numbers” and world leaders of “stealing our future right in front of our eyes.”

Greta shared an extensive research on the matter while promising to spill the beans next on what these leaders say when the cameras and microphones are off. Asserting that the time for little steps in the right direction is long gone, she wrote, “The proposed 55%, 60% or even 65% CO2 emission reduction targets for the EU by 2030 are nowhere near enough to be in line with the below 1.5°C or even the “well below 2°C” target of the Paris Agreement.”

Answering why should the EU be punished for starting to reduce our emissions 30 years ago, Greta lashed, “In reality we didn’t start reducing our emissions back then. We simply moved them abroad and excluded large parts of them from the official numbers. And the idea that some nations and regions should be allowed special treatment will no doubt seriously jeopardize the entire Paris Agreement.”

Why does the U.S. need to be in the Paris Climate Agreement when most other signatories aren’t even coming close to upholding their pledges? It’s becoming just like the Kyoto Protocol, which fee signatories succeeded at. Most didn’t really bother. And, for all the huffing and puffing by EU nations, they aren’t really going full bore at this. That’s not too say they aren’t doing Warmist things, just not so many that they will destroy their economies.

Offering a solution, Greta added in the report penned by her, Luisa Neubauer, Adélaïde Charlier and Anuna de Wever van der Heyden, “What we need — to begin with — is to implement annual binding carbon budgets based on the current best available science and stop pretending that we can solve the climate- and environmental crisis without treating it as one.”

I agree with St. Greta: the EU nations should implement policies in full that fulfill their Paris pledges, that way we can see how bad things get. Economies imploding, people unable to travel, trucks unable to bring goods, including food, to market, energy blackouts and brownouts, no energy for heating (and this would also block using wood and wood pellets for heating, as they have to be transported), skyrocketing unemployment, cost of living jumping way up. We need experimental groups in every experiment, right?

Meanwhile, when do these young climate cultists practice what they preach in their own lives?