The Climate Darling No More
In the Sixth Sense, the movie character Cole Sear played by Haley Joel Osment said, “I can see dead people” while in real life Greta Thunberg said, “I can see carbon dioxide”, or as Thunberg’s mother writes, “She can see carbon dioxide with the naked eye. She sees how it flows out of chimneys and changes the atmosphere in a landfill.”
At one time no one was supposed to write in a negative tone or even with an ounce of dubiousness relative to Thunberg’s climate assessments, who like her younger sister, was diagnosed as a child with obsessive-compulsive disorder and Asperger’s syndrome. As a mere child of 16, she spoke before royalty, many governments, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, and elitist political gatherings everywhere.
She was applauded, cheered, and renowned for her stance on human-generated climate change. The church of Sweden once anointed her the “Successor to Christ”, while Thunberg fostered “Fridays for Future”, where young children skipped school and demanded actions to mitigate anthropogenic climate change. She spoke in the shadow of Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Austrian World Summit – an annual climate change soiree initiated by the “Climanator”.
Thunberg was once named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year and was nominated three times for a Nobel Peace Prize. She admonished the powerful and the wealthy stating, “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.” And for that, she received adulation and standing ovations. She consulted with the British government and adamantly warned that they must remove all hydraulic fracturing (fracking) activities for natural gas and shut down all coal-fired energy plants. The United Kingdom obeyed. Such was the weird and peculiar power of a young girl.
She had no knowledge of climate science. She never once showed that she was a science phenom or astute prodigy, but the climate proponents hung on her every word. Why? At the time these elitist majesties and moguls not only made themselves appear climatically woke by listening to children and to the future but her perceived influence and effectiveness were showcased to help their political, not environmental, causes.
Now, however, with the world, and specifically Europe alarmed and panicking over the potential loss of energy for heat, cooking electricity, and the everyday achievement and fulfillment in life, Thunberg has been thrown on the back burner - excuse the pun.
In a linked video Andrew Bolt of Australia’s Sky News provides a short television presentation on the Greta Thunberg cult which has now gone bust. Since Thunberg’s usefulness has now turned into adversity, the political alarmists simply throw her under the bus while the media omits any mention of her or the fact that governments once hung on her every word, applauded her, and made policy around her imagined fears.
After the usefulness is over, nothing or no one, not even the innocent, who were once simply used, can stand in the path of climate change advancement and promotion.