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Still can't figure out how David Hogg managed to graduate when he missed his entire final semester. You are required by law to have a certain number of credits to receive a diploma and no way in hell did he do that fairly.

Probably the same way that football players at UNC Chapel Hill graduated...by not having to participate in courses because of their high profile status. Some of these guys had full semester courses where they never had to show up, and the only work load was writing a 1 page essay. I'm sure schools would have no issues giving Hogg credits for his political activism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_academic-athletic_scandal
 
He does have a strong point. Why does it seem like the only people freaking out about "Muh Climate Change!" are lunatic leftists, wealthy celebrities, lefty media pundits and a mentally ill Swedish child who is being exploited by her parents and the international left?

Agreed. It was cringy as fuck watching her cry and scream with all these crazy facial expressions.


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How long do you think it would take me to find a scientist who is worried about climate change or a scientific study saying climate change is real? Do you really think he is correct is suggesting that no scientists are concerned?

There are certainly concerned scientists, but that was not his main point. He was pointing out that we are not hearing the voices of concerned scientists. Instead, we are hearing from politicians who fly around the world to attend climate summits and pat each other on the back for passing useless taxes that are passed under the guise of stopping climate change. We are hearing from sanctimonious celebrities who attend climate change talks by way of private jets and yachts. We also hear from an assortment of opportunists, alarmists and lunatics condemning the average individual for being the reason the world is ending in a decade. We hear from a mentally ill 16-year old girl who the politicians are now using as an amusing virtue-signalling prop. We don't really hear much rage, hysteria, condemnations and alarmism from the scientists whom the crazies claim to be citing.
 
There are certainly concerned scientists, but that was not his main point. He was pointing out that we are not hearing the voices of concerned scientists. Instead, we are hearing from politicians who fly around the world to attend climate summits and pat each other on the back for passing useless taxes that are passed under the guise of stopping climate change. We are hearing from sanctimonious celebrities who attend climate change talks by way of private jets and yachts. We also hear from an assortment of opportunists, alarmists and lunatics condemning the average individual for being the reason the world is ending in a decade. We hear from a mentally ill 16-year old girl who the politicians are now using as an amusing virtue-signalling prop. We don't really hear much rage, hysteria, condemnations and alarmism from the scientists whom the crazies claim to be citing.

Why is her Aspergers relevant?

Scientists do science. They are not activists. Different skill set.
 
Probably the same way that football players at UNC Chapel Hill graduated...by not having to participate in courses because of their high profile status. Some of these guys had full semester courses where they never had to show up, and the only work load was writing a 1 page essay. I'm sure schools would have no issues giving Hogg credits for his political activism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_academic-athletic_scandal

Except. It's a scandal. That's the point.

Every person in Florida without a high school diploma should already be suing the state to receive one because David Hogg was allowed to graduate without completing the required credits.
 
Except. It's a scandal. That's the point.

Every person in Florida without a high school diploma should already be suing the state to receive one because David Hogg was allowed to graduate without completing the required credits.

Agreed...I certainly wasn't condoning allowing Hogg to graduate without fulfilling his course load.
 
If it seems like that to you it's because you are blinded by bias. But then you probably knew that already.

Can you name someone who leans right politically getting hysterical about climate change and telling us the world is going to end in a decade? There are plenty of people leaning right politically (Roger Scruton for example) who care about the environment, but they are not going full-retard. In fact, the discussion regarding care for the environment is far more sophisticated and mature on the Right (with exception of course) than the mindless and distracting hysteria, outrage and virtue-signalling coming from the Left. It seems like the Left just wants to scream for more government intervention instead of living responsibly and making the sacrifices necessary to truly care for the planet.

Here is conservative Roger Scruton thoughts on the environment. There are many people on the Right who think similarly to him (I recommend reading the entire thing):

Conservatism and the Environment

...by concentrating on climate change the activists have managed to distract attention from the many other environmental problems that could be, and often have been, solved by people acting in the conservative spirit. Environmental problems arise when homeostatic systems break down – in other words, when the feedback loop that establishes equilibrium is, for whatever reason, destroyed. The homeostatic system that has been most studied is the free market, which returns to equilibrium in changing conditions, provided the participants bear the costs of their actions. Left-wing thinkers refuse to accept this, and constantly invent bogeymen – 'neo-liberalism', 'corporate greed', 'market failure' – in order to justify the intervention of the state, and therefore control by socialists. But intervention by the state is the major cause of disequilibrium, and the environmental consequences can be seen all across the former communist world – in the Soviet case in the form of total devastation. The market ceases to deliver solutions to environmental problems when participants can externalise their costs – in other words, when they can escape the internal rules of the system. It is this that gives rise to 'the tragedy of the commons'.

The solution is not automatically to call on the state to intervene but first to look for the social mechanisms that cause people to bear the costs of what they do...If we look at the history of the environmental movement in Britain we see those conservative principles working successfully, not through the state, but through the civil initiatives that challenge the state...
 
He was not part of the UN when she was attacked.

He had no political connections before he got there? I guess Malala's father was just some average Joe with a daughter who yearned for an education and it all came together for him after his daughter was shot and just randomly ended up on the world stage.
 
@Crazy Diamond

Richard Weaver (1910-1963) was another conservative who cared very much for the environment. He wrote:

[T]he attitude toward nature…is a matter so basic to one’s outlook or philosophy of life that we often tend to overlook it. Yet if we do overlook it, we find there are many things coming later which we cannot straighten out…. [N]ature [is] something which is given and something which is finally inscrutable. This is equivalent to saying that…it [is] the creation of a Creator. There follows from this attitude an important deduction, which is that man has a duty of veneration toward nature and the natural. Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has to be used. But what man should seek in regard to nature is not —a complete dominion but a modus vivendi that is, a manner of living together, a coming to terms with something that was here before our time and will be here after it. The important corollary of this doctrine, it seems to me, is that man is not the lord of creation, with an omnipotent will, but a part of creation, with limitations, who ought to observe a decent humility in the face of the inscrutable.

sources: https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2016/05/richard-weaver-conservatism-piety.html
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/the-southern-tradition/
 
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She's definitely being used as a tool for people that want to push a certain agenda.

I certainly believe that climate is changing and that humans are a major contributing factor. I think it should be a bipartisan goal to get off fossil fuels. This alone would end so many wars and conflicts simply because we wouldn't be beholden to the Middle East.

That said, the hysteria and rhetoric is over the top. Saying that the world will end in 10 years or that we'll completely ban international fights in 20 years. You aren't saving the planet and you aren't going to make a dent in climate change unless you get China, India and other super powers to all agree to the same stance. We have gigantic egos to think that we have the power to control or "save" the planet. It's not the planet but human life that you are concerned about and that life will continue to get more uncomfortable. If human life was wiped out tomorrow, the Earth would thrive without our existence. WE are the problem.
 
He had no political connections before he got there? I guess Malala's father was just some average Joe with a daughter who yearned for an education and it all came together for him after his daughter was shot and just randomly ended up on the world stage.


He was a small-time education activist who ran a school and who advocated for girls being allowed to attend school, therefore he encouraged his daughter to attend school. His daughter was attacked in part because she was his daughter and in part because she was also an outspoken advocate for girls attending school including writing a blog about the topic for BBC.

Unless you can show me what political connections he had or back your point that he was already a member a of the UN as you claimed I don't see any sort of shady global conspiracy to allow girls to attend school.
 
He was a small-time education activist who ran a school and who advocated for girls being allowed to attend school, therefore he encouraged his daughter to attend school. His daughter was attacked in part because she was his daughter and in part because she was also an outspoken advocate for girls attending school including writing a blog about the topic for BBC.

Unless you can show me what political connections he had or back your point that he was already a member a of the UN as you claimed I don't see any sort of shady global conspiracy to allow girls to attend school.
But don't you see? She got half her face blown off on purpose to push the global leftist agenda. Silly blind fool.
 
She's creepy, but I only heard of her from the WR lol.

She's all over my god damn facebook as "the champion of global warming!" because what she says makes sooo much sense apparently.
 
She's definitely being used as a tool for people that want to push a certain agenda.

I certainly believe that climate is changing and that humans are a major contributing factor. I think it should be a bipartisan goal to get off fossil fuels. This alone would end so many wars and conflicts simply because we wouldn't be beholden to the Middle East.

That said, the hysteria and rhetoric is over the top. Saying that the world will end in 10 years or that we'll completely ban international fights in 20 years. You aren't saving the planet and you aren't going to make a dent in climate change unless you get China, India and other super powers to all agree to the same stance. We have gigantic egos to think that we have the power to control or "save" the planet. It's not the planet but human life that you are concerned about and that life will continue to get more uncomfortable. If human life was wiped out tomorrow, the Earth would thrive without our existence. WE are the problem.


You know that 25% of China's electricity is renewable vs 17% from the US right? Let's not pretend that they aren't moving to renewables faster than we are. Also, they are becoming the global hub for the development and manufacture of renewable energy technology.
 
Whoever her handlers are they are pathetic.
 
Considering that old people has been terrible for the planet... I say let the younger people speak.
 
Can you name someone who leans right politically getting hysterical about climate change and telling us the world is going to end in a decade? There are plenty of people leaning right politically (Roger Scruton for example) who care about the environment, but they are not going full-retard. In fact, the discussion regarding care for the environment is far more sophisticated and mature on the Right (with exception of course) than the mindless and distracting hysteria, outrage and virtue-signalling coming from the Left. It seems like the Left just wants to scream for more government intervention instead of living responsibly and making the sacrifices necessary to truly care for the planet.

Here is conservative Roger Scruton thoughts on the environment. There are many people on the Right who think similarly to him (I recommend reading the entire thing):

Conservatism and the Environment

...by concentrating on climate change the activists have managed to distract attention from the many other environmental problems that could be, and often have been, solved by people acting in the conservative spirit. Environmental problems arise when homeostatic systems break down – in other words, when the feedback loop that establishes equilibrium is, for whatever reason, destroyed. The homeostatic system that has been most studied is the free market, which returns to equilibrium in changing conditions, provided the participants bear the costs of their actions. Left-wing thinkers refuse to accept this, and constantly invent bogeymen – 'neo-liberalism', 'corporate greed', 'market failure' – in order to justify the intervention of the state, and therefore control by socialists. But intervention by the state is the major cause of disequilibrium, and the environmental consequences can be seen all across the former communist world – in the Soviet case in the form of total devastation. The market ceases to deliver solutions to environmental problems when participants can externalise their costs – in other words, when they can escape the internal rules of the system. It is this that gives rise to 'the tragedy of the commons'.

The solution is not automatically to call on the state to intervene but first to look for the social mechanisms that cause people to bear the costs of what they do...If we look at the history of the environmental movement in Britain we see those conservative principles working successfully, not through the state, but through the civil initiatives that challenge the state...
I'm not playing your games of misstating what you're replying to in order to shift the question. Re-read what you wrote, re-read what I wrote, and the try again.
 
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