Look, I don't hold any animus toward this young lady.
Nor do I believe for even a second that she deserves the access, laudatory comments, and Nobel Prize nominations as I see her as a symbol...really just an icon....fronting for the adults behind her.
Please understand that I have absolutely no skeptism regarding warming of the planet and climate change. We have been changing this planet since we first picked up a stick and learned to use it as a tool. And, of course our impact to the planet has accelerated with our population growth and industrialization.
However, I still have yet to see a workable approach to changing this deteriorating situation...or at least one that won't knock up back to the per-industrial, pastoral world and destroy economies world wide.
Let's take the Paris Climate Accord. I'm glad we pulled out of it. ALL of the goals for each country were written by that country and its all voluntary, with no oversight, and no enforcement.
So, just because we pursue and implement the USA goals doesn't mean that China and greater Asia, India, most of Africa, and a great deal of South and Latin America will do similarly. As a matter of fact, I am willing to state that places like China and India will laugh when we tell them they need to quite open burning, use of coal and other dirty sources of energy, etc. It just won't happen.
And even though you are at the deep end of the pool when some kid pisses in the shallow end, you are still in a pool with this kid's piss. See what I'm saying.
AOC (bless her very dense little head), for example, is completely willing to tank our economy with her Green Deal without any assurances whatsoever that anybody else would adopt those policies and as a result without any assurances that they would change a damn thing.
So, I also don't see the forces behind Ms Thunberg putting forth answers to these issues. So, to me it just fear mongering coupled with people's admiration of her which I suspect is more related to their desire to be viewed as fucking "woke" than with any real accomplishments.
Not sure why I weighed in on this thread and I probably will stay out of it. Far too much potential for strife and warning points! haha