Masters of Puppets

[XLFD]

A little over a month ago, a 17 year old girl from Stockholm, Sweden came over on a boat to New York in order to give a speech to the United Nations on what climate change meant to her at a climate summit.  Greta Thunberg had already made a name for herself back in Sweden in 2018, organizing school 'climate strikes' that seemed quite popular among other teens, likely because it allowed them to miss going to school without major repercussions.  

Thunberg gave a speech which seemed to excite those who believed in man-made global warming (what is neutrally referred to as 'climate change' so as to not weaken the theory when cooling occurs) and inspire the press (Time magazine listed her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world on 2019) and other elite groups (the Nobel Prize considered her for the peace prize this year).  To those who are skeptical about climate change, she doesn't do a lot to convince them, as she brings nothing new to the table of science or policy, just pretty much blames them for ruining her life.  Here was her main comment at the United Nations:

There is a lot of disdain in her speech for those who choose not to believe like she does, and comes across to many as a useful tool for promoting eco-socialism.  A climate skeptic I have borrowed from before has effectively rebutted the content and nature of her speech, and concludes:

"If you truly study this issue that has so captured your attention, pretty soon you’re going to learn that the whole thing is one gigantic hoax, the greatest hoax in human history, being perpetrated by the government-educational-industrial complex. You’re going to learn that pretty much everything that’s been indoctrinated into your head is false. You’re going to learn that real scientists, tens of thousands of them, have already learned this and have gone on record as acknowledging it. You’re going to learn you’re being used by adults to turn you into a propagandist for shamanistic alarmism, and you’re going to realize that because of it, you’ve been the victim of massive child abuse."

One can't help but look at Greta Thunberg, sporting pigtails and ponytails at times, and think back 80 years ago to a country not that far away, and see how the National Socialist Party led by Adolph Hitler used images of such upstanding young Aryan girls for a wide variety of propaganda for the party and it's flawed ideals and policies.  It's not a big surprise that the climate change movement looks to impose big brother government controls over people's everyday lives in the socialistic Utopia they strive for.

Greta Thunberg may fervently believe what she says, but what she says has been put in her head by adults who seem to be exploiting her autism spectrum disorder for their benefit.  If the best spokesperson for policy change due to climate change is a child who skips school every Friday and doesn't have any scientific background, then you're probably dealing with a cult or flimflammers rather than real science.

The people driving the agenda in Ludington have used the same method to good effect throughout this year.  First, they paraded a group of little girls in front of the council when many in the community were trying to get the splash pad put in a sensible location, rather than Copeyon Park.  One was so distressed that she couldn't finish the comment her parents undoubtedly wrote for her to say.  The council was likely more moved by the youths than the petitions of 50+ citizens wanting a safer and saner place for the splash pad.

Local high schoolers would also visit the city council chambers, on March 25th a boy and a girl on the behest of Councilor Winczewski came in and described a civics assignment looking for ideas for winter events in Ludington.  The girl didn't make it through without breaking down, the ideas they put forth didn't seem to be theirs, it seemed to be more of an extension of the DDA's desire to extend the tourist season and show that the community's kids are in favor of using more public money for that purpose.

A bigger group of high schoolers came to discuss their monitoring of the deer herd in Ludington in May.  This group, led by their teacher, Mark Willis, would describe what they learned about deer populations around Ludington.  This seemed agenda driven, since controlling deer populations was discussed the previous month at the committee level and has been brought up regularly since by Lyla McClellan, a city official, during public comment.  

The reason for using the kids and their semi-scientific deer studies in this case seems to be for paving the way for community acceptance of a deer cull.  The October public safety committee notes that such a cull would cost at least $15,000 to remove 30 deer per year.  Unpopular on first glance by many of the electorate just for the act, by many more due to the cost, what better way to make it palatable to the public than introduce our youths early and throughout the discussion to make it appear prudent on both counts.  Who can question a child's motives on such topics?

In any mode of public discourse be wary of the use of children as propaganda's pawns, you are likely hearing their side's best arguments and appeals come through them.  Ones which would be a lot more easy to dismiss if it were to come from a scientist or policy wonk being driven by an agenda.

[XLFD]

I have learned a lot from young people, I have learned a lot from foolish people, but the rhetoric of Greta Thunberg gives me no knowledge other than the climate change advocates/cultists are so bereft of proving global warming through science that they would use her as an emotive chicken little. 

Greta comes from Stockholm, Sweden, whose average daily temperature throughout the year is six degrees above freezing (in Celsius) or around 43 Fahrenheit, yet she's worried about a short term fluctuation that raises that temperature a fraction of a degree creating a doomsday.  The earth has recently (in geological terms) had eras where the average temperature was much higher than today, and believe it or not, ecosystems were far from collapsing, they were thriving.  

If Greta was organizing school strikes about and wanting to speak at the UN about the potential benefits of terrestrial temperatures rising, you can bet she would be looked at and handled much differently.

[Freedom Seeker]

I too have a hard time understanding Greta, Jane, Awnold, Leo and others modus operandi. Are they trying to stop all green house and animal gases? Are they saying don't drive cars or fly planes or build houses and use electricity? Even if we do go back to being cave people, the earth is in an interglacial phase which is a warming trend until the earth tilts away from the sun and starts into another ice age which will bring the glaciers back. In the last three billion years we've had six (or five by other scientific accounts) ice ages and we are in the sixth warming between when the earth tilts into the next ice age. I hope Jane and Arnold ante up their resources to stop the earth tilt and keep life as it is, without glacial ages and warming but I don't think they can or will. That's the trouble with 16 y.o. know-it-alls and otherwise uneducated activists who sit on enemy tanks and waste time getting arrested without any positive solution or who try to change the earth tilt, if they even understand it.

[Freedom Seeker]

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/randy-hall/2019/11/08/jane-fon...

Jane Fonda is protesting again.

[shinblind]

Any resemblance between this and most of current crop of city councilors is strictly intentional.