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Since when is she autistic? Autistic people don't get up on stage, go on live TV, speak eloquently and go on round the world sailing trips. I don't understand t
by repolfx 7y ago
Since when is she autistic? Autistic people don't get up on stage, go on live TV, speak eloquently and go on round the world sailing trips. I don't understand this recent push to dilute the word "autistic" into meaninglessness. What shall we call the poor people who sit on the floor flapping their hands because they're overwhelmed by the world around them?
She's also calmly reminding people that climate change is real
People don't need reminding. They heard nothing else for decades. It's not like it just slipped people's minds.
A hypocritical little girl (not a woman), with no experience of the world, is not going to suddenly get everyone to stop using cars or flying in airplanes. She isn't even willing to do that herself, as her stunt with the yaught that had to be sailed back home by people who flew to the destination showed.
For some reason climate change is absurdly polarised.
It's polarised because it's used as a stick to try and force hard left policies on the world, so anyone who isn't hard left will naturally be suspicious that the proposed remedies are all wrong and quite possibly the problem too.
This is especially true given the frequent unreliability of academics who claim to understand highly complex systems (e.g. economists), the failure of many previous predictions by climate scientists, and the near-violent hatred dished out to anyone who takes a skeptical position.
Recall that Thunberg argues for reducing carbon emissions by 50% in about 10 years. She offers no ideas for how to do that without causing a total collapse of global society that kills millions of people, the very thing that climate change activists claim they're trying to avoid. It is natural for people to consider that unhelpful at best, or self-promoting BS at worst. Why wouldn't people find her polarising?
In the end the only people who can really make a difference here are scientists and engineers. Thunberg is neither. She has literally nothing to contribute and should go back to school.
- samantohermes 7y agoAutism is a spectrum (or a ballpark): http://pseudoexpertise.com/ch-7.pdf http://pseudoexpertise.com/ch-7.pdf