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Greta is by now sort of a politician, so let me know if I mistook your position: Remember - politicians have no solutions. Nor do any other politicians around

Greta is by now sort of a politician, so let me know if I mistook your position: Remember - politicians have no solutions. Nor do any other politicians around them. Unless they form a totalitarian world government and sends us to the 19th century, which would be double-plus-ungood. The only people who have solutions are scientists and engineers working on ways to power planes that don't involve burning fossil fuels. These planes will magically be ready one day and the oil lobby will stay quiet and everything will be just fine, because science. Amen. Now keep your head down until directed otherwise.

repolfx 7y ago
She's not a politician as she's not standing in an election. If she was people could refuse to vote for her, as they usually do for Green politicians, and maybe that'd give her a reality check. Yes that's my position, if we discard your pointless sarcasm. Obviously planes won't "magically" be ready - that's my entire point. It will take work, lots of work by lots of scientists and engineers. The best way to help them is become one of them. The oil lobby as you put it is really the energy lobby and are one of the biggest investors in green energy. They are staying quiet, it's been a long time since I thought about firms like BP or Shell in relation to climate change. Additionally they have little actual power. They don't even have the power to set prices of their own product. The idea of Big Evil Oil Execs trying to destroy the world is a childish myth. Where is the titanic battle between the oil lobby and Tesla, for example? I don't see any evidence of such a battle. Tesla's big problem is their own spending levels, not being undermined by petrol companies. Finally, yes Greta should keep her head down. Her net contribution so far has been negative. The solutions lie with science but she's been encouraging school children to go on "strike" i.e. refuse to take the maths and science lessons adults are giving them, the very lessons that would teach them how to contribute to the solutions.

repolfx 7y ago

She's not a politician as she's not standing in an election. If she was people could refuse to vote for her, as they usually do for Green politicians, and maybe that'd give her a reality check. Yes that's my position, if we discard your pointless sarcasm. Obviously planes won't "magically" be ready - that's my entire point. It will take work, lots of work by lots of scientists and engineers. The best way to help them is become one of them. The oil lobby as you put it is really the energy lobby and are one of the biggest investors in green energy. They are staying quiet, it's been a long time since I thought about firms like BP or Shell in relation to climate change. Additionally they have little actual power. They don't even have the power to set prices of their own product. The idea of Big Evil Oil Execs trying to destroy the world is a childish myth. Where is the titanic battle between the oil lobby and Tesla, for example? I don't see any evidence of such a battle. Tesla's big problem is their own spending levels, not being undermined by petrol companies. Finally, yes Greta should keep her head down. Her net contribution so far has been negative. The solutions lie with science but she's been encouraging school children to go on "strike" i.e. refuse to take the maths and science lessons adults are giving them, the very lessons that would teach them how to contribute to the solutions.