> You WANT that I don't want bugs in the house, so I clean the dishes every night before going to bed. That doesn't meant I WANT to do the dishes, only that it

> You WANT that I don't want bugs in the house, so I clean the dishes every night before going to bed. That doesn't meant I WANT to do the dishes, only that it's the best solution I see to the problem. As I understand it, what she wants is to get people to take action against the very real dangers of global warming. Becoming a well-known activist is a means for that end. That doesn't mean she WANTS to be a well-known activist. > using her as a political tool blew up in their face Who is the "they" here? > "My child has mental illness issues," I was unable to find that quote. > "Not a doctor!" Am am unable to find that her parents refused to find a doctor. > "She needs to be mocked and abused by political ideologues" The same Wikipedia you referenced says "When she started protesting, her parents did not support her activism". > Her parents are minimum 99% at fault here Quoting https://themighty.com/2020/01/greta-thunberg-depression-environmental-activism/ https://themighty.com/2020/01/greta-thunberg-depression-envi... : ] Many comments are as shocking as they are tasteless. Reacting to an opinion piece by this author syndicated on Yahoo! News, Greta’s critics spared no mercy. ] Although she has dealt with bullying, along with the ableist and infantilizing assertion that the 17-year-old is a “child” and a “pawn for her parents and progressivism,” the latter being this author’s summation of detractors, Greta Thunberg has been unfazed by the criticism. That would include you. > Al Gore predicted Florida would be under water in 2014 Right, so you're doing the standard hearsay criticism of boring climate change denialism. No, he did not. In "An Inconvenient Truth" he 1) talked about a 20 foot rise - most of Florida is above 20 feet elevation, and 2) he never said when it would happen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimmock_v_Secretary_of_State_for_Education_and_Skills#The_nine_inaccuracies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimmock_v_Secretary_of_State_f... ] '"If this [West Antarctica] were to go, sea level worldwide would go up 20 feet. Greenland would also raise sea level almost 20 feet if it went. If Greenland broke up and melted, or if half of Greenland and half of West Antarctica broke up and melted, this is what would happen to the sea level in Florida:" ] Other scientific views: Gore does not say that the sea level would rise 7 metres in the immediate future, though he says that such a rise is a possibility (without specifying the timeframe). The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report predicts that the sea level could rise up to 59 cm by 2100