Greta Thunberg

Trev Latter

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I was wondering the same thing earlier having read a news report she’s off sailing again. Robbed of her future...hardly, when she’s getting to travel extensively, most likely at someone else’s expense.
 

Wattie

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My recent exploration of the Great Barrier Reef and scientific research (on site) prove it’s thriving nature and totally dispels her “climate change” conspiracy theory.
Feel free to keep driving V8’s and add a V12 if required.
 
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Interesting

I don’t agree with a bunch of what she says or how she say it. However, ... I think old people (us lot) discount the views of young people (them lot) at our peril...

It could also be said she’s already achieved more in her life than many, so I personally think she deserves more than being dismissed with vague terms such as snowflake. I also think she’s currently learning a way more valuable life lesson doing what she’s doing than attending school in whichever Scandinavian country she is from...

To quote Greta... “How dare you...”
 

allandwf

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Interesting

I don’t agree with a bunch of what she says or how she say it. However, ... I think old people (us lot) discount the views of young people (them lot) at our peril...

It could also be said she’s already achieved more in her life than many, so I personally think she deserves more than being dismissed with vague terms such as snowflake. I also think she’s currently learning a way more valuable life lesson doing what she’s doing than attending school in whichever Scandinavian country she is from...

To quote Greta... “How dare you...”
Really?
 
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Ok so I’m in a different van than usual and have been since Friday, I’ve had my daughter with me two days and have eaten two lunches in the road, this evening we chucked a full carrier bag of drink and food cartons away; it was ALL single use plastic! I commented that even three years ago there would not have been half as much plastic and I’m sure of it. Everything is now double wrapped and heat sealed, even labels are shrink wrapped in another layer of plastic! Why? Why can we not have recycled paper sacks instead of carrier bags? I’d far rather buy meat and deli loose and drinks in cartons.
 

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Having just come back from working in Sweden and asking people's thoughts on her they don't like her at all and feel she has been manipulated her mother is an actress and her partner an EU official.
She's not going to affect me or my toys that's for sure.
 

rossyl

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Interesting

I don’t agree with a bunch of what she says or how she say it. However, ... I think old people (us lot) discount the views of young people (them lot) at our peril...

It could also be said she’s already achieved more in her life than many, so I personally think she deserves more than being dismissed with vague terms such as snowflake. I also think she’s currently learning a way more valuable life lesson doing what she’s doing than attending school in whichever Scandinavian country she is from...

To quote Greta... “How dare you...”
Agree with that
 

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Everyone is entitled to their opinion, Greta included. And thanks Phil, I never knew that and sheds more light on her purpose.

It was never going to be positive towards her on a petrolhead forum.
 

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I can't quite get my head round how a carbon fibre sailing yacht can ever be called carbon neutral, but there we are.

There's a photo of her and her mother floating around in their living room. Roughly speaking €20k of chair in the shot. Possibly has little bearing on her views, but interesting to know something about her background.

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Ok so I’m in a different van than usual and have been since Friday, I’ve had my daughter with me two days and have eaten two lunches in the road, this evening we chucked a full carrier bag of drink and food cartons away; it was ALL single use plastic! I commented that even three years ago there would not have been half as much plastic and I’m sure of it. Everything is now double wrapped and heat sealed, even labels are shrink wrapped in another layer of plastic! Why? Why can we not have recycled paper sacks instead of carrier bags? I’d far rather buy meat and deli loose and drinks in cartons.

I was talking to a colleague based in Singapore. He says it's trendy there now to buy 'naked' food, i.e. not wrapped in plastic. After all, he pointed out, onions are already wrapped up. I agree re packaging. It pisses me off. Ignoring Greta for a moment, it's just a waste of energy and money, surely.

Back to Greta, she annoys me. She's self-righteous, shrill and excessively opinionated. That said, there's no denying that she's drawing attention to a global problem. What's also annoying is that she's at least partly right, even if pointing at adults and screaming more is a superb way to not get people on side, except other shrill, annoying, self-righteous people.

I'm doing my bit for the climate thing by eating less meat, trying to recycle as much as possible and not driving my V12 car more than around 4K miles per year.
 

CatmanV2

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I was talking to a colleague based in Singapore. He says it's trendy there now to buy 'naked' food, i.e. not wrapped in plastic. After all, he pointed out, onions are already wrapped up. I agree re packaging. It pisses me off. Ignoring Greta for a moment, it's just a waste of energy and money, surely.

As ever, not quite that simple. Packaging can protect product and extends shelf life, which reduces wastage, saves money and energy etc. Logistically as well, multipacks are easier to handle than individual items.

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I was talking to a colleague based in Singapore. He says it's trendy there now to buy 'naked' food, i.e. not wrapped in plastic. After all, he pointed out, onions are already wrapped up. I agree re packaging. It pisses me off. Ignoring Greta for a moment, it's just a waste of energy and money, surely.

Back to Greta, she annoys me. She's self-righteous, shrill and excessively opinionated. That said, there's no denying that she's drawing attention to a global problem. What's also annoying is that she's at least partly right, even if pointing at adults and screaming more is a superb way to not get people on side, except other shrill, annoying, self-righteous people.

I'm doing my bit for the climate thing by eating less meat, trying to recycle as much as possible and not driving my V12 car more than around 4K miles per year.

This ^^^

Greta is annoying, but small changes might make a big difference to our children’s future. As J Leno (also annoying at times) said, if low carbon driving / flying / eating / energy generation is adopted, it will save the snarling V8s we love so much from being banned outright.
 

Felonious Crud

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As ever, not quite that simple. Packaging can protect product and extends shelf life, which reduces wastage, saves money and energy etc. Logistically as well, multipacks are easier to handle than individual items.

C

Dammit!