'Act as if You Loved Your Children Above All Else': Greta Thunberg...

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'Act as if You Loved Your Children Above All Else': Greta Thunberg Demands Davos Elite Immediately Halt All Fossil Fuel Investments
"I've been warned that telling people to panic about the climate crisis is a very dangerous thing to do, but don't worry—it's fine—I've done this before and I can assure you: it doesn't lead to anything."
by Jon Queally, staff writer


Climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the world's elite face-to-face at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday where she called on leaders to end their abhorrent and irrefutable failures on the climate emergency and demanded participants "from all the companies, banks, institutions, and governments" in attendance to immediately halt all investments in fossil fuel exploration and extraction, end fossil fuel subsidies, and divest from all fossil fuels.

"We don't want these things done in 2050, 2030, or even 2021. We want this done now."

"One year ago, I came to Davos and told your that our house is on fire," she told participants at the annual gathering in Switzerland. "I said I wanted you to panic. I've been warned that telling people to panic about the climate crisis is a very dangerous thing to do, but don't worry—it's fine—I've done this before and I can assure you: it doesn't lead to anything."

Watch @ link~

Speaking shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump also spoke at the annual summit, hosted by the World Economic Forum, Thunberg rejected the false solutions and half-measures that elected leaders continue to offer even as they allow emissions to increase, new drilling projects to begin, and prove how unserious they are in the face of the looming and existential crisis.

"We don't need to 'lower emissions'—our emissions have to stop," she said, "if we are to have chance to stay below the 1.5°C target" set forth in the Paris climate agreement.

"And until we have the technologies that at scale can put our emissions to minus, then we must forget about 'net zero.' We need real zero," Thunberg said. "Because distant 'net zero' targets will mean nothing if we just continue to ignore the carbon dioxide budget that applies for today not distant future dates. If high emissions continue like now even for a few years that remaining will be completely used up."

Thunberg is far from alone her demand for a total halt to the financial sector's support of the fossil fuel industry. Earlier this January, as Common Dreams reported, a coalition of nearly two dozen groups in the United States launched a major new campaign, Stop the Money Pipeline, that aims to "end the financing of climate destruction" by demanding major banks and financial institutions end investments in coal, oil, and gas.

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/21/act-if-you-loved-your-children-above-all-else-greta-thunberg-demands-davos-elite?fbclid=IwAR3hxD5BEiIEV7svlDr9oWLrcz8cPcg9y_ECRNf2T5VORspGzcvsNwbvJlA

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a8dz8/trump-just-called-climate-scientists-foolish-fortune-tellers?fbclid=IwAR3UXnz9Wc9wkzNGvfv1FtKcTBVZN4dXqzJGcz1Ra1tMZmIP3AzCzad37c8

Trump Just Called Climate Scientists ‘Foolish Fortune Tellers’
According to Trump, we shouldn't listen to those "alarmists," who want “absolute power to dominate, transform and control every aspect of our lives.”

[flor-de-jasmim]

1. It's well worth listening to her entire speech, at the link.

[coti]

2. Indeed, this is what I do.

Because I do.

[blm]

3. Thx babysis

[Boomerproud]

4. Trump, you are the one who wants to dominate and

control all aspects of our lives you creep.

[Ghost Dog]

5. Decades ago I chose to have no kids

for environmental reasons. I'm sixty-five now and, although I have friends, feel a bit lonely.

[smirkymonkey]

6. And they will ignore her.

Because they care more about money than they do about the future of their children and grandchildren. They don't care at all. They will all be dead before the nightmare happens.