Greta rejects U.S. Treasury chief's degree dig in latest climate clash

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BIG STORY 15 JANUARY 23, 2020 / 3:32 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

Balazs Koranyi, Alessandra Galloni
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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Greta Thunberg on Thursday she should study economics, a jibe which prompted the climate activist to say she did not need a degree to know the world was not meeting its climate targets.

Asked about Thunberg’s previous calls to divest from fossil fuels, Mnuchin told a news briefing in Davos: “Is she the chief economist? I’m confused ... After she goes and studies economics in college, she can come back and explain that to us.”

Mnuchin lists a bachelor’s degree in economics from Yale University on his LinkedIn social network profile.

Earlier in the week U.S. President Donald Trump and Thunberg sparred indirectly at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort. After Trump said the United States had committed to joining the one trillion tree initiative, Thunberg retorted that fixing the climate crisis was not only about trees.

Thunberg, who has taken a year off school to advocate action on climate change, hit back on Twitter, saying it did not take a degree to know the world was not meeting its climate targets.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-davos-meeting-greta/greta-rejects-u-s-treasury-chiefs-degree-dig-in-latest-climate-clash-idUSKBN1ZM0ZL

And then the "guy" fucking the whole planet says.................................in his saddest mind fuck............. .

Before leaving Davos, Trump seemed to extend an olive branch, saying he wished he had seen Thunberg speak.

[SunSeeker]

1. They always attack her for her youth, since they can't argue with what she's saying. nt

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2. She keeps putting them in there place and back on there heels....................they have no clue

on how to handle someone who understands her future and her generations future..................and they don't like it.......................................

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3. Real economists seem to agree with Greta:

What’s remarkable about the reaction to Thunberg is that the solutions she presents aren’t extreme in the context of either economics or addressing climate change.

“It's difficult to quantify these things. It's very difficult to put costs on things like this, intangible costs, very difficult to do that,” Wagner said. “That's often at the scientific frontier and it takes years, decades, for the consensus to catch up."

“In many ways, [what Thunberg] is doing — and she’s very blunt and open about this — she is paraphrasing the scientific consensus, which in many ways is, in fact, conservative,” he said.

Something Mnuchin might learn were he to go back to college and study climate science.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/23/mnuchin-said-thunberg-needed-study-economics-before-offering-climate-proposals-so-we-talked-an-economist/?utm_campaign=post_most&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1