Greta Thunberg: adults who attack her ‘must feel threatened’

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To ne honest, if adults have not been destroying the earth for the past hundred years, on average people alive today, including those like Greta, would likely have life expectancies a couple of decades shorter.

Eventually, because we've been destroying the Earth for the past hundred years, we'll have life expectancies of 0. No problem

Had we not been destroying the earth for the past hundred years, our life expectancy will still not escaping eventually becoming zero.   The difference is when that threatens we can be fairly certain we will likely have no way of dodging or delaying it.

But our destroying of the earth for the past one hundred years had not entirely been in vain.   It was a heavy price, but for that price we did purchase a sizable stock of industrial, economic and scientific capital, and these offer some reasonable hope that when the end of our life expectancy would otherwise come, we can dodge it or significantly postpone it.

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To ne honest, if adults have not been destroying the earth for the past hundred years, on average people alive today, including those like Greta, would likely have life expectancies a couple of decades shorter.

Yeah, the increase in the human life span is a double-edged sword. Sure, we're living longer, but that means there's more of us, and that means more people living long enough to create more people, more people to find new and inventive ways to exhaust our resources (and siphon them off for themselves), and more fucking people contributing to turning society into a behavioral sink.

Honestly, the more I look at it, the more convinced I become that Greta Thunberg's fatal flaw is not that she thinks something should be done, but that she thinks it can be done. At this point, it's all over but the crying. Apparently, she's on the autism spectrum, and she actually credits it as being a driver for her activism, but ironically, in my case, it's driven me to a different conclusion...  

Bradley Nowell has seen the truth and stated it clearly in this song:




We're only gonna die from our own arrogance
That's why we might as well take our time

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Yes, I know this song is technically a cover of a Bad Brains song, but Sublime's cover adds that last line that helps complete it. That and Greg Gaffin's hardcore punk vocals are a hell of a lot less intelligible.

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This could be driven by my having a much shittier childhood, reading a lot of history, and having depression in addition to ASD and OCD,  but clearly not everyone's from Stockholm.

It is can only be seen as double edged sword upon final analysis if it is not in itself considered a dominant desirable good.