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

[Anomalocaris]

We are not destroying the Earth, it will be here long after we have gone. All we are doing is causing a temporary disruption, it will probably sort itself out in a few tens of thousands of years, it's just that we won't be here to see it.

This is also an exaggeration.

The climate crisis will directly cause huge dislocation, impoverishment and immiseration. but it is hard to see how it will directly lead to collapse of civilization, much less our extinction.

If it becomes the indirect cause of the collapse of our civilization, then it would seem the likely path would through economic and demographic stress the climate crisis leading to rise of nationalism, collapse of mechanisms for collective problem solving, fragmentation of trade and security alliances, leading to armed conflicts between major power blocks.

If these symptoms are already manifest, then they become the most direct threat.  Until they are reversed efforts to address the more fundamental cause would likely be unavailing. 

An analogy might be your boat has a slow leak.   The leak by itself will make you wet, soggy and uncomfortable, but won’t sink your boat in the near future.   However, the leak caused a short circuit and now your boat is on fire.   While the fire is burning, Do you focus more on putting out the fire or on stopping the leak?     You certainly won’t have much success in rally those in danger of being cooked to your cause of stopping the leak now, even if you can make the sound case that everyone has an ultimate stake in stopping the leak and bailing out the boat. 

The difference between Greta and many adults is not that greta sees the leak while adults don’t.   It is adults appreciates the threat of the fire more clearly than Greta appears to.

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And you are not an R.  

Correct. I have no party affiliation.

You seem to believe that there are two types of people - ( R )s and ( D )s.

Perhaps when you grow up, you will find life - and people - is and are more complicated than that.

People seems particularly like to exhibit the complexity of pretending they are of neither opposing camp and are thereby better than either camp when their views in most ways much more closely resemble the more morally reprobate of the two camps.   Doing so allows them to indulge in sympathy for the worst and still pretend to be better than the best.