Shatner Launch

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

If Greta does nothing else, she has gotten the attention of the generations that will be most affected by climate change if nothing is done.

I'm certainly not going to say that she's too young to be knowledgeable about the topic.

 Yeah, I find Greta bit annoying, but that's probably due to her autism. I think there's a distinct difference between the personality and the message.

As far as I can tell, she's at least as informed as most adults I run across except climatologists.

I'm a child of the 60's. A baby boomer, hippies and civil rights. We were gonna change the world. Didn't we do a bag up job! People such as G W Bush and Donald J Trump are baby boomers.

In my teens, I thought Hippies were the shit. After having run across more than a few, I changed my mind. I eventually concluded that hippies were a bunch of privileged bourgeois white kids doing liberal arts on daddy's dime. They were really great at hanging out together, pontificating, getting shit faced and mispronouncing didactic.   A couple of the darlings I knew went to Vietnam demonstrations where they deliberately injured some police horses.***

In middle age I was kind of disappointed in the new generation. They seemed apathetic to me, not getting involved.  Then along comes Greta Thunberg who has the audacity to speak truth to power. I remain very impressed with her. She has chosen what in my opinion is the most important issue facing our species.  Too soon to tell how successful she will be. She's a long way short of a revolution, which is what she needs to make any real changes, imo.   


***I know that to be true because I saw the demonstrations from my office window. Both sides acted like cunts. Most of the hippies I knew became civil servants or teachers.