{"id":4927,"date":"2020-01-14T10:20:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T15:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2020-01-14T11:10:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T16:10:11","slug":"greta-needs-a-chill-pill-and-a-history-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/14\/greta-needs-a-chill-pill-and-a-history-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Greta Needs a Chill Pill and a History Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why is it that doomsday cult worshipers like Greta Thunberg are so intent on destroying capitalism, when capitalism is the world’s only self-sustaining economic system?<\/p>\n

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Wouldn’t you think with capitalism being a renewable source of economic energy that Gaia worshipers would be big fans? But they’re not, and here’s why:<\/p>\n

Climate activism<\/span><\/strong><\/a> is all about control: what people drive, how energy efficient their homes are, what they eat, which products they use, what clothes they wear – and in the case of Joaquin Phoenix<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, how often they dry clean their tux.<\/p>\n

In short, weather cultists like Saint Greta want to take away individual freedoms for the collective good.\u00a0 Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

Obviously names like Mao Zedong, Karl Marx, and Kim Il-Sung mean nothing to these carbon credit kiddie commandos.\u00a0 I’d suggest they step away from their junk science whining points and consider reading a little history.<\/p>\n

Swedish climate teen Greta Thunberg is a prominent leader in the “We’re-all-going-to-die-because-of-fossil-fuels-and-steak-buffets” parade.\u00a0 \u00a0Thunberg was recently named Time’s Person of the Year<\/em> but even more notably, was mentioned in this space last fall in Left Wingers Have Finally Lost It<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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After castigating a UN Assembly last September in her infamous “How Dare You”<\/span><\/strong><\/a> speech (\u201cYou have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.\u00a0 How dare you!\u201d), lovable Greta is back with more demands, more ranting and more threats in an editorial addressing the upcoming 50th anniversary of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland later this month.<\/span><\/p>\n

In\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0<\/em>editorial January 10 she wrote, “We demand that at this year’s forum, participants from all companies, banks, institutions and governments immediately halt all investments in fossil fuel exploration and extraction, immediately end all fossil fuel subsidies and immediately and completely divest from fossil fuels.”<\/p>\n

Is that all?\u00a0 Of course not. The persnickety Swede wasn’t done yet.\u00a0 She also demanded the evil doers comply – now!<\/p>\n

“We don’t want these things done by 2050, 2030, or even 2021, we want this done now – as in right now,” <\/em>she bellowed in print – a neat trick she should think of patenting.<\/p>\n

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Note to Ms. Thunberg:\u00a0 the world doesn’t revolve around you or any identity politics group.\u00a0 In the USA it revolves around “We the people.”<\/p>\n

And the will of the people is enacted by v-o-t-i-n-g.\u00a0\u00a0Not by fiat, not by bullying, and not by intimidation.<\/p>\n

In other words, keep your static socialism, your refusal to allow for dissenting opinions and your my-way-or-the-highway climate activism on your side of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

And for goodness sake, chill out.\u00a0 Temper tantrums deplete the ozone.<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0theguardian.com, cnn.com<\/em><\/p>\n

Photo sources: <\/span>pri.org,<\/em> a<\/span>dmin.ch, davidicke.com<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks for reading Dean Riffs. Welcome to all those who love American liberty, free enterprise, and who believe God has blessed our country.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Copyright 2020, Dean A. George\u00a9<\/p>\n

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