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posted by martyb on Saturday March 16 2019, @07:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the calling-for-compulsary-education-by-skipping-education dept.

Across the world Friday, students skipped class to protest their governments failure to take sufficient measures to curb climate change.

It all started with 16 year old Greta Thunberg of Sweden:

who began holding solitary demonstrations outside the Swedish parliament last year. Since then, the weekly protests have snowballed from a handful of cities to hundreds, fueled by dramatic headlines about the impact of climate change during the students' lifetime.

Thunberg has been nominated for a Nobel peace prize for her efforts.

The protestors are calling for a list of anti-climate change actions and solutions including:

Our Demands

  • Green New Deal
  • A halt in any and all fossil fuel infrastructure projects
  • All decisions made by the government be based on the best-available and most-current scientific research.
  • Declaring a National Emergency on Climate Change
  • Compulsory comprehensive education on climate change and its impacts throughout grades K-8
  • Preserving our public lands and wildlife
  • Keeping our water supply clean

Our Solutions

  • The extraction of Greenhouse Gases from the atmosphere
  • Emission standards and benchmarks
  • Changing the agriculture industry
  • Using renewable energy and building renewable energy infrastructure
  • Stopping the unsustainable and dangerous process of fracking
  • Stop mountaintop removal/mining

In a speech Friday outside the United Nations HQ in New York, Alexandria Villasenor, one of the founders of Youth Climate Strike U.S. said:

world leaders weren't listening. "Our world leaders are the ones acting like children," she said. "They are the ones having tantrums, arguing with each other and refusing to take responsibility for their actions while the planet burns."

At one of these planned protests a year or two back, permission forms were sent home in advance so kids could get parental permission to participate in skipping school and protesting. Kids who didn't participate were taunted and harassed by the other kids.

How does your school treat such events?


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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 16 2019, @07:57PM (12 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 16 2019, @07:57PM (#815559) Journal

    You're beyond redemption.

    Your coin is worthless! I do what I feel is right. Not what will get me ahead in some imaginary karma piggy bank.

    It was outsourcing that pollution to the underdeveloped world that made the developed world less polluted.

    [...]

    Where will the developing world outsource ITS manufacturing pollution to to become developed, huh?

    There's been a remarkable global trend towards greater wealth, lower fertility, better health, lower pollution, etc throughout the world. These don't all happen at the same time and same rate, but every part of the world is seeing these improvements. When there's no more places for pollution to be "exported to" because everyone has become developed world? Then there's no more of that pollution. It's pretty simple.

    The places which continue to pollute are doing it at the behest of other places, "developed" places, which are cynically taking advantage of their lax pollution and workers' rights laws to get the goods without the consequences.

    Their lax pollution and worker's rights laws happen because they are poor not because of some exploitation which actually makes the situation better. Being "exploited" by a multinational business means that one is tapping indirectly into the wealth of the developed world and more quickly improving one's circumstances than being "exploited" by the local, poorer businesses. That in turn means that the society is more rapidly approaching the time when they too can have good pollution and workers' rights laws among other things.

    Truth would be a defense against my accusations, *If you had the truth.* You do not, and so you stand not only accused, not only a liar, but perhaps incapable of telling truth from falsehood any longer. Irredeemable. And I will continue to point this out in excruciating detail for anyone who has the misfortune to stumble across your self-serving horseshit on this forum.

    Funny how you have zero evidence for your blathering. I'll continue to point that out for the hapless reader as well.

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday March 17 2019, @05:36AM (11 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday March 17 2019, @05:36AM (#815700) Journal

    You're, again, irredeemable. You're another self-serving thoughtless hack who thinks the way to end poverty is to keep overstuffing the already gluttonous, crapulent rich so that maybe, maybe, MAYBE, a few more table scraps will fall to the ground for the poor to fight over, conveniently ignoring the fact that the rich simply build larger tables, as it were, when this happens. You are deliberately ignoring what is being said to you and simply restating the very talking points that have already been debunked.

    We get it, "my coin is worthless" and "you do what you feel is right." Thanks for at least admitting that "muh feelz" is the start, end, and middle of your epistemology. I mean it's not like that wasn't already completely obvious, but thanks for saying it explicitly anyway.

    --
    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
    • (Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Sunday March 17 2019, @06:14AM (10 children)

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 17 2019, @06:14AM (#815715) Journal

      You're, again, irredeemable.

      The very definition of moral bankruptcy. You continue to spend and I continue to not care.

      You [...] You [...] you

      The pattern of unfounded accusations continue. Worthless.

      simply restating the very talking points that have already been debunked

      When the "debunking" is nonsense, then there really isn't anything else to do.

      We get it, "my coin is worthless" and "you do what you feel is right." Thanks for at least admitting that "muh feelz" is the start, end, and middle of your epistemology. I mean it's not like that wasn't already completely obvious, but thanks for saying it explicitly anyway.

      The difference between us is that I thought about it. My feelings line up with my rationality. That's why you have so much trouble with morality beyond the reach of your arms. You're just an animal who happens to know how to type. I think you can do better, but the real challenge is for you to think to be and do better.

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday March 17 2019, @06:39AM (9 children)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday March 17 2019, @06:39AM (#815728) Journal

        You may have actually outdone Uzzard for the All-Soylentil Projection Championships with that one. You are fooling no one but yourself; just because you've managed to convince yourself that you're correct doesn't mean you are. In any insane asylum there are people who believe as fervently as you do, and they are equally deluded. You haven't lined your feelings up with your rationality; you've *justified them to yourself* using your own self-serving bullshit.

        I cannot imagine being that self-absorbed, that selfish, that utterly self-involved. Your mind must be like a black hole. I leave you with a warning: the saying "hell is other people" is 100% completely antipodally wrong, and you are going to find out all too soon why this is so.

        --
        I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
        • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday March 17 2019, @06:53AM (8 children)

          by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 17 2019, @06:53AM (#815736) Journal
          And you continue to say stuff.

          I cannot imagine being that self-absorbed, that selfish, that utterly self-involved.

          And yet, there you are. You went through the effort of constructing this imaginary khallow straw man. It wasn't for our benefit. Did you even bother to read a word I wrote?

          • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday March 17 2019, @06:51PM (7 children)

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday March 17 2019, @06:51PM (#816017) Journal

            What strawman? It's your own words. Anyone who reads your posts and peruses your post history will come to the same conclusion. This place is infested with human Klein bottles and you're one of the type specimens.

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            I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
            • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 18 2019, @05:27PM (6 children)

              by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 18 2019, @05:27PM (#816520) Journal

              It's your own words.

              You didn't quote me even once. It's not my own words.

              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 18 2019, @09:35PM (5 children)

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday March 18 2019, @09:35PM (#816649) Journal

                Your own words are what are condemning you. I don't need to quote you, because this is a text forum and people can read your bullshit the first time. Why would I waste the space? Keep it up, jackoff.

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                I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
                • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday March 19 2019, @12:28AM (4 children)

                  by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 19 2019, @12:28AM (#816726) Journal

                  Your own words are what are condemning you.

                  Then there's not much going on.

                  I don't need to quote you, because this is a text forum and people can read your bullshit the first time.

                  Meanwhile I quote you so those same people know which bit of bullshit I happen to be referring to.

                  Why would I waste the space?

                  Argue rationally and on topic. Present a more convincing argument. Even make it so that the reader doesn't even need to read the "bullshit" the first time, if they so choose.

                  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 19 2019, @12:40AM (3 children)

                    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday March 19 2019, @12:40AM (#816734) Journal

                    You're an endless fountain of masturbatory bullshit. No one is going to out-argue you, because you've decided ahead of time that they won't. I'm not engaging with you for your sake, you worthless sack of crap; I'm doing it, as has been stated many times before, for the sake of anyone unfortunate enough to stumble across your corrosive idiocy.

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                    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
                    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday March 19 2019, @05:14AM (2 children)

                      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 19 2019, @05:14AM (#816815) Journal

                      No one is going to out-argue you, because you've decided ahead of time that they won't.

                      Well, remember you weren't trying, and apparently never have tried. So how would you know?

                      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 19 2019, @06:49PM (1 child)

                        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday March 19 2019, @06:49PM (#817096) Journal

                        Oh, is *that* what you tell yourself? My God, you really are a living, breathing (your own jenkem), walking Klein bottle.

                        The upside to your permanent case of rectocranial inversion is that, like the others on this site who suffer from it, you don't comprehend the amount of damage you do to yourself just by posting. Really, nothing I say or do damages you more than you do; I'm just running a highlight reel, basically.

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                        I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
                        • (Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Wednesday March 20 2019, @01:07PM

                          by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 20 2019, @01:07PM (#817314) Journal

                          Oh, is *that* what you tell yourself?

                          Let's look at that post again.

                          I'm not engaging with you for your sake, you worthless sack of crap

                          You're just making a bunch of noise because the reader somehow will be impressed by that. That's what you said, not what I'm telling myself.