Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old girl selected by the media to be the poster child of climate alarmism, gave another hysterical speech on Monday. This time, at the U.N., she declared that the Earth is undergoing a "mass extinction" which, she warns, probably cannot be averted.

"How dare you," the distraught teen cried. "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood." On one level, I can relate to this sentiment because it's exactly what I said after watching the "Lion King" remake. On another level, as a parent, I find this girl very hard to watch. It is obvious that she really believes her delusional doomsday fantasies. That is because they are not her fantasies — she is merely repeating what she has been told by adults who know better.

Thunberg, as the media likes to remind us, is autistic and OCD. This section of a Daily Beast profile gives us a brief outline of her psychological issues:

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The Daily Beast recounts all of this like we shouldn't be concerned. But what we're being told is that an obsessive, mentally troubled young girl came to believe — mistakenly — that the apocalypse is upon us. Rather than calm these terrible fears, and redirect her in a healthier direction, the adults in her life have only encouraged her paranoia. And now the media is only too happy to exploit her fear in order to stoke even more fear. Creating fear with fear. That is the media's specialty.

This is child abuse. If any grown up in Thunberg's life really cared about her psychological and emotional well-being, they would sit her down and explain that climate change is not going to destroy human civilization. Yes, the climate is changing. Climates tend to do that. But whatever role humans play in that process, and to whatever degree, it is not going to result in the end of all life as we know it. Talk of a 10-year, or 12-year, or 20-year, timeline before planetary catastrophe is all an invention of politicians and media personalities. Scientists don't speak this way.

When I was a child, they told us of an imminent future without rainforests. Well, I am now living in that imminent future and the rainforests are doing okay. Sure, there was a problem with deforestation. We were cutting down more trees than we should have. But the dystopian vision of a world without trees was — and I couldn't have known this at the time, because I was just a kid — completely insane. It is possible to say "trees are good and we shouldn't wantonly destroy them" without adding "and soon all the trees will be gone and you will suffocate." But the environmental alarmists always choose to tack on the apocalyptic bit at the end, undermining the validity of their message and creating unnecessary panic.

Once again, we must call this what it is:

Child abuse

. It may be a smart political move to traumatize children with these End Times prophecies, but it is morally abominable. Yes, tell kids to recycle, pick up trash, plant trees — all fine and worthwhile pursuits. But the hysteria is entirely unjustified. Let kids be kids. They shouldn't have to wake up every morning with hallucinatory fears about the planet's demise.

tickleandrose wrote on Sep 25^th, 2019 at 11:13am:


 

Let kids be kids

tickleandrose wrote on Sep 25^th, 2019 at 11:13am:


 

Panther wrote on Sep 25^th, 2019 at 11:31am:


Throughout his article, Matt deliberately attempt to portray Greta as mental unwell, and twisting her words without actually quoting or dispute the facts around her speech.   The most critical of which is this sentence: "People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, "

And its true, world wide, people are suffering, dying from medical illness relating to pollution.   Eco systems have either collapsed or under enormous stress, and we are facing a 6th extinction event in which the scientist called "the Holocene event".   And all of this information are widely available,  on the internet, in the libraries. 

And you know what, Matt did not even mention any of this.  What did he mention?  A story about him when he was younger about a planet of no trees, and look now, there are still trees, so we must not worry.  Now how is this a credible dispute.  It is not, its just a thinly veiled attempt to discredit a brave young person of her age, gender and medical condition. 

No Panther, I am very sure that this young girl is not exploited by some fairy tale left wing environmental alarmist.  But rather, her gender, age and health being is being hijacked by the extreme right wing, to further their own personal and financial gains.   And THAT, is real child abuse, Matt should be ashamed, and should apologize.