Greta Thunberg hitches a ride with La Vagabond

I long for the day when climate change deniers are given the same respect as flat earthers and people who believe in chem trails.

Good on Riley, fantastic effort and showing that he is a true sailor even among all the bashing because he is popular on youtube. He has done more miles than 99% of people who bash on him. He is also about to do Sydney Hobart.

Greta screaming HOW DARE YOU!!

I refer you to my post on page one of this thread, which is of one of her speeches.
She does not scream, "How dare you!"
Her tone and delivery are calm, sharp and intelligent.
Please take the time to actually listen to what she has to say.
Not to what the media says she says.

Gary

The journalists would be there to cover the event in any speaker scenario.

The boat is already made so her contribution to that is nil. She is only using the wind to get there. Its little but she at least is trying to find alternative ways. The jets will still be flying with seats to spare without her. If we all try a little bit then perhaps we can do something positive for this world.

Biggest problem is people to step from the known into the unknown. From comfortability to fear of living without.

My son and I just did some research on Black Anderson and the time differences to being in Esperance. Only 200 yrs ago it would take days to sail to the shops or mths to walk. Albany was the only town in 500kms. Now we can travel from Cape Arid to town in 2hrs. How do you give that up or take that privilege away?

The other week I decided to take a leaf out of Greta's book and catch a train to Proserpine for a work trip instead of flying south from Bundy to Brisbane and back up north and return. What a mistake, that's how all the poor people travel, especially the ones in small rural towns with no medical services. That train was noisy, smelly, I had people coughing all over me and trying to start conversations, plus I had to pay for the wine. Next time I'm going to fly with the nice people, smash down free wine in the Qantas club and continue to be ignored by the business people in suits.

We need to keep up the noise about climate change and other social issues because as this informative article explains no one in power is.

I reckon Greta's looking at the wrong end of the demographic.
Its easy to criticise what has happened in the past but it's going to be a losing battle to get us old fogies to change . Train the young , you know like a puppy. Get the kids to leave the class room and strike against mum driving them to school or taking them to sports ,you know stop burning fossil fuel. Rise up against the use of electricity by not recharging the iphones or watching tv until all coal fired is closed down.
Hang on, perhaps she's already doing that .
She should also be concentrating on all those people flying around on jet skis burning up fossil fuel on pristine waterways clogging ramps with huge gas guzzlers , chucking plastics into the water because there's no where to put it on one . What about all the motor cruisers on the water today ,restrict the size or get rid of them . Hell I've done my bit . I sold my motorbike, stopped racing cars and bought a sail boat . How much further does she want me to go ? Not use the air conditioner? Only wear natural fibres?
How dare she.

Ahh you grumpy old Wankers are missing the point by a looooong way.
Drive your ****ty old vintage cars and bikes and be happy doing it. No one cares, it means nothing and makes no difference.
The point Greta is making is that there needs to be large scale governmental change and global change.
I do find it funny however that Guys like Cisco and bananabender feel so threatened by a 16 year old girl.