Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Climate summit “is a failure” says Greta Thunberg - BBC News" video.

  1. There comes a point when it's pointless to keep relitigating proven, demonstrated science. There are voices dissenting that the earth is round, and that we landed on the moon. How dogmatic of the world to exclude or ignore the dissenting voices.
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  2. I'm sure if she'd been a dinosaur warning about that growing bright light in the sky 65 million years ago, the world would have been just as moronic.
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  3. The short-sighted, selfishness of complaining about jobs while the planet faces an existential threat BECAUSE of those jobs. SMH. And yes, you're right, she'd make a terrible politician, because people punish the politicians who give them unpalatable news.
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  4.  @PaulBriden  The problem is Paul, if you only let those with mortgages decide policy, self interest means nothing will change, and if you only allow naive idealists without ANY commitments, it will alienate those who have more prosaic concerns. But tell me, if I said that within 24 hours, I was going to murder your children or grandchildren if you didn't halve your carbon emissions, you'd move heaven and earth and achieve it yes? No whining about jobs or cost or inconvenience - you'd get it done. Yet here is an existential threat far greater, and you're complaining about your boiler. Don't get me wrong - it's appalling, that you were missold the wrong boiler, and frustrating that diesel is not as eco-friendly as the experts thought. They're trying to respond quickly to something that is new territory - just like covid vaccines. We're all fumbling to repair the damage that industrialisation and dirty fuel and poor energy policies have wrought on the planet, but it's an effort that we MUST make. There's simply no alternative if you care about life on earth beyond the duration of your own existence.
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  5.  @Jelle175  Thank you for making my point. There was a genuine existential threat that the dinosaurs could not avoid, just as the existential threat is genuine now. We however, can and should do something about it, and it's not "woke" to point that out.
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