Greta Thunberg
 

What’s your opinion on her stance as an “activist”?

I see people are mostly divided on her across social media, some are calling her a saviour whereas others are saying she’s basically an attention seeker or being used to push an agenda.

I wondered what you guys thought of the work she’s been doing lately. She’s definitely made a huge impact! :shrug:

Personal attacks on her (as seen across various media platforms recently) are not welcome! I’m talking about her current stance and buzz as an activist. Let’s keep this nice and mature. Thanks guys.

Somewhere in the middle.

One of my only strong political convictions is protecting the environment and keeping our green spaces, and my fellow travellers on that issue are mostly "exceptional individuals" who block roads and planes, and give me collective embarrassment. So to see someone who's actually addressing the issues in a serious and constructive way is great.

I don't really understand how she gets some people riled up.

i think the fact that so many people have resorted to bullying tactics toward her means that she has been effective in what she set out to achieve. If her message were not getting across, people would just ignore her.

If someone has a valid point to make, it doesn't matter what age they are, what background they come from. You always know when people resort to personal attacks, they have lost the argument

Currently suffering from child abuse at the hands of her parents. Maybe not physically, but she's most certainly being used.

She's 16 not 6.

You can't just call people bullies because they disagree with somebody politically.

But it does prove my point that she's being used, used to push other people's message, with the get out clause that any criticism can be brushed away by turning it on the critic, using the child excuse.

Dirty, dirty tactics.

and you have just proven the point about losing the argument. Lets not deal with the topic she is discussing, lets get personal.

...(..so sorry...)...I’m really not entirely comfortable with this, with so much online bullying and how it impacts on people...she’s a child...opinions on her thoughts and words as an activist is one thing...but personal opinions about a child...?...

I agree with this, you know when you have hit the nail on the head when people get riled up .

I spent most of yesterday on this forum talking about the topic. Go into the thread and debate me on it if you want.

i read what you had to say. How about you provide some scientific verified facts that disprove her arguments rather than try and personally attack her.

How about she provides proof, instead of crying and telling people how bad they are?

you just can't help yourself can you

And I'm not attacking her, I'm the only one in this thread who seems concerned about her, I'm the one who's trying to bring to light that she's being used and abused by all this.

No, I won't bite my tongue, because I'm not a coward.

Surely that's what she's doing.though? Not biting her tongue.you can see she genuinely believes what she is saying. I think she's pretty inspiring for the younger generation, her biggest critics seemed to be older climate change cynics.

Anything that creates positive change in the environment can surely only be a good thing.

She's being used to do it on behalf of adults, who want this political message pushing.

That’s what I mean Ammi, opinions on her “work” and as a public figure and the impact she’s having as she’s such a polarising figure. Nothing personal intended at all, or at least I’d HOPE.

Hope that clarifies. :shrug:

Let’s leave anything personal towards her out of this please guys and just stick to your thoughts on “HER IMPACT”! :love:

Would you put your child on a World stage to push a Political message that you know is gonna get challenged.

Would you?

It's child abuse plain and simple. And if you're gonna go around calling people bullies for be critical, then I'm gonna call you child abuse supporters.

I couldn’t agree more honestly.

I know most people don't like him and it might be controversial but I completely agree with what Piers Morgan wrote yesterday:

that may well all be true MTVN, but don't you see it for what it is, a method of completely undermining her.

So, she doesn't have the answers to correct the worlds ills, are we really saying that negates her point?

If she is concerned about the environment and it is backed up by scientific research, what possible relation is there to her mother appearing in eurovision and her father being an actor.

She has become a focal point. What it should do is concentrate minds on the issue, not on how many people she talked to at school etc etc etc etc

"Greta first got worried at 8 years old" I wonder if her political activist parents played any part in that? At 8 years old, my parents bought me He-man action figures to play with.

Well I'm not sure that the extremity of her position is backed up by the science and quite honestly I don't think kids should be aspiring to that fundamentalist view of environmentalist action where they think economies shouldn't be growing, families should never take holidays, kids should skip school to strike etc. Nor should it be forgotten that the world has taken big steps in fighting climate change recently despite all the cries of 'you're not doing anything' because countries won't sign up to completely unrealistic targets

This is also a good thread on it: