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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2020.Thunberg rejects U.S. Treasury chief's dig at her
By Balazs Koranyi and Alessandra Galloni DAVOS, Switzerland©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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PTownsend
Another lie from the Trump admin. How does that square with
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Trump (impeached) and his fellow predatory capitalists care zero about the environment. They care about this quarter's profits with no regard for future costs. They have excellent healthcare plans unlike millions of Americans.
PTownsend
Curious so many Trump supporters and other far rightwingers around the globe fear women who question them. But then so many of them seem to fear existence in general, feel they have to carry bullet firing weapons when they're out in public and turn their homes into fortresses. They want big brother watching over those they fear most, usually people from a different demographic. I like James Brown (RIP), but want to move on from the 'it's a man's world' era.
SuperLib
What a douche.
Blacklabel
Is what he said wrong?
liberals always playing a card to avoid criticism or any investigation of the merits of the actual claim or attack. Age, race, gender, preference.
she’s a “child” if questioned at all. But when I say children should not be attacking world leaders and setting climate and economic policy with no knowledge or education?
Liberals: don’t deny her voice! But the children are our future!! We must hear and comply with their demands!
This person doesn’t even attend school nor is educated in these subjects. get an education or some actual experience then talk.
PTownsend
Speaking for 'liberals' (i.e. those who dare to question Trump/Putin) again?
And pro-Trump, pro-authoritarianists once again defend the 'establishment' (particularly big oil and gas, big corporate farm and ranch, their Wall Street financiers among others) in their ongoing attempts to stifle democratic voices. Especially if those voices come from a woman, a person of color, or someone younger than them, i.e. those who have to live with the world left by their 'seniors' who care only about their portfolios and maintaining the ruling establishment.
SuperLib
What a douche.
Blacklabel
And there is that card I referenced.
lincolnman
Just look at all the Repugnant Repubs disrespecting a 16 year old girl. Hey Mnuchin - too scared to pick on an adult?
Pathetic wimps...
itsonlyrocknroll
If Greta Thunberg continues to arbitrarily skip basic schooling, then admittedly any future prospects to gain a higher education are indeed irrelevant.
I suspect Greta Thunberg fails to comprehend even a rudimentary understanding of the economic, geopolitical nuances, underling complexities that form global/regional climate patterns/climate change
So, there is little to warrant U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin pompous condescension, “Is she the chief economist? I'm confused ... After she goes and studies economics in college, she can come back and explain that to us."… Disingenuous patronising snobbery.
Pukey2
Mnuchin (and this trophy 'actress' wife) represents the greed and materialism that exists in this world. And god, do I hate that smirk on his face.
Pukey2
Auntie Maxine knew how to handle Mnuchin.
PTownsend
Would that be in your home country? I don't know about Greta's Sweden, but in the US people can attend tertiary education institutions at any age. And there are ways to not attend secondary schools yet still be accepted to a university.
I take it as a good sign that even Trump's right wing supporters can't defend his attacks on environmental protection measures.
Instead they attack, using memes (uneducated child, etc etc) from #chan/Breitbart/RT and other media, those who question Trump. No idea about policies other than let big oil and the other bigs do what they want as long as their shares increase in value.
smithinjapan
Mnuchin is such a clown and a criminal. I love how he thinks you need an MA in business -- and how Iran maybe getting nuclear weapons -- seems to justify his berating a CHILD, who knows you Don't need either of his excuses to see the fires raging in Australia. He's only succeeded in showing how pathetic he is.
arrestpaul
Oh My! Once again, Thunberg continues to push her personal agenda AGAINST children going to school.
Blacklabel
now she is a kid again, thanks CNN. But they forgot about they just paid millions of dollars for defaming a kid, Nicholas Sandmann. Oops, self own. Great is a child and a somewhat petulant acting one at that. But when it suits liberals they try to add her to the woman category instead of her actual category of child.
sunfunbun
It’s quite fun to see Thunberg completely tear apart another Trumpian idiot with a single sentence of clarity compared to the ‘educated’ and garbled words of Mnuchin.
lincolnman
You just agreed with Cuomo that she is actually a kid. Good vote for CNN. Keep it up, you'll see the light soon enough...
Serrano
the world was not meeting its climate targets
Unfortunately, Greta and millions of other people believe that by drastically cutting human produced CO2 emissions, the Earth's climate will stabilize and not get warmer.
We could stop all fossil fuel burning which would lead to the deaths and suffering of millions if not billions of people and the Earth's climate would still change as it has for billions of years.
WilliB
That is not a dig at her, that was a very reasonable suggestion. All these "green energy" plans mean massive changes in the economy (closer to destroying the economy, in many cases), and she should understand how these systems work. Just bleating slogans is too cheap.
WilliB
Big Yen;
Who sets these "targets", what are they supposed to achieve, and how exactly are they to be met? We never hear explanations, only emotional slogans.
Chip Star
Yes, it is absolutely incorrect. One needs not understand economics to understand that humans are affecting climate change.
itsonlyrocknroll
Ok, trimmed down, PTownsend, the UK system, best read below.....absence equals zero tolerance.
School attendance and absence.......
https://www.gov.uk/school-attendance-absence.
The essential element is that Greta Thunberg, and ultimately Greta parents appear to have neglected is, students build long lasting relationships from early learning.
This fundamental principal provides the means to communicate and empathise in later life.
An all embracing methodology to establish, parent, teacher, student rapport . A bond if you wish.
Miss it, or skip it and the opportunity is diminished if not lost without trace.
This being the point in question, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin should have advocated
Chip Star
This is absolutely incorrect. Only people that don’t want to hear the explanations don’t hear them. It’s called willful ignorance. Apparently, it makes life more comfortable than accepting reality.
Chip Star
Trumpophiles: You must be so round of Donny for disparaging a 16 year old. It’s not as if the president should have better things to do or act dignified.
Chip Star
*proud
bass4funk
I’ll be so happy when the entire Great allure is past us. Good on Mnuchin to call her out. You can be passionate about a cause, but at least know what you’re talking about before you go in detail.
CrazyJoe
Hard to believe the producer of the Lego Batman Movie doesn't know what he's talking about, but there you go.
Serrano
Since Trump took office, 5,000 coal miners have lost their jobs contrary to his campaign promises has the demand for coal has fallen and many tens of coal fired power plants have shut down.
Oh my...
Varney: Democrats 'killing' blue-collar worker jobs in the name of climate change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqfXZ1yulvM
Renewables made up more than 17 percent of net U.S. electricity generation in 2018.
From renewableenergyworld.com:
According to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of the latest issue of EIA’s “Electric Power Monthly” (with data through August 31, 2019), both wind and solar are accounting for more and more of the total electrical generation in the United States.
Renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) accounted for 18.49% of net domestic electrical generation during the first eight months of 2019, said SUN DAY. A year earlier, renewables’ share was 17.95%.
So, renewables are expanding under Trump!
lincolnman
Well, if that's the case, I guess Donnie needs some studying up on the Revolutionary War if he thinks the UK had airports here in 1776...
https://time.com/5620936/donald-trump-revolutionary-war-airports/
Or maybe invention of the wheel...
https://theweek.com/speedreads/890989/trump-seems-think-wheel-invented
For a guy that eats two big Macs and two Filet-of-Fish, and a milkshake for dinner - he is indeed expanding....from obese to morbidly obese...
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/articles/this-is-what-donald-trump-eats-in-a-day/
CrazyJoe
I have actually studied a good deal of economics, but I am unfamiliar with the economic school of thought that holds that environmental responsibility is in opposition to prosperity.
Would that be the TEA Party School of Economics?
Blacklabel
Why do liberals always choose people from a “protected class” to push their agendas?
so that any criticisms can be directed away from the narrative.
bass4funk
You mean like Barron Trump?
Liberals actually think that? Honestly, I wish the conservatives were more revenge driven when it comes to the Democrats, but sadly they just won’t stoop to that level.
That’s why they stay away from revenge politics.
bass4funk
I hope you feel better now that you got that off your chest. ROFL!
Anyway, Greta is a passionate little girl good for her, but she doesn’t know so much, so I do hope she continues her education, goes back to school and really learns about the issues and engages in a real debate with less emotion. Emotion never supports your argument, it undercuts it, take note.
SuperLib
Barron didn't tell anyone that they need a college degree to talk to him.
Conservatives actually think that?
Most conservatives act like 4-year olds.
You're in the same boat she is....no college degree. And very soon she will match your level of education. Should I tell you to go back to school and learn about the issues when you respond to my posts?
SuperLib
I'm getting the feeling that Trump fans here don't support the "talk to me when you get a college degree" angle when it's directed at them. But to a little girl from a public official? Bombs away.
Jimizo
I thought Trump was very popular with the poorly educated - he said he loved them. His supporters certainly dislike the intellectual elites.
Now they are getting all elitist about education while supporting a man who said climate change was a hoax created by the Chinese.
bass4funk
But still attacking a child, never a good thing.
Not like liberals and that’s why they get drowned out of any debate.
What are you talking about? Lol
SuperLib
Agreed and she was criticized and apologized for using his name. Your side is busy giving each other high 5s and justifying it.
Not like conservatives.
Jimizo
You dismiss universities as liberal PC institutions and a waste of money. I can’t imagine you attended one given the bile you spit at them.
Also, Greta has a better command of English grammar and range of expressions ( her second language ) than one Trump supporter here who posts about ‘rolls being reversed’, ‘road scholars’ and ‘bias media’.
Age or education is no guarantee of knowledge or even basic command of one’s first language.
bass4funk
And liberals continue to do the same.
Oh, I vehemently disagree. ROFL!
I went long before liberals took over the institutions, phew!
Not really, but she may get there one day. I think so.
SuperLib
Show me.
SuperLib
I believe his position is that Harvard is on par with Trump University.....both are scams.
Jimizo
Honestly, I’ve heard her speak in her second language off the cuff. He command of English is better than one poster here who writes semi-literate, incoherent gibberish with absolutely shocking grammar and spelling. I’m a grease monkey rather than a writer but I even I can see it.
It is a shining example of how poorly educated people love Trump and will support him trolling ‘a little girl’.
As an elite journalist and a non-partisan, I’m sure you feel the same disdain for this as I do.
bass4funk
Turn on the TV, they own it all. Lol
Not unusual these days, especially if you live in Europe or the States, nothing special.
He has nothing to do with this just like the previous President has nothing to do with this.
bass4funk
What are you talking about? The Chinese? Anyway, there’s a lot on climate change that can and should be discussed as well as things debunked or overly exaggerated.
starpunk
The Big Problem is that they don't like a female with smarts and insight. She's witty, observant and has more maturity than these bullying idiots. They hate females that they can't overpower or control.
kazetsukai
The point is not whether male of female or educational levels or even economics or global warming.
It is not whether a lot of money (how much or what percentage of GDP) is being spent by the government to combat global warming. The entire world, the entire population of the world including industries that pollute the oceans and scorch the earth must play a role in this problem. It is in the how.
That how, can also have a major environmental effect. An example is the fires now being battled in Australia where chemicals are also being used to prevent its spread. The hot air brought polluted gasses and materials into the atmosphere which came down as rain and hail that then took those pollutants to the rivers and ocean along with the chemicals. That changes the entire ecosystem of the ocean.
Along with that when new plants are replanted or not, the kind and types of plants on such massive land area can again change the ecosystem. How that affects the global warming, we just do not know.
PTownsend
Trump supporters can't defend his policies, instead attack those who question their messiah parroting memes they got from #chan/Breitbart/RT. SMH