Kevin Anderson is Greta's mentor -- the author of much of her bullshit, and as she was a child, partly responsible for her forming a devastatingly grim view of her future, which she then shared with countless children across the world.
Prof Iain Stewart has made some very decent TV shows in his time. But Earth: Climate Wars was not one of them. It was basically Naomi Oreskes's conspiracy theories, fronted by @Profiainstewart, in which he told a pack of porkies.
The BBC intended it as a landmark series but I don't think many watched it. It inadvertently marks their own descent.
Seriously... What's she doing on the panel, anyway.
She's "passionate", is she?
People who are preoccupied by -- sorry, 'passionate about' -- 'systems' tend not to know very much about systems at all.
I find these people and their 'expertise' so dubious.
A PhD in 'cultural vulnerability'?! Wow, these are the people we need to redesigning our society!!
I think they are people, and academic fields that have very little to offer the world, but want to impose it, all the same.
Take for example, this "qualified engineer" (what kind of engineer?)... She promotes "the need for value driven progressive social and behavioural change". But perhaps she presupposes it.
Despite promoting "the need for value driven progressive social and behavioural change", she once complained that she gets 3 invitations a day, only because her appearance makes events look woke.
It's true of "systemic 'racism'" too, that people who claim it is a fact cannot identify the components or dynamics of the 'system'. Yet they are obsessed with 'systems'.
What people who demand the abolition of an (imagined) system invariably are in reality demanding is the instantiation of a system.
The EU/EC was no more democratic on 22 June 2016 than it was last night, and it gave no more of a toss about the lives of 500 million people then than it gives now.
EU vaccine policies are completely immaterial to anything whatsoever, even if they are nuts.
It's like waking up tomorrow and deciding that the CCP is bad because of its cheese policies.
I.e., the argument that children should be given the vote treats adults like children.
It is a dangerous hollowing out of the concept of citizenship, and a transformation of the relationship between individuals and government.
You get to choose what colour you prefer.
In the green worldview, the state is the parent. It doesn't require the consent of the governed, it only requires obedience. Democratic expression is narrowed accordingly. Environmentalism has *ethics*, but not *politics* -- you don't need choice.