<story><title>Greta Thunberg has done her science homework</title><url>https://faktabaari.fi/greta-thunberg-has-done-her-science-homework/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>svara</author><text>I do not understand the hate she consistently gets specifically in the anglosphere. Even the reddit thread about her the other day was full of hate. I honestly don&amp;#x27;t understand, can someone explain?&lt;p&gt;Of course she&amp;#x27;s can&amp;#x27;t save the world alone, but she&amp;#x27;s generated a lot of attention for an important issue that a lot of people are ignoring. What&amp;#x27;s so terrible about that?&lt;p&gt;I really like her. She&amp;#x27;s got this highly logical, consequential way of thinking that I&amp;#x27;ve only seen in much older, highly successful people before. All she&amp;#x27;s saying essentially boils down to: If A leads to B, and you don&amp;#x27;t like B, you can&amp;#x27;t support A. She&amp;#x27;s not a figurehead, she&amp;#x27;s way ahead of the adults around her.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I honestly don&amp;#x27;t understand, can someone explain?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;She&amp;#x27;s literally a child lecturing the grownups. It fits that &amp;quot;emperor has no clothes&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;out of the mouths of babes trope.&lt;p&gt;The people who back her want to hold her up as someone wise beyond her years. The entire thing is primarily an appeal to emotion.&lt;p&gt;Greta is the face of the idea that there is a simple and obvious answer that could be readily implemented, if only us sinners would get up off our slothful, gluttonous sorry asses and Do The Right Thing.&lt;p&gt;Real and viable solutions tend to be more nuanced than that and allow for the complexity of the real world. But arguing against this essentially cute little tribble of a media sensation makes you &amp;quot;obviously stupid&amp;quot; plus a monstrous asshole who clearly kicks puppies as one of your hobbies.&lt;p&gt;That rankles people who recognize the attempt to win by manipulative social bullshit and thereby simply shut down substantive discussion of a genuine and serious problem that, no, is not going to be resolved by telling 7 billion people to Just Behave!&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t help that the Pope blessed her work, basically. That just doubles down on all the high handed, moralizing preachy nonsense that swirls around her.</text></comment>
<story><title>Greta Thunberg has done her science homework</title><url>https://faktabaari.fi/greta-thunberg-has-done-her-science-homework/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>svara</author><text>I do not understand the hate she consistently gets specifically in the anglosphere. Even the reddit thread about her the other day was full of hate. I honestly don&amp;#x27;t understand, can someone explain?&lt;p&gt;Of course she&amp;#x27;s can&amp;#x27;t save the world alone, but she&amp;#x27;s generated a lot of attention for an important issue that a lot of people are ignoring. What&amp;#x27;s so terrible about that?&lt;p&gt;I really like her. She&amp;#x27;s got this highly logical, consequential way of thinking that I&amp;#x27;ve only seen in much older, highly successful people before. All she&amp;#x27;s saying essentially boils down to: If A leads to B, and you don&amp;#x27;t like B, you can&amp;#x27;t support A. She&amp;#x27;s not a figurehead, she&amp;#x27;s way ahead of the adults around her.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Santosh83</author><text>Those who hate her either wish they could be as influential as her or hate the threats to their way of life that they believe will be the inevitable result of seriously addressing climate change.</text></comment>