Teen Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg to
shun plane for sailboat as she heads to summits
Associated Press,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
7/29/2019 1:35:43 PM
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager whose social media-savvy brand of eco-activism has inspired tens of thousands of students in Europe to skip classes and protest for faster action against climate change, said Monday that she plans to take her message to America the old-fashioned way: by boat. The 16-year-old tweeted that she’ll sail across the Atlantic aboard a high-tech racing yacht, leaving Britain next month to attend U.N. climate summits in New York in September and Santiago, Chile, in December. Thunberg told The Associated Press ahead of her announcement that she spent months trying to figure out how to travel
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 7/29/2019 1:40:34 PM (No. 137113)
She probably end up as shark food. That will be good for the ocean ecology as she would be paying back her debt to nature.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/29/2019 1:41:03 PM (No. 137114)
So, Greta, what sort of carbon footprint was created in the process of designing and manufacturing that high tech racing yacht? And aren’t high tech racing yachts by definition a sign of white privilege?
The fact that anyone gives this brainwashed teen any attention at all is a depressing statement on life in the 21st century.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Newtsche 7/29/2019 1:42:40 PM (No. 137115)
Greta Thunberg -- An utterly disgusting cultural trend and social media flavor of the week. There are jokes about first world problems, Thunberg is a real one. So so many fools.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Omen55 7/29/2019 1:44:27 PM (No. 137117)
Well if a storm drowns her they will blame Trump because he pulled out of the Paris Accords.
Thus giving dem another martyr.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
TLCary 7/29/2019 1:49:22 PM (No. 137130)
Her major accomplishment is getting kids to skip school. Real tough challenge there. Shame, maybe they could have learned something instead. Remember when truancy got you in trouble? Now it’s virtue signaling for kids that have no idea what virtues really are.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Smart11344 7/29/2019 1:50:54 PM (No. 137133)
Eating lutefisk detroys brain cells. She's a good example. Yah, sure.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 7/29/2019 1:52:31 PM (No. 137134)
Hilarious. She can go back to the 1920s or 1820s if she wants but I WILL NOT, and I will work to keep Luddite fools like this child from telling me how to run my life.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Grounded 7/29/2019 1:52:55 PM (No. 137135)
FTA: "Thunberg told The Associated Press ahead of her announcement that she spent months trying to figure out how to travel to the U.S. without using planes, which she has long shunned because of their high greenhouse gas emissions." You can always swim, girlie.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jacksin5 7/29/2019 1:54:13 PM (No. 137138)
"A three hour Tour"
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Banjo Willy 7/29/2019 1:56:56 PM (No. 137144)
Hol' up Waymon, this little munchkin can produce her own fuel should the winds not favor her course. Genius!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
coyote 7/29/2019 1:59:27 PM (No. 137147)
But, Greta, that high-tech sailboat used tons of fossil fuels in it's construction. Coal-driven electricity for routing parts, oil to produce the plastic, the list goes on. If you really want to be pure, swim to South America.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Upright2 7/29/2019 2:04:17 PM (No. 137155)
Madness. Sheer madness.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Avanti1 7/29/2019 2:19:36 PM (No. 137177)
Sell the boat. Diststribute the proceeds. Fight wealth inequality.
Alternatively, grow up and face reality.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
droopydog 7/29/2019 2:29:08 PM (No. 137185)
High tech racing yachts are strictly the realm of billionaires. Great message, Greta!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
hershey 7/29/2019 2:35:44 PM (No. 137191)
Ha ha...not very bright this one...'she spent months trying to figure out how to travel to the U.S. without using planes,', if you don't fly your choices are TWO....swim or sail....and it took her months to figure that out??? Bahahahaha
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I love it "Taking the yacht". How white of her. Do these nitwits never see what utter fools they are? I suggest she read Robert Burn's "To a Louse" "O Wad some Pow'r The giftie gee us to see oursels as ithers see us!"
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If all these highly paid AGW alarmists truly believed the bilge they are trying to sell us then more of them would do the same. The fact that this pitifully misled and misinformed young lady is doing so and is getting press for the effort just goes to show that most of them don't truly believe their own alarmism.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Clinger 7/29/2019 2:43:08 PM (No. 137198)
I sure hope no trees were murdered to build her boat. She should reconsider and just swim.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
JeanBennett 7/29/2019 2:54:40 PM (No. 137219)
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/29/2019 3:01:33 PM (No. 137221)
A hundred bucks says she is late. Sailing is no way to get there if you are on any sort of schedule or timeline. The winds can not be controlled.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Northcross 7/29/2019 3:01:48 PM (No. 137222)
Any possibility of Al Gore traveling in a garbage scow?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/29/2019 3:03:33 PM (No. 137223)
Screw you, #19, you Nigerian troll.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 7/29/2019 3:18:48 PM (No. 137236)
She will cross the Atlantic to reach NY, but Chile is on the Pacific coast. Will she use the Panama Canal?
The locks gates are powered by electric motors. How is the electricity for the motors generated?
Gas Natural Fenosa of Spain is in charge of almost all the electricity in Panama, so will this precious little darlin' rely on fossil fuel to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 7/29/2019 3:22:25 PM (No. 137239)
Typical airhead liberal teenager. First of all, she will be sailing into the wind if their is wind. The little lady will become expert at tacking. And do they let sailboats through the Panama Canal? If so, passage ain't free. Bring pesos! They charge a fee .If not,she can sail around Cape Horn to Santiago de Chile, which is halfway up their Pacific Coast. That is not in the friendliest of seas. It doesn't matter that she hasn't thought things out. But look, she has good intentions. She better start now if she intends to get there on time. If she teams up with AOC, they can build a tunnel to South America and drive there in their electric car.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/29/2019 3:23:00 PM (No. 137241)
Doesn't work. Boats are not old-fashioned enough. She needs to walk. With only a staff. Even, then she's doing damage to the beloved ground by walking on it.
She should close her eyes, click her heels three times, and just wish herself there. No harm, no foul.
Stupid.
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A rowboat made from sustainably-harvested wood would be the best bet for her. And hand-forged nails using iron or bronze she digs up (ecologically-soundly), then uses sustainably-harvested wood to forge.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
watlines 7/29/2019 3:36:10 PM (No. 137255)
What research did young Greta use to proffer such great wisdom on the world's behalf? Show us! Any stats or computer models?
More importantly, for the politicians and media who are using this girl to sell climate change, how stupid do you think the rest of us are?
You both have broken the public trust and shamed yourselves by abandoning your adult responsibilities and admitting to the world (you supposedly care about) that a child with an undeveloped body and brain knows more than you do.
Would you allow her to sit in the left front seat of a 747 cockpit before takeoff?
Just asking.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
fourpmfox 7/29/2019 3:47:53 PM (No. 137264)
She ought to be spending the time on finding a way to hold these "conferences" on line rather than having all those people traveling to the site.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/29/2019 3:49:18 PM (No. 137265)
The lying leftists and commies who have poisoned these young people's minds - - should burn in Hell for all eternity.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Daisymay 7/29/2019 3:54:16 PM (No. 137268)
I don't know much about Sailing, but it sounds kind of dangerous. Please tell me that September will be High Seas in the Atlantic! I have friends who did a Repositioning cruise across the Atlantic and said it was so rough they would never do it again. Hope this 16 year old, who knows it all and wants to preach to all of us, will learn that sometimes she still has a lot to learn. Like not to sail the Atlantic in a BOAT! If you must go try a Ship, a very LARGE SHIP! Hope she is Seasick the whole trip!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
bamboozle 7/29/2019 5:03:43 PM (No. 137319)
Presumably the yacht has an engine for use in emergency? Will little Greta make sure that it is removed or disabled before leaving? Will she eschew using GPS and satellite radio? What happens when she hits a North Atlantic storm? So many questions...so few answers.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/29/2019 5:08:32 PM (No. 137321)
If this flowering mushroom head opts not to use the modern machinery of the Panama Canal she should read Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast" before beginning her long, perilous journey. That should change her feeble mind about stepping aboard the sailboat.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
jimincalif 7/29/2019 5:26:55 PM (No. 137337)
I've done a few ocean passages, on a boat designed to be comfortable, which Malizia II is decidedly NOT designed for. She's in for a rude awakening. And as mentioned above, these racing boats are hardly carbon-neutral.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 7/29/2019 6:17:57 PM (No. 137382)
#4 Small price to pay...
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/29/2019 6:29:50 PM (No. 137399)
Tacking into the wind is mandatory...Smells like a tragic ending due to stupid!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Rivetjoint 7/29/2019 7:14:54 PM (No. 137447)
Hurricane season tends to get more active in August and September as the waters have been getting warmer all summer. That's some real warming for ya.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
rochow 7/29/2019 7:31:29 PM (No. 137466)
Right! An armada of ships and planes are being sent out to check on her whereabouts after a heavy sea, or a hurricane.... 'saving' a lot of fuel and time for some stupid teenager!
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
varkdriver 7/29/2019 8:01:02 PM (No. 137494)
To sail from England to the US, you hafta go straight south with the current to the Canary Islands, then hang a right and sail straight west, again with the current and the prevailing trade winds. Expect some heavy seas along the way; the Atlantic has a way of making even the largest boat feel mighty small. And her boat doesn't look very big for long-distance bluewater sailing.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/29/2019 8:46:50 PM (No. 137520)
Calculate yor CARBON footprint. Divide by 6 billion. Go online for your conference. Recalculate. Save yourself 21 weeks of sea sickness and canned corned beef. Now you're talking.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
SALady 7/29/2019 9:13:51 PM (No. 137544)
Has it even occurred to her that that plane will still fly to that same place, simply with other passengers aboard?!?!?!?
Nobody can ever accuse brain dead "eco activists" of applying logic, reason, or facts to anything!!!!!!
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
globalwarmer 7/29/2019 10:07:22 PM (No. 137578)
Well, what do you know, another virtue signalling Leftist from Europe. How novel.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
rytwng 7/29/2019 10:55:02 PM (No. 137610)
Another in the endless supply of left wing idiots. Why does the media report what this twit is doing? Who cares?
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Annie Xango 7/30/2019 12:05:28 AM (No. 137632)
there is something a little off. with this child...she looks about 12 instead of 16..and others are pulling her strings..strange...
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
PChristopher 7/30/2019 1:34:30 AM (No. 137652)
Greta, I hear that really small boats are best for the Atlantic....can you take David Hogg with you?
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So we're supposed to go back to ships with sails instead of airplanes? LOL. New York to California will require a trip through the Panama Canal.