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Because "skipping school" implies that the people on the streets don't really believe that climate change is real, they just want to be outside of the classrooms, which makes it easier to dismiss
Because you can't stop arguing about something while someone on the internet is wrong. It's a rule.
Birds eat insects. Insects are disappearing at an incredible rate - in parts of Germany, down 75% in 25 years. In the U.S., certain flies have dropped 80% in number in 20 years.I'm an old and have 7 birdhouses in the back yard along with a feeder. This explains some things I've noticed in recent years.
3 billion fewer birds than we had in 1970: Birds are disappearing at alarming rates in Illinois and across North America, new science reveals
Impressive. There was a nice crowd of students and others who skipped class to attend the climate strike at ground zero in Miami Beach.
That's funny. You guys spend so much time preaching words have meanings when nitpicking everything else. I guess strike is an exception
But lets get hung up on what tim called it and sling crap at him rather than discuss the topic.
Well let’s put it another way then: Imagine that the Republican Party’s complete intransigence on this issue, their refusal to take any action, and as a result their re-election chances in 2020, are encapsulated as bunch of bowling pins. Now picture the students today as a bowling ball heading right for the pins...
So much time? Ok....can't speak for others, but I typically engage in that conversation when the definition is completely wrong and people are creating definitions of their own that aren't close to the popular definition...like when Tim uses bigot the way he does or when racism isn't used appropriately etc. If someone can show me how ": a temporary stoppage of activities in protest against an act or condition" is not what was going on today, I"ll hang up and listen. That's one of the common, more popular definitions of the word along with "a work stoppage by a body of workers to enforce compliance with demands made on an employer". Both seem like appropriate descriptions of the events today but I am willing to listen to why they aren't.
Global warming isn't deciding the 2020 election. Just like the world isn't ending in 2030 as you falsely claimed at one point.
This post is wrong on several counts starting with the fact that I ever claimed the world will end in 2030.
My batting average is way better than yours. You're usually below the Mendoza line so I'm comfortable here. People have opinions on global warming but they aren't casting a ballot based on it. They vote on economical issues, Health Care, immigration, or even guns, national security or even a damn SCOTUS seat. They don't vote based on global warming.
Merriam Webster:
That’s an interesting article although it seems to point to agricultural practices more than climate change.I'm an old and have 7 birdhouses in the back yard along with a feeder. This explains some things I've noticed in recent years.
3 billion fewer birds than we had in 1970: Birds are disappearing at alarming rates in Illinois and across North America, new science reveals
Looks like the bulk of the volume in this thread was
over semantics...shocked shocked I tell you!!!!
Was listening to this topic on NPR's Science Friday. They acknowledge that they don't know for sure what's causing the declines and that similar declines in the past have been because of things like DDT and such...that's what almost cause the bald eagles to go extinct. They are looking at it from all perspectives to figure out what's going on.That’s an interesting article although it seems to point to agricultural practices more than climate change.I'm an old and have 7 birdhouses in the back yard along with a feeder. This explains some things I've noticed in recent years.
3 billion fewer birds than we had in 1970: Birds are disappearing at alarming rates in Illinois and across North America, new science reveals
Supermike80 is scared of a teenager. She has every right to be pissed after what our generation has done to this planet.
Yes...by all means, shoot the messenger and ignore all the adults who've spent all their professional lives dedicated to the topic and providing mountains of evidence that she is repeating.
I've been reading a biography of Frederick Douglass, and this was the same response he received from slave owners and racists who attended his speeches. Rather than argue with their content, they assured each other that somebody must have written the speeches for him (because a black man couldn't speak like that) and they accused him of being a pawn. When that didn't work, they angrily responded that "no black man is going to lecture me" etc.
Have you ever spoken to the U.N.? Have you ever lead millions of people around the world in a social movement? It seems to me maybe she’s packed a lot of life experiences into a short time.
Well there is that.Yes...by all means, shoot the messenger and ignore all the adults who've spent all their professional lives dedicated to the topic and providing mountains of evidence that she is repeating.
Not to mention being an agent of the Deep State. Apparently "the Dems" are responsible for what goes on in Sweden and at the UN. Their reach knows no bounds.
If she wants to step into the political arena with the grown ups, especially on as large a platform as she currently has, she should expect no less than to be treated like an adult.
It's not the grown-ups who are criticizing her, though. It's people like Dinesh D'Souza.
Fun fact: In Sweden, the "Sweden Democrats" are former nazis, and current anti-immigration right wing populists.
