Why can't we just get experts out in public speaking out and detailing things?
They have.
Plus, she's part of the generation that will be dealing with the climate mess when they get older if we don't deal with it now.
joe40001 posted...
as a 16 year old foreign girl speaking to world leaders that's not an endearing look.
Why does it matter that she's foreign in a venue that has multiple world leaders?
It matters as far as the US perception of it.
Let's be real, what good is she actually doing? Moreover what good is she doing that can't be done better than a good climate scientist?
No one listened to the scientists.
The fact that people are talking about a teenaged girl means that she's already having an impact.
No it shows she's a meme.The story is about her and not even about climate change.
If every major news outlet found the same very interesting rock in a hospital and started spamming their front page and youtube feeds with videos about the rock, and the story of the rock, we wouldn't go "oh good, finally we are talking about heathcare because the rock was in a hospital"
She's raising awareness of herself, she using herself as a prop, and because 16 year old angry dutch girl or whatever seems iconographically "neat" clickbait pimps it out, but at the end of the day she's not doing anything. Or helping anything.
The only possible meaningful impact she could have is triggering trump enough that he says something so patently false about climate change that the rest of the republicans want to distance themselves from it and thus end up taking a little more reasonable approach towards it.