Who gave you the right to deprive us of our living standards, aspirations and loved ones?

Who gave you the right to deprive us of our living standards, aspirations and loved ones?

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg earned her moniker Doom Pixie because of her diminutive height and shrill accusations of human and planetary doom allegedly due to climate change caused by fossil fuels. 

Her most famous tirade was directed at world leaders for allegedly doing too little to stop it.

“How dare you?” she fiercely scowled at United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, presidents and prime ministers, dignitaries and functionaries in the UN’s General Assembly Hall.

“You have stolen my dreams, my childhood with your empty words…. People are suffering," she said. "People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. How dare you?!?”   

No, Miss Thunberg and the politicians, bureaucrats and activists who turn your diatribes into policy.   

How dare you employ bogus scares based on computer models that can’t even recreate past climates, much less predict future climate and weather? How dare you turn every temperature and weather event, flood, drought and forest fire into assertions that wildlife, humanity and planet face imminent demise?

How dare you claim plant-fertilizing, planet-greening, life-sustaining carbon dioxide from fuels, manufacturing and agriculture somehow endangers our human health and welfare?

How dare you demand that we shut down the energy systems that make our lives, health and living standards possible? That we must be deprived of modern comforts, aspirations and loved ones, because you force us to eliminate energy systems that work – and replace them with expensive weather-dependent substitutes that bring blackouts, poverty, disease, deprivation, joblessness and shortened lives?

How dare you tell the poorest people on Earth that they must renounce their God-given right to modern technologies, health and living standards – and sacrifice their landscapes........

© Townhall