Re: Is this what life will be like...
Originally Posted by
Bruce
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Greta Thunberg and her ilk are not arguing against plastic or modern conveniences they are arguing against pollution a totally different issue.
These are all the same strawman arguments used against her, as irrelevant as they are stupid.
Remember that generation referred to so glowingly in the earlier post was the same one that thought it perfectly acceptable to load all their garbage into barges and dump it in the North Sea. The same mob that, when they had completely fished out their own fishing grounds thought it perfectly acceptable to go and steal from another nation's fishing grounds.
Yes she is Bruce....
And they are not 'Strawman' arguments' are they...
It's her generation that are continuing to carry forward progress, which in turn places much more pressure on the planet we live on. Nothing wrong with the things she is suggesting, but to apportion blame on previous generations is a cop out and an excuse by her generation not to accept responsibility for their own actions.
She is blaming the wrong section of society who can't be blamed for making use of the labour saving devices and pleasures that the greedy money making industrialists are working on even as we speak. nobody asked for HS2 or 5G or autonomous vehicles or smart motorways etc, but only a fool would not take advantage of them once they have been provided.
Progress will end up destroying the human race, if it hasn't already done so by allowing the spread of Covid19 at a catastrophic speed thanks to the invention of the aeroplane. It seemed like a good idea at the time....