Greta’s Grinning Legions of Death From Tim Blair “We’ll know they’re serious when the mobile phones are in the bin.”
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/gretas-grinning-legions-of-death/news-story/6d2eb09b36be3a0b22463a54eaa7ea67
And so on Friday we’ll have possibly the biggest Halloween-style climate scare pantomime yet. The kids love this sort of thing, as you’ll have noticed from past climate protests.
Their signs shriek disaster, but their joyful smiles are a dead giveaway. These aren’t really protests at all. They’re parties in the form of participatory performance art.
Step it up, children. You’ll also need to ditch the “you can’t eat coal” banners. You can’t eat mobile phones either, but every schoolkid at every Friday strike will be carrying one, despite their enormous climate impact.
As Paris-based think tank The Shift Project pointed out earlier this year, digital technology generates nearly three times Australia’s carbon dioxide output.
Why, these junior climate warriors are nothing but a mob of planet-poisoning Instagram Adanis.
We’ll know they’re serious when the mobile phones are in the bin. For that matter, they might consider getting rid of the signs as well. Serious protests don’t involve a great many signs