Dear Greta, we do not look to you for hope. And we don't want your hypocrisy, either

FOFB:

Greta Thunberg and peers, take note.

You are the first generation who have required air-conditioning in every classroom.

You want TV in every room of your home and cannot function without computerization. Even your classes are all computerized.

You spend all day and night on electronic devices sucking electric energy into your handheld devices.

More than ever, you don't walk or ride bikes to school but arrive in caravans of private cars. You don’t play outside or use your imaginations.

You don’t stroll outside just for fun, enjoy a picnic, or simply soak up the sun which is highly ironic (and hypocritical) given your complaints.

You are the biggest consumers of manufactured goods ever and update perfectly good, expensive, luxury items just to stay trendy. It is seemingly the only brand of entertainment that remotely captures your interest.

Tell your teachers to switch off the air-conditioning and open the windows on a beautiful day.

Walk, ride a bike, ride the bus, or car pool to school.

Switch off your devices and read a book.

Eat less manufactured, processed food.

Spend a weekend planting a garden, picking up trash, and actually making a difference instead of screaming for others to do what you will not do yourself.

Learn to research facts and think for yourself and not blindly accept the words and thoughts of others.

And lastly, don’t think we haven’t noticed the complete hypocrisy in the insane amount of trash left behind after your demonstrations so carelessly and thoughtlessly.

We see you, but do you see yourselves?

“Be the change you want to see in the world.”

It would be nice, yes? Well, you can bet your life savings on it, but I won't bet mine.

Also, Greta, please get a grip. Because what you are saying is laughable.

By no broad, global measure of social and economic well-being have we failed kids. The global poverty rate fell from 28% in 1999 to 11% in 2013, according to Human­Prog­ress.org. Life expectancy around the world increased from 63.2 years to 71.9 years from 1981 to 2015. The infant mortality rate dropped from 64.8 per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 30.5 in 2016. The completion rate for primary school increased from 80% in 1981 to 90% in 2015. The same benign trends hold for hunger, child labor, literacy and so on.

Today’s youth are entering adulthood in a world that is wealthier, healthier and better-educated and -fed than ever before. If climate change proves a significant challenge, they will have more ­resources and technology to grapple with it than any other generation in the history of mankind.

I do not think that Greta is herself a hypocrite; I have no doubt she does believe what she is saying. She is simply wrong, but then, she is a child and is being spoon fed the nonsense she says by adults who are simply using her  for their own purposes. This includes mainly her parents. They have weaponized a girl with mental-health challenges for their own selfish and hypocritical reasons. "The adults in her life should be protecting her; instead, they’ve terrified her."

But as I have written before, environmentalism is the hip religion for people who want other people to make huge sacrifices in the way they live, but not themselves because hypocrisy, it turns out, is a status symbol among the environmentally woke.