90 Miles From Tyranny : Climate Activist Greta Thunberg’s Yacht Trip to America More Harmful to Environment Than Flying

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Friday, August 16, 2019

Climate Activist Greta Thunberg’s Yacht Trip to America More Harmful to Environment Than Flying



Six members of her team have to fly back to Germany from New York.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg’s virtue signalling trip on a $4 million dollar yacht to lecture Americans about climate change will be more harmful to the environment than if she had flown via aircraft.

Thunberg and her team set sail on the Malizia II for a voyage that will take 2 weeks to reach New York.

The mode of transport was deliberately chosen so Thunberg could relentlessly virtue signal about the evils of air travel.

But the entire trip is a complete farce.

As the German newspaper Taz points out, the yacht trip means more CO2 will be released into the atmosphere than if just Greta and her father had traveled by air because six members of her team have to fly back to Germany from New York.

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“The sailing trip triggers at least six climate-damaging air travel across the Atlantic. If Thunberg had flown with her father, only two would have been necessary to come to New York,” reports Taz.

Indeed, a single flight from New York to Hamburg releases 1,800 kilograms of carbon dioxide, which equates to more than three quarters of what each person is entitled to a year if global warming is to be halted at 2 degrees.

As James Delingpole asks, besides the rank hypocrisy of her attention grabbing yacht trip, how exactly did Thunberg come to be the lecturing face of the environmentalist movement?

“A lecture, furthermore, from a child who hasn’t finished her schooling, whose frontal lobes haven’t formed, who has no...


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3 comments:

Jacquejet said...

A million dollar racing yacht without a toilet, so they have to poop in a bucket and toss the results over board. Any idea what the size of the carbon foot print it took to built that thing?

Handy Handsome said...

Fuq you Greta.

Stewart said...

She exploits the media. Clever father. Dumb leftist media.