{"id":71876,"date":"2019-08-07T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71876"},"modified":"2019-09-27T08:53:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T13:53:06","slug":"just-another-kid-concerned-about-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71876","title":{"rendered":"Just Another Kid Concerned About The Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greta Thunberg seems to be for Swedish environmentalists what Alexandria &#8220;Tide Pod Evita&#8221; Ocasio Cortez is for American progressives; overconfident, undereducated, and very, very overpromoted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll give her this much, though; unlike the folks flying in private jets and ocean motor yachts to climate conferences, the girl &#8211; who has &#8220;led&#8221; a number of climate-related school strikes in Sweden &#8211; is putting her travel plans where her mouth is.  More or less. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Greta Thunberg is to sail across the Atlantic in a high-speed racing yacht next month to attend UN climate summits in the US and Chile as part of a sabbatical year the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist will spend in the US.\u201cGood news! I\u2019ll be joining the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, COP25 in Santiago \u2026 I\u2019ve been offered a ride on the 60ft racing boat Malizia II. We\u2019ll be sailing across the Atlantic Ocean from the UK to NYC in mid August,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GretaThunberg\/status\/1155764342274629632\">Greta tweeted<\/a>. The journey will take two weeks.<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So at least she&#8217;s sailing, rather than taking some plutoprog&#8217;s Gulfstream. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yachtcharterfleet.com\/luxury-charter-yacht-22376\/malizia.htm\">it&#8217;s not exactly the kind of boat my great-grandparents sailed from Norway and Sweden on<\/a>.   It&#8217;s the kind of rustic adventure Robin Leach in his heyday might have said was &#8220;a bit much&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; travel is apparently either for those who are wealthy enough to qualify as exceptions to global warming, or only for people who can take a month out of their lives to cross the ocean on a yacht that costs millions to build and tens of thousands a week to charter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sounds about right. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greta Thunberg seems to be for Swedish environmentalists what Alexandria &#8220;Tide Pod Evita&#8221; Ocasio Cortez is for American progressives; overconfident, undereducated, and very, very overpromoted. I&#8217;ll give her this much, though; unlike the folks flying in private jets and ocean motor yachts to climate conferences, the girl &#8211; who has &#8220;led&#8221; a number of climate-related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-crusade","category-global-warmingcoolingchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71877,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71876\/revisions\/71877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}