But
- Why is caring about climate left-wing?
- It's the same people ignoring the scientists, that write this crap, so no, a scientist speaking doesn't solve anthing. Unfortunately. It wouldn't have come to this then.
I agree an impassioned plea can be just as helpful as an expert opinion. But is she mature enough at that age to understand the consequences of the celebrity status that is being put on her through this?
I saw her speak in a fireside chat and spoke with people who have spent time with her.
She's plenty mature.
Meaning she spoke strongly and powerfully and is difficult to argue against so they attack everything else.
Personally I like different a rhetoric rather than fatalism, but it is undeniable that she is successful and that this is probably going to be a net positive.
Regarding why some people react negatively to her I also understand that.
- The left-wing hates prosperity (and freedom).
- Prosperity comes from coal, oil, and cutting down forests to make cattle ranches. Freedom comes from buying weapons with the profits.
- Climate scientists/advocates say we have to scale back the coal, oil and forest bits, or we're flirting with extinction-level risks.
- Ergo, climate scientists/advocates are left-wing.
It isn't. Why is it percieved as left-wing? Because President Reagan and business lobbyists pushed hard to associate climate science with a "big government, pro-regulation, anti-business" (in other words, "left-wing" according to their propaganda) agenda[0].
Also likely IMO because of associations between environmentalism, feminism and the left-wing hippie movement of the 1960s.
[0]https://www.vox.com/2017/4/22/15377964/republicans-environme...