The real point is not so much that she may not have read all the academic journals you speak of (have you)? but rather that she, and a few million others like her from ~185 countries around the world who will be inheriting the planet before too long, we want some serious action instead of just what we hear in the media everyday.
I am not a climate expert, neither are you nor Greta nor most people. Nobody should care much at all what I have to say about AGW, same with Greta, that's my point. But she's entitled to her opinion of course, as we all are.
A lot of people want action on climate change, including myself. These young people have a right to protest. Young people also tend to be idealistic. It's great to care about the environment, but when they don't fully understand the economics of it you get crazy & naive proposals like the Green New Deal. That's why you need to leave these things to the experts, not the activists.
Of course, most environmental activist are younger. That's why Elizabeth May wants to lower the voting age to 16 federally as a campaign promise, so she and her party can get more votes and more political power. But like Greta, most 16 year old don't know what they're talking about, and the typical 16 y/o today is more immature with less responsibility than at any other point in human history. Most 16 y/o will only regurgitate what their parents, teachers, friends, and pop culture media tell them, and have yet to learn to think for themselves. When I was 16 when i picked up the newspaper I only read the Sports and comic-strip sections mostly.
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