Friday, August 16, 2019
Must not joke about climate activists
Arron Banks, the insurance tycoon and leading Brexit figure, has come under fire for a tweet about 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg.
The Leave.EU founder responded to a post by Green party MP Caroline Lucas about Greta's voyage across the Atlantic on a racing yacht, writing: "Freak yachting accidents do happen in August ..."
He later tweeted that it was a "joke" after his comment sparked outrage from social media users.
Among those to criticise his post was actress Amanda Abbington, who tweeted: "You're wishing a potentially fatal accident onto a sixteen year old girl, why..?"
She had earlier written: "If you are a grown up, fully-fledged adult and you are mocking this young girl for trying to save the planet then I genuinely feel sorry for you."
Mr Banks later defended his post and, in response to another tweet which highlighted the fact Greta was a child, he said: "Quite and one being used. Obviously I don't hope she encounters a freak yachting accident! I just enjoy watching the ludicrous tweeter mob following the next outrage ..."
He also replied to someone accusing him of showing "his true colours", saying: "It was a joke .. you lefties have no sense of humour ..."
Greta is embarking on a two-week voyage across the Atlantic on a carbon-neutral racing yacht, the Malizia II, so she can attend high-profile climate events without using planes or cruise ships which emit greenhouse gas emissions.
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"Carbon Neutral?" How the hell do you manufacture a modern "yacht" in a "Carbon Neutral" manner? The metal has to be forged, the fiberglass has to be manufactured, the sail-cloth has to be either woven or created from nylon (OIL). What a ludicrous label!
The climate is going to continue to change no matter what humans do. It is dishonest to give young people the idea that they can do something useful about climate.
Stan B. - By "declaring" it carbon neutral. Never mind the fact that the epoxy used to bind the carbon fibers is a plastic created from "fossil fuels".
It takes a lot of ignorance to be a Greenie.
Brainwashed kids coming here to lecture us about Climate Change the U S of A has a better enviroemtnal record then dose many of those Europeran Nations
If someone doesn't allow you to challenge something, it's because that thing is their religion.
Greta is about to discover why people stopped sailing commercially over 100 years ago. Hopefully she will arrive too late to patronise us with her 16 years of experience, two of which she didn’t leave the house
Banks didn’t really wish her harm, he just wishes these virtue signallers would stop trying to make everyone else do their bidding. The silent majority don’t even believe in the nonsense of Cc.
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