In Plymouth, there was light rain and a light western breeze. The Malizia2 was still docked. Although it was on her Wednesday that the hyperactive girl Greta Tunberg was supposed to go on a trip to the USA. Nevertheless, hundreds of journalists arriving by plane, arriving on diesel cars and diesel ships, were already waiting for the Event. And when the next day the boat was dragged (the boat does not have its own engine) several electric boats from the bay towards the west, around it photographers and film crews flew around in helicopters. If you calculate how much CO₂ was emitted that day, then it would be better for her to fly on a damned dirty airplane.
The most useful for all the governments of the world who want to introduce new taxes, the rebel Greta gives her followers an example of how immoral it is to use airplanes, cars, power plants and meat. Therefore, in order to protect the climate from the terrible gas CO₂, which, according to her mother, Greta can see with the naked eye, she decided not to go to the US by boat.
She decided to sail, so that the UN would inform all delegates that there was no future.
To help the climate activist came professional yachtsman Boris Hermann, who offered the girl a two-week trip across the Atlantic on an IMOCA class Malizia2 yacht. It was Boris who proudly showed the reporters the brand new Kevlar sails with prints made “specially for Greta”. Would you know how Kevlar is made ...
The yacht is very environmentally friendly. There is no latrine on it, but there are water turbines for generating electricity. Her body is made of composite. And the sails are excellent. It costs only € 5,000,000 and is listed at the yacht club of the county of Monaco. Usually she takes part in races for the Rolex prize and other top events such as Open 60. Her sponsor is not only the BMW concern, but also the largest French insurance holding and other equally fat cats of capitalism.
Such a flight costs an average of € 40,000. But without CO₂ exhaust.
Because no one mentions how much CO₂ was emitted to create an indelible composite hull and other wonderful engineering things that a yacht that has no other purpose than entertaining millionaires is equipped. Of course, we will not even mention how much CO₂ was emitted during the launch of rockets carrying GPS satellites into orbit, along which the skippers of this boat will plot. Because they never knew how to use a sextant.
Here on such a boat a useful girl Greta will get to the other side for two weeks. In an atmosphere of complete CO₂ harmony.
The delegates of the Fridays for Future movement at the international congress in Lausanne under the leadership of Greta very joyfully accepted the decision of the Greta defender to sail.
They happily jumped and clapped their hands: “We will now move around the world like that!” Nobody said to the poor children that millionaires and boats for € 5 million would not be enough for all fighters against CO₂. In response, the children did not say how much 400 young FFF deputies gathered in the most expensive country in Europe to work out their requirements for the world around them.
This meeting, which took place literally a few days before the planned launch of Greta on the transatlantic journey, was actually very remarkable. It showed that the movement named after Greta is headed straight towards left extremism.
True, it began with the fact that the kids, who decided that they have the right to make a complaint to a world that has not paid a penny of taxes, gathered to make a list of activities that world governments should carry out tomorrow. To which Greta Tunberg spoke out against and stated that the movement should not put forward specific requirements. And it should be limited to vague wording, for example: “Listen to science!”
What kind of science is said by a girl who finally stopped going to school is not very clear. But the fact that she is already acting as a politician, not an activist, is visible with the naked eye. A dispute arose during which Greta drove the press out of the audience. Oops, how democratic. But when Greta began to lose the argument, she ran out of the room herself. True, then her PR people began to argue that Greta simply went to console the crying delegate. But, given the features of the diagnosis of the activist, which is characterized by a lack of empathy and interest in others, this is complete bullshit. Just a leader does not tolerate a headwind.
But the split in the movement deepened deeply: at the congress, two delegations - France and Germany - announced that their main task was the destruction of capitalism. That is, in fact, the children understood correctly that the crazy demands of the greens, once fulfilled, would lead to the collapse of the capitalist industrial system. In favor of, for example, early tillage. Delegations from the former Eastern Bloc — from Poland — immediately grappled with the Germans. The children, whose parents vividly remember how they live without capitalism, were very opposed to such a statement of the question.
And for me, one thing was enough - all these demands of “progressive youth” against air traffic because of the “climate” and the enthusiasm for a yacht for millionaires speak of one thing: they are either hypocrites from childhood, or simply hate “ordinary”, backward people.
Those who save up to € 300 for tickets to fly in a plane packed like cattle farms on a long-awaited vacation to Spain, and who did not dream of a two-week trip on a yacht with millionaires.
They also did not see this yacht. Such an environmentally friendly, carbon-free and high-tech yacht. Well, except that they themselves built it at the shipyard, with their dirty, non-environmentally friendly hands, for a meager salary, with which you can save up for a plane ticket for the whole family.
What a hypocritical monster - all this Greta and her party, which now includes politicians who have relied on "money from the air."
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.