On Thursday, September 26, 2019, 06:44:28 AM PDT, John Newman wrote: >On a different topic, anyone watch Greta Thunberg talking to the UN about what she refers to as, correctly, IMO, the climate crisis? [1]Greta Thunberg to world leaders: 'How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood' >I applaud her passion, I wish the world's youth could be equally passionate about similarly daunting issues, e.g. the utterly corrupt state of the world's governments/corporations. I have a different take on her. I think she's utterly crazed. I don't know what her medical or mental problems are, but there's something clearly wrong with her head. I think she was brought in to put on a performance. I'm not saying that she's "in" on the scam: Rather, I think she was selected to do what she did. That's probably her normal behavior, more or less. That doesn't mean the "climate crisis" isn't a problem. But I think a large fraction of the motivation behind it is the desire to increase the size and scope of government. What 'they' need is a large, seemingly intractable problem, one that ostensibly requires great government intervention, taxation, etc. The problem is seen to be a sham when it is apparent that the people who push it are not only uninterest in, and indeed actively shun a potential treatment. [2]https://www.technologyreview.com/s/511016/a-cheap-and-easy-plan-to-s top-global-warming/ 2015 And for an unjustifiably negative take: [3]https://www.fastcompany.com/90320591/the-controversial-crazy-plan-to -cool-the-planet-by-spraying-chemicals-into-the-sky And from 2008: [4]https://www.wired.com/2008/06/ff-geoengineering/ Google search 'mit sulfur dioxide global warming' Jim Bell References 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMrtLsQbaok 2. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/511016/a-cheap-and-easy-plan-to-stop-global-warming/ 3. https://www.fastcompany.com/90320591/the-controversial-crazy-plan-to-cool-the-planet-by-spraying-chemicals-into-the-sky 4. https://www.wired.com/2008/06/ff-geoengineering/