09-27-2019, 02:10 PM
John -- Without replying line-by-line, let's agree that your sources and mine are very different. Your climate sources are, to be frank, a bunch of hacks funded by the fossil fuel industry (yes, I did my research). It's impossible to respond to their nonsense, because it's a lot easier to create than rebut -- a feature Trump uses every day and every way. Your argument that we shouldn't listen to a 16 (not 14) year old has more merit. I would never cite her as an expert source or even a spokesperson for an expert source. She's an activist, who happens to be more right than wrong. Her role, like that of any activist, is to rabble-rouse. That she's' doing extremely well. Since using logic and empirical data haven't worked, maybe a little emotion and a touching narrative might be in order.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.