RE:illodgical Let me follow your smart logic to contrast with the “stupid illogical” 16 year old “twerp” you’re so superior to, Frank. She, like any reasonable person, recognizes that climate change has been observable for decades, is predictably accelerating, and can be addressed if we collectively demand action and rethink our imaginary bean counting game; but, the book of Frank says that a call to change isn’t credible if it comes from someone who uses a product in any way that our societies have long been distorted to rely upon in every way possible (you note her use of oil, but I also suggest your logic also includes her hypocritical use of money - she should be penniless or I won’t listen). Frank, on the other hand, thinks that the rain forest alone is the problem to be addressed, and his credibility is fine even if he sometimes takes advantage of access to clean food, air and water. No hypocrisy there at all.
I figure Greta would probably forgo the oil products, even if they continue to be heavily subsidized by tax dollars, if oil proponents like Frank agreed to give up using the things youth like Greta are demanding be preserved, that don’t have alternatives. Don’t get me wrong, Frank, I, like you I suspect, will be dead and gone long before the nastiest effects of climate change come to pass, but Greta, and my kids, will not. Their kids are especially f’d, as you put it, if guys like us continue to decide who gets a voice in the debate, and what rain forest we can save the whales in or something if there’s time and money, but there probably won’t be.
Did I get that right, Frank?