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echo: fidonews
to: WARD DOSSCHE
from: DAN CLOUGH
date: 2020-01-21 18:24:00
subject: Re: Greta the Great

-=> Ward Dossche wrote to Oli <=-

 O> of course i did, even long before thunberg was despised by millions of
 O> dumb fucks. though i didn't notice cullis-suzuki in 1992. but why? ... ;)

 WD> As a board-member of the European Environmental Bureau I was in
 WD> 1991 and 1992 involved in the preparation for UNCED (United
 WD> Nations Conference on Environment and Development), the
 WD> Rio-conference. Severn Cullis-Suzuki was a 12yr old who had
 WD> written letters style-Greta "we're all going to die". She was
 WD> coached by her father David Suzuki, an environmentalist who in
 WD> the meantime lost all credibility in Canada ... Greta is also
 WD> coached by her dad.

 WD> Severn Cullis-Suzuki was subsequently invited to speak in Rio
 WD> where she made a presentation saying verbatim "I am afraid to go
 WD> out in the sun now because of the hole in our ozone" ... same as
 WD> Greta-statements "How dare you?" ... no knowledge, no science,
 WD> stupid statement but people loved it ... a 12yr old girl with a
 WD> pony-tail. She must be right, such a cute kid.

 WD> Her statement which was later refered to as "the girl who
 WD> silenced the world for 5 minutes" is now forgotten but can be
 WD> found on YouTube.

 WD> Well, when in 2000 I was invited by the Secretary-General of the
 WD> UN Kofi Annan to consult on and co-organize the "Rio+10"
 WD> conference in Johannesburg which would take place in 2002 and get
 WD> the name "Earth Summit" (and bring 176 heads of state around the
 WD> table) ... Severn Cullis-Suzuki was seated next to me, 20 years
 WD> old now, unable to make a coherent statement beyond what she said
 WD> in Rio, 8 years prior. I was expected to sheperd her through
 WD> meetings but it was hopeless... however the press-boys loved it,
 WD> she was "on the front page / on the top of news websites /
 WD> trending / ..." as you put it ... journalists needed to fill
 WD> airtime and columns to sell advertisements.

 WD> Severn Cullis-Suzuki was an enormous one-trick poney, she could
 WD> do one thing and then she was done.

 WD> Greta Thunberg I firmly believe is a one-trick poney as well,
 WD> Anuna de Wever (the Belgian Greta) too...

 WD> You may also wonder why there are no boys in that league ... I'm
 WD> not saying anything.

 WD> So I expect you (or others) to turn now against my person but
 WD> Gerrit Kuehn will set you straight because I hold an academic
 WD> degree in environmental sciences (and also one in computer
 WD> sciences BTW). So go ahead and eloquently explain that I'm in
 WD> love with myself.

Impressive credentials and experience, and well said.

Maybe that will shut the arrogant dipshit up.



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