Well - here she is being discussed and causing
a reaction. Not bad for a young kid. And look
at the impact she's having worldwide and the
attention she's getting for her cause.

Foxy,

Yes, I hope she gets more coverage. Somebody like her needs to push the limits of absurdity on the climate bogeyman. Are we heading for doom within, say, ten years ? Armageddon ? The end of days ?

Seriously, what does worry me is that some susceptible children will get so terrified about the odd degree rise in temperature and the odd inch rise in sea-level, that they will do the unthinkable ultimate, and in great numbers. I hope nobody gets that stupid, but it's a real possibility.

Meanwhile the world gets on with living, producing, improving their life conditions, even in areas where it's already pretty hot and always has been. We've got over hysteria before and we can do it again.

Joe

Dear Loudmouth,

You just said: 'Meanwhile the world gets on with living, producing, improving their life conditions, even in areas where it's already pretty hot and always has been. We've got over hysteria before and we can do it again.'

You're sounding a bit Scott Morrisonian there. Just throw in a few 'Jobs and growth, jobs and growth' and you've got him to a tee.

Dear Foxy,

I just stuck my head out the front door and saw tens of millions of Greta Thunbergs coming down the road. And they all look very angry. They definitely don't look like they are planning to vote LNP at the next election.

Dear Loudmouth,

Environmental sociology is that branch of sociology that studies the relationship between the environment and people and their social systems from a sociological perspective. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach covering the humanities and the sciences and has recourse to the major social thinkers particularly from sociology, anthropology and philosophy eg Durkheim, Marx, Bourdieu, Giddens, Foucault, just to name a few.

But this shouldn't be news to you, especially given that you have several humanities degrees in politics, economics, geography and community development. I would have thought that someone with that educational background would be familiar with all of this. Please don't embarrass yourself by asking me who Foucault is!

Misopinionated, I thankfully know foucault about Foucault.

And I didn't know Marx was an environmentalist.

Joe