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Greta Thunberg Ditches Climate Crusade After Falling For Bad Ass In Souped-Up Honda



OUTSPOKEN Scandinavian upstart Greta Thunberg has finally realised that there’s more to life than relentlessly campaigning against climate change after striking up a relationship with a 17-year-old boy racer who drives around town in a heavily-modded, petrol-chugging 1998 Honda Civic.

Precocious Swede Thunberg proved herself to be a massive pain in the hole for world leaders recently, making passionate speeches about what she saw as the ongoing destruction of the planet for profit, and instigating a worldwide movement against capitalism and man-made climate change.

Unable to sway the tide of Thunberg’s international recognition for her environmentalism, capitalists and world leaders went on to hope that Thunberg would eventually succumb to her hormones and turn her attention to boys and pretty dresses.

“Once she met local bad-boy Erïk Vüsterberdën and his shit-hot hatchback, all her talk about carbon footprints went straight out the window” said a member of the G20’s Climate Change Denial Committee. “Last week she took a boat from Sweden to Brazil because flying was against her fossil fuel beliefs. This week, she’s in the passenger seat of the Honda doing donuts in a cloud of smoke outside an Ikea, before driving in a low gear to another Ikea just for the hell of it.

“I know we’ve spent millions trying to convince young people to not listen to Greta, but now we’d like to reverse that; listen to her, she’s finally making sense. Don’t worry about what the grownups are doing, go have fun, live life. There’s nothing to worry about!”

Thunberg was unavailable for comment as she also discovered that texting is fun and Big Macs are actually quite tasty.

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We're considering the Onion and others of its ilk to be "real news" nowadays, are we, Gob?

Bicycle Bill wrote: So happy to say I'll hopefully make it to COP25 in Madrid.
I’ve been offered a ride from Virginia on the 48ft catamaran La Vagabonde.

The Actual Cost
Nothing showed up on the survey and it appeared I had picked up the soon to be named La Vagabonde for roughly AUD $100,000 … a bit of a steal.

Throw in flights and the yacht survey and it was another $5,000.

Improvements
Some of the improvements that I have made to La Vagabonde to make life first bearable then comfortable have centred around getting more power onboard.

2x Soliban Flexible Solar Panels inc. install 3,463 Euro (sic)
4x Trojan Deep Cycle Lead Acid Batteries 1,400 AUD
1x Air Breeze Wind Generator not inc install 1,920 Euro
1x Yamaha 2KW Generator 1,700 AUD
1x ‘Smart’ Alternator Regulator 80 GBP (this was cheap and awesome)
Other general improvements or safety include:

AIS $500 AUD
A new tender and outboard $3,637 Euro (zodiac and merc 9.9)
104m2 (or something I can’t remember the exact number, but it was obviously made by a professional. Ray Brown Sails from Adelaide. Legend, get sails from him if you can.) Assymetrical Spinnaker $3000 AUD
An extra 30m of Anchor Chain $660.00 AUD
45lb Mantus Supreme Anchor $700.00 AUD

How We Make Money Now
So now… onto what is really interesting for Elayna and I at the moment. It is Thursday the 9th of July and we currently have $1670 on our Patreon account.

Nearly 200 people have decided that they like our YouTube movies, way of life or whatever; enough that they will donate anywhere from a few dollars per month to support what we post on youtube and subsequently to Patreon.

This is really exciting for us. Mum is constantly checking in and writing us emails with Patreon updates “130 Patrons now Riley. 150 Patrons now guys. Milestone. Well done!” With this income we can foreseeably continue our journey around the world.

This is what we would like and hope can be our actual source of ongoing income.

Big RR wrote: But I have to love how those who seek to deny any climate change problems would rather attack her than her message. Of course, it's because they can't dispute it, so let's attack the messenger.

Gob wrote:

Big RR wrote: But I have to love how those who seek to deny any climate change problems would rather attack her than her message. Of course, it's because they can't dispute it, so let's attack the messenger.

Her message? "Climate change is bad, we should protest about it." Nothing much to attack really? She's a young kid with Aspergers, not anyone with any scientific expertise, or any profound insights. The way she is being lauded and held up as a paragon of virtue by some, borders on child abuse.

Big RR wrote:
I don't know Gob, I think hr biggest message is that climate change is something we should take seriously, as it will affect us for generations to come. Sure, she's not a climate scientist, nor does she have any really [profound insights, but she is standing before a world body and saying this is too important to remain silent. And she is demanding it be addressed.

I recall during Vietnam we protested and demanded an end to our involvement; most of us weren't military or international relations experts, but we demanded action because we were the ones most likely to be affected (drafted to fight it); ditto fo the civil rights movement--these people weren't experts in race relations, but the were the ones suffering the most from the government's inaction, and they were demanding action. I see this as much the same thing.

If people dispute that climate change is occurring, then by all means discuss why you believe it; she's saying "If you believe what the vast majority of scientists are saying will be the consequence of doing nothing, then demand action from your governments, and keep demanding it until you get a response. But rather than discuss that message, they just choose to attack her personally.

Big RR wrote:As for the way some "laud" her, that's their problem, not her's. I agree it's not a positive thing, but I cn't blame her for that.