This morning the BBC Red Button service had climate-related pieces for six out of its seven "Science" items. It feels like like middle class desperation, like a dull family party where somebody suggests a game only the children really want to play.
I listened to the Radio 4 headlines, which was followed by Nick Robinson fawningly interviewing Greta Thunberg. She is a privileged 16 year old climate activist with a set of learning disabilities. Clearly, she has done no climate research, and I doubt whether she has even read much about it. Yet her certainty and age and personal demeanor make her newsworthy.
Next up on Radio 4: a pet rabbit in Daventry that points with its nose towards climate change stories in the newspaper, and seems to be getting more and more worried about our future.
Sam - ha ha - that pet rabbit probably knows more about climate change than anyone at the BBC.
As for Greta Thunberg, using kids in this way is downright creepy although she may be one of those people who instinctively know how to make the media work for them. A climate dunce but a media genius perhaps.
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I listened to the Radio 4 headlines, which was followed by Nick Robinson fawningly interviewing Greta Thunberg. She is a privileged 16 year old climate activist with a set of learning disabilities. Clearly, she has done no climate research, and I doubt whether she has even read much about it. Yet her certainty and age and personal demeanor make her newsworthy.
Next up on Radio 4: a pet rabbit in Daventry that points with its nose towards climate change stories in the newspaper, and seems to be getting more and more worried about our future.
Sam - ha ha - that pet rabbit probably knows more about climate change than anyone at the BBC.
As for Greta Thunberg, using kids in this way is downright creepy although she may be one of those people who instinctively know how to make the media work for them. A climate dunce but a media genius perhaps.
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