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Saturday 22 February 2020

Maybe it's a hint



A minuscule green-brown snail has been discovered in the wilderness of Brunei and has been named after Greta Thunberg.

The new species - Craspedotropis gretathunberga - is approximately 2mm long and 1mm wide with grey tentacles and a concave shell.

Researchers say they named the mollusc after the prominent 17-year-old climate activist to acknowledge the fact her generation will be responsible for fixing problems they did not create.


That's certainly one way to grab a headline or two, but maybe it is also a hint. If we follow Greta's climate narrative to its obvious conclusion then we may also have to wander around eating leaves with all our worldly goods on our backs. 

3 comments:

Sam Vega said...

"her generation will be responsible for fixing problems they did not create."

They've also hugely benefitted from solutions they didn't create. Pre-industrial revolution Sweden, anyone? Lots of well-fed and healthy young girls making pronouncements on global issues?

Scrobs. said...

Well, don't tell the French...

A K Haart said...

Sam - yes it's such a weirdly ridiculous thing to say.

Scrobs - yum yum.