How Dare You?

On Thursday, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg’s group ‘Fridays for Future’ launched a series of rallies to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Greta gained fame for her infamous speech in 2019 at the United Nations climate action summit in New York where she screamed, “How dare you? How dare you?” at UN diplomats because of the world’s lack of progress on combatting climate change. Last Monday, the UN issued a report warning that “billions” of people are in danger from climate change. Juxtapose that ambiguous warning to the millions of Ukrainians facing a real-life threat as they stare down the convoy of Russian tanks encircling Ukraine’s Capital city of Kyiv. Ironically, climate change alarmists like Greta Thunberg, have helped to create the invasion of Ukraine that she is now protesting against.

It has been well established that the “green energy” policies of Europe and the United States have directly enabled the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the deaths of thousands of innocent Ukrainians. Joe Biden shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline, ending oil and gas leases on federal land while opening up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in Russia has made the United States dependent on Russian oil again. European countries shutting down their nuclear power plants at the behest of environmentalists, have forced Europe to become more reliant on Russian to fill their energy needs. The millions of barrels of oil the West purchases from Russia every day is funding this illegal war against one of our allies.

It doesn’t make sense why the Biden administration would enact policies limiting America’s oil and gas supply while at the same time lift sanctions against Russia which expanded their oil and gas production. That hypocrisy is reminiscent of Climate Czar John Kerry flying in a private jet spewing carbon into the atmosphere to attend climate change conferences. This begs the question, do the climate change alarmists actually believe in climate change? If they did, they would not lift sanctions on Russia’s oil pipeline, nor would they fly around the world on private jets.