Posted by margo
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Posted by margo
All kinds of hypocrisy for Greta Thunberg as she crosses the Atlantic in a billionaire's boat Archived Message
on July 30, 2019, 11:28 am, in reply to "The Real Problem of Hypocrisy for Extinction Rebellion"
Theoretically, Extinction Rebellion and Thunberg (by their own proclaimed standards) need to explain why it's OK for Greta to board a fancy yacht run out of a tax haven which promotes high-pollution Formula One races, etc, etc...
Greta should row to America in a hand-built canoe made of sustainably-cut wood, no?
But Greta is doing what she can right now - and the awareness she's raising is needed right now. All hands are needed on deck.
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Greta T to sail across Atlantic for UN Climate Summits 
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"Greta Thunberg is to sail across the Atlantic in a high-speed racing yacht next month to attend UN climate summits in the US and Chile as part of a sabbatical year the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist will spend in the US.
“Good news! I’ll be joining the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, COP25 in Santiago … I’ve been offered a ride on the 60ft racing boat Malizia II. We’ll be sailing across the Atlantic Ocean from the UK to NYC in mid August,” Greta tweeted. The journey will take two weeks.
Owned by a German property developer, Gerhard Senft, based in Brittany and sponsored by the Yacht Club de Monaco, the 18-metre (60ft) yacht is a high-speed planing monohull built for the 2016-17 single-handed, non-stop round-the-world Vendée Globe race.
Greta will be accompanied on the voyage by Malizia II’s skipper Boris Hermann, her father Svante, Pierre Casiraghi, the grandson of Monaco’s late Prince Rainier III. [...]
Guardian LINK https://www.dumptheguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/29/greta-thunberg-to-sail-across-atlantic-for-un-climate-summits