'Greta Thunberg Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize' By Big Oil

[jimnyc]

Snubbed my ass. One tries to speak out about global warming, and the other actually worked on peace initiatives. They just wanted the feel good story of a child winning on their cause of the day. Tough shit, I hope she didn't have her hopes built up too much as that would have stung a little. But a life lesson for her, when being lead by others.

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Another Newsweek Conspiracy: 'Greta Thunberg Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize' By Big Oil

Newsweek reporter Rosie McCall offered a conspiracy theory as to how a 16-year-old environmental activist somehow failed to win the Nobel Peace Prize this year: “Greta Thunberg Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize by Committee Run by Norway, One of the World's Biggest Oil and Natural Gas Exporters.”

This new theory comes courtesy of a magazine fresh off breaking the news that opening tanning salons in urban neighborhoods were a plot to give gay men skin cancer, or something.

McCall wrote:

The Nobel Committee has surprised oddsmakers by not picking 16-year-old Greta Thunberg to win the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.

The five-member Norwegian panel instead announced on Friday that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had won the award, "for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and for in particular his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea," a statement said.

Thunberg has become the figurehead of the youth climate movement after skipping school to protest outside the Swedish Parliament in August 2018, inspiring the waves of student strikes that followed.

Over the last year, she has (among other things) led a Global Climate Strike spanning 150 countries, graced the cover of Time Magazine as a 'Next Generation Leader' and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in a yacht to speak to lawmakers in Washington and New York.

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One of those countries is the nation that effectively decides who wins the Nobel Peace Prize each year -- Norway, where the five members selected to serve on the committee are chosen by the Norwegian parliament. The country has a complex relationship with greenhouse gas-emitting fossil fuels, which historically have been (and arguably continues to be) a major source of Norway's wealth.

McCall gave Norway some credit for weaning itself off the fossil fuels poison and moving to reduce its emissions, but of course it wasn't good enough:

Pete Erickson, a senior scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute, who co-wrote a 2017 report highlighting the stark difference between Norway's climate goals and their investment in the fossil sector, says these actions are not enough.

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Thunberg herself may not have wanted a prize for her contribution to the climate change movement but for many, Norway's decision to give the award to a climate activist would have been an important symbolic gesture.

"We could all do more," said Webber. "But, Norway, is more aggressive with their shift to a post-oil world than every other major oil-exporting country.

Choosing Thunberg to be this year's winner of the Nobel Peace prize would have been "a handy symbolism to match their actions," he added.

Rest - https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb...el-peace-prize

[pete311]

Amazing how triggered you get over a little girl.

[Elessar]

Amazing how triggered you get over a little girl.

Amazing how stupid you are when a mentally challenged KID gets paraded around
like some liberal ICON.

Talk about triggered...you can be despicable.

[Russ]

Why was this Greta von whatever even in the running for the Peace Prize? I realize that the Nobel Peace Prize has become kind of a joke lately, but at least the guy that won was working on peace. Her only actions that I know of is complaining about climate change, and I don't think she has even tangibly affected anything with that yet.

[Abbey Marie]

If she was being seriously considered, the Nobel Peace Prize is even less meaningful than the crowning of Miss Ponca City.

[Elessar]

If she was being seriously considered, the Nobel Peace Prize is even less meaningful than the crowning of Miss Ponca City.

It sounds a lot like Obama's mystical Nobel Prize.

That cheapened the award in my mind's eye. He had not
accomplished ANYTHING when he was awarded.

[LongTermGuy]

Amazing how triggered you get over a little girl.

^^^^Always stepping in it..Now go clean up and apologize for being silly....

[STTAB]

I feel sorry for Greta. She's mentally challenged and being used by adults. That's child abuse.

[pete311]

I feel sorry for Greta. She's mentally challenged and being used by adults. That's child abuse.

lol she's done more already in her short life than you have

[STTAB]

lol she's done more already in her short life than you have

Seeing as how you really have no idea what I have or have not done in my life coupled with the fact that she hasn't accomplished anything at all, that's just a dumb thing to say Pete.

Laughably dumb in fact.

[pete311]

Seeing as how you really have no idea what I have or have not done in my life coupled with the fact that she hasn't accomplished anything at all, that's just a dumb thing to say Pete.

Laughably dumb in fact.

She is relevant, you are not.

[STTAB]

She is relevant, you are not.

Again Pete, you have no idea who is relevant to whom.

My wife and I have adopted multiple children and rescued one family of mother, father and two children literally from the side of the road where they were living in a broken down car with zero money left to even feed themselves. I gave them a house, the man a job, and out of my own pocket put the wife through college while also making sure their children wanted for NOTHING.

I'd say I'm pretty relevant to those people, as well as my own family.

You insulting little prick

[jimnyc]

Again Pete, you have no idea who is relevant to whom.

My wife and I have adopted multiple children and rescued one family of mother, father and two children literally from the side of the road where they were living in a broken down car with zero money left to even feed themselves. I gave them a house, the man a job, and out of my own pocket put the wife through college while also making sure their children wanted for NOTHING.

I'd say I'm pretty relevant to those people, as well as my own family.

You insulting little prick

Pete was kind enough to get ripped off and pay me $4,000. Didn't know that, did you? And now he forever trolls me and DP.

And don't bother telling the truth with facts - as a troll couldn't care less about such things and will say the same kind of crap at the next opportunity.

[pete311]

Again Pete, you have no idea who is relevant to whom.

My wife and I have adopted multiple children and rescued one family of mother, father and two children literally from the side of the road where they were living in a broken down car with zero money left to even feed themselves. I gave them a house, the man a job, and out of my own pocket put the wife through college while also making sure their children wanted for NOTHING.

I'd say I'm pretty relevant to those people, as well as my own family.

You insulting little prick

Hope they never find out how you act on here. Sympathetic IRL but online an arrogant foul mouth internet tough guy.

[pete311]

Pete was kind enough to get ripped off and pay me $4,000. Didn't know that, did you? And now he forever trolls me and DP.

And don't bother telling the truth with facts - as a troll couldn't care less about such things and will say the same kind of crap at the next opportunity.

I didn’t do my research and that was on me.