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dustyscamp

(2,221 posts)
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 08:43 PM Feb 2020

Far-right groups trying to turn teenager into climate change-denying version of Greta Thunberg

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/anti-greta-thunberg-naomi-seibt-girl-climate-change-denial-heartland-institute-afd-a9355236.html

A 19-year-old German climate change sceptic who has been described by her supporters as “the antidote to Greta Thunberg”, is gaining support from right-wing organisations, including Germany’s far-right party AfD party, and a think tank with links to The White House.

Naomi Seibt began uploading videos to YouTube last year, with titles such as “Climate change – just hot air?”, “Fierce without Feminism”, and “Message to the Media – HOW DARE YOU?”.

Her stance on the climate apparently caught the attention of The Heartland Institute, a US think tank based in Chicago, which has previously lobbied on behalf of tobacco firms, supports fracking and rejects the scientific consensus on climate change.


The organisation, which reportedly “has the ear of the Trump administration”, and held its 2019 International Conference on Climate Change at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, recently hired Ms Seibt as the face of its climate denial campaign.

In a video put out by the Heartland Institute, titled “Naomi Seibt vs Greta Thunberg: Whom Should We Trust?”, Ms Seibt begins: “Science is entirely based on intellectual humility and it is important that we keep questioning the narrative that it out there instead of promoting it, and these days climate change science really isn’t science at all.”
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Far-right groups trying to turn teenager into climate change-denying version of Greta Thunberg (Original Post) dustyscamp Feb 2020 OP
I wonder if any social media sites will block this as propaganda/manipulation. Liberty Belle Feb 2020 #1
I don't want to sound harsh, but this child is 19 years old. Arkansas Granny Feb 2020 #2
19 is an adult in the eyes of the law. maxsolomon Feb 2020 #3

Liberty Belle

(9,528 posts)
1. I wonder if any social media sites will block this as propaganda/manipulation.
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 08:56 PM
Feb 2020

In my book it's practically child abuse to warp a young mind this way.

Arkansas Granny

(31,483 posts)
2. I don't want to sound harsh, but this child is 19 years old.
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 09:09 PM
Feb 2020

I don't know her motives, but she is responsible for her actions.

maxsolomon

(32,975 posts)
3. 19 is an adult in the eyes of the law.
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 09:12 PM
Feb 2020

She is responsible for her actions and is full of shit, like all Denialists.

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