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In this age of political madness, the Obama nostalgia is real, and his latest tweet epitomises exactly why. The former president posted a picture in which he is shaking hands with Greta Thunberg - probably one of the most well-known and respected (at least among progressive circles) teenager on the planet. Just 16, @GretaThunberg is already one of our planet’s greatest advocates. Recognizing that her generation will bear the brunt of climate change, she’s unafraid to push for real action. She embodies our vision at the @ObamaFoundation: A future shaped by young leaders like her. pic.twitter.
RYAN Tubridy has said that he is concerned for climate activist Greta Thunberg 's "health and wellbeing" as he addressed controversial He told listeners: "What I had said in regards to Greta - and this isn't a defence or an apology, it 's just a clarification - it came from the heart , just genuine
Ryan Tubridy insisted he was genuinely concerned for climate activist Greta Thunberg 's "health and wellbeing" as he replied to criticism of his controversial He told listeners: "What I had said in regards to Greta - and this isn't a defence or an apology, it 's just a clarification - it came from the heart , just
Ryan Tubridy RYAN Tubridy has said that he is concerned for climate activist Greta Thunberg's "health and wellbeing" as he addressed controversial remarks he made about her.
The broadcaster faced a backlash on social media after suggesting that the 16-year-old was too young to be subjected to the global stage and should be "brought home and watch a movie."
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Tubridy stressed on his show on RTE Radio One this morning that he isn't defending or saying sorry for his remarks but he did want to clarify what he meant.
He told listeners: "What I had said in regards to Greta - and this isn't a defence or an apology, it's just a clarification - it came from the heart, just genuine concern for a young person on that stage.
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Especially in private, she sounds a lot like … a teenager. “We are not the ones who are responsible for this, but we are the ones who have to live with these consequences, and that is so incredibly unfair,” she said at one point.And this is the way to understand Thunberg that paints her as neither a saint nor a demon but that still captures her appeal. Thunberg epitomizes, in a person, the unique moral position of being a teenager. She can see the world through an “adult” moral lens, and so she knows that the world is a heartbreakingly flawed place.
Greta Thunberg has addressed the online abuse she has received since speaking out about the impact of climate change. Less than a week after giving an impassioned speech at ' It came from the heart , just genuine concern ' - Ryan Tubridy addresses Greta Thunberg remarks after backlash .
Teenage activist Greta Thunberg has declined an environmental award, saying that "the climate movement does not need any more prizes". ' It came from the heart , just genuine concern ' - Ryan Tubridy addresses Greta Thunberg remarks after backlash . RYAN Tubridy has said that he is
"I'm 46 years old and apparently I was 'shredded' yesterday online and that's fine because I'm not online so I didn't see it, but it's not nice, I got a couple of texts about it.
"I thought I can take it, I'm a public figure in the public eye but my concern yesterday was for a young person and for her health and wellbeing, that's all.
"I am a massive supporter of the climate marches, I have repeatedly said how much I admire the young people and their movements and their engagement in and politics and public affairs."
He also sought to dismiss any speculation of a link between mental illness and the Swedish teenager having Asperger's syndrome.
"A lot of papers are talking my comments about Greta Thunberg, which seemed to have caused a lot of upset to some people.
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Greta ’s parents, reports Big League Politics , have “turned Thunberg into a money-making machine, using the child to fleece environmentalists out of large “The Thunberg family also regularly employs bizarre and quasi-satanic symbolism, typical of those who perpetrate behind the globalist authoritarian
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"The papers have treated the treatment of the comments very fairly, I don't like being the thing but since it's there I think lest there be any confusion about comments I made yesterday, and I make observations all the time, but in relation to these comments I made about Greta Thunberg's speech to the United Nations, I think there might have been confusion about a pairing of Asperger's syndrome as a mental illness but that wasn't the case or what was intended at all.
"Don't forget we spoke to Denise yesterday, a mother of a boy with Asperger's, she spoke on air and explained the nuances of it and didn't have any issue with what we had said before," he said.
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He continued to say that he admires young people calling on political leaders to tackle climate change.
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Greta Thunberg (pictured at the UN in New York yesterday) refuses to travel on fuel-guzzling planes and the 60ft racing boat she travelled on will be back in Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg , pictured during her impassioned address at the UN yesterday, does not yet know how she will get
Tubridy said: "Never underestimate my love and appreciation for the next generation, please don't."
Ms Thunberg made global headlines as she addressed world leaders at the United Nations in New York on Monday.
She said furiously: "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words."
Tubridy suggested on his radio show on Tuesday morning that she is too young to be on such a global platform.
He said: It's one thing campaigning, it's another thing causing anxiety to a generation," he said.
"It's not good for her mental health or her wellbeing. Her face contorted in pain, in agony and in anxiety. I was watching her and not thinking about the climate.
"I was thinking about my daughter and what would I do if I saw my 16-year-old's face contorted, talking about her childhood and life being robbed of her in that audience.
"It just got to a tipping point last night where I just feel she needs to be brought home and watch a movie. Just go for a walk with your da or your ma."
On Aug. 20, 2018, a 15-year-old girl skipped school to protest outside the Swedish parliament and inadvertently started the “Skolstrejk för klimatet” (school strike for climate) movement that would go on to create ripples across the globe. The teenage activist was Greta Thunberg. She has since become one of the most important voices in environmental activism.
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Greta is the daughter of Swedish actor Svante Thunberg (pictured, R) and opera singer Malena Ernman. Her grandfather is actor-director, Olof Thunberg. One of her ancestors on her father’s side is Svante Arrhenius, who had won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903. He was the first to discover that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide lead to a rise in the surface temperature of Earth. Consequently, this finding led to the conclusion that human-caused carbon dioxide emissions lead to global warming.
On first learning about climate change around the age of eight, Thunberg was shocked that adults weren’t doing much about it. Over time, Thunberg started living a low-carbon life. She turned vegan and gave up flying. On her insistence, her mother doesn’t fly either and her father became a vegetarian.
Thunberg was diagnosed with depression, in which a key role was played by her realization that no action was being taken to combat climate change. She also suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, autism, selective mutism, OCD and ADHD. Responding to haters attacking her over the diagnoses, Thunberg in September 2019 called Asperger’s syndrome a “superpower.”
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“I have Asperger’s syndrome and that means I’m sometimes a bit different from the norm. And - given the right circumstances - being different is a superpower,” she said in an Instagram post.
Before she became the youngest face of climate change, Thunberg won an essay writing competition on the environment in May 2018 organized by Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. Following the publication of her write-up, she was contacted by climate activist Bo Thorén of the group Fossil Free Dalsland. It was in one of the meetings with the group that the idea of a school strike to protest climate change came up.
Inspired by students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, U.S. – who had organized the March For Our Lives – Thunberg decided to protest for climate change. Thus, on Aug. 20, 2018, she sat outside the Swedish parliament.
“I painted the sign on a piece of wood and, for the flyers, wrote down some facts I thought everyone should know. And then I took my bike to the parliament and just sat there. The first day, I sat alone from about 8.30 am to 3 pm – the regular schoolday. And then on the second day, people started joining me. After that, there were people there all the time,” she stated.
Until the Swedish general election on Sept. 9, she protested every day. Following which, she continued to do so only on Fridays. The movement has now gained momentum as Fridays for Future, as students from around the world take part in demonstrations to initiate action against climate change and global warming. Thunberg has subsequently spoken at climate rallies at Brussels, Belgium, and London, England.
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On Dec. 4, 2018, the 15-year-old Thunberg addressed the United Nations Climate Change Conference where she presented her case for protecting the environment in strong words.
“For 25 years countless people have come to the UN climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not,” she stated.
To take part at the World Economic Forum’s summit in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2019, she undertook a 32-hour train journey. Ironically, most other delegates arrived in their individual private jets.
During her European Parliament address in April 2019, Thunberg chided the leaders for holding “three emergency Brexit summits and no emergency summit regarding the breakdown of the climate and the environment.” After her speech, she received a 30-second standing ovation.
The young activist was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize on March 13, 2019. If she wins when the awards are announced in October, Thunberg will become the youngest recipient ever. In May 2019, TIME magazine named her as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2019.
On Aug. 14, 2019, Thunberg took a solar-power sailboat with underwater turbines and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Plymouth, England, to New York City, New York, U.S., to attend climate conferences in the U.S. and Chile. She reached her destination on Aug. 28.
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On Sept. 16, she was awarded the Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience award at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. by Secretary General Kumi Naidoo (R).
At a meeting of Senate climate crisis task force on Sept. 17, Thunberg bluntly told the Senators to stop paying lip service to the efforts of environmental activists and seek the expertise of scientists in tackling climate change. She remarked: “I know you are trying but just not hard enough. Sorry.”
She also held a protest outside the White House and later met former U.S. President Barack Obama, who, in a Twitter post, called her “one of our planet’s greatest advocates.”
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Tubridy divided his audience, with some social media users supporting his comments, while others called for him to apologise.
RTÉ said it had received no formal complaints relating to his comments. A spokesperson said Tubridy would address what he said on his show this morning.
Green Party Councillor Peter Kavanagh told Independent.ie Tubridy should make a "sincere and frank" apology to his listeners.
"From somebody in such a position, you would expect a little more empathy," he said.
"Greta Thunberg has become a figurehead for climate action and is a 16-year-old girl who wants to save the world.
"When you're in the media, you have a responsibility to your audience. Ryan Tubridy is only feeding into this terrible negativity that this young woman is receiving online. He needs to realise that his opinions carry weight, so I think he should make a sincere and frank apology," he said.
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Greta ’s parents, reports Big League Politics , have “turned Thunberg into a money-making machine, using the child to fleece environmentalists out of large “The Thunberg family also regularly employs bizarre and quasi-satanic symbolism, typical of those who perpetrate behind the globalist authoritarian
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Greta Thunberg (pictured at the UN in New York yesterday) refuses to travel on fuel-guzzling planes and the 60ft racing boat she travelled on will be back in Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg , pictured during her impassioned address at the UN yesterday, does not yet know how she will get
In this age of political madness, the Obama nostalgia is real, and his latest tweet epitomises exactly why. The former president posted a picture in which he is shaking hands with Greta Thunberg - probably one of the most well-known and respected (at least among progressive circles) teenager on the planet. Just 16, @GretaThunberg is already one of our planet’s greatest advocates. Recognizing that her generation will bear the brunt of climate change, she’s unafraid to push for real action. She embodies our vision at the @ObamaFoundation: A future shaped by young leaders like her. pic.twitter. 
Especially in private, she sounds a lot like … a teenager. “We are not the ones who are responsible for this, but we are the ones who have to live with these consequences, and that is so incredibly unfair,” she said at one point.And this is the way to understand Thunberg that paints her as neither a saint nor a demon but that still captures her appeal. Thunberg epitomizes, in a person, the unique moral position of being a teenager. She can see the world through an “adult” moral lens, and so she knows that the world is a heartbreakingly flawed place. 
Greta Thunberg has hit back at Donald Trump after her passionate speech at the United Nations summit on climate change. The US president posted a seemingly sarcastic message about the 16-year-old activist alongside her UN address on Tuesday.Tweeting to his 64.7 million followers, Mr Trump wrote: "She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!"Not one to sit back and ignore the president's flippant comment, Thunberg changed her Twitter bio to: "A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. 
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Greta Thunberg said this week that former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger offered to lend her his electric car. In clip from the Scandinavian talk show "Skavlan," Thunberg reveals the governator's offer.Greta Thunberg's U.N. address became the speech heard 'round the world this week. Thunberg addressed hundreds of global leaders and while one, President Trump, seemed unimpressed by the 16-year-old climate activist, another U.S. politician wants to help her.
Greta Thunberg said this week that former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger offered to lend her his electric car. In clip from the Scandinavian talk show "Skavlan," Thunberg reveals the governator's offer.Greta Thunberg's U.N. address became the speech heard 'round the world this week. Thunberg addressed hundreds of global leaders and while one, President Trump, seemed unimpressed by the 16-year-old climate activist, another U.S. politician wants to help her. 
Police investigate 'utterly vile' banner calling for Tory deaths .The Labour mayor of Greater Manchester has condemned the "unacceptable" sign appearing to call for the death of thousands of Tories as they arrived for their party conference in the city.It was tweeted by a Conservative councillor, who was jogging when she spotted it on Sunday morning.Two effigies were also seen hanging from the bottom of the banner, which read: "130,000 killed under Tory rule, time to level the playing field. 
'We need to use our power as individuals' - Call for people to do more to tackle climate emergencyBut EPA general director Laura Burke warned that there was a risk of ‘eco-fatigue’ and ‘eco-anxiety’ setting in and there was a challenge for everyone to find the optimism needed for action. 
Vladimir Putin has condemned teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg, claiming she is "poorly informed" and does not understand complex global issues. Speaking at an energy forum in Moscow, the Russian president also suggested the 16-year-old was manipulated into making unrealistic demands during her impassioned UN speech last month. 
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