Don’t Mock Greta Thunberg. Listen to Her. She’s right about the science.

Exactly. She’s basically the only one (except perhaps James Hansen) who says what matches the science of global climate change nearly 100%.

Scientists misunderstood how badly the rest of the world misunderstood the problem. A 2008 paper by MIT professors John Sterman and Linda Booth Sweeney showed that even MIT students were, for the most part, unaware of the cumulative nature of greenhouse gases. When the researchers surveyed a mix of graduate students and members of the general public, they found most people wrongly assumed global temperatures would stabilize once we stabilize the rate of emissions, and that the temperature might even fall if this rate were reduced.

That’s she’s correct about the science and its consequences why people don’t want to listen to her and that’s exactly why she’s important. Politically, I think a lot of what she advocates is worthless or would be harmful, to be clear, but she has no political power so that’s irrelevant.

That she’s straightforward and correct about the consequences is why young people do listen to Thunberg — they know and she knows that global climate change is likely to erase them, and perhaps all of civilization.

And they also know that older people — their parents and grandparents — absolutely do not give a shit.