When we lived in Steveston, we had a neighbour that drove her teenager, about 16 years old, to high school every morning and at lunch. I never saw them after school but I'm guessing she picked him up. They lived 1/2 block away from the High School! Even on nice days I would stop while she backed out of her driveway. I always wanted to roll down my window and say something but I lived in her neighbourhood and maybe her son had a mobility problem. I saw him run into the car a couple of times carrying a backpack so I don't think there was anything wrong with him.
This is from an Australian newspaper:
To all the school kids going on strike for climate change: You are the first generation which has required air conditioning in every classroom, you want TV in every room and your classes are all computerized. You spend all day and night on electronic devices. More than ever you don’t walk or ride bikes to school, but you arrive in caravans of private cars that choke suburban roads and worsen rush hour traffic.
You’re the biggest consumers of manufactured goods ever and update perfectly good, expensive luxury items just to stay trendy. Your entertainment comes from electric devices, furthermore the people driving your protests are the same people who insist on artificially inflating the population growth through immigration, which increases the need for energy, manufacturing and transport. The more people we have, the more forests and bush land we clear and the more of the environment that’s destroyed.
How about this, tell your teachers to switch off the air conditioning, walk or ride your bike to school, switch off your devices and read a book, make a sandwich instead of buying manufactured fast food.
Nope, none of this will happen, BECAUSE you’re selfish, badly educated, virtue signaling little turds inspired by the adults around you who crave a feeling of having a Noble Cause while they indulge themselves in western luxury and an unprecedented quality of life.
WAKE UP! GROW UP! AND SHUT UP!
