While 16 - yr - one-time mood change activist Greta Thunberg gravy boat to the US to play up the mood crisis , people behind keyboard are making jokes about " freak boating accidents " and her drowning .
Thunberg is currently traveling across the Atlantic to attend United Nations mood change breast in the US and Chile . Thunberg decided to trip by boatinstead of airplaneto the conference to derogate her own personal CO2emissions . She was offered a ride on theMalizia II , a racing yacht that uses solar panelsto world power underwater turbines .
Her father , and a filmmaker who is document the trip to raise more knowingness of the mood crisis , are joining her on the roughly two - week voyage , which set off from Portsmouth in the UK – where the originalMayflowerset sheet to the New World in 1620 – yesterday .
So far , so inspiring . Who does n’t like a story of a committed unseasoned person fighting for what she consider in , especially when what she trust in happens to be saving the planet ?
Well , it bend out the solution is quite a lot of hoi polloi .
As well as your garden potpourri climate alteration deniers , Thunberg has attracted the attention of several high - profile media pundits who are not on board with the scientific consensus that the climate crisis is real , human - made , and needs to be deal with desperately . She is no alien to being viciously aggress bypeople who ca n’t grasp clime science , and the start of this voyage has been no elision . Several outstanding UK medium personalities , as well as British man of affairs and funder of the Leave EU campaign , Arron Banks , went online to mock a stripling for attempt to her best to assist the planet . Sadly , the attempt are beat personal , and are directed specifically at Thunberg , rather than her military mission or abstract thought .
Radio personality Julia Hartley - Brewer , who previouslycriticized climate militant and actor Emma Thompsonfor flying to a climate change protest , made a joke about Greta Thunbergnottaking a aeroplane .
This take out the chemical reaction it probably deserved .
The most controversial of the tweets ( if you may stomach them , there are enough more asGreta Thunberg trends on Twitter ) make out from camber , joked about her getting into a boating " accident " on her way to the tiptop , which hoi polloi took as a veiled mode of say he hope the teenager would die on the trip .
People were flying to show out that if your response to a teenager not wanting the planet to die in a hundred is to joke about how you hopeshemight die now , you might just be on the faulty side of story .
bank has since defended his tweet , calling it a joke , and saying that the political Left has no sense of humor – as if his joke was in any manner funny .
It has since been criticise by many professional comedians .
luckily , none of the vitriol seems to have affected Thunberg , who has spent her time spotting dolphins .
