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"HOW DARE YOU"

 

Greta Thunberg says she will no longer speak at a climate event, accusing a sponsor of greenwashing by investing in companies tied to the fossil fuel industry

 
 
 
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Greta Thunberg speaks at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, New York on September 23, 2019.  Spencer Platt/Getty Images
 
  • Greta Thunberg accused a large investment management firm of greenwashing.
  • Thunberg decided not to speak at a book festival as a result. 
  • The company released a statement, saying its ties to the fossil fuel industry were insignificant. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Greta Thunberg will no longer appear at a large Scottish book festival this week, saying she does not want to be "associated with events" connected to the fossil fuel industry.

The climate activist was set to appear at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, starting August 12, for an event called "Greta Thunberg: It's Not Too Late to Change the World," but said Friday she would no longer attend, accusing the main sponsor, Baillie Gifford, an investment management firm based in the UK, of "greenwashing." 

Greenwashing refers to a phenomenon of companies or firms that outwardly market themselves as environmentally conscious but, in practice, fail to live up to those standards. An example is when critics accused Coca-Cola and the United Nations of greenwashing the 2022 COP27 climate talks, citing plastic pollution from the company's products.

Fast-fashion companies like H&M and Zara also get accused of greenwashing for promoting recycling initiatives while millions of tons of their polyester and nylon clothes end up in landfills.

"As a climate activist I cannot attend an event which receives sponsorship from Baillie Gifford, who invest heavily in the fossil fuel industry," Thunberg said in a statement released through the festival's website. "Greenwashing efforts by the fossil fuel industry, including sponsorship of cultural events, allow them to keep the social license to continue operating. I cannot and do not want to be associated with events that accept this kind of sponsorship."

In response to Thunberg's statement, Baillie Gifford said it was not "a significant fossil fuel investor" and that "only 2% of our clients' money is invested in companies with some business related to fossil fuels." 

Thunberg's decision to opt out of the festival comes after an investigative news site in Scotland known as The Ferret reported that Baillie Gifford's investments tied to the fossil fuel industry (or firms that profit from it) total up to $4.5 billion. 

Nick Barley, the festival's director, responded in the same statement, defending the firm's support of the book festival. 

"I share Greta's view that in all areas of society, the rate of progress is not enough," Barley wrote. "However, in applauding Greta for standing by her principles, we too must stand by ours."

He added: "The Book Festival exists to give a platform for debate and discussion around key issues affecting humanity today - including the climate emergency…We strongly believe that Baillie Gifford are part of the solution to the climate emergency."

This is not the first time the investment firm has been criticized for its holdings in the fossil fuel industry. In 2020, The Ferret also published a story highlighting the company's shares in fossil fuel companies.

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49 minutes ago, Snake said:

Did you know Beau Biden died in Iraq?

I’m convinced 90% of the stuff he says is made up. Every time is speaks he gets Pinocchio’s from all the lefty bias fact check sites. If that doesn’t convince you…

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14 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

He admitted he was so fucked up….he stated 8 times but yeah he remembers perfect or was it a dream?

 

He told a Gold Star mother, whose son died in the Afghanistan cluster fuck, "my son died in Iraq, got brought home in a flag draped coffin"...

Lowest of the low. How can he hate his son so much as to disparage him in that manner?

Well, he's Joe Biden... that's how.

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55 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

He admitted he was so fucked up….he stated 8 times but yeah he remembers perfect or was it a dream?

 

His Mother remembers just fine. 

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3 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

POW’s aren’t hero’s…..not a peep from the knuckledraggers here when their tangerine hero said that.

Guaranteed everyone Around you pats you on the head like you’re a Fuckin retard and hopes you just go home and think you’re a good boi so you stop fucking everything up around you 

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4 hours ago, Mainecat said:

He admitted he was so fucked up….he stated 8 times but yeah he remembers perfect or was it a dream?

 

Figures you missed the part where he said he stopped taking his meds before Biden got there. It was right before he talked about Biden leaving him hanging for over 4hrs all while not on his meds.

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1 minute ago, 800renegaderider said:

Figures you missed the part where he said he stopped taking his meds before Biden got there. It was right before he talked about Biden leaving him hanging for over 4hrs all while not on his meds.

MC :owned:

I even forgot that part . 

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39 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

POW’s aren’t hero’s…..not a peep from the knuckledraggers here when their tangerine hero said that.

And yet McCain came home and became a war mongering monster . 

blame the Vietnamese for that I guess. 

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43 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

POW’s aren’t hero’s…..not a peep from the knuckledraggers here when their tangerine hero said that.

McCain... who he was referring to, performed this heroic deed...:

In a newly unsealed declaration from September, former senior counterintelligence FBI agent Bill Priestap confirmed that the FBI received a copy of the first 33 pages of the dossier in December 2016 from McCain.

In another filing, David Kramer -- a former State Department official and McCain associate -- said in a Dec. 13, 2017, deposition that the dossier was given to him by author and former British spy Christopher Steele, which he then provided to multiple journalists at outlets including CNN, BuzzFeed and The Washington Post. The details were first reported by The Daily Caller.

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Why would biden lie so blatantly about how beau died when it’s so easy to prove that he wasn’t killed in Iraq 

he used his own sons death for political posturing and lied about it and that’s the person that MC defends to his very core 

kinda tells you a lot about the guy.
 

MC is a steaming pile of shit and thank the good lord that he wasn’t allowed to reproduce 

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10 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

What is it with the poor treatment of service people by presidents? Biden with this and trump insulting gold star families. 

Gold star Muslim family shouldn’t have attacked trump because he put travel restrictions on them. Don’t like it? TFB

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46 minutes ago, Snake said:

McCain... who he was referring to, performed this heroic deed...:

In a newly unsealed declaration from September, former senior counterintelligence FBI agent Bill Priestap confirmed that the FBI received a copy of the first 33 pages of the dossier in December 2016 from McCain.

In another filing, David Kramer -- a former State Department official and McCain associate -- said in a Dec. 13, 2017, deposition that the dossier was given to him by author and former British spy Christopher Steele, which he then provided to multiple journalists at outlets including CNN, BuzzFeed and The Washington Post. The details were first reported by The Daily Caller.

here we go again... 

did you vote for McCain or Obama? 

did you vote for Romney or Obama? 

I wasn't planning for a double header today, better do some stretching....

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24 minutes ago, Pete said:

Gold star Muslim family shouldn’t have attacked trump because he put travel restrictions on them. Don’t like it? TFB

Pete the angry twat telling a Gold Star Family “too fucking bad if you don’t like it”….every time you post it makes more and more sense.

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5 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Pete the angry twat telling a Gold Star Family “too fucking bad if you don’t like it”….every time you post it makes more and more sense.

Fuck off you fat piece of shit loser.. TFB if you don’t like it asshole

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14 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Pete the angry twat telling a Gold Star Family “too fucking bad if you don’t like it”….every time you post it makes more and more sense.

Pete is CE’s angry puppy. 

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3 hours ago, Pete said:

Gold star Muslim family shouldn’t have attacked trump because he put travel restrictions on them. Don’t like it? TFB

Live in a shit hole country?

Wanna come to the US?

I fully subscribe to fully body cavity searches of them for 3 years after they get here. Every day.

Open your door and take in a couple or 3.....

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3 hours ago, Pete said:

Fuck off you fat piece of shit loser.. TFB if you don’t like it asshole

 

2 hours ago, spin_dry said:

Pete is CE’s angry puppy. 

Ya think?😂🤔

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