Unfair Fight - OPEC Takes on Greta Thunberg

Mean Girl - Greta Thunberg     S. Rousseau/PA    

The head of the organization whose members control 80% of the world’s oil production is lashing out at school children.

"Civil society is being misled to believe oil is the cause of climate change.”  - OPEC's Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo

Barkindo said there was a growing mass mobilisation of world opinion against oil, which was “beginning to … dictate policies and corporate decisions, including investment in the industry”.

Not only are the mean kids causing OPEC problems with banks, insurance companies and investors, but they are also turning OPEC leaders’ children against their very own parents.

He said the pressure was also being felt within the families of Opec officials because their own children “are asking us about their future because … they see their peers on the streets campaigning against this industry”.

In response to the leader of the world’s largest cartel whinging about the “mean kids,” those little rascals politely expressed their gratitude to him for making such a fool of himself.

“Thank you! Our biggest compliment yet!” tweeted [Greta] Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish initiator of the school student strike movement, which continues every Friday.

“Brilliant! Proof that we are having an impact and be sure that we will not stop,” said Holly Gillibrand, who was among the first students in the UK to join the global climate strikes. 

The oil industry has know for decades that the burning of fossil fuels was increasing CO2 in the atmosphere and that that would lead to global warming.  They could have raised the alarm, instead they worked diligently, up to this very minute, to obscure, deflect and deny the damage they were doing.