At about 14 or 15 I was sitting on a cold concrete footpath alongside a wooden mock water tank trying to raise money for Oxfam to provide potable water in poor Pakistani villages. Something that the Pakistan government seems incapable of.

I did not take the remix as anything other than enhancements to her message.

@FrayedBear WOW! good on ya!! I was such a goof off. I saw it in a similar way. I did see some pretty negative around the web. Won't name names but I did enjoy your spot on reply to st-sinner.

@RoadGoddess
NO, only some children do amazing things and some children are outright brats. There is no cheap shot but there must be a sense of right and wrong.

At her 16th birthday, there was another amazing young child called Malala Yosufzai who spoke in front of the UN General Assembly (not at a side summit) after recovering from a surgery due to a seriously life threatening a gun shot wound at a close range just for going to school. She spoke with poise, respect, elegance, a smile, articulately by choosing her word carefully and received a standing ovation from all nations in once voice.

Life is real. It is not a fairy tale that we want it to be. There are rules of behavior. If you want to step up in the world of grown ups and talk on serious subjects, you are not entitled to disrespect and unruly behavior. You are not Mama's girl at the UN. Also 16 is not very young. In many societies in the world, 16-year olds start earning for the family and protect the young from harm while surviving. They don't come in the false zero-carbon yacht financed and operated by a Monaco prince. Ranting and yelling where you are invited should not be tolerated. And rightfully so, there has been a steady backlash from activists and the world.

A lot has been accomplished about climate change in the world and everyone is doing as the circumstances allow while we take care of the starving, dying of violence and neglect, diseases and so on. A lack of gratitude and full blown arrogance, bad manners were on display instead.

If your child does not know what respect, politeness, manners, and rules of basic decent behavior are and you do not understand that a child has to finish growing up with finishing school and life lessons before he or she goes out in the world, your baby girl is not cute and adorable or is amazing. It is not the fault of the world, it is a serious failing of parenting.

How rude and embarrassing of Greta trying to save the planet, when World leaders can't.

@Castlepaloma

Really, very very rude delivery and manners.

There is a right way to do things and there are a wrong way to do. If I were a pastor, I cannot hold a gun or yell at my congregation to tell them or convince them of something. I have to make sure my message reaches them, they understand and accept it. It was the same for Greta. The audience and the world were eager to hear and were a ready choir but she ruined it.

Th world us already doing a lot for environmental efforts. A lot has been accomplished. It was ready to listen and wants to do more. But the urgency and delivery of the message were both bad, really bad. Therefore even the activists are giving a backlash saying not again, not Greta again. She should have learned some from Malala Yosoufzai.

It is more of life or death future of the Children than anyone's. I can tolerate a blast from a teen when the last 30 years has been a horrific time of destruction since the extinction of dinosaurs. Up to 200 species a day go extinct, every eco system is collasping.

My home city London Canada as a kid the river I swam in, ate fish and even could drink the water. Today it's nothing but an open sewers and stinks the whole place up.

It's working, a world record protest Revolution worldwide is happening. I am over the moon and will join, in a heart beat. A Over due wake up call.

@St-Sinner How gracious of you to disparage what this young woman is saying when you won't be alive to bear the horror of the calamity that has already started around the world thanks to your probably greedy insistance on unneccessary travel and goods.
The world has been subsidising American greed and ignorant selfish lifestyles for far too long. It is time that you started paying not denigrating the concerns of an anxious young woman.

@RoadGoddess
I wrote all in detail in the post you responded to. We don't give a crap about age but all give a crap to how people behave.

@RoadGoddess, @FrayedBear
So a person should get away with behaving badly because she is young? Read the post again. There have been many young, younger people on this issue and all other important issues who know how to speak with respect, poise, eloquence and carry the point across, especially when you are invited at the body as big as the UN. Malala Yousoufzai was one who spoke on her 16th birthday. The brat Greta should eat shit.

Whatever anybody wants to say can say it but arrogant, disrespectful shit is not ok. Going forward, these assholes should be thrown out.

@RoadGoddess

What was rude? Many things were laced with rudeness including the words, the fake propaganda and the glitz

1. Her rude speaking - yelling at world leaders with disrespect??
2. Lack of gratitude at a prestigious venue where she was invited, she would be thrown out at most places for her behavior
3. Lack of acknowledgement and gratitude of what has been accomplished on climate change so far
4. False sense of urgency - Horrific calamities have been predicted including the end of the world 7 times since 1970s. Al Gore predicted the world would freeze in 2014
5. There are more serious and dire problems in the world where if we do not do anything today, many people will die tomorrow of simple hunger and diseases eradicated in rich Western societies, Climate change is not urgent
6. Fake zero-carbon-emission trip on a fancy yacht - 2 sailors had been flown later to take the yacht back to Europe. There was no zero emission trip

This behavior can be a result of immaturity and a child not finishing schooling and not finishing growing up where you learn manners, rules of behavior, learn history, world affairs and how to launch yourself in the world.

The age 16 is not young. 9 is young, 10 is young. At 16, girls in Asian and African countries are putting food on the table for the family. Girls in Africa walk 6 to 9 miles everyday just to go to school.

If you want to understand yourself what is not rude at 16, just look at the speech of another 16 year old at the UN a few years ago by a brave girl called Malala Yousoufzai who spoke with eloquence, respect, gratitude with a simple message. She roused world leaders to a thundering applause and received a Nobel prize after a year. That is called good and not rude.