Eschatology is the end of the world component of religions. It has a really suspect history in the prediction racket. Preachers, prophets, seers and even the Prophet Hen of Leeds have all been wrong. Al Gore, John Kerry and the ubiquitous Greta Thunberg have all picked up the what the Prophet Hen of Leeds dropped to put their spin on Climate Change End of the World Doom. Unfortunately for young Greta, the world didn’t end today because of fossil fuels and she is most deeply disappointed.

Five years ago, Miss Thunberg tweeted and deleted the following:

Good morning @GretaThunberg! Today is June 21, 2023 and we’re all still here pic.twitter.com/oaIcVl1nWt

— Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) June 21, 2023

We had five years, people. We had five years to destroy the world. We have five years to expend enough fossil fuels to end the planet. We had five years to wipe out humanity and make Greta a hero, and we couldn’t do it. How dare you!

Not only is Miss Thunberg the Patron Saint of Climate Change, but very recently, she was bestowed an honorary doctorate in Theology from a Finnish university. That’s miraculous since our heroine just graduated high school:

G
reta Thunberg has been leading students in protest for five years. The 20-year-old environmental campaigner has vowed to continue her activism, but said her protests would no longer involve skipping class.Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg participated in her last School Strike for Climate to mark her graduation from high school on Friday.
The 20-year-old previously took a year-long “sabbatical” from school in 2019 to raise awareness for climate action.
“Today, I graduate from school, which means I’ll no longer be able to school strike for the climate,” Thunberg said on Twitter.
“This is the last school strike for me,” she wrote, adding that her future protests would “technically” not be a school strike because she is no longer a student.
“We simply have no other option than to do everything we possibly can,” she added. “The fight has only just begun.”

AND, it all should have ended today:

As previously reported, remembering these deadline predictions are dangerous for the left because if civilisation really is beyond the point of no return, they lose all their political power. Fact-checkers have tried to neuter the Tweet-delete by pointing out she said humanity would merely run out of time to save itself this year, not that humanity would actually end in 2023, pointing out what is obvious to anyone with basic reading comprehension.
As for Thunberg, she certainly isn’t acting like anything changes today. Indeed, as reported she was spending this week getting picked up by police for sitting in front of oil tankers, hardly the act of a woman who believes all hope is now lost.

Her supporters say that Greta didn’t really mean the world would end today, but that we would be at the point of no return. Meanwhile, out there in the real world, scientists and creators are developing new energy sources and real scientists are discovering new and re-emerging ecosystems. Our remarkable planet heals and renews itself.

Greta celebrated the End of the World as we Know It by getting herself arrested in another of her staged protests.

Picture “a child of privilege gathering with her similarly comfortable pals to stop working people from working,” asks Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill: “That’s exactly what Greta Thunberg’s latest eco-stunt adds up to.” Photos of her arrest in Malmö, Sweden for “holding a sit-down protest to stop oil tankers from leaving and delivering their life-giving cargo” show “working men idly standing by their tankers while the world’s media get shots of Greta looking sad for Gaia.” It’s “working-class people reduced to background actors” in “a drama feverishly focussed on the jumped-up angst of the privileged.” “In the velvet glove of ‘saving the planet’ lurks the iron fist of ‘forcing the plebs to live on less’. How else do we account for the fact that in an energy crisis they’re making demands that would make energy even more expensive?”

That’s where Greta really torques me off. Oil and its resultant products are life-giving. Sad Greta and her pals are making life difficult for people who don’t have her privileges. She needs to take her Asperger’s super-power and focus it somewhere else.

I never worry about Greta, Gore or Kerry or any of the televangelists with doom and gloom end of the world predictions. I, myself, have reliable information on the end of the world:

“No one knows when that day or time will be. The Son and the angels in heaven don’t know when it will be. Only the Father knows.

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