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Miss Thunberg is to be complimented,not ridiculed or personally attacked for her successful attractionof attention for her views on climate change.

That is not to say that she is entirely right. She is still young and unexperienced,without necessarily a full understanding or the complexity of the issues and the difficulty of finding a suitable solution.  Nor at her age is she necessarily mature enough to avoid the danger of excessivve attribution of weight to emotive factors which tend to give excessive weight to the argument which she supports.

But this is not to say that she is wrong to emphasise the gravity of the threat and the need for greater activity to combat it. And a reasoned view might suggest that the world governments have generally been derelict to a greater or less extent in meeting their obligations in this respect. Responsible world bodies have said as much.

Because of her success in communicating her message, she is seen as a threat by those with vested interests in avooiding a recognotion of the danger and of the cost of any remedy.  So, consistently with their usual dishonest conduct,instead of debating the matter relevantly, they have their propagandists attack Miss Thunberg personally, a classical argumentative device to avoid a telling adverse argument, and gross illogic (argumentum ad hominem). It actually implies that the person attacked is successful and that there is no reasonable logical response.

The groound used to attack her was prticularly obscene and disgraceful.

Another feature of Miss TThunberg's action is that even if she is not entirely right it should be celebrated that youth is politically aware and active rather than uninterested and inert.