Give it to Greta!

Cynics are snickering at unconfirmed reports that Greta Thunberg, the 17-year-old Swedish climate kvetcher, has been nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. They think it’s ridiculous to honor a science-challenged teenager whose only contributions to world peace are skipping school and yelling “How dare you?!” at adults for not riding their solar-powered yachts to work.

But I think she’s the perfect person to carry the Nobel Prize mantle once worn by terrorist Yasser Arafat and Barack “Drone ‘Em All” Obama.

In fact, she’s even better. Greta Thunberg is the Peace Prize winner we deserve.

In the past, the Nobel Prize went to people like Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel and civil rights champion Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Their fight for peace ran through gulags and jails, through gauntlets of violence. They suffered for their beliefs and yet they stood by them. Those were the Nobel Prize winners of the past.

Since then the award has gone to “The European Union” — wealthy continental bureaucrats whose greatest struggle is finding a convenient pied-à-terre for their mistresses; and former Vice President Al Gore, who looks like he’s never missed a meal, much less suffered for a cause.

Greta Thunberg’s great sacrifice for world peace is growing up in one of the wealthiest countries in the wealthiest era in the history of humankind. From her gourmet vegan breakfast in the morning until she turns off her iPad and drifts off to sleep at night, she’s living a life of luxury unimaginable to Europeans just 40 years ago. A lifestyle made possible by fossil fuels and petroleum products.

We’re supposed to admire her sacrifice for taking a “green” yacht across the Atlantic to make a speech in New York. What’s to admire? What — did she row part of the way? No. She sat on the boat streaming Netflix while others did the work, and when she got to New York, the yacht’s owners had to put two crew members on a carbon-spewing jetliner to bring the yacht back.

Meanwhile, where is the world in most need of peace? Is it in the prosperous world that carbon-energy built? No, it’s in places like Africa and the Middle East where poverty and want feed violence and bloodshed. If we listened to Thunberg, a billion people currently living without access to reliable power — and the water and air conditioning and health care and jobs that it brings — would be forced to continue to live without them. Are these desperate people going to peacefully accept the third-world lifestyle she wants to impose on them?

We live in a world where virtue signaling counts for more than actual virtue, where hoping for peace is more admirable than using force against evil to make peace a reality.

In this world, Greta Thunberg is already a winner. It’s the rest of us who lose.

Give it to Greta. I dare you!!!