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Is it cold and cynical to ask who is funding Greta Thunberg’s world eco-adventure?

Of course it isn’t. If someone was out filling meeting rooms and public parks with thousands of people while extolling the virtues of fossil fuel that question would be asked immediately, and for good reason.

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As they say, follow the money.

She is a 16-year-old girl. I am a grown man with a job and I can’t afford to pull up stakes and go traipsing around North America on a speaking tour unless someone foots the bill.

Ms. Thunberg has appeared at the UN in New York, in Montreal, just recently in Alberta, and has plans to appear in Chile, all in support of her particularly apocalyptic message of global doom.

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She has won several honours and scholarships, but it seems that when there was a cash award she donated it to charity. For example she received the German Goldene Kamera Special Climate Protection award and Thunberg said she would donate the 25,000 euro prize money to organizations she feels are doing good work in the area of climate change.