Address to the World Economic Forum today.
Watch to the end.
"We understand that the world is very complex and that change doesn’t happen overnight. But you’ve now had more than three decades of blah blah blah. How many more do you need?"
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) January 25, 2021
My address to the World Economic Forum today. #wef2021 #DavosAgenda pic.twitter.com/Bhd9HJSHhp
This young woman continues to inspire awe. She has more courage in facing truth than any of the hundreds of thousands of alleged adults in corporate media, politics, industry, and even science, since even Michael Mann, James Hansen, and so many others are afflicted by a pastiche of politeness, conservatism, and conflicting interests and are unwilling or unable to embrace the solutions that are now necessary. Her lack of financial interests or concretized political affiliation may be part of what frees her to tell the simple truth, but lots of people have that, and still everything that comes out of them on climate is a lie.
Psychologist Judith Lipton said the best therapy for despair is action. I think the best therapy for despair—and most other ailments—is therapy, but action is a crucial way of transforming the outer world to align with our new, healthier inner world.
If you’re not politically active now, what are you waiting for? What will it take?
GO Greta the great!
Greta reminds me of the boy who pointed out that the King had no clothes.
In Greta’s speech to the UN last year, she mentioned the fantasy of continued economic growth. Many people scoffed at this remark but the COVID-19 pandemic has proved that an greatly attenuated world economy is not the end of the human race. Comment: the only other thing on the planet that expects continued growth is cancer.
Intellectually, I can see how Thunberg might help the cause. But my visceral reaction is to hope this hectoring twerp goes away.
I hope she moves the rhetorical window. The right-wing tactic of portraying even a mild carbon tax as a socialist takeover doesn’t work nearly as well if we have a few Thundering Thunbergs out on the extreme. The same dynamic advanced quite a few social causes in US history.
She helps the cause by being an unpleasant uncompromising narrow-minded zealot that other people can point to and say “I’m not like her.”
(Yes, I know “Thundering Thunberg” doesn’t alliterate.)
A minor point: I don’t understand how so many people think they are on a first name basis with Thunberg.
Greta = climate Elvis
^^ OK, I’ll buy that!
Most people do it because they like her, like they like Bernie. OTOH, when they call Trump by his first name it’s because they hate and despise him. It’s one of those subtle social cue things that are so hard for autistic people to figure out. If there were such a thing as irony, that would be.
I think she’s really charming. Did you see her post about Trump:
“He seems like a very happy old man looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/greta-thunberg-wishes-old-man-trump-a-wonderful-future-1.5274624
:>)
I guess it is reassuring to know that a spokesperson for our side is adept at twitter burns.
That is a serious remark. The story of Thunberg’s tweet(s) seems to have been printed in a very large number of places. A twitter feud with Trump which did not receive any publicity would be worthless except to the participants.
… But she still strikes me as a hectoring twerp.
A young woman, girl really, who is so erudite and informed, and is so effective, all in a second language, is cause for admiration. The term genius is not inapplicable. Negative responses can only be visceral and unfortunately, there really isn’t a Greta helpline.