Is Greta Thunberg different now? Ever since taking action for the people of Palestine she has been called a terrorist, an anti-semite, and someone who left climate justice behind.
As world leaders meet for the 30th time for the UN Climate Summit, this year in Brazil, Francesca looks at how the young Thunberg changed the world six years ago at COP24. Yet now that she’s turned her attention to the global wound that is the genocide in Gaza, she is being told she has become “political.” Sure, Jan.
What’s political is that countries DO NOT HAVE TO REPORT the emissions that stem from their military activity. That’s right. All the wars, conflicts, military exercises with heavy aircraft and artillery are not factored in when it comes time to calculate whether countries are in fact reducing greenhouse gas emissions. And military spending is increasing worldwide. Will leaders actually take responsibility for the climate chaos their aggression creates?
Not only are countries like Israel and the United States murdering Palestinians, but they are making Palestinian land unlivable, destroying the soil and water with chemical weapons. Greta consistently makes these links as part of the reason she fights for Palestine. So no, Greta Thunberg has not changed, she’s doubled down.
Check out more of the data about military emissions here: https://www.thewaronclimate.org/
I had to pause this video so many times to take a breath. I guess in that sense it is truly breathtaking how evil and clueless these companies, nations, and the military industrial complex are.
Francesca is legit and so is Greta
Greta actually cares about planet and people and refused to treat the climate crisis as an issue isolated from the larger context in which it was created and is embedded. She could have had such a comfortable life giving news agencies little quotes to fill out their climate coverage fluff pieces.
Mad props to that brave young one whose determined optimism for our collective capability to change paths before it’s too late is ironically read as pessimism by so many.
Well, if there’s one thing teenagers are known for not doing, it’s changing. Definitely a very stable and fixed stage of life that is no way characterized by self-discovery and reinvention of identity.
Isn’t she a Putinist tankie now or something?
Sarcasm doesn’t work on the internet most of the time 🤷
It’s all about attention anyways. The whole “activism” - achieving nothing - maybe even the reverse as people in general tend to dislike her and vote emotionally. She goes where the journalists are.
People in general tend to dislike her? What the fuck circles are you in
This is basically her obnoxious behaviour in a different context: (1).
Anyways, other than by other anti-social leftish people, she’s generally disliked. The moderates sorta tolerated it as it was directed towards climate. But by now, she’s mostly lost sympathy there too.
I think you should review your bubble with that comment. Lemmy is a small, hidden away corner of the internet.
Such as Turkish Kurdistan?
It is a gross oversimplification to reduce her activism to the media coverage she gets, but of course as an public activist, media coverage also plays a role and it would be stupid for her to not use it from time to time.
Kurdistan too? Damn shes getting better and better!
Oh boo fucking hoo, someone is fighting against climate change and genocide.
I genuinely think she is doing the reverse and is making things worse.
Like a toddler running around in a hospital, tantrumy shouting “I’m helping too!!!”, opening doors, throwing stuff on the ground when they don’t get sufficient attention.
And thereby driving people and support away from deserving ideas and causes.
If you think that being vocal about the Genocide of Palestinians is driving people and support away from deserving ideas and causes, I have to ask you:
Do you condemn Israel’s Genocide?
I hope they meant the way she is being vocal about climate change and genocide. (Which I still struggle to see the problem of how she’s doing harm.)
Yes. The methodology is performative, theatrical, with no positive effect. I fear the opposite to be true: she drives reasonable people away from just causes and better but boring, less photogenic, solutions.
And my question still stands.
Do you condemn Israel’s Genocide?
Based on their silence and this comment, I believe they do. https://mander.xyz/comment/23062638
In what world is transparently trying to bring aid to victims of genocide “smuggling”? They’re probably a Zionist.
Really tantrummy to put her actions where her mouth is and attempt to provide direct aid to an area affected by genocide and get kidnapped by the genociders. Yeah. Just awful stuff she did. I guess instead we should write strongly worded letters.
No. She’s brave as fuck and way braver than me. I’m proud of her and she’s a shining example of what I hope people younger than me become.
attempt to provide direct aid
Did she? None of that happened to no-one’s surprise.
I think she is brave too. It takes a lot of guts to go on stage and do a dance. But the admiration afterwards maybe makes it worth it.
None of that happened to no-one’s surprise.
Because they were kidnapped while trying to do so.
Of course that would happen. You get detained when you illegally try to smuggle stuff into any country. Bit much to pretend that’s kidnapping.
That’s exactly the point: no good happens because of her badly thought out theatrics. Au contraire.
They were in international waters. Also, what do you mean smuggle? They weren’t snuggling anything. Are you pro genocide or something?
