Reiterates her message as well, which I think gets miscommunicated and misunderstood, often deliberately. She doesn't ask people to listen to her, she asks them to listen to the scientists. And when asked what people can do, she doesn't answer with minor individual lifestyle changes, she says to join her in activism.
She knows that a few people switching their lightbulbs and putting a bit of foil behind their radiators isn't going to make a difference and she's not putting that burden on individuals. She understands that change will come from putting pressure on governments and corporations.
Well yes that's why 'us lot' keep banging on about the need for system change, climate justice, and holding governments and big business to account.
As individuals we can't change much, even if we live the greenest lives imaginable, or model good practice on our agroecological farms, stop flying, or buy nicer washing powder, recycle etc etc.
But collectively, by applying pressure politically some things can change.
Although it is helpful to have people like Greta popping up now and then to inspire fresh interest, particularly amongst the youth, and to give the 'personality hungry' media something to report.
Although of course some section of same media (usually the populist wing) will try to deflect the focus onto something they can rubbish..
Like her appearance, delivery, or even the fact that she's got the cheek to be a young woman !!
See Unkers post for further details.. 🙄
She had the temerity to point out that the realities of climate science that she'd been taught, and read about, were being ignored by large chunks of government, and the oil corps etc, and also kept asking the very obvious, but awkward question.
"Why is so little being done about this ??"
She does one girl sit down protest about it, captures imagination of others, the rest is history.
But people will keep insisting she has 'handlers' or some such - the idea that a young woman could do this off her own bat ??
Absolutely unthinkable, to their tiny minds.
Perhaps her neurodivergence meant she could keep persisting, and not worry about whether or not she was presenting herself 'nicely' enough.?? I don't know.
I've seen so many guys (in particular) posting that meme of Gretas 'angry face' in some kind of sad attempt to discredit her - as if her being very frustrated about lack of action on climate change was laughable in some way.
It's utterly pathetic, I've seen grown men get more het up about their football team losing, or getting a scratch on their car.
Harsh-but-fair!
