Who would have thought, a year ago, that a teen-age girl’s travel across the Atlantic Ocean would legitimately merit front page coverage globally? I certainly didn’t then … but do now.
In word and deed, Greta Thunberg has become one of the (if not the) strongest and coherent public voices and faces on the climate crisis and the necessity for serious action — now — to avert utter calamity. Thus, in her sanity and clarity, she has a bulls-eye target on her for every fossil-foolish minion to aim at.
Many who appreciate her recognize that … and have her back … such as the huge crowd who waited to greet her arrival on US soil prior to speaking at the UN climate summit.
See Greta is Closing on New York from Monday.
Wednesday, Aug 28, 2019 · 10:27:07 PM +00:00
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A Siegel
From that video, as to Donald Trump;
"My message for him is just: listen to the science," said Thunberg. "And he obviously doesn’t do that. So as I always say to this question: If no one has been able to convince him about the climate crisis, the urgency, then why should I be able to do that? So I am just going to now focus on spreading awareness and that people in general will start caring and realize how big the crisis is."
Thursday, Aug 29, 2019 · 12:05:21 AM +00:00
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A Siegel
The air at North Cove Marina, a small slip amid the towering high rises of Lower Manhattan, felt pregnant. With rain. With hope. With anticipation.
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish activist trying to turn the world back from the climate crisis brink, had spent the night docked off Coney Island after 330 hours at sea. On Wednesday afternoon, the solar-powered yacht that had ushered her across from England to American shores entered New York Harbor, zig-zagging up the western flank of the island. Onlookers gathered, waiting for Thunberg to take her first wobbly steps on American shores since becoming a climate icon.
It felt like the second coming of the Beatles in some way, but with higher stakes.