“It seems like the people in power have given up,” says Thunberg, taking her hat off and pushing back her mussed up brown-blond hair. She remains on message despite the tourists and teens taking her picture and mugging behind us. “They say it’s too hard — it’s too much of a challenge. But that’s what we are doing here. We have not given up because this is a matter of life and death for countless people.
In Davos, the illuminati prattled on about planting a trillion trees, even as we are still clear-cutting actual trees from the Amazon all the way to Thunberg’s beloved Sweden. This did not amuse nor placate the hoodie-wearing Greta. She seemed irritated and perhaps a little sick; she canceled an appearance the day before because she wasn’t feeling well. She was in no mood for flattery and nonsense.
Activist-actress Jane Fonda was so inspired by Greta that she has been hosting a series of Fire Drill Fridays. “I was just filled with depression and hopelessness, and then I started reading about Greta,” Fonda tells me one winter afternoon in Los Angeles. “She inspired me to get out there and do more.”
Still, all is not rotten. America has come up with the Green New Deal. In Trumplandia, that seems like a beacon of hope, right?“If you look at the graphs to stay below the 1.5 degree Celsius global average temperature and you read the Green New Deal, you see that it doesn’t add up,” says Thunberg with some impatience. She references her Davos speech about how the world only has 420 gigatons of CO2 to burn over the next eight years or the 1.5 goal becomes impossible.
Greta battled her own life-threatening demons. When she was 11, she stopped eating and rarely spoke to anyone outside of her family for months. Sometimes she would come home after being bullied at school — recess was spent hiding out in the bathroom — and either spend hours petting her dogs or crying at her own pain. She lost 20 pounds as her parents chronicled her food intake.
“I thought what the Parkland students did was so brave,” says Thunberg. “Of course, it was not the only thing that got me out of that feeling. I did it because I was tired of sitting and waiting. I tried to get others to join me, but no one was interested and no one wanted to do that. So I said, ‘I’m going to do this alone if no one else wants to do it.’ ”
And then you had the natural disasters. California could not stop burning. Floods ravaged Europe. We now watch glaciers melt and collapse in real time. The dawn of 2020 brought the Australian calamity, with images of scorched earth, koalas and kangaroos burned alive, and the death of a way of life.
Rid the world of the Coronavirus
WTF?... You’ve GOT to be KIDDING
The youth will save the nation, yea right sure there running round licking toilets and stuff.
She’s a mere puppet
Here’s RS promoting complete BS during the Covid 19 crisis. Why? Could it be tacit support for Democrats promoting the Green New Deal in Covid 19 legislation?
Greta needs your platform to bring truths to the light for the under-knowledgeable leadership from industrialists to political hacks that follow the current ethics of a greedy, self-serving, emotionally disturbed occupant that has zero compassion for our lives but worships $.
So sad to see this paid news. Press should be free of money but is controlled by it.
the magazine for simps
stephenrodrick Simply beautiful.
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It's everybody's world. She haven't done anything for the world.
I don't care about her, I care about the thousands of doctors and nurses fighting the coronavirus, the grocery shops that are open and the companies donating masks and hand sanitizers. I care about the farmer who works amid the chaos & about the scientists working on the vaccine
what a shame. rolling stone is a giant pussy sandwich now
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