Hi everyone, I hope you’re all well.
So, I want to have a little chat about the regressive left’s latest in vogue
personality, radical climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Greta, now 16 years old, is known for starting the worldwide School Strike for Climate
change; when tens of thousands of school students in more than
71 countries skipped school to proverbially “strike” for climate
change action.
Greta started this initiative as a lone 15-year-old out the front of a
Swedish parliament building with a painted-on wooden sign.
Fast forward eight months, she’s hailed as a
role model for young people, and heading what is being described as a global
movement.
The teenager is travelling around the world, meeting
with politicians, diplomats, even the Pope, and hammering them
with her simply and bluntly delivered message; stop the emissions.
The reason young Greta is in the news at the moment is because she
is currently traveling to New York City to attend the UN climate
conferences, but not on a jet plane, as ordinary people would.
Because of her strong stance on lowering emissions, Greta doesn’t
fly.
Instead, she is travelling on a high-tech yacht, fitted with solar panels
and underwater turbines to generate electricity, which caught the
wind from the English coastline on August 14th.
The journey in its entirety will take two weeks.
Now, the yacht idea is understandable, but largely tokenistic.
Greta’s journey won’t actually save emissions because
a crew needs to be flown to New York anyway in order to sail
the boat back to England.
Very ironic.
But look, I acknowledge Greta is attempting to show
people there are options other than air travel for long journeys, and I
commend her for putting her money where her mouth is.
But that’s the key word there; “money”.
What normal person on an average income has the funds or indeed
the time to sail everywhere by solar powered yacht?
Unlike a lot of green activists, your average individual actually
doesn’t have the money to “save the world” in the way Greta
and others are proposing.
As the yellow vest protestors in France put it when protesting
Macron’s fuel tax, the elites are thinking about the end of the world,
whereas they are thinking about the end of the month.
Simple.
But I digress.
It all ultimately sounds fairly harmless, right?
What could possibly be wrong with a young person
standing up for what she believes in?
Well, the advent of Greta Thunberg, and the amount
of breathless adulation she is getting from the green left lobby is
incredibly harmful.
Not only to her, but to the thousands of other young people who
have been swept along in her wake.
The whole thing reveals how truly sociopathic the green movement has become
in pushing climate change alarmism.
Before we go any further; let me be clear, I am not a climate change
denier, I’m not even a sceptic.
I am a climate centrist; I’m happy to listen to both sides of the issue and work
to find the best possible solution with minimal animosity or hysteria.
This is not a video about whether or not climate change exists.
This about the green movement, and the unethical lengths it will
go to in order to get people to believe the doomsday version of
the climate change story.
Greta Thunberg is the perfect instrument for these activists, because
she has the added benefit of being a teenager.
That is, anyone who criticises her gets the morality card pulled
on them for allegedly attacking a child.
Well here’s the thing.
If you are a young person who is putting yourself into the very adult
world of the political arena, and asking to be taken seriously by
adults, and in turn the adults who support you insist to other adults
that you should be taken as seriously as an adult, then that
young person has to be prepared to cop the same criticism as an adult
would in the same position.
You can’t have both.
So, here is my criticism.
Despite what the green movement continues to insist, Greta Thunberg is a terrible role
model for young people.
This has nothing to do with her personally.
On the contrary, I think she’s a highly highly intelligent girl,
with a big heart, who is certainly very well read, and who genuinely means well.
I do not think, as others have suggested, that she’s a puppet.
I think her work is all her own, and that she means what she says.
The reason she is a terrible role model is because of her binary
perception of the issue of climate change, and the false reality of
constant terror she embodies; a fantasy world that she encourages
other young people to live in as well.
Her activism, while no doubt very well intended, is detrimental to her
own well-being, and to the well-being of others.
Let’s start with why this Greta-fever is harmful to Greta herself.
It’s no secret she struggles with mental health,
and neurological issues.
Specifically, Asperger's Syndrome, high functioning autism, selective
mutism, depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
And before anyone jumps down my throat; no, I’m not saying the
fact the has mental health struggles and neurological issues means
she can’t be a role model.
That’s a stupid assumption.
There have been plenty of great leaders and prophets
throughout history who have struggled with things like depression
and anxiety.
What I am saying is that the conditions Greta suffers from lock
sufferers in states of inescapable fear and stress.
Aspergers, autism, depression, anxiety, and OCD?
That’s a cocktail of ongoing worry for Greta right there, and that’s without adding
the fact that she is a teenager.
And when you’re a teenager you generally don’t have the life
experience, or even a developed enough brain, to rationalise
thoroughly enough to assuage your own anxieties.
Can you imagine the perpetual state of freaked out that that
poor girl is in?
It was this cocktail of worry that caused Greta to become so fixated
on climate change in the first place.
She heard about when she was around eight years old at school.
She became very worried,
eventually lapsing into a depression as a result of the issue when she
was eleven.
And when I say depression, I mean she stopped going to
school, didn’t eat for two months, lost 10kg, showed signs of
starvation, and refused to talk to anyone except her parents and her
little sister.
Eventually, what made Greta feel better about herself was going on
this climate change quest.
That possibly explains why her parents have so readily gone along with it.
I mean, after seeing your little girl go through such terrible mental anguish for
years and years, you’d do anything to make her suffering end, wouldn’t
you?
Anyway, Greta says it is her Asperger’s that makes her ideally suited
to tackling climate change.
That is, her condition causes her to strip away social distractions and see the issue
through a black and white lens.
Either you stop the emissions, or you don’t.
But here’s the thing.
Greta’s story may sound all rosy pink and lovey
dovey and hashtag stunning and brave.
After all, everyone loves the tale of the troubled warrior standing as the
unlikely head of a cause for the greater good.
That’s why so many adults in high places have
sunk their claws into her and propelled her to messianic status.
But that’s not what they should be doing.
Greta, while highly intelligent and clearly well meaning, is a
deeply, deeply troubled young girl who has suffered terribly and for
years with a host of mental and neurological conditions which specifically
cause sufferers anguish and paranoia.
As such, Greta is locked in a state of perpetual terror, because of her
worry about climate change.
She is sick with fear 24/7.
And I don’t mean the with anxiety and sense of duty that
adult climate change activists feel.
I mean literal, genuine terror that she is going to die
prematurely because the world is going
to end.
The responsibility of adults in these situations, especially for kids
with poor Greta’s troubles, is to deescalate the child’s paranoia.
In the case of Greta, the reaction should be
hey, yes, we have some problems, but human being are very good problem
solvers, we’re good at adapting, we have the technology to
fix this, don’t worry kid.
But what’s happening here, is adults are not only ignoring their
responsibility, but validating Greta’s perpetual terror by lavishing her
with adulation, having her speak at UN conferences, and deferring to
her.
Even the Pope told her to keep doing what she’s doing.
The result of this is that a girl who should be counselled out of this
state of fear so she can enjoy some quality of life is being dumped
into the spotlight and forced to bear the cross of all humanity on her
shoulders.
I mean, what is that?
Where is the duty of care, for goodness sake?
Who knows what long term psychological damage this is doing?
Greta’s raw honestly and blind sweetness and goodwill is being
indulged and exploited by adults who should know better to further
their own political cause.
And make no mistake, climate change is absolutely political, despite the shrill protestations
of activists that it isn’t.
Climate change has been hijacked by the regressive left because it is
tailor made for their ideological prism.
It’s a globalist cause in which the individual’s needs are discarded for
the good of the collective, at it involves what is essentially a giant redistribution
of wealth.
Plus, it allows them to tap into their militant morality complex; that
is, if you’re not freaking out about climate change and don’t support
massive government intervention to fix the problem, you are a
fundamentally unethical person who does not care about the future
of your children.
See?
It’s like morality for dummies.
Add to that the fact that if you express even a shadow of a doubt
about climate change, then you risk large scale public ridicule, and in
some cases professional sabotage.
Dissent is not tolerated in the ranks of the green movement.
It goes beyond a political ideology; climate alarmism, given its militant party
line, apocalyptic preaching, deference to a Saviour figure, and zero tolerance
of debate, is, for lack of a better word, a cult.
Which is exactly why climate activists and globalist diplomats have so
greedily grabbed onto well-meaning little Greta; it’s almost
impossible to criticise her, as I mentioned earlier.
Greta is not only a teenager, she’s a girl teenager, and she
has Asperger’s.
She’s an intersectionalist dream.
As such, the minute anyone opens their mouths to say hey, I don’t
agree with her, or what she’s doing, her supporters respond with, “How can you criticise
a little girl with Aspergers, you monster?!”
And while I have seen some totally inappropriate things said about
her looks or her autism, which should be roundly condemned,
nobody can even put forth a sensible critique of her or her
movement without provoking swarms of climate change alarmist
harpies painting you as someone who hates children with autism.
After all, what sort of monster would attack a child who is just trying
to save the planet?
She is therefore the perfect weapon for the green movement, and
they are going to max that poor girl out, damn the consequences to
her well-being.
As this person on Twitter so eloquently puts it,
“When you can’t defend your position, march children onto the front
lines so they can do it for you.”
I’m not saying Greta Thunberg shouldn’t be taken seriously, but
there has to be a line drawn somewhere.
While she does mean so well, somebody who self-confessedly only thinks
in black and white about any issue, let alone climate change,
is not a good leader.
As such, she’s a terrible role model for young
people because she completely rejects the idea of critical thinking.
This terrible influence extends to her insistence that going to school
is secondary to activism, and by activism I mean yelling at buildings.
Also, she frightens the living daylights out of her adolescent peers by
insisting the world is literally going to end in 12 years and that their
lives are constantly at risk and existence is futile, which is simply is
not the case.
I wish Greta Thunberg all the very best in her crusade, I really do.
She is a girl who has suffered, and she deserves
to be happy.
But shame on all the adults around her who are indulging
this false reality of terror she lives in, and double shame on them
for encouraging in other children and teenagers a sense of meaninglessness
and despair at thought that the planet is going to end
so their lives no longer have any purpose.
At some point there has to be a duty of care.