Greta Thunberg (1 Viewer)

The youtube algorithm recommended that I watch this. Was the first time I heard Greta speak and found her quite likeable. The dude next to her I've never seen before in my life.

 
Well, to bring it back to Buk, he commented on "the greenhouse effect" in this circa 1990 poem:
https://charles-bukowski.quillsliteracy.org/we-aint-got-no-money-honey-but-we-got-rain-39/

I have an unrelated LP from around 1973 which rings the alarm about climate change, and then there's this prescient warning from 1912: https://www.inverse.com/article/480...olumn-warned-its-readers-about-climate-change

So, despite decades of concern and Greta's elevated profile, real action isn't getting traction, especially in the completely bonkers USA that is officially in full denial, no doubt the result of intense lobbying by vested petro interests. (Exxon squelched their own climate research results in the 1970s and eventually an Exxon CEO became secretary of state in 2017, for just one example of how entrenched Big Oil is in shaping US policy.)
https://qz.com/531899/exxonmobil-fa...s-climate-change-past-is-attacking-the-media/

What struck me about Thunberg's speech at a rally in NY was how the crowd reacted by chanting her name. Can you imagine the crowd chanting "Mar-tin, Mar-tin!" at MLK's famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963? America's cult of personality mindset seems focused on the messenger more than the message. On the one hand, a high profile spokesperson can be effective in informing the public, but celebrity worship is a dead end as it puts the onus for change on a savior rather than them asses--oops, the masses.
 
TIME-MAGAZINE's Person Of The Year 2019.

https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2019-greta-thunberg

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The more I think about the future of the human race the more I am convinced that if there is a future the cornerstones of it must be women.
Men are only allowed to exist in experimental laboratories.
 

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