Thank you, Greta
Not the climate apocalypse one feared, but a ‘care-full’ recalibration lurks.
When it comes to climate shaming, I prefer the defiance of Greta to the doom and gloom of Donald Trump.
What, you ask.
When did Donald Trump care a rat’s ass about the climate?
That’s the point: he doesn’t. He cares more about scaring folks so that only one option could assuage: his authority. No room for the ‘rest of us,’ so defend at all costs, me… my turf.
Trump successfully uses climate change as a cause to ignore in light of his ambition to control and dictate.
Greta Thunberg, whom Trump ridiculed, shames decision makers by their inaction. She shows up at ‘Climate Summits’ as the witness to inaction. She speaks about climate destruction, which is avoidable.
Her inference is that your ‘better half’ does care but lacks the will.
Which is pretty much where the globe is today — not at the “end of times,” but ‘less than halfway to caring about our collective survival.’ (1)
What is to be gained by ‘gloom and doom,’ except to make a veiled indictment of the disenfranchised? Makes sense that Trump’s enemies are immigrants, the ones crossing borders seeking relief from climate destruction, the ones seeking higher land, the ones reminding ‘the rest of us ’of our collective inhumanity.’
Here’s a thought experiment, ‘What would Lady Diana say, if she were alive today?’ In a real sense Lady Diana was an early climate warrior, for her twin causes, AIDS research and land mines, are tethered to climate justice. Both created refugees where none existed before. Both were signs for action. (2)
And both causes see some progress — an expanding ‘half-way picture.’
October 27
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