Time magazine just made Greta Thunberg their Person of the Year.
Excellent choice, which brings attention not just to her but to the climate change problem in general.
And it ought to infuriate even more all the middle-aged white climate denying men who can't abide someone speaking their mind -- especially when it's a female. They'll only look more foolish (than they already have) attacking a 16-year old girl. They're turning from climate change deniers to bigots -- or more likely, their bigotry was there all along, but it's now coming out their every pore.
Good.
Added: And she was chosen over Trump, who was one of three finalists not chosen. Other two were Nancy Pelosi and the U.S. whistleblower. Whatcha wanna bet he can't simply congratulate her sincerely?
4 comments:
Congratulations to Greta.
This is great. Honestly, the best possible choice. Well done, Time. Seeing this made my day.
Congrats to Greta. However, IMHO it should have been the Hong Kong demonstrators, who are literally life and limb to seek more freedom.
Cheers
Hong Kong demonstrators would have been a good one.
It looks like the Times picked her as an avatar for youth movements around the world, including the Hong Kong protests:
"Along the way, she emerged as a standard bearer in a generational battle, an avatar of youth activists across the globe fighting for everything from gun control to democratic representation. Her global climate strike is the largest and most international of all the youth movements, but it’s hardly the only one: teenagers in the U.S. are organizing against gun violence and flocking to progressive candidates; students in Hong Kong are battling for democratic representation; and young people from South America to Europe are agitating for remaking the global economy. Thunberg is not aligned with these disparate protests, but her insistent presence has come to represent the fury of youth worldwide. " - https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2019-greta-thunberg/
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