In what may be the most anticlimactic announcement ever made, Time magazine has named Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg its Person of the Year for 2019.
The on-line version of the article shows Greta staring stoically out toward the ocean, her long hair gently blown by a sea breeze. She is a young woman who clearly has big things on her mind.
Al Gore, a less influential member of the climate hysteria movement, had high praise for young Greta. “This moment does feel different,” said former vice-president Gore, who received a Nobel Peace Prize for his own work on climate-related issues. “Throughout history, many great morally based movements have gained traction at the very moment when young people decided to make that movement their cause.”
The diminutive Thunberg, who is nearly 17 years old but looks much younger, began skipping school in 2018 to spend her days outside the Swedish Parliament holding a sign that read “School Strike for Climate.” From those humble and lonely beginnings, she has become the world’s most famous climate warrior, spreading the message of the coming man-made climate catastrophe to anyone who will listen.
Thanks to a well-orchestrated marketing campaign, the list of who will listen now includes some of the world’s most influential people, including Hollywood stars, heads of state and even the Pope.
“We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow,” Thunberg said in the fawning article in Time. “That is all we are saying.”
The 16-year-old Thunberg is surely saying more than that. She is saying that a man-made climate catastrophe is on its way, and if we don’t believe her, we’re stupid. She is calling for the complete abandonment of fossil fuels as a source of energy — no matter the cost in money or human suffering — to stem the tide of the coming climate emergency.
And if we object to any portion of what she wants, she accuses us of “stealing her future.”
How dare we?
“I want you to panic,” Thunberg told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January. “I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.”
Greta has become the world’s most recognizable figure in the climate hysteria movement. She is the perfect front person since, as a child with a mental condition (Asperger’s syndrome), any reproach to her ravings can automatically be dismissed as “mean” or “unfeeling.” Greta is a human shield for the movement, which even the most hardened climate realist can have some sympathy for. Her fear and her anger have made her a symbol for all youth everywhere.
“She symbolize the agony, the frustration, the desperation, the anger — at some level, the hope — of many young people who won’t even be of age to vote by the time their futures are doomed,” said Green New Deal advocate Varshini Prakash, the founder of the Sunrise Movement.
And it’s true; Thunberg is a symbol. She is a symbol of a cult-like political and cultural movement that couches itself in the language of science but is, in fact, the antithesis of science since it squelches any skepticism with angry words such as “denier” and “heretic.”
She is a symbol of schools worldwide, which frighten children by teaching the shoddy science of man-made and catastrophic global warming as if it were a fact. It is clearly not a fact when literally thousands of scientistsdisagree with the conclusions of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It’s not a fact when the data that the “scientists” use to prove their assertions is observably manipulated without consequence. It is not a fact when a substance that is necessary to life on Earth, carbon dioxide, has been demonized simply in order to create a man-made link to the Malthusian proposition that a slightly warming globe will be a disaster.
She is a symbol of the misanthropic, godless state of many of today’s youth. Many of today’s children look at the future as a dire, hopeless place, which gives them an excuse to not care about anything and instead skulk back into their smartphones, video games, and social-media accounts and wall off the real world from their own realities.
But Greta, with her youth and her Asperger’s syndrome, is not the one who should be blamed for her fame. With D-list celebrity, Antifa parents — who reportedly switched to veganism at Greta’s demand — who allow her to be used as a puppet by Soro’s/Gates funded NGOs, she didn’t have much of a chance. Once those NGOs got a hold of her, her place as Time’s person of the year was set in stone.
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James Murphy is a freelance journalist who writes on a variety of subjects with a primary focus on the ongoing anthropogenic climate-change hoax and cultural issues. He can be reached at [email protected].
