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Climate activist Greta Thunberg’s outrageous support of Gaza, while completely ignoring the massacre Hamas inflicted upon Israel, creates damage that isn’t only political, but environmental. The environment does not belong to the right or left wing; it belongs to all of us. Greta, how dare you?
Up until now, Greta Thunberg has been a young, feisty, Swedish activist, primarily concerned with climate change. Today she earned a new title: pro-Palestinian. When Thunberg announced on her Instagram account that she “stands by Gaza,” and called for an immediate ceasefire and Palestinian liberation—after remaining radio silent about the deadly terrorist attacks of October 7th—she didn’t only recklessly adopt the wrong side of the ongoing war, but she also inflicted environmental harm. Thunberg related left-wing, borderline antisemitic views with the very equal environmental issues she’s consecrated her life to combat—a connection that is simply incorrect. The environment does not belong to the right or left wing; it belongs to all of us. Oh, Greta, in your own words: How dare you?
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Critical Media Project
This video by newspaper The Washington Post looks at youth climate activism across the globe. Starting with Swedish activist Greta Thunberg – who started the Institution Strike for Climate, also known variously as Fridays for Future (FFF), Youth for Climate, Climate Strike/Climatestrike or Youth Strike for Climate. They show her 2018 speech at the U.N., before interviewing 16-year aged Alexandria Villasenor, 8-year old Amanda Cabera, It highlights that activists and politicians in the global south have been raising these issues for many years. The short documentary also speaks to academic and journalist Naomi Klein, co-founder of the Sunrise Movement Varshini Prakesh.
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Who are some of the activists we meet in this clip? What are they fighting for? What tactics possess they used?
Why undertake you think it is youth who have been foremost this movement?
Why act you think The Washington Post primarily interviews Naomi Klein and Varshini Prakesh for this clip?
What does it express to go “beyond” Greta Thunberg? Can you think of other social movements that require us to go beyond individuals as symbols?
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Young, Queer, and Threatened for Climate Activism
When Brynn Kilpatrick was nine years aged, inspired by then 16-year-old Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future, she started her own climate vigil on her main street during her grade four lunch period.
Kilpatrick, a friend’s daughter, lives in my hometown in rural eastern Ontario, about 50 miles serious in the great Canadian boreal forest that stretches from Newfoundland to Alaska. Though the old-growth forest there is long gone, logging and lumber trucks still roll by every 15 minutes, and Kilpatrick would watch them as she conducted her calm protest.
She giggled when she described the man who drove by, giving her “the finger.” When she told her dad, he and others started accompanying her on her vigils. Her dad shook his head, recounting the story five years later: “I am standing with my daughter, it’s about the third week, and I couldn’t believe these men would be yelling and screaming and giving the finger to a nine-year-old,” Bill Kilpatrick said. “Who does that?”
These incidents are part of a larger trend of anger, aggression, and violence directed at juvenile climate activists. And those who are female or queer face the greates