Greta Thunberg Archives - gcc – global climate change

some rightwing lunatics really hate this teenager

February 14, 2020 by Neal

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CLIMATE ACTIVIST GRETA THUNBERG is back in the news but not in a manner that she is enjoying. According to the article “Trolls Force Artist to Cancel a Planned Greta Thunberg Mural in North Dakota” by Yessenia Funes for Gizmodo (February 13, 2020), local artist/photographer Shane Balkowitsch took portraits of Thunberg in October 2019 when she was visiting members of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. READ MORE

holy hannah! is greta thunberg a time-traveler from the future?

February 14, 2020November 22, 2019 by Neal

THE TITLE OF THE ARTICLE is “Is Greta Thunberg a Time Traveler Here to Save Us From Climate Emergency? 120-Year-Old Photo Sparks Flood of Conspiracy Theories” by the Common Dreams staff (November 21, 2019). Well, there seems to be a conspiracy theory for just about everything, so why not Miss Thunberg as a visitor from the future! Here are the first paragraphs from the article:

“Is 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg a time traveler here to save us from the global climate emergency? READ MORE

the anti-trump and the weight of the world

March 16, 2020September 24, 2019 by Neal

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THE NEW YORKER focused on Greta Thunberg today, publishing an article and a featured cartoon. The article is titled “Greta Thunberg Is the Anti-Trump” and was written by Masha Gessen: “She is young and he is old. She is honest and he is a habitual liar. She relies on science and he relies on nothing but his gut. READ MORE

greta thunberg and the school strike for the climate

February 14, 2020September 15, 2019 by Neal

CLIMATE ACTIVIST GRETA THUNBERG recently joined Naomi Klein for a conversation on the climate emergency. Klein is a well-published author, senior correspondent at The Intercept, and the inaugural Gloria Steinem endowed chair of media, culture, and feminist studies at Rutgers University. Thunberg hasn’t graduated from high school yet she is credited with raising global awareness of the risks posed by global warming and climate change and politicians to task for their lack of action on the climate crisis. READ MORE

FAVORITE QUOTES

“We cannot do it all at once, it is a sequence. An unfolding process. We can only control the end by making a choice at each step. We can only hope. And try. One some other world, possibly it is different. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components." – Phil Dick, The Man In The High Castle

"We are the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we are the last generation that can do something about it.” – Jay Inslee

“The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.” – Gaylord Nelson

"The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.” – John Paul II

"The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese proverb

“I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were fiction.” Leonardo DiCaprio

“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you, and climate change is one of those exceptions.” – Al Gore

"Go into the world and do well, but more importantly, go into the world and do good." – Minor Myers Jr., President of Illinois Wesleyan University

“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on.” – Henry David Thoreau

"The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.” – Noam Chomsky

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble—it's what you know that just ain't so." – Mark Twain

"I have lived with several Zen masters, all of them cats." – Eckhart Tolle