Why do losers keep coming for Greta Thunberg with their lame digs and remarks? She has the tools and will leave these bozos a crying mess.
I have never heard of Andrew Tate; he can only drive one car at a time. — Read the rest
At yesterday's Climate Live concert in Stockholm, Greta Thunberg took the stage to massive applause before stating: "We're no strangers to love." And with that, the rickroll began.
"At the end of the day, we are just teenagers fooling around with each other, not just the angry kids the media often portrays us as," Thunberg told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. — Read the rest
In December 2019, then-President Donald J. Trump mocked Greta Thunberg — a 16-year-old Swedish girl with autism — for having the audacity to be recognized as TIME's Person Of The Year.
The Bristol Post provided complete coverage of Greta Thunberg's speech in the English city. She was seen in person by thousands of locals, but angry older men gathered online to post abusive and contemptuous remarks on its stories and social media postings. — Read the rest
I was a anti-nuclear arms proliferation activist from a very young age, 10 or 11, and took it seriously, nearly getting kicked out of school and organizing classmates to attend large demonstrations. I felt like I was tackling an existential risk to the human race and most of the living things on the planet Earth (30+ years later, I think I was right), and that the grownups around me were not taking this seriously, and that this was probably the most urgent thing for me to focus on as a result.
"To the world leaders and those in power, I would like to say that you have not seen anything yet. You have not seen the last of us, we can assure you that. And that is the message that we will bring to the World Economic Forum in Davos next week." — Read the rest
In barely months, a 16 year-old Swedish activist has changed the record on climate change, drawing the attention of the world to a problem as it becomes critical–and the contemptuous wrath of politicians and pundits who think she'll go away if they just call her a stupid little brat again. — Read the rest
Balazs Sarkadi from the Hungarian band Bankrupt ("a refreshingly energetic blend of 90s indie, hip hop and punk rock") writes, "President Trump mocked Greta Thunberg in a recent tweet, which sparkled the idea of a song in which he elaborates his point of view on climate change in a Twitter rant addressed to Greta. — Read the rest
Found in the the University of Washington Libraries's Special Collections, this c.1898 photo of badass climate activist Greta Thunberg proves that she is a time traveler who is here to save us from ourselves. Or, perhaps Twitter user @bucketofmoney is correct: "The Greta Thunberg time-travel conspiracy theorists have got it wrong: the photo is from the future." — Read the rest
Uno's Greta Grotesk is a free font based on Greta Thunberg's hand-lettered signs.
Greta Thunberg's Joan of Arc-grade tongue-lashing to the world's leaders at the UN makes for some incredible mashup possibilities: it's not merely that her excellent delivery lent itself to death metal, but also her use of the phrase "right here, right now," was tailor-made for insertion into Fatboy Slim's track of the same name — hence Fatboy Slim himself playing Twitter user David Scott's remix at a gig in Gateshead.
YouTuber John Mollusk took Greta Thunberg's biting address to the U.N. and turned it into Swedish Death Metal. And, of course, it's EPIC!
Holy shit.
Raffi Cavoukian (AKA "Raffi") is best known as a beloved children's singer — I vividly remember attending one of his concerts as a child — and possibly secondarily as the brother of former Ontario Privacy Commissioner and excellent privacy advocate Ann Cavoukian, but in recent years, he's emerged as a smart, acerbic political activist whose anti-Trump and climate-oriented tweets are as much as source of uplift as his Baby Beluga was when I was a kid.
Greta Thunberg is a young environmental campaigner setting off on a carbon-neutral boat trip across the Atlantic. Aaron Banks is a businessman, Brexit campaigner and money man behind the far-right UK Independence Party. On Wednesday, Banks tweeted to Thunberg: "Freak yachting accidents do happen in August." — Read the rest
Congresswoman and force of nature Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and student activist and force of nature Greta "Extinction Rebellion" Thunberg conducted a videoconference to meet one another and talk tactics for saving the world from dying in its own waste-gases; the wide-ranging conversation touched on the unique power and problems of being a young activist; the problem of holding up Nordic countries as paragons of climate virtue; winning the fight over climate denialism; the true nature of leadership; keeping motivated in the face of desperation and crushing setbacks, and the tipping point we're living through.
Greta Thunberg is the Swedish teenager whose climate change school-strike spread around the world, leading to her addressing the COP24 conference, the World Economic Forum, and many other forums where she has distinguished herself with her brilliant oratory and leadership. In an interview with Great Big Planet, Thunberg attributes her ability to focus on climate change despite the crushing terror and the enormous forces arrayed against her on her autism, saying, "I think if I wouldn't have had Asperger's I don't think I would have started the school strike, I don't think I would've cared about the climate at all… That allowed me to focus on one thing for a very long time." — Read the rest
Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez crisply explains why the upcoming elections are so important: Trump "seeks to dismantle American democracy."
Medhi Hasan asks the congressperson from New York what she tells people reluctant to vote for a President enabling Israel's war of retribution in Palestine. — Read the rest
Der Spiegel's negative profile of climate activist Greta Thunberg accuses her of antisemitism (she held up a "free Gaza" sign) but is really an exercise in tone: patronizing yet anxious, exhaustive yet insubstantial, crafted to marginalize naive and misguided young people while reassuring serious adults that their radical movements and political idée fixes (especially the climate movement) are going nowhere. — Read the rest
Celebrity Flights tracks the private flying-around of the rich and famous—and the colossal carbon footprints they have. Elon Musk is the world's most jet-set person, clocking 363k kilometers in the last year and generating 1021 tons of carbon dioxide. Trump is a distant second, with less than half the footprint and a quarter of the mileage. — Read the rest
