Our planet is dying. Icebergs are melting, animals are dying out and all anyone seems to care about is not being able to have your crappy McDonald’s straw. That’s not totally fair - SO many people care, and are making changes, and making a difference, but there’s enough people who are so adamant that they have more right to a plastic straw than our planet does to survive. And these same people are so unjustly angry at 16 year old, Greta Thunberg for speaking up. Note that she’s technically a girl, not woman, and she’s smarter than most of us, and quite frankly we should all be ashamed, of either trying to silence her, or in not speaking up against those people (hence this post!). She is incredible, all she wants is for us, as adults, to take responsibility and to make a change, she’s not dictating what would e should do, she’s simply wanting us to make a change.
My childhood was made up of playing outside with friends, homework, and crushing on boys, but hers is filled with speeches, anger, and grown adults throwing hate speech at her. Hate speech... at a 16 year old... who wants to make our planet better?! God forbid she tries. Unfortunately a lot of the comments from men stem from the fact that 1) she’s 16 (‘and doesn’t know any better’ COMPLETE EYEROLL) and 2) a girl. I can bet that if this was a male saying these things, he wouldn’t be getting death threats. And maybe that’s completely wrong, and I’m aware that people will read this and think that I’m just trying to make this about gender - but we’re all smart enough to know that’s just not true, it’s a major part of why she’s getting all this hate.
And as for her being ‘only 16’, I don’t know about you, but I wish I was as smart at 16 as she is, I could just about manage quadratic equations, but I was nowhere close to making powerful, thought-provoking speeches in a second language. At 16 you can legally have sex, join the army, and no end of other things, and most of them require a lot less thought than the points Greta is raising. So no, the argument that ‘she’s too young to know what she’s talking about’ is complete bullshit, stop kidding yourself. She just wants her childhood back anyway, she’s asking US to do the work.
I HOPE so much that people can learn to just be kinder, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything y’know?
So, as Greta herself said ‘we should take as compliment that we are having so much impact that people want to silence us’. (Watch herehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CAYCUCCktac )
Anyway, use plastic bags more than once, buy a reusable bottle, and stop being dicks to each other.
George x
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