Despite of Donald trump and scores of climate change denying
heads-of-state, is the choosing of a 16 year old Swedish environmental activist
as Time magazine’s Person of the Year represent a new hope for environmentalism?
By: Ringo Bones
I’m always reminded of that quote by Robert Frost on when I
was young my teachers were old but the older I get, the younger my teachers had
become. And while the 16 year old Swedish environmental activist named Greta
Thunberg has been telling us this year t start panicking, sadly, I’ve been
panicking for the last 30 years – from the murdering of Amazon rain forest anti
deforestation activists with impunity since the late 1980s to Operation Desert
Storm, the original blood for oil incident and in recent years the election of
Donald Trump and scores of climate change denying heads of state around the
world, it seems that environmental activism had became a lost cause since 2016,
but does the choosing of Greta Thunberg as Time magazine’s Person of the Year
represent a new hope of environmentalism especially when it comes to tackling
climate change?
Given the recent political deadlock of COP 25 in Madrid where
the now AWOL Australian PM Scott Morrison apparently managed to make the
ongoing brush fires in Australia a non-issue, it seems that panicking when it
comes to environmental issues is not an irrational move. But let us not forget
that Greta Thunberg’s environmental activism for the year 2019 alone had
managed to shake the world’s climate change denying heads of state – especially
Donald Trump who had managed to go out of his way to pick a Twitter fight with
16-year-old Greta Thunberg while embracing wholeheartedly every elected mass
murderer on the planet. Has America just elected history’s greatest shame?
