Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Greta Thunberg As Time Magazine’s Person of the Year: A New Hope For Environmentalism?


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?

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