They say she is using ‘the climate movement to throw her support behind the Palestinians’. Well, good on her.

“Silence is complicity,” Thunberg added. “You cannot be neutral in a genocide.” She is right.

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    Greta did the climate movement a massive favor. Their words would have sounded very hollow if they decoupled other important issues. It would signal we only care about humanitarian catastrophes when they affect us.

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      I’m not sure this really applies here. She puts a lot of hard work and effort into spreading her message.

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    Her words are like Sophie Scholls, but I really wish a bit more consequential in the present time.

    The machines working against her are just so vast.

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    If there was a word for “genius” but for being a good person instead of smart, she would be that.

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    When the state media of one of the biggest fossil fuel exporter in the world is cheering for you, you might want to reconsider what you are doing as a climate activist.

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      They can cheer for whomever they wish. What you do mean much more than what people think of you.

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      This article is mostly ‘cheering’ for Greta’s stance on Palestine rather than climate. Besides, it’s written by a Canadian journalist.

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      LOL, that’s like saying any positive article from PBS or CBC is bad given the US & Canada are even bigger oil producers

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      So what you want is that all a fossil fuel company needs to do to sabotage a climate movement is to endorse someone in it?