The Time Magazine Person of The Year only really had one person to choose from and they did, naming Greta Thunberg as the 2019 Person of the Year for her climate activism that has inspired millions of young people to protest and push for change.
Time bases its choices on the person that has had the 'the greatest impact on the news, for good or ill and includes Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Richard Nixon, Ayatollah Khomeini and Donald Trump as previous recipients which admittedly isn't a great crowd to be lumped in with but Greta definitely falls under the 'good impact' role.
Greta certainly has had a magnificent impact this year and has shamed many World Leaders who have promised to do something about the greatest catastrophe facing humans, and done sweet FA about it.
As the perfect reminder, The Office of National Statistics (ONS) released a report which showed that the hottest day on record in the UK, 25 July this year, caused the deaths of more than 200 additional people than usual which underlines what we are walking into.
In a huge reflecetion of her character, Greta has repeatedly said she does not want awards over her climate activism and recently declined an environmental prize from the Nordic Council, because 'the climate movement does not need any more awards'.
The Time award highlights a simple line that set her off on her course, when the eight-year-old Thunberg first heard about global warming, she thought, 'That can’t be happening, because if that were happening, then the politicians would be taking care of it'.
We would do well to heed her words and not just for the Environment, the politicians are not taking care of things and disgracefully it has taken a 16 year old girl to address heads of state at the UN, meet with the pope, spar with the awful climate change denier President of the United States and inspired 4 million people to join the global climate strike in what was the largest climate demonstration in human history.
A worthy choice and truly the person of the year in anybodies book.
10 comments:
she is a spoiled brat. rude. ignorant. needs a spanking and time out...
Ooer...
her future projections were ludicrous and her demeanor arrogant and disrespectful... not how you "make friends and influence people."
she did not persuade anybody to her side.
she just made people already on her side, like you, feel good because she said what you want to say...
She will never experience any of the hardships she described...
She already leads a 1% life style - traveling the globe in a yacht...
Just another leftist living like the "rich and famous" while talking about the poor...
Yeah, people trying to make the planet a better, cleaner and healthier place, damn cheek.
Is that what she is doing? Seems to me she is trying top change how we all live our lives each day... and she wants us to live them as she sees fit...
And that is different to religionists how?
all types lucy, all types. not just relionists (whatever that is). and nobody wants to be more imposing then today's leftists.
she wants to make the planet better by imposing her lifestyle on me. i want none of it.
It amazes me that you berate her for imposing her environmental beliefs on you for the good of the planet and all of us but you have no problem with trying to impose your religious beliefs on everyone else. That is quite stunning and amazingly hypocritical not to mention downright selfish.
really, when I advocate for my views that is hypocrisy?
when i oppose her views I'm berating her?
ahhh, you are a true leftist. open to all ideas that align with your views, shocked to find out their are other views... You sound like Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro... well done...
I’m not shocked to find there are other views, the shocking bit is that there are some people who actually believe in them
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