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.
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ReplyDeleteYeah, people trying to make the planet a better, cleaner and healthier place, damn cheek.
ReplyDeleteAnd that is different to religionists how?
ReplyDeleteIt 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.
ReplyDeleteI’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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