I have changed my view on her. I now see her as some kind of Joan of Arc figure with her piercing singularity of vision.
She has said ‘We need to get back to pre-industrial levels of pollution’. How right she is. ‘The world she’s tough’ sang John Lennon. But not that tough. The Amazon is in flames, people in a Nordic country have placed a plaque to mark the end of a glacier. I’m no scientist, but the ‘consensus’ of scientific opinion is that there IS a Climate Emergency. Are they ALL part of some liberal conspiracy agenda?
My gut feeling is that we are PAYING or the earth is paying for all this raging Capitalism round the world. This ‘mania’ for producing things. This ‘frenzy’ of buying and selling. That has been going on for centuries now especially here in the West. I believe technology can help. But Greta is right we need to lessen consumption. We need to change our way of living. We need need to get back to pre- industrial small scale economic activity.
Nominated by Miles Plastic



