Greta Thunberg Carries On!

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I first wrote about Greta Thunberg in December 2018, featuring her in a ‘good people’ post.  Since then, I have written about or mentioned her no less than 22 times!  Since the first time she crossed my radar, I’ve said that this young woman is going to change the world … and she is doing just that, bit by bit!  She doesn’t just talk the talk, but she walks the walk, and a few times lately that has gotten her arrested!  Let’s check in with Greta and catch up on the latest …

In January of this year, she was detained but not arrested by police at a protest over the expansion of a coal mine in the western village of Lützerath, Germany.

Climate strike week 230. We are currently in Lützerath, a German village threatened to be demolished for an expansion of a coal mine. People have been resisting for years. Join us here at 12 or a local protest tomorrow to demand that #LützerathBleibt !#ClimateStrike

Police officers carry Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg away from the edge of the Garzweiler II opencast lignite mine during a protest action by climate activists after the clearance of Luetzerath, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023. After the eviction of Luetzerath ended on Sunday, coal opponents continued their protests on Tuesday at several locations in North Rhine-Westphalia. (Federico Gambarini/dpa via AP)

Then in March, she was detained twice during a demonstration in support of Indigenous rights in Oslo, Norway.

And just last month she was charged with disobeying law enforcement after she allegedly refused to leave the scene of a climate protest in Malmö, Sweden.

“Today, for the third day in a row, young activists from @tatillbakaframtiden have blocked oil tankers in the Malmö oil harbour. The climate crisis is already a matter of life and death for countless people. We choose to not be bystanders, and instead physically stop the fossil fuel infrastructure. We are reclaiming the future,” said Greta in an Instagram post.

Mind you, I’m not saying that getting arrested is, in and of itself, an achievement, but it is the fact that the threat of arrest isn’t stopping her, that she is thumbing her nose at those who would pay homage to the fossil fuel industry to the detriment of life on Planet Earth.  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was reportedly arrested some 29 times during his lifetime, but he got his message across despite those who thought he could be stopped with a pair of handcuffs and a jail cell.  I’m betting that Ms. Thunberg will do the same!  Our children and grandchildren will owe Ms. Thunberg a debt of gratitude for their very lives, I think.

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52 thoughts on “Greta Thunberg Carries On!”

  1. Anything good that has come with change came with a cost. Protesting is always going to have casualties, but they usually win the war. I love Greta, and she has a world of followers. ❤

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  3. Every time I’ve been arrested it was because I was too slow. You kept posting pictures of the future yet you hold onto your pessimism. Will this woman make a difference? She already has and will continue to draw others with her. A natural born leader does not ask to be followed nor care who does follow. This woman sees a future where she wants to be and is determined to get there obstacles be damned. Come if you want.

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  4. Yes she is brave girl. Being from Sweden I knew about her parents before it all started in 2018. I was following her mom, Malena Ernman, an opera singer, on Facebook, and it had nothing to do with climate back then. Malena was accused of indoctrinating Greta when in fact it was the other way around (if anything). She was hounded so much that she left social media. There is so much false anti-Greta information being spread that it really makes you think about what is going on. She really gets some people riled up. Old guys (and sometimes women) who are spouting nonsense on social media about Greta seem to feel like they are brave “truth-tellers”, telling how it is. I just think it is pathetic.

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    • I didn’t know that about her mother! What a shame that she was hounded in that way. Small-minded, bored people will sit around and think up conspiracy theories just because it gets them attention, never minding who it hurts. In my book, young Greta is a hero and I hope she inspires and motivates many others to follow her movement or to start their own! We are on a path to self-extinction, and it’s people like Greta who will change the course, if any can.

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    • She is indeed a young lady with a big conscience, one who wants to make the future brighter, and for that I admire her greatly! You’re quite right … at the very least, she has increased our awareness of environmental issues, shone a spotlight on them and on the fossil fuel industries and their ignoble practices.

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  6. All of those climate activists are very well aware of what could happen to them. Being arrested is only one of those probable scenes. Many are scared of that but keep up their plan anyway. I admire them for that!! They are more scared of what is about to happen to the planet and us than of the law.

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    • Yes, and if you noticed the pictures, Greta didn’t seem upset, but was taking it all in stride, and in one pic she even had just a bit of a grin! My fear is that she will ultimately be injured or killed … people are nuts … but I’m sure she’s aware of the dangers and chooses to fight for the life of the planet anyway! I give her two thumbs up for everything she’s doing!

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  7. A spearhead of trying to save the world for future beings, she should be given a louder microphone, not silenced. But Big Oil hates her guts, and her ability to motivate others. I haven’t heard much in the news about her of late, but thanks for letting us know ehe is still out there fighting the wealthy. Three cheers for Greta! HUZZAH! HURRAH! HURRAY! Hurry, Ms Greta, the world is lucky to have you!

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    • Exactly!!! But, the fossil fuel industry has long arms and will likely go to extraordinary measures to try to shut her up. But her voice is getting louder anyway, and I hope she motivates many, many others, as well! We are, indeed, lucky to have her!

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  8. Jill, Greta Thunberg is one of our heroes. She walks the talk and we need more folks to pay attention to what she is saying. Having heard her speak and reading what she says and does, she is a very impressive person. Emulating the former US president many of her critics resort to personal criticism not debating issues. Keith

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  10. Did you know that according to some yutzs who fill up their tragic time on Facebook and other social media apparently she is being funded.
    Funded by whom and for what purpose they are vague about, which leads them open to suggestions they are either being funded by or used by corporations who don’t like Greta’s agenda.

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