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.