Greta Thunberg and her message does not deserve a Nobel or much attention, she's being cynically used by political and economic forces
The amount of attention and praise this kid is receiving is undeserved and artificial, because it's mostly motivated by the desire to use her as an instrument to push an economical agenda, and to turn her into a totem for political movements.
The way in which she's being paraded is cynical and could be considered child abuse, since she's just 16 and her brain is barely fully-formed. She's most likely being continuously pushed around by manipulative adults, and it's wrong. The people around her do not care about the unwanted attention that might come her way, they just want to use her to reach their goals.
The real reasons for this are superficial: she's a cute kid with asperger and OCD that eats vegan and comes from Sweden, the mecca of white people. She's marketable and untouchable, and the media loves it because she can be easily turned into a sweet little story and make money off her image. Doomsday Pippi Longstocking.
Her message – assuming she is the author – is empty, obvious and old: "We really need to do something about global warming before it's too late".
Wow. We've never heard of this before. Who could have thought of that? Call the media and bring her to the United Nations Conference right now because humanity needs to hear this revolutionary message. Everything would be fine if only there were other people like her, maybe even more capable and experienced, who had been pushing the same message for decades, and actually tried to do something about it. I guess there's no one else alive in the world to give the Nobel to. This is the best we've got.
This is part of an annoying trend where every fart a kid does is highlighted as a masterpiece, while actual impressive work from adults is taken for granted and ignored.
For the issue of global warming what's needed is concrete action and not more pretentious, self-serving rhetoric. You can't protest smog, it doesn't work. We all know already that the situation is not optimal, but it's hard and slow to make changes of this magnitude. Thank god, there's actually plenty of wonderful people who work on this, and we should celebrate them and their work.
The people and the media surrounding this kid should leave her alone and stop using her. She needs the freedom to grow into an adult and cultivate her own ideas before putting herself into a spotlight like this.
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Posted Mar 17, 2019, 5:12 PM UTC
Your rant might be justified, but it’s useless. You seem to be under the impression that the Nobel peace prize is a neutral institution with benevolent motives, which it most certainly is not. Giving it to a newly appointed president of the United States? Sure...
I am not under that impression, I agree with you in that case. The Peace Nobel is just a product of the problem.
I gathered from your speech that one of your goals is to give the prize to someone else, and thus that the prize is important in your opinion, which I disagree with. You’re always going to have all the people that are content with giving the prize to the Malalas of this world, but actually don’t give a shit about women’s rights in Pakistan. It’s just the way westerners feel good about themselves.
No kidding, Obama got a peace prize and proceeded to drone brown people in the Middle East :(