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Maybe The Coronavirus Will Accomplish What Activists Have Been Trying To Do For Years
Maybe it will actually wake us up to the reality of the changing biosphere to the point where something actually shifts in our consciousness and behavior.
I’m not here to fearmonger
I’ll leave that to the mainstream media, thank you very much. But it does seem that we should probably be paying attention to the ways our rapidly shifting climate is going to affect us all going forward.
Greta will be remembered as one of the first major global whistleblowers making the case for drastic action. Social media coverage of her mission has blown up my feeds since she got big on the world stage.
And it’s about damn time. Honestly.
Adults keep saying we owe it to the young people, to give them hope,” Thunberg said, “But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house is on fire because it is. -Greta Thunberg World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2019
