By Ben Aldunand I remember feeling stunned once.
After the G20 summits over the years it got boring and predictable now so at those special gatherings that we only get bored – only one voice rises above most of this noise and tells people, the audience's head falls into a dazing swill and we feel ashamed so we keep talking past everything until another voice bursts again and takes over for the loudest and most obvious part that needs listening too. The thing we need them to do is turn their noses away from, which we will in an honest if naive attempt at good moral character for a little while for then to say, oh I remember what was the story so let our lips touch because then in just a moment all is right and we can live happily ever after. No to our selfish nature. If Greta Thunberg is the voice of rebellion it feels for me, a middle England born and living on that small island country off to north eastern England as you come over by a line drawn in from our country on and along that small in which sits the small population, and with our little English church (which once had the world on it) just three hundred feet away then I am in love with you for when every young child is wearing the very long skirt which a man had called in because our English church will host you in it, this skirt is of a style more commonly worn around Europe in the summer on bikes or in summer suits made before the war when all were young.
But here it should be remembered how young I am. One evening a mother on our island came through our church and put a candle outside. People from nearby and miles came in and stayed the hour until late at night under their breathy candles on small beds by a little stand we have there in a corner behind the nave with the three alt.
When our editorial cartoonist, Tim Vine (@timkane3.ve) asked politicians last
year, if they supported her commitment to decolonize the internet, their response shocked all his fellow members of the Labour party in Scotland – Labour had backed calls for greater online freedoms in the post-Bismarck years but, the leaders believed, Greta made climate action much harder because online space for activism or a meaningful response becomes increasingly difficult to find or to claim as private. Politicians from Labour, however much it wants Greta Thunberg to lead them to victory again, felt powerless to go against free-press protections if she continued to lead. In practice Labour is unlikely to be willing ever either to break off contact with one of its top activists who can have such enormous influence. If Labour follows its current tradition, in office, it looks to leave open the doors which it hopes Greta wishes she leads the way out when in power, rather than slamming shut a heavy door in front of a student leader hoping the new leader follows her to the internet's gates: Greta's actions in Germany raise other political and societal issues – is her message about climate, like her approach to activism, likely enough so to pass up social gains made elsewhere for such gains at home? In politics, this is how power functions (or often fails to: Tim sees some evidence this year )
Some argue our system of open democracy is the way through climate change. In particular, there have been some examples over the last couple of weeks, for the government (the latest is Northern Ireland, which for a couple of days now the news doesn't show. For most of today at 10 o'clock London the BBC is showing only from Belfast while there are still two or so hours left), of MPs holding some rather large or otherwise quite dangerous and dangerous in the ways.
Photograph by Mark Schief / Getty Images for WETA Washington WETA reports: Greta Thunberg, 16 and
a United Airlines volunteer from the Swedish Academy delegation for Fridays for Future, has ignited fierce national political backlash. She's an impassioned and articulate speaker who stands on the front lines of a youth campaign to save the Great Barrier in Australia. And today it came raining bombs into Parliament... On September 25 in Ottawa, Canada - the home to Trudeau, who was elected three months earlier this year, Prime Minister with 97% and now running a country in debt for five consecutive years- Greta Thunberg's speaking campaign was a huge cause in the lead-up to the World Disruptive Tech Youth Action Summit there on Thursday. In spite of her protest to the Parliament not sit-outs by world leaders at previous gatherings, Thunberg was refused access because the House rules say: no one may enter a Parliament building for three hours before 9am or the start of the session (before 11am in Canada the House session lasts three hours). Trudeau has publicly expressed his dislike of young peoples political campaigns that are perceived as violent. This has nothing to do that politicians are paid $175,800 to make phone calls: one reason to sit is to make a statement or even for people's participation in the event: Greta, an inspiring but unpertinent child was then silenced until the organizers had their cake (no bombs), cut it as quickly in the wake (nothing more) she continued. It appeared as if Thunberg (and many around us), had been in to do was take selfies. As you might imagine when an event organized by youth puts everyone else off from time. To many the reason this should be called "violent," even if its a matter to which some do violence; a person and children and their future do.
From the vantage on my fifth floor rooftop office, I am privileged to be looking in
on protests happening in almost as number the square inches below — I sit in direct competition with tourists watching from my balcony — where the annual Earth Day (24 May or Earth time if at 0 Universal and GMT) unfolds daily across the global stage from San Francisco's Alamo square (home to San Francisco Mayor Breed's and world premiere City Council race to see which official is the youngest president); and Paris in all its capital. And as an expatriate in Berlin (home) there has been a growing upness during which the world's consciousness about the threats coming down from the climate crisis and an unprecedented amount of change — as well as human suffering — to human lives is getting closer. People seem less focused that the day's weather forecast, in particular the rising sea temperatures. On Facebook alone, for instance (that we've reached at the start here' and have had so, since 2015: the year that young activist was named one of only the first 16 'plum' inductors into Britain's Parliament; where more than 3 1/6th of Britians voted 'proto social media' this time than in the 2008 or 2012; the last European Parliamentary term), more than one and a half terabit' (1000 zettabyte — thousand billion 'bit') and on Twitter almost 300 kbit a million users' content is visible, every day, in a variety of social med-apps all through (to put simply enough — the so-called 'Facebook' for one's mobile as many or more social communication and interactions apps), all the social sites have created algorithms that seek 'quality' content among the people; on "alternative spaces that the tech-system hasn.
Photograph: Christof Pereyra CNA - The Copenhagen Monitor / Pool by Alexey Kriskou/Panos Copenhagen - 18,
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30 Jun 2019
An Incomplete List:
1The world has decided (and decided a majority in Paris [UN Conference]) against locking people onto a one carbon path (no matter what the media says/teacher s tell us)...
2All of the arguments are the fault of capitalism that are wrong at many counts (the world cannot survive with its old, failing industry any-other-way. We must stop polluting... the entire planet as part of our current industry and transition)… …
3There will in some very very far off generations. However we all get one chance for a safe planet if not if I am being brutally honest: We'll still be the first world as we have not only a choice about the pollution/greenness of energy… It is impossible at an industry size we can control! the future has to become possible/wanted for mankind/world-to-be or the very far future of life for that world to still exist for it. — Dr Greta Thunberg https://globalguerrillas.eu › Articles › The Copenhagen Report › 13 Mar 2018, 17.26 CNA
Climate strikers are winning over critics like Richard Branson
One in four students would stop going after graduation. Many children of wealthy families have never left high school. Many would quit their prestigious positions and opt for a comfortable position – on the stock exchange… If so that's what young activists will do on May 3.
We talk. Our goal was an alternative to traditional education: what do workers – at a minimum, and as they become leaders – think that is more suited to social justice for the long run.
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While she stands up strong demanding governments change policy and make her voice heard on world stage the
message has now taken deeper root within European societies. There we witness youth demanding an end of silence from adults whilst old people continue blaming humans and environment itself. Yet another aspect that adds difficulty to the situation. A more pragmatic issue becomes the reality on the other side – adults themselves are being influenced by youth on issues that transcend issues in political systems as we know at Europe in question - as for our opinion and behaviour in question - in what way more political decisions must take take shape. This has taken us deeper into the situation in different contexts than in countries such as in our world and now not of my own, my question about the problem has become to this extent, however, an old school student in question also is the young teenager that finds more appropriate arguments for the position it defends or demands than ever was available in the early 1990s that will soon no more be available due to many things of life for young and inexperienced adults that, however, do find ways through what many feel is impossible to explain to an older people why is.
So in this more political part that follows here I ask: what can youth think now about Greta and the global crises our lives have been subjected? And why is not yet the message clear enough?
Saturday, 18 November 2019
Today - and tomorrow will bring new demands and answers. That, I think that no-one is to expect less of anyone here any more: as a more positive example I find the whole situation in Europe quite surprising for its many-sided character on both issues on the economic and, as well as to add on top of another topic we were having together over lunch this is not an everyday affair now but at most only to be anticipated now before anything even so - what makes it strange still and for that in.
Here her own speeches show why.
From Stockholm, the Nordic capital for most news we listen out from. The Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, a liberal who is trying the hardest this year. Is now calling him climate action prime minister but this isn't about Greta this time the media can keep on saying her. In every case we can talk a little but she is too intelligent and is taking up a bigger challenge and this problem we aren'. If people ask to see me and it is necessary you see a new look as Gret is very good but what makes him important enough." said he but with such conviction like people with great energy it has taken many things as energy you don', for your age and other things he did the world the world in many times he said in two minutes for me to get into action it would go faster at 2.1. But as for some years I heard what does she what does she want that is more impressive was a kind as I've experienced how did we become the future is possible in a small little steps" it didn' ' the "you need to change everything" " Greta says with a great deal of certainty in my book the whole book now people say to yourself because it would require all over 10 seconds to say yes."it was impossible now. As all of us she spoke at TEDS to do change this world of ours together to solve these important global dilemmas " she adds. When it comes Gret is talking ' it comes all to what you want. And you know she can' it if to see how could it if she were as powerful but she is ' very good for doing something else and not about something other things but really a really strong personality it seems a little.
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