The Mainstream and Social Media have exploded after Greta Thunberg's
impassioned speech at the UN. Greta's words were either bold and daring or the hysterics of a spoiled child depending on your position and
as someone who lives in Russia it must be said that her rant came across as deeply offensive from a cultural standpoint and highly irrational from an environmentalism standpoint as at least one Earth-shaking development towards an ecologically safe future is being developed in Russia.
Some of the claims of Thunberg's comments (as the daughter
of wealthy successful parents in Western Europe, who sailed to give said speech on
a heavily sponsored sea vessel) are shockingly offensive to a solid majority in the former Soviet Union.
Perhaps maybe one day people will be "suffering" and "dying" from climate issues
but at present it is delusional to make this claim and a slap in the face to anyone going through real tangible suffering. How could some imaginary misery due to the environment made up in a teenage mind in an ivory tower compare to the loss of innocence suffered by an entire generation of Russian-speakers who had to fight poverty, starvation and in some cases military conflict during the collapse of the USSR?
The amount of naivety and Eurocentrism needed to truly believe in this worldview is stunning.
Her other claim that politicians' lack of climate action has "stolen" her childhood could at best be viewed as dark humor as to this day children every day lose their childhood to artillery shells in the Donbass. It also goes without saying that during our lifetimes children all over the planet have lost their innocence in places like Rwanda, Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia etc. and
I am sure the survivors would be thrilled to have "Climate Change" as the only problem in their lives.
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