October 12, 2024
Politicians want to be friends with climate-justice warriors like Greta. It won't work
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Why on earth would the mayor of Canada’s oil city want to sit down and listen to a 16-year-old tell him that his province is helping destroy the planet and that he should help shut down the very industry that has made his city great?
Why on earth would the mayor of Canada’s oil city want to sit down and listen to a 16-year-old tell him that his province is helping destroy the planet and that he should help shut down the very industry that has made his city great?

On the eve of Canada’s national election, Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is set to march through the streets of Edmonton, a walk-through performance sure to generate a tsunami of media coverage that could even influence the outcome of the vote. The message will be clear to fossil-fuel-rich Albertans: We are on the verge of climate disaster, mass extinctions and even the annihilation of human existence — and you are to blame.

By slight coincidence, the same alarmism was conveyed earlier this week by a woman who, when she was the same age as 16-year-old Greta, was known as Peggy. As she accepted her shared Brooker Prize in London on Monday for “The Testaments,” her new “dystopian thriller,” 79-year-old Margaret Atwood did her little bit to promote the same grim alarmism — lifted from scaremongering scientists — that planet Earth is doomed without a massive overthrow of the world economy and an end to fossil fuels.

On her lapel as she appeared with her co-winner at the awards event, Bernardine Evaristo, Atwood sported a badge that carried the logo of the mass youth movement known as Extinction Rebellion, or XR for short.

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See Also:

(1) ‘This is oil country’: Newly painted Greta Thunberg mural gets defaced, covered in slurs

(2) Environment and oil economy can coexist

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