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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
