Critics of the child activist Greta Thunberg are saying that her parents and political social justice warriors are the ones to blame for her "lost childhood". Greta does protest very strongly and it sounds creepy to some of her opponents. Some have suggested that she should be in school and tidying her room (a reference to Jordan Peterson's advice) before she launches into naive and immature statements about the environmental crises that are beyond her control. Is she spouting a well learned script? Greta clearly has a heart. She cares about inconvenient truths that are unpalatable to the Trump loyalists.
People, however, are asking how her mind will change when she goes out to work, takes on employment responsibilities, forms adult relationships and takes care of others. Perhaps she will be studying environmental sciences at an Oxford college. (I was thinking of Malala, the Nobel Prize winner, who is reading PPE at Oxford.)
27.09 2019
Greta's approach could be called, in the words of Jordan Peterson, "low resolution thinking that gets us nowhere" because these issues are unbelievably complicated.
People, however, are asking how her mind will change when she goes out to work, takes on employment responsibilities, forms adult relationships and takes care of others. Perhaps she will be studying environmental sciences at an Oxford college. (I was thinking of Malala, the Nobel Prize winner, who is reading PPE at Oxford.)
27.09 2019
Greta's approach could be called, in the words of Jordan Peterson, "low resolution thinking that gets us nowhere" because these issues are unbelievably complicated.
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I have heard that Greta has been diagnosed with Aspergers, and that she has suffered from depression. I don't know if that is true, but based on her recent speech I do wonder whether she is struggling to cope with her rapid rise to worldwide fame.
I have also heard that some young people are suffering from 'eco-anxiety', and perhaps this stems from the emotive manner in which the environmentalist lobby have presented their case, with talk of there being only 12 years before the planet is destroyed.
Thanks John. Eco-anxiety is called the politics of fear and frustration.
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