I've been thinking/reading a lot about Greta Thunberg and whiteness. I find her very moving, I believe she is genuine and I hope she can resist becoming a symbol for corporate greenwashing. Here is a thread of other young people to listen to as well.
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Autumn Peltier, water protector from Manitoulin Island.
"Autumn Peltier, a 13-year-old
#Anishinaabe
girl from
#WikwemikongFirstNation
, addresses world leaders at the
#UnitedNations
about protecting water."
To read more:
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I also use Greta's name to get people's attention. In this, I talk to youth across the country, in BC, MB, ON and NS including Miyâwata Stout, a Cree 12-year-old.
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Ridhima Pandey, 11, of India, and Carl Smith, 17, Yupik of Alaska, two of 16 youth (incl GT) that have filed a landmark UN complaint against five of the world's biggest carbon polluters.
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Other plaintiffs are interviewed here, from Cape Town, the Marshall Islands, Palau and Nigeria. They want the climate crisis to be declared a children's rights crisis.
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Artemisa Xakriabá, who lives in the Brazilian Amazon, also spoke in NYC last Friday. “If it goes on like this, 20 years from now my house will become a desert and my people will be at risk of becoming history.”
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You get the point. Climate change is already hurting racialized and Indigenous communities most of all, and climate justice means prioritizing their voices. And one teenager shouldn't be made to carry the world on her shoulders, anyway.
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Another young person who's been demanding climate justice for years
No, our fight to save the planet didn't start today with the
#ClimateStrike
and it doesn't end today either. Many of us have been putting in the work for years to save our planet. Don't just amplify our voices today, but every day and support our solutions to save us.
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@jenhumewhite
A question/thought I’ve been having as well. Along with who is reporting the narratives of Greta and how does whiteness of journalist has influenced the representation of Greta’s contribution but minimized that of others.
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Interesting. I'm a dad of a kid on the spectrum. Neurodiversity is the minority I see, for once, represented and a huge positive. (Not to counter what you say, just to show you my perspective.) (Twitter is such an argument factory)
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Totally agree. She is powerful but people (media) need to take this opportunity to raise up and celebrate kids in our own communities more
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I was watching The Agenda and Naomi Klein explained Greta is autistic and because of that she has an unusual ability to resist social pressures, which gives her the capacity to be so courageous and true to the urgency of the situation. thank you for the many voices
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I don’t want to sound like an A**, but did you see that “performance”? I have never in my life seen bad acting like that! This wasn’t genuine passion, it was a big show. What kind of Carbon footprint did the entire event create? What a joke.
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@balkissoon
There's a tension- White people are overwhelmingly responsible for climate injustice & should bear the burden of doing the work to address it, which requires centering the voices of those suffering injustice. Over the past 57 weeks, Greta's gone a long way in the right direction.
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So far GTs actions have been unimpeachable; she’s using her platform to amplify others’ voices. Why imply she’s susceptible to corporate greenwashing? She may also be clever enough to know that if she brings race directly into this, it will devolve into identity politics.
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