Greta Thunberg says it's time to overthrow the West's 'oppressive' capitalist system
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环保少女称将“致力于推翻资本主义”：发达国家一边积累财富，一边破坏环境
郭肖嚯 2022-11-03 来源：观察者网
据每日电讯报当地时间2日报道，上周日晚，“环保少女”格蕾塔·通贝里在伦敦的新书发布会上宣布，她将致力于击垮西方“压迫性”的资本主义制度。在她看来，“发达国家通过殖民主义、帝国主义、种族灭绝等方式达到积累财富的目的，却导致气候崩溃。”
周日，通贝里在位于伦敦的皇家节日大厅为自己的新书《气候之书》做宣传，该书收录了不同专家关于气候问题的看法，约100篇文章。报道称，在演讲阶段，她“冒险进入此前她一直避免谈及的政治领域。”
她呼吁西方进行“系统性的变革”，认为目前世界如今的“常态”被强权者支配，并最终导致了气候崩溃，“我们再也无法回归正常了，因为‘常态’早已到了危急关头，我们如今所说的‘常态’是一种建立在对人类和地球予以剥削的极端体系之上。那些所谓的发达国家，通过殖民主义、帝国主义、压迫和种族灭绝定义了这个体系，从而达到了积累财富的目的，而这个体系仍在塑造我们当前的世界秩序。”
在她看来，“如果经济增长是我们唯一的优先选项，那么我们现在所经历的应该是我们所期待的生活。”演讲中，通贝里宣布，以后，除了解决她一贯致力于解决的气候问题，她还将致力于击垮西方的“压迫性”资本主义制度。
她补充道，气候危机“根源于种族主义和压迫，它通过剥削人类和地球，实现了少数人的短期利益最大化。”
在当晚的问答环节，她再次表示，“我们需要改变一切，因为我们的现行制度正与人类、文明的未来发生冲突。”
会议中，通贝里还透露，出于多种原因，她不会出席本月在埃及举办的COP27气候峰会，并称该大会是一个“洗绿”的场合。（“洗绿”指相关企业伪装成“环境之友”，试图掩盖对社会和环境的破坏，以此保全和扩大自己的市场或影响力。）
每日电讯报评价称，通贝里本次表达的这些观点比过去更激进。
听完通贝里的这番发言，美国作家迈克尔·谢伦伯格直接急了。谢伦伯格在Twitter上直接点名了通贝里，并连发多条帖子鼓吹资本主义的好处。
谢伦伯格还提到了如今欧洲正在经历的能源危机，认为这是通贝里导致的，“由于通贝里对天然气发起的战争，今年将是煤炭销量创纪录的一年，欧洲人正在通过焚烧垃圾和木柴取暖。
谢伦伯格最后声称，通贝里反对资本主义的本质是对环境问题的漠视，“很明显，她不是真的关心气候变化或者环境，如果是的话，她不会寻求推翻资本主义，而是会想办法让资本主义扩张到所有存在压迫的地方。”
2018年，15岁的通贝里在自己的国家瑞典发起为气候罢课的抗议活动引发全球媒体关注，一夜成名。美国总统拜登、法国总统马克龙、加拿大总理特鲁多等人在社交媒体上与其积极互动，通贝里也在多种国际场合一次次抛出更加激进的环保措施。
2019年，《时代》周刊将通贝里评选为2019年度人物。同年，她入选2019全球最具影响力女性榜。一些西方媒体直接称呼她是“全球气候变化发言人”。
曾被西方媒体和政客一路“捧”上神坛的通贝里，如今面临的处境相当尴尬，为减少碳排放吆喝了好几年，如今却“里外不是人”。
此前就有瑞典的议员要求调查格蕾塔与俄罗斯一家非政府组织的关系，该组织在 2019-2021年曾直接从俄罗斯外交部的预算中获得拨款。
稍后，俄罗斯外交部发言人在社交平台甩出通贝里与美国总统拜登、法国总统马克龙、加拿大总理特鲁多等人的互动，建议“瑞典活动人士”把这些“关系”都查查，看看是不是都是俄外交部出资的，或者仅仅是，利用完这个女孩和所谓的绿色经济之后，西方政权要把两者都抛弃了？”
扎哈罗娃称，她觉得有必要向人们解释下为什么西方主要国家当局计划重启燃煤发电厂，在此之前他们因为拒绝使用化石燃料而关闭了那些发电厂。
2021年，俄罗斯总统普京曾在莫斯科举办的一个能源论坛上评价通贝里，称其可能被成年人利用，“没有人向通贝里解释，现在这个世界是复杂而多样的，在非洲和许多亚洲国家的人们也想和瑞典人一样富有”，“当有人为了个人利益利用儿童和青少年时，应该受到谴责”。
Greta Thunberg says it's time to overthrow the West's 'oppressive' capitalist system
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Greta Thunberg has lashed out at the West's obsession with capitalism in a scathing rant during a sit down chat in London to promote her new book.
The 19-year-old Swedish activist called on everyone to help tear down the system that she believes is responsible for the climate crisis we find ourselves in today.
Thunberg said the Western world is in need of a 'system-wide transformation'.
The teenage activist said: "We are never going back to normal again because ‘normal’ was already a crisis.
"What we refer to as normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet.
"It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the so-called global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order."
Thunberg added that if economic growth is the only priority of our global leaders, then 'what we are experiencing now should be exactly what we should be expecting'.
The Swedish activist spoke at London’s Royal Festival Hall to launch her new published work called The Climate Book.
The book is described as the 'essential handbook for making it happen' when it comes to saving the Earth.
In her speech, she added that her generation is prepared to fight for what is right and to tackle the wrongs of their predecessors.
"We are still here, and we are not planning on going anywhere," she said.
"Young people all over the world are stepping up, showing that our leaders messed with the wrong generation."
During a question and answer section of the event, Thunberg added: “We need to change everything because right now our current system is on a collision course with the future of humanity and the future of our civilisation”.
Her words came after the activist dubbed the UN's climate conference COP27 as a 'colossal scam'.
"I’m not going to COP27 for many reasons, but the space for civil society this year is extremely limited," she said.
"The COPs are mainly used as an opportunity for leaders and people in power to get attention, using many different kinds of greenwashing."
Greenwashing is the process of companies or countries exaggerating their commitment to tackling climate change.
Given the incredibly pressing nature of the climate crisis, Greta said: "As it is, the COPs are not really working, unless, of course, we use them as an opportunity to mobilise, which we must try to do, and make people realise what a colossal scam this is."
She isn't wrong.
Watching the world's superpowers fly to a conference to talk about climate change sounds like like the start of a Monty Python sketch.
Topics: Greta Thunberg, Global Warming, Environment, UK News
Greta Thunberg says she has daily ‘laughing attacks’ and says her Asperger’s helps her see through ‘bulls**t’
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Greta Thunberg has challenged the perception that she’s an ‘angry teenager’ and says those closest to her know differently.
The 19-year-old climate change activist surprisingly rose to fame when she was a schoolgirl and became the face of school strikes.
Thunberg has said becoming a climate change activist has given her life ‘purpose’ and ‘something to do’ - but her approach has prompted some to believe she’s constantly angry.
Former US President Donald Trump once sarcastically tweeted that the teen ‘seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future’ after seeing part of an impassioned speech she gave at a climate change summit.
However, in a new interview with Elle, Thunberg has spoken about her ‘angry’ image and how it’s not at all accurate.
“People seem to think of me as an angry teenager,” she told the publication. “They obviously haven't met me. At least two or three times a day I get laughing attacks where I can't breathe. It can be anything. If I’m in a room with people, they suddenly realise I’m not breathing and ask me if I’m OK and it’s because I can’t stop!”
Over the years, Thunberg has spoken at numerous climate change events including the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit, which was attended by politicians from across the globe.
The teen reckons her Asperger’s Syndrome helps her quickly get to the truth of the matter and cut through the soundbites often given by politicians when it comes to climate change.
She said: “It’s helped me see through a lot of the bulls**t because they say, ‘Oh yeah, we’re not in line with the Paris Agreement so far, but at least we’re taking small steps in the right direction.’
"Some people might see that as though we’re trying, but I see it as we’re so far away from what we need to be doing for even the bare minimum.”
The activist, who is releasing The Climate Book this month, said her key point is that people shouldn’t listen to her (which is somewhat ironic considering she often gives speeches to an audience), but instead believe in the experts - something that has been a constant theme of the past couple of years.
She said: “Listen to the scientists, listen to the experts, listen to those who are most affected.
“I could talk about all these things, but I am a privileged white person who lives in Sweden. I don't really have any story to tell, so it's up to others who need to be heard to [talk about] these things.”
Topics: Greta Thunberg, Global Warming
Jeremy Clarkson Says Greta Thunberg Deserves A 'Smacked Bottom'
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Jeremy Clarkson has hit out against Greta Thunberg's appearance at the global Glasgow climate summit.
The TV presenter described the Swedish activist as an 'annoying bucket of ego' for trying to offer advice on how to fix the planet.
World leaders, dignitaries and experts all flew to Scotland last week to talk about the best approach to tackling climate change and Greta held multiple protests outside COP26.
In his latest column for The Sunday Times, Clarkson said: "I simply don't get the Thunberg phenomenon.
"She has no knowledge of how the world works, no manners and no letters after her name because instead of going to school, she's been busy sailing round the world so she can be mardy and abusive to grown-ups.
"What she needs is a smacked bottom."
He agreed with Greta that the whole idea of COP26 was kind of pointless because he believes regular folk are already aware of what needs to be done to prevent or at least limit the impact of climate change.
At one point during the summit, Greta was seen at Festival Park in Govan chanting: "You can shove your climate crisis up your a**e, you can shove your climate crisis up your a**e!
"Change is not going to come from inside there - that is not leadership, this is leadership. We say no more blah blah blah, no more exploitation of people and nature and the planet.
"No more exploitation. No more blah blah blah. No more whatever the f**k they are doing inside there."
Clarkson admits this sentiment 'struck a chord' with him because he reckons 'the people outside knew what had to be done and could just get on and do it'.
But don't think for a second that the former Top Gear host is slowly warming to Greta Thunberg's activism.
He wrote: "Here's a tip, Greta: lecturing me on what needs to be done is pointless. It'd be like standing in my bedroom every morning ordering me to wear clothes. I know already.
"What you should be doing instead is cycling to countries where people are perhaps less well aware of what should be done. China for example.
"That I'd like to see. Greta standing outside Zhongnanhai with her parka and her Glastonbury backpack and her microphone, lecturing the leaders about their policies on coal and trees and so on."
Topics: Greta Thunberg, News, Jeremy Clarkson
Just Stop Oil protester says she’d be willing to leave her son and go to jail
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A Just Stop Oil protester has said she would be prepared to go to jail as she’s fighting for her son’s future.
The mum, whose son is almost seven, said she would ‘try very hard’ to not get banged up but said the time for ‘standing by’ and watching his future be ‘stolen’ had passed.
Campaigning group Just Stop Oil has pulled a number of bizarre and attention grabbing stunts in recent weeks, including chucking chocolate cake at the King Charles waxwork in Madam Tussauds and throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers.
Lora Johnson, a spokesperson for Just Stop Oil, appeared on LBC where she spoke to Nick Ferrari about her reasons for protesting.
She told him: “I’m just a mother. I’m here standing up for the future of my son.
“Did you know 100,000 people die every year in the UK because of air pollution. That’s eleven people an hour. What about the families of those eleven people an hour?”
Referencing previous Just Stop Oil protesters who have been sent to prison, Ferrari asked if Johnson would be willing to go to jail in the name of protest.
To which she replied: “I’m a single mum so I’m going to try very hard not to [go to prison] but the time for standing by and watching my son’s future be stolen from him has gone. So, you can join in civil resistance against a corrupt government without getting arrested.”
When pushed further on whether she’d be prepared to do time for the cause, she added: “I would find that personally heartbreaking as would my son, but it would be something I’m willing to do, because I want him to have a future.”
Johnson also admitted to having previously taken illegal action but stressed she wouldn’t be doing that again as she didn’t want to be jailed and taken away from her young son.
She added: “I have done things that are illegal and I won’t be doing that anymore but I will be protesting and I will be joining in civil resistance.”
When asked why she’d stopped doing anything illegal, she replied: “Because I don’t want to risk being remanded in prison. I don’t want to. If it happens, it happens. But I won't be doing anything illegal for that to be happening - but I will be joining civil resistance against the government.”
Topics: UK News, Global Warming, Crime
Greta Thunberg says her Asperger's Syndrome helps her cut through people's 'bulls**t'
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Greta Thunberg has opened up about the public's perception of her and revealed how her Asperger's Syndrome has helped her during her climate activism.
The Swedish 19-year-old rose to global fame after organising climate strikes and refusing to go to school.
She's spent the last few years ruffling feathers around the world with her activism.
Now, she has sat down with Elle UK to reflect on the whirlwind of becoming a social, cultural, and environmental icon, all before finishing her education.
"People seem to think of me as an angry teenager – they obviously haven't met me," Thunberg told Elle UK.
"At least two or three times a day I get laughing attacks where I can't breathe. It can be anything."
The teen also spoke candidly about living with Asperger's syndrome.
The condition sits on the autism spectrum and can make people who have it perceptively socially awkward.
But not Thunberg.
In fact, she sees it like her own special superpower.
She told the British magazine that her Asperger's helps her cut through 'the bulls**t' in life, politics, and activism.
But she stressed that she has always had a simple message when it comes to the climate: "Don't listen to me."
"Listen to the scientists, listen to the experts, listen to those who are most affected," she told Elle UK.
"I could talk about all these things, but I am a privileged white person who lives in Sweden. I don't really have any story to tell, so it's up to others who need to be heard to [talk about] these things."
Thunberg shot to international fame in August 2018 during the run-up to Sweden's general election.
She decided to stop going into classes at her school in order to draw attention to the climate crisis.
That particular year saw Sweden hit by heatwaves and wildfires, and was the hottest summer in the Scandinavian country since records began 260 years ago.
Her continued action saw her take a gap year from school to tour the world to rally for change.
She eventually returned to her education at 17 and she's since graduated.
Greta posted an image on her first day back, captioned with: "My gap year from school is over, and it feels so great to finally be back in school again!"
Even though school may be over, the fight for the climate isn't.
Thunberg is releasing a memoir to detail her experiences with the climate revolution.
Grab your copy of The Climate Book when it's released on October 27.
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