matrixmann: (Standing one's ground)
matrixmann ([personal profile] matrixmann) wrote 2022-08-15 12:38 pm (UTC)

Well, that what it's like if you have a land area that's not totally overpopulated for its small size, and if you have all the kinds of natural resources that humans currently need for their lives.
In latter areas, those things are all way more expensive...


I am certain that many of them were not finishing any institute…

Hm, yeah, you can put that question, of course.

The people which have showed up in the environmental activism were the Fridays For Future kids, who all were just school students and still lived with their parents.
Taking that into account - of course, you can claim a lot to happen. It's gonna be the task of other people to turn it into reality.
Additionally, you don't need to rack your brains about your own lifestyle and resource consumption. (Which is what school kids very unlikely do as they're still too your for a broad overview of the topic and they also still lack the consciousness of how their own lifestyle is made possible. They take their Playstation 4s/5s and XBoxes and smartphones all as self-evident and think they're fueled with nothing to run.)

The first activists from the front of that, meanwhile, are at the beginning of the adult years or in their mid 20s.
Just the kind of age, as stated, when you still go to university and only have to care about your own cause (not a family with kids attached too, e. g.).

Of course, one can doubt if these already have any formal graduation certificate in their stock, or if, if they have one in a field which is really relevant for talking big in terms "how people need to live in order to soothe climate change".

Greta, I think... she did mean her strike for the climate honestly, but what she lacked about the whole wave she kicked loose is: Even if maybe educated, she was still a teen and psychologically as well as socially as naive as a teen (addionally socially handicapped by Asperger's, if that is factually true). She started her "war" with symbolic gestures which, in the end, mean nothing to the problem of climate change.
If you really wanna do something, then you'll have to go to war with the whole capitalist system - and this might mean, you'll have to become their arch enemy who they want to assassinate.

Greta, as pretty typical for her generation, thought it's done with just a foot stomp and the adults reacting to her, doing what she demands. Because the adults always reacted to her if she did that and maybe somehow complied with the claims she raised.
World politics doesn't work like this. - Or, if you want to make the politicians of other countries look at you and maybe comply with your claims, then you have to bring up a pretty big foot stomp so that they do that. Something as big as maybe what North Korea has, for example.

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