Tbh I saw the streaming of when she appeared on that new extension on land that they were planning in Germany to mine more coal, were there were activists on tress with zip lines to go from tree to tree. And like the police I think stopped so they took pictures and all that… so it’s not a normal detention that’s for sure as they know it wouldn’t look good…
good, she’s testing the legal system so others know what punishment they’ll face for protesting, we already know that the first offence is likely to only result in a middling fine and here’s hoping that’s all the courts continue with.
Also she’s a public figure now, so they can’t treat her too terribly. Which means that if they treat others unfairly for the same thing, it could raise hell.
I’m in the same boat, because it says 32 but I only see 16. Which is amusing because I’ve only blocked like two non-bots, both of which for previously trolling. Some people need to get a life lol.
You may disagree with her methods (as do I at times), but few (mostly climate change deniers) would disagree with her goals. She's spending her life trying to improve the future of the all humankind.
Whenever I see people complain about protest methods, it reminds me of this quote:
First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action;” who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.”
–Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., 16 April 1963 in a jail cell in Birmingham Alabama.
She’s trying to. We are trying really hard to make sure nobody can live on the earth. If we took climate change seriously, we would all be doing something similar.
She's on the side of life. It would have been better to have left a world to inherit where the young don't have to go to this extreme. But here we are.
Life for what? Did she kill someone? Did she heinously steal millions from improverished communities? Did she turn off Safelites and directly involve herself in an active war, foreign to her own land resulting in the death of citizens? Did she try to steal an election? Did she get kick back from the Saudi government to the tune of 2 billion dollars? Was she responsible for brexit? Did she steal from.her government by not paying taxes on corporate greed?
NoOoOoOOo!!! She didn’t… hmmm why would you want her to spend life in prison?
OH!!! I GET IT… she said she wants all CEOs who are killing our plantet, to stop doing that, and she crossed the Atlantic ocean in essentially a paddle boat…
so that to you, deserves taxes be spent to house her for life on a made up crime… tell you what… fine, arrest and charge her, and imprison her for life … but ONLY IF it comes out on your dime only… since you are the only one asking for it… we will give you your way and fuck the rest of what the world wants… no have you way on one condition, if you pay for it… and only you… if you can’t afford it, then shut tf up, move on…
You’re as bad as the politicians imprisoning humans over cannabis, so they have warm bardies for slave work in their private prisons… you should trade spots with them
I mean, most countries are guilty of that right now, and I feel like a $200 fine for this is on the lower side (in comparison to other countries) of punishment.
There’s also no hope. The small group of owners with power aka capital will continue to run the table for short term profit until they have to retreat to their luxury climate bunkers, then they’ll keep ordering it to be done from those luxury climate bunkers until collapse, and the peasants will be too afraid of losing their subsistence opiates (social media, “reality” tv, fast food, literal opiates, etc) to lift so much as a pitchfork.
Which is why I respect Greta for doing what billions of us ought to be doing. She is a just person in an unjust world doing what’s right in defiance of it. The tragedy is that if the world joined her in rejecting and remaking our consumerist, profiteer controlled, growth/metastasis addicted civilization, there would be hope, which is why the owners and their cheerleader sycophant peasants hate her so. She’s a symbol of what could have been, humanity caring for humanity and our shared fragile habitat as a species, a sentiment the capitalists traded away a long time ago in the name of insatiable greed “rational self-interest.”
“Do not go gentle into that good night… Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” -Dylan Thomas
I think that’s a rather pessimistic view on things. Greta isn’t alone, she’s one of the more prominent figures in a global movement demanding change. A movement which is rapidly gaining momentum and effectiveness. She isn’t a symbol of ‘what might have been’, she’s a symbol of what’s to come. I know that all that’s happening around the world is frustrating and scary, but it’s important to remain optimistic. Pessimism only benefits the status quo.
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