False reverence for Greta Thunberg (Thomas Schmid, Kalte Sonne) Sweden Germany German Deutsch

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False reverence for Greta Thunberg Thomas Schmid September 25, 2019 (Computer translation German to English with minor corrections.)

It does not speak for some Western political figures to pay tribute to Greta Thunberg in the contrite sinner's gesture. The Swedish pupil, as if going it alone, has done something enormous. The movement that she triggered with her one-person performance conquered the public within months, albeit only in democratic states. An unconditional will drives the 16-year-old, her uncompromisingness has made her an icon. Your one-and-everything theme is very important, if not the only, big problem the world is facing. Until proven otherwise, everything indicates that she is serious about her concern. It is therefore evidence of malice to dismiss her as an immature brat, as a pathological fanatic. But Greta Thunberg, with her furious speech to the United Nations in New York, makes it clearer than ever that her restless engagement has nothing to do with politics. Democratic politics are always fallible, they progress in zig-zag courses, in correction mode. But the Swede, who possesses the only truth, has no trace of understanding, no sense. If she scorns the search for "any technical solutions", then she rejects all the possibilities that we really have. After all, how else can one deal with climate change as opposed to technical solutions, as well as inventiveness? Even if the yearning for salvation and the return to an original harmony between man and nature, which once supposedly existed, may be great, the wounds that have struck industrial development 1


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