• katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    She’s gotten the issue of climate change to be a major issue with young voters

    It’s really not her fault that the people in power have a vested interest in ignoring climate change.

    Also she got Andrew Tate arrested so there’s that.

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      1 year ago

      How to you figure the people in power have a vested interest in ignoring climate change? Seems like everyone has a vested interest in acknowledging any risk to our civilization.

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    1 year ago

    Speaking from a German perspective I feel like the Fridays for future movement has significantly affected (parts of) her generation. I have many colleagues whose kids are focusing on a diet with less environmental impact and also asking their parents to change.

    It is impressive that it has been such a long running and wide spreading movement and I am sure that there will be many politicians, activists and entrepreneurs coming out of this movement in the future.

    It is hard to expect anything more from a child who has been belittled constantly. I wish I would be standing up for my believes as strongly as she does.

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      1 year ago

      If your parents were multimillionaires and hired publicists and boat crews and built a brand around those beliefs, I’m sure you would have too.

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    Five years later this is a relevant question. So her awareness campaign is at least as effective as Susan G. Komen.

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      1 year ago

      Hopefully Greta’s legacy is more then just a non-profit that steals from desperate cancer patients but given the genesis of her brand, I doubt it.