{"id":16389,"date":"2019-09-24T13:31:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T18:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=16389"},"modified":"2019-10-01T14:46:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T19:46:12","slug":"greta-thunberg-climate-protest-madison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/greta-thunberg-climate-protest-madison\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Greta Thunberg Effect” has reached Madison"},"content":{"rendered":"
Greta Thunberg is not fucking around.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the 16-year-old Swedish activist visited the United Nations and delivered a scathing rebuke<\/a> of the body\u2019s inaction on climate change.<\/p>\n \u201cThe eyes of all future generations are upon you,\u201d she declared. \u201dAnd if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you.\u201d<\/p>\n Thunberg\u2019s demands, as punk rock as they sound, are fairly simple. World leaders are turning a blind eye while the planet dies. These heads of state are selling \u201cfairy tales of eternal economic growth,\u201d Thunberg said, and ignoring that the earth is in mortal danger. And Thunberg is hardly alone in this opinion.<\/p>\n Last week, millions of people worldwide \u2014 including hundreds here in Madison<\/a> \u2014 took part in a mass demonstrations largely inspired by Thunberg\u2019s climate evangelism. So who is she, and why are people listening to her?<\/span>\n