goldhornsandblackwool:queeranarchism:gendernihilistanarchocommunist:mendedpixie:autie-jake:An autist
goldhornsandblackwool:queeranarchism:gendernihilistanarchocommunist:mendedpixie:autie-jake:An autistic 16 year old for the record!No, it wasn’t. Greta Thunberg is AWESOME, but she stands on the backs of Native people who have been fighting her fight for DECADES, and longer, and fighting it with NVDA (non-violence direct action). In her own words, she is one of the lucky ones, whereas Native people in North, Central, and South America have been at the forefront of this fight with the most risk and the most to lose despite overall having the least harmful impact on the environment. The media has been ignoring Native voices and actions in the climate battle. Greta is being paid more attention to because she is white, she is European, and her activism and work while excellent, are not NVDA. It’s protests and talking to politicians. Greta has done a shit ton of work, but she did not make this happen on her own. Let’s credit and help the Native people who have been doing so much work for so fucking long with complete and utter silence from non-Native folks. The attention being paid to Greta (while leaders still do jack shit to solve the crisis) and not to Native people is racist, period.Yeah, I hate to be a party pooper but she’s also essentially a manufactured climate messiah and there is extensive evidence to the effect that her very first day, when it was just her, was already at that time backed by an environmental tech startup called We Don’t Have Time that has links to Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, 350.org, Avaaz, Global Utmaning (Global Challenge), the World Bank, and the World Economic Forum (WEF) (which is just scratching the surface of her financial and organizational backing from before day one of her very first climate protest of one). Seriously, it’s a long read but if you have the time I’d highly recommend giving that link a look-see. I love the idea of someone who is on the spectrum and a young girl spearheading everything from a grassroots level, but the fact is she’s been corporate backed since before she ever took time off school to sit alone with protest signs. There are particular kinds of “solutions” that the groups linked to We Don’t Have Time would like to proffer, all of them with maintaining power structures in the face of climate crises as a larger goal than actually addressing the root causes of the climate crises coming down the pipe. + credit to all the environmental activists - indigenousand otherwise - who did not choose non-violence.every time you see Greta, give props or w/e for sure but remember she’s a single white bubble of foam on a big bloody wave of brown people doing activism and we ALL SEE who so instantly forgets this just to hail her as a white messiah -- source link