Today, as Global Climate Strike will be reported, Swden’s teen-aged activist Greta Thunberg will be the face of this action.
For the last few days, she is already making global headlines.
I first noticed Greta Thunberg’s cute little face in Internationalen, a Stockholm-based left-wing weekly. Along with a few class fellows, Greta was sitting outside of Swedish Parliament (Riksdag).
Next, in a few months’ time, I noticed her on Swedish television: she was leading a big student demonstration. Now, she is a global symbol of climate resistance.
It was indeed inspiring to see Greta talking about sixth extinction, quote scientific arguments, offer critical insights and succinctly make a case for Global Climate Strike.
Such has been her symbolic importance that when I returned to Stockholm in May this year, after a few months in Pakistan, I found my ten-year-old daughter’s hand-made posters and stickers all over the place, stating: ”Save the turtles”.
She told me: ”we are not going on holidays this summer anywhere if we have to take a plane” (with my Pakistani wages, we could not anyway).BAN ON PLASTIC BAGS
After watching the clip below from The Daily Show conducted by Trevor Noah (always brilliant), I was wondering what if Greta was born in Kohat or any other small town in the Land of very Pures?
Even if she had progressive parents, the cultural Taliban that run Pakistan’s school system would have reduced her to a sex object, reduced to an Abaya. If she was lucky enough to finish her FSc, she might have reached Bahria University where she would have been kept away from every dangerous idea, by the puritan Vice Chancellor, such as democracy, climate etc.
She would have been more worried about the Day of Judgement rather than Sixth Extinction.
Watch Greta in The Daily Show:
