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'''Greta Thunberg''' is a [[Swedish]] teenage environmental activist on [[climate change]].  
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'''Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg''' is a [[Swedish]] environmental "[[climate change]] activist". In August 2018, aged 15, from the first day she held up a placard saying "School strike for climate", she received a wide audience on [[social media]]. She has been actively promoted by the [[WEF]] and {{ccm}} since then and "[[celebrities]] and public figures played an essential role in amplifying [her] influence."<ref>https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/7/2707</ref>
  
 
==Official narrative==
 
==Official narrative==
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[[image:WEF-Greta-Thunberg-Our-House-is-on-Fire.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|She would never have been given a platform by the [[World Economic Forum]] if her talking points and keywords were not what the rich and mighty wanted to be heard, leading the public into emergency mode.]]
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[[image:WEF-Greta-Thunberg-Our-House-is-on-Fire.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|The [[World Economic Forum]] help her promote the idea of imminent climate disaster if the [[net zero]] agenda is not strictly adhered to.]]
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[[image:Greta thunberg magazines.png|thumb|Thunberg received blanket coverage from the {{CCM}}]]
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[[image:Greta thunberg magazines.png|thumb|400px|Thunberg received blanket propaganda coverage from the {{CCM}}]]
 
Thunberg first became known for her activism in August 2018 when, at age 15, she began spending her school days outside the Swedish parliament to call for stronger action on global warming by holding up a sign saying (in Swedish) "School strike for climate". Soon, other students engaged in similar protests in their own communities. Together, they organised a school climate strike movement under the name Fridays for Future.
 
Thunberg first became known for her activism in August 2018 when, at age 15, she began spending her school days outside the Swedish parliament to call for stronger action on global warming by holding up a sign saying (in Swedish) "School strike for climate". Soon, other students engaged in similar protests in their own communities. Together, they organised a school climate strike movement under the name Fridays for Future.
 
<ref>http://harvardpolitics.com/united-states/youth-demand-climate-action-in-global-school-strike/</ref> <ref>https://www.sbs.com.au/news/is-my-english-ok-greta-thunberg-s-blunt-speech-to-uk-mps</ref>
 
<ref>http://harvardpolitics.com/united-states/youth-demand-climate-action-in-global-school-strike/</ref> <ref>https://www.sbs.com.au/news/is-my-english-ok-greta-thunberg-s-blunt-speech-to-uk-mps</ref>
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In May 2020 [[CNN]] included her on an "expert" panel about [[COVID-19]].<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/greta-thunberg-named-cnns-expert-coronavirus-panel-twitter-explodes/</ref>
 
In May 2020 [[CNN]] included her on an "expert" panel about [[COVID-19]].<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/greta-thunberg-named-cnns-expert-coronavirus-panel-twitter-explodes/</ref>
  
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==Skepticism==
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[[image:49418400266 875580cf80 o.jpg|left|500px|thumbnail|Thunberg was selected to receive center stage attention at the [[World Economic Forum 2020]]]]
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[[image:49418400266 875580cf80 o.jpg|right|500px|thumbnail|Thunberg received huge attention at the World Economic Forum 2020]]
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[[File:Greta Thunberg 2018 alarmism.png|left|500px|thumbnail|On the occurrence of the deletion of this [[2018]] tweet in [[2023]], "[[fact checker]]" were brought in to explain away the circumstances.<ref>http://archive.today/2019.09.04-143800/https://twitter.com/gretathunberg/status/1009757391515156480</ref><ref>https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-greta-thunberg-deleted-tweet-675395214080</ref>]]
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While there is no reason to doubt the genuineness of her beliefs, the way it was chosen from the very start to be amplified by corporate media and politicians is unusual. Compare the exposure to peace activists or advocates of meaningful social justice, who struggle immensely to get heard and would never be invited to speak at the [[World Economic Forum]].
 
  
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Her campaign found remarkable resonance among the rich and powerful; she was fêted by parliaments, she received audience with world leaders like [[Ursula von der Leyen]], she was invited to make a speech at the playground of the corporate world, the [[World Economic Forum]] in Davos, where she received massive media attention, replete with the talking points and keywords these organisations use.
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In her own words, she was "diagnosed with [[Asperger's syndrome]], [[OCD]], and selective [[mutism]]." <ref> Thunberg, Greta (24 November 2018). School strike for climate – save the world by changing the rules. TEDxStockholm. Event occurs at 1:46. </ref>
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In corporate media, skepticism of the "Greta-phenomenon" is framed as a bullying criticism of her alleged autism{{cn}}. This is a convenient trick to deflect from the real criticism, which is the way she has been amplified by the rich and powerful to further their own agendas.  
 
  
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==Corporate media adulation==
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==Problems with official narrative==
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Her sudden rise to world fame has made her a leader and a target.<ref>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/greta-thunberg-climate-change-movement.html</ref> In May 2019, Thunberg was featured on the cover of ''Time'' magazine, which named her a "next generation leader" and noted that many see her as a role model.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190630045412/https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/greta-thunberg-cover-time </ref> Thunberg and the school strike movement were also featured in a 30-minute ''[[Vice]]'' magazine documentary titled ''Make the World Greta Again''.<ref>https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/vice-make-the-world-greta-again/5ca5f6cbbe40770ec567d7b7}}</ref> Some media have described her impact on the world stage as the "Greta Thunberg effect".<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/23/greta-thunberg</ref> Thunberg has been the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including fellowship of the [[Royal Scottish Geographical Society]], has been named as one of the [[Time 100|100 most influential people]] of 2019 by ''[[Time]]'' magazine, and has been nominated for the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]. In September 2019, she addressed the UN Climate Action Summit in New York.
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The launch of the Greta Thunberg story had all the hallmarks of an organized PR-campaign to usher in a required consensus for the [[Paris Agreement]], the [[Green New Deal]] and all climate-related policies and legislation written by the power elite – for the power elite.<ref>See Cory Morningstar's analysis for further details https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/01/17/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/</ref>
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On August 20, 2018 a tweet featuring a photo of "a Swedish girl" sitting on a sidewalk was released by the tech company, [[We Don’t Have Time]], founded by its CEO [[Ingmar Rentzhog]].<ref>https://twitter.com/WeDontHaveTime0/status/1031657287763599365</ref> Rentzhog’s tweet, via the ''We Don’t Have Time'' [[twitter]] account, was be the very first exposure of Thunberg's school strike. Tagged in Rentzhog’s "lonely girl" tweet were five twitter accounts: Greta Thunberg, [[Zero Hour]] (youth movement), [[Jamie Margolin]] (the teenage founder of Zero Hour), [[Al Gore]]’s [[Climate Reality Project]], and the People’s Climate Strike twitter account (in the identical font and aesthetics as [[350.org]])
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''We Don’t Have Time'' reported on Greta’s strike on its first day, and in less than 24 hours its [[Facebook]] posts and [[tweets]] received over twenty thousand likes, shares and comments, followed by corporate media. As of the first week of the strike, at least six major daily newspapers, as well as [[SVT|Swedish]] and [[Danmarks Radio|Danish national TV]] interviewed Thunberg. Two Swedish party leaders stopped by to talk to her as well.<ref>https://medium.com/wedonthavetime/this-15-year-old-girl-breaks-swedish-law-for-the-climate-d1a48ab97e3a</ref>
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==Genocide in Gaza==
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[[File:Greta_Gaza_arrest.jpeg|300px|right|thumb|Arrested in [[Copenhagen]] for protesting about the ongoing [[Israeli]] [[genocide]] in [[Gaza]] ]]
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On 4 September 2024, Greta Thunberg was reported to have been arrested in [[Denmark]]. Video footage showed Danish police apprehending Thunberg at a [[Gaza]] war protest. Six demonstrators were detained at the scene, at the [[University of Copenhagen]], after about 20 people blocked the entrance to a building and three had entered.<ref>''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkzLiGNL-wU "Greta Thunberg arrested during Gaza war protest in Copenhagen"]''</ref>
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[https://x.com/kennardmatt Matt Kennard posted on '''X''':]{{QB|
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:“To stand with [[Palestine]] is to be human”
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:—Greta Thunberg, who has just been arrested in [[Copenhagen]] protesting against [[Israel]]’s [[genocide]] in [[Gaza]].
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:Long live Greta!<ref>''[https://x.com/kennardmatt/status/1831279899933290580 "Greta Thunberg has just been arrested in Copenhagen protesting against Israel’s genocide in Gaza"]''</ref>}}
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===Is she a stooge?===
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[https://www.facebook.com/trevorwallman Trevor Allman commented on '''X''':]{{QB|
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:Ms Thunberg gets arrested quite regularly, yet rarely goes to court, and has no criminal convictions. Something odd there.
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:I was arrested twice during the 1984/85 Miners' Strike, appeared in court twice and received a Bind-over and a conviction.
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:Ms Thunberg was also silent about the [[Nord Stream 2]] attack, despite the environmental damage and supports the [[Ukrainian]] [[Nazis]]. She also gets invited to Davos to address the [[WEF]].
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:I can't help but think she is a stooge.<ref>''[https://www.facebook.com/groups/workerspartylondon/posts/1142236626866852?comment_id=1168651194225395 "I can't help but think Ms Thunberg is a stooge."]''</ref>}}
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==International corporate media==
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In May [[2019]], Thunberg was featured on the cover of ''[[Time magazine]]'', which named her a "next generation leader" and noted that many see her as a role model.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190630045412/https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/greta-thunberg-cover-time </ref><ref>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/greta-thunberg-climate-change-movement.html</ref> Thunberg and the school strike movement were also featured in a 30-minute ''[[Vice]]'' magazine documentary titled ''Make the World Greta Again''.<ref>https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/vice-make-the-world-greta-again/5ca5f6cbbe40770ec567d7b7}}</ref> Some media have described her impact on the world stage as the "Greta Thunberg effect".<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/23/greta-thunberg</ref> Thunberg has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including fellowship of the [[Royal Scottish Geographical Society]], has been named as one of the [[Time 100|100 most influential people]] of 2019 by ''[[Time]]'' magazine, and has been nominated for the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]. In September 2019, she addressed the UN Climate Action Summit in New York.
  
 
===2019 Atlantic crossing===
 
===2019 Atlantic crossing===
 
Her crossing of the [[Atlantic]] has been touted as a 100% zero carbon emission journey and much of it in the {{ccm}} was spin and omission to make it look like that,<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/how-green-is-greta-thunbergs-transatlantic-trip/ar-AAFKBCu</ref> but in reality it was very much the opposite.<ref>https://freewestmedia.com/2019/08/17/greta-thunbergs-sailing-trip-will-require-six-flights/</ref>
 
Her crossing of the [[Atlantic]] has been touted as a 100% zero carbon emission journey and much of it in the {{ccm}} was spin and omission to make it look like that,<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/how-green-is-greta-thunbergs-transatlantic-trip/ar-AAFKBCu</ref> but in reality it was very much the opposite.<ref>https://freewestmedia.com/2019/08/17/greta-thunbergs-sailing-trip-will-require-six-flights/</ref>
  
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==Exploitation==
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In [[2019]], [[Vladimir Putin]] suggested that Greta was being manipulated.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/vladimir-putin-suggests-greta-thunberg-is-being-manipulated-2019-10?r=US&IR=T</ref>
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==External links==
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*The story of Greta Thunberg's rise to fame has been analysed in detail by [[Cory Morningstar]] in her article series:
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**"[https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/01/17/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/ The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg - for Consent]" (The Political Economy of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex)
  
 
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Latest revision as of 10:07, 14 October 2024

Person.png Greta Thunberg   TwitterRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(activist, propagandist)
Greta Thunberg 01.jpg
Greta at her first "School Strike for Climate" in 2018
Born3 January 2003
NationalitySwedish
Parents • Malena Ernman
• Svante Thunberg
Interests • “Climate change”
• COP21
• Ecocide
Swedish teenage environmental activist who was selected by powerful interests to be the face of "climate change activism".

Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg is a Swedish environmental "climate change activist". In August 2018, aged 15, from the first day she held up a placard saying "School strike for climate", she received a wide audience on social media. She has been actively promoted by the WEF and commercially-controlled media since then and "celebrities and public figures played an essential role in amplifying [her] influence."[1]

Official narrative

The World Economic Forum help her promote the idea of imminent climate disaster if the net zero agenda is not strictly adhered to.
Thunberg received blanket propaganda coverage from the Commercially-controlled media

Thunberg first became known for her activism in August 2018 when, at age 15, she began spending her school days outside the Swedish parliament to call for stronger action on global warming by holding up a sign saying (in Swedish) "School strike for climate". Soon, other students engaged in similar protests in their own communities. Together, they organised a school climate strike movement under the name Fridays for Future. [2] [3]

She has spoken both in public and to political leaders and assemblies, in which she urges immediate action to address what she describes as the climate crisis. At home, Thunberg convinced her parents to adopt several lifestyle choices to reduce their own carbon footprint, including giving up air travel and not eating meat.[4]

In May 2020 CNN included her on an "expert" panel about COVID-19.[5]

Thunberg was selected to receive center stage attention at the World Economic Forum 2020
On the occurrence of the deletion of this 2018 tweet in 2023, "fact checker" were brought in to explain away the circumstances.[6][7]

In her own words, she was "diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, OCD, and selective mutism." [8]

Problems with official narrative

The launch of the Greta Thunberg story had all the hallmarks of an organized PR-campaign to usher in a required consensus for the Paris Agreement, the Green New Deal and all climate-related policies and legislation written by the power elite – for the power elite.[9]

On August 20, 2018 a tweet featuring a photo of "a Swedish girl" sitting on a sidewalk was released by the tech company, We Don’t Have Time, founded by its CEO Ingmar Rentzhog.[10] Rentzhog’s tweet, via the We Don’t Have Time twitter account, was be the very first exposure of Thunberg's school strike. Tagged in Rentzhog’s "lonely girl" tweet were five twitter accounts: Greta Thunberg, Zero Hour (youth movement), Jamie Margolin (the teenage founder of Zero Hour), Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, and the People’s Climate Strike twitter account (in the identical font and aesthetics as 350.org)

We Don’t Have Time reported on Greta’s strike on its first day, and in less than 24 hours its Facebook posts and tweets received over twenty thousand likes, shares and comments, followed by corporate media. As of the first week of the strike, at least six major daily newspapers, as well as Swedish and Danish national TV interviewed Thunberg. Two Swedish party leaders stopped by to talk to her as well.[11]

Genocide in Gaza

Arrested in Copenhagen for protesting about the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza

On 4 September 2024, Greta Thunberg was reported to have been arrested in Denmark. Video footage showed Danish police apprehending Thunberg at a Gaza war protest. Six demonstrators were detained at the scene, at the University of Copenhagen, after about 20 people blocked the entrance to a building and three had entered.[12]

Matt Kennard posted on X:

“To stand with Palestine is to be human”
—Greta Thunberg, who has just been arrested in Copenhagen protesting against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Long live Greta![13]

Is she a stooge?

Trevor Allman commented on X:

Ms Thunberg gets arrested quite regularly, yet rarely goes to court, and has no criminal convictions. Something odd there.
I was arrested twice during the 1984/85 Miners' Strike, appeared in court twice and received a Bind-over and a conviction.
Ms Thunberg was also silent about the Nord Stream 2 attack, despite the environmental damage and supports the Ukrainian Nazis. She also gets invited to Davos to address the WEF.
I can't help but think she is a stooge.[14]

International corporate media

In May 2019, Thunberg was featured on the cover of Time magazine, which named her a "next generation leader" and noted that many see her as a role model.[15][16] Thunberg and the school strike movement were also featured in a 30-minute Vice magazine documentary titled Make the World Greta Again.[17] Some media have described her impact on the world stage as the "Greta Thunberg effect".[18] Thunberg has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including fellowship of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, has been named as one of the 100 most influential people of 2019 by Time magazine, and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In September 2019, she addressed the UN Climate Action Summit in New York.

2019 Atlantic crossing

Her crossing of the Atlantic has been touted as a 100% zero carbon emission journey and much of it in the commercially-controlled media was spin and omission to make it look like that,[19] but in reality it was very much the opposite.[20]

Exploitation

In 2019, Vladimir Putin suggested that Greta was being manipulated.[21]

External links


 

Related Quotation

PageQuoteAuthorDate
European Forum Alpbach“We want to develop many (Greta) Thunbergs on many topics.”European Forum Alpbach
Andreas Treichl		2023

 

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References

  1. ↑ https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/7/2707
  2. ↑ http://harvardpolitics.com/united-states/youth-demand-climate-action-in-global-school-strike/
  3. ↑ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/is-my-english-ok-greta-thunberg-s-blunt-speech-to-uk-mps
  4. ↑ https://www.france24.com/en/20190125-swedish-teenager-greta-thunberg-hold-world-leaders-accountable-climate-change
  5. ↑ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/greta-thunberg-named-cnns-expert-coronavirus-panel-twitter-explodes/
  6. ↑ http://archive.today/2019.09.04-143800/https://twitter.com/gretathunberg/status/1009757391515156480
  7. ↑ https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-greta-thunberg-deleted-tweet-675395214080
  8. ↑ Thunberg, Greta (24 November 2018). School strike for climate – save the world by changing the rules. TEDxStockholm. Event occurs at 1:46.
  9. ↑ See Cory Morningstar's analysis for further details https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/01/17/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/
  10. ↑ https://twitter.com/WeDontHaveTime0/status/1031657287763599365
  11. ↑ https://medium.com/wedonthavetime/this-15-year-old-girl-breaks-swedish-law-for-the-climate-d1a48ab97e3a
  12. ↑ "Greta Thunberg arrested during Gaza war protest in Copenhagen"
  13. ↑ "Greta Thunberg has just been arrested in Copenhagen protesting against Israel’s genocide in Gaza"
  14. ↑ "I can't help but think Ms Thunberg is a stooge."
  15. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190630045412/https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/greta-thunberg-cover-time
  16. ↑ http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/greta-thunberg-climate-change-movement.html
  17. ↑ https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/vice-make-the-world-greta-again/5ca5f6cbbe40770ec567d7b7}}
  18. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/23/greta-thunberg
  19. ↑ https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/how-green-is-greta-thunbergs-transatlantic-trip/ar-AAFKBCu
  20. ↑ https://freewestmedia.com/2019/08/17/greta-thunbergs-sailing-trip-will-require-six-flights/
  21. ↑ https://www.businessinsider.com/vladimir-putin-suggests-greta-thunberg-is-being-manipulated-2019-10?r=US&IR=T
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