Sometimes protesting gets notice. Unfortunately, often it is just ignored. The international press is not concerned unless violence or celebrity is involved. Demonstration, marches or rallies are normally not front page news.
Greenwashing by governments and guilty parties must be documented, challenged and publicized. Frequently it takes a protest for the public to notice. Advocates for the environment are discredited by the general public because of their dedication to their cause… They used to be called Tree Huggers. Now they are categorized as activists.
One such activist is Greta Thunberg who accused Sweden of being “very good at greenwashing.” Greta staged a protest with about 50 other activists outside Sweden’s parliament building.
Thunberg said; “Sweden is unfortunately not unique in completely ignoring the climate crisis, not treating it as an emergency at all. But actively trying to greenwash, deceive and lie in order to make it seem like they are doing enough and that they are moving in the right direction, when in fact the exact opposite is happening… Sweden in particular is very good at greenwashing and framing themselves as a climate leader, when we have very high emissions per capita if we include all our emissions, including consumption based and biogenic emissions etc and especially if we look at historic emissions. So we are not a climate leader at all.”
If you talk the talk, you must walk the walk.
“All over the world, Thunberg said, ‘people seem to be physically incapable of focusing on several things at the same time’. She added: ‘We need to be able to tackle the climate crisis in a way that addresses all the other root causes as well and make sure that we have a just transition.’
The aim of Monday’s protest against the climate crisis and the people that it is killing, Thunberg said, was to highlight how ‘the people in power are ignoring the most affected and activists and young people and the science”. She accused politicians of instead “prioritising short-term economic profits”, lwhich she said was “sacrificing human life and the planet in the name of greed’.
She said this type of protest marked a first for Sweden, although similar actions had happened in other locations around the world.
‘The climate justice movement has for decades tried to get our message across and scientists and the most affected people have been sounding the alarm for even longer than that,’ she said. ‘But the people in power have not been listening, they have been actively ignoring and silence those speaking out.’
Climate scientists were also in attendance at the demonstration to show their support.”
We all need to fall in line and encourage our governments to do what they say they’re doing and demand they do what they promised. Sometimes it takes more than a village.
Stand up for those not yet born.
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