The Dharma of Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg, a fifteen-year-old climate activist from Sweden, spoke to the UN COP24 Climate Conference in Poland in December 2018:
“We’ve had thirty years of pep-talking and selling positive ideas. And I’m sorry, but it doesn’t work. Because if it would have, the emissions would have gone down by now—they haven’t.
“You only speak of a green eternal economic growth because you are too scared of being unpopular. You only talk about moving forward with the same bad ideas that got us into this mess, even when the only sensible thing to do is pull the emergency brake. You are not mature enough to tell it like it is. Even that burden you leave to us children.”
“And if solution within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself”
In her Tedx Talk in Stockholm, Greta talked about her struggle with depression and Aspergers:
Thunberg described how at the age of eleven, several years after learning about the concept of climate change for the first time, she fell into a depression and became ill. “I stopped talking. I stopped eating,” she explains. “In two months, I lost about ten kilos of weight. Later on I was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, OCD, and selective mutism—that basically means I only speak when I think it’s necessary.”
After a short pause, she adds, “Now is one of those moments.”
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