The Swedish climate campaigner was with other activists at a protest outside a central London hotel.

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It could also be the case that having a high profile individual at your protest makes that protest larger and gains attention or would not have otherwise had.

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Greta is just the new David Suzuki. I hope she does better.

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It’s better than just lobbing orange paint around, or blocking a major motorway.

At this point I suspect the public are sick of the “world is dying” message. Most people are struggling to get through life, without being told every day that they’re killing the planet. Most people can’t just magic £30k out of their arse to buy an electric car or heatpump.

Unless you’re willing to physically harm the handful of people that can actually change anything (and I’m certainly not), there just isn’t a lot that a normal person can do about any of it.

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At the end of the day, the people can rise up against the capitalists to stop them from poisoning our only habitat we are all wholly dependent upon. We can stop the self-destructive madness of demanding infinite growth carved out of the ass of a finite world.

Greta is doing the right thing in the face of Armageddon. Almost everyone else will either continue begging the sociopathic oligarch polluters to stop, spoilers: they make fun of you for it at parties, or more likely just continue business as usual as if we aren’t reverse terraforming the Earth, hoping it won’t be their problem.

Greta is setting an example, one none of us will follow as I’m sure she knows, but her hands are clean for trying. I’m sure some will deride it as “virtue signaling” aka admitting they don’t have the capacity for empathy or selflessness, but those are usually the same people that get angry at others for claiming the “free capital market” isn’t the cure for the many self-inflicted human crises caused by the “free capital market.”

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the people can rise up against the capitalists to stop them from poisoning our only habitat we are all wholly dependent upon

Are you ignoring all the labor these “capitalists” and their workers do to provide you the goods we all wholly demand upon? All of this is done by social cooperation between both of them by voluntary association.

We can stop the self-destructive madness of demanding infinite growth carved out of the ass of a finite world.

This would work if the price system would actually work as intended (free from the intervention of the State) to distribute all the scarce resources in a free-market setting.

Greta is doing the right thing in the face of Armageddon

By wanting the Monopoly of Violence to step in? To call the international organizations (spoilers: they don’t care about us) to intervene in foreign countries?

Almost everyone else will either continue begging the sociopathic oligarch polluters to stop

They can actually do that because of the existence of “common goods” and of the monopolical privileges granted by the same State, such as subsidies, regulations discreetly affecting SMEs, the lack of enforcement of private property to protect those “common goods”, etc.

but those are usually the same people that get angry at others for claiming the “free capital market” isn’t the cure for the many self-inflicted human crises caused by the “free capital market.”

On the contrary; they love subsidies, they love intellectual property, they love FIAT money, they love the monopolical privileges: basically, their activities depend entirely on the mere existence of corporatocracy.

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Man wtf. We had over 100 Years of almost free market and look where we are now.

Businesses in germany have to pay a fuckload of taxes and still get richt as fuck.

If there is no free market on a national scale, than there is a almost anarchytical free market on an international scale.

We dont need a free market anymore. We need responsibility for what these people got rich on. And they have to pay back what they destroyed. Like everybody else, when you destroy sth, either on purpose or without, you need to pay.

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Or alternatively, nobody would care if it didn’t involve a public figure. Cuts both ways.

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I’m no media expert but I think that’s exactly why they do it

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The point is to make you think about climate change and act according to your own conscience. But yeah, unfortunately she is big famous now.whether she intended it or not, once she shows up it’s all about Greta.

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100% agree.

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“You’re right, our only reporting on climate change shouldn’t be about one protester getting arrested… let’s switch to our preferred option: never reporting about it at all”.

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