Once again, society asks the children of the world to be "Super Heroes." Our mess is our shameful greedy mess. And it takes a sixteen-year-old from Sweden, of her own ambition, to spear-head the rallying cry to us mindless slumbering adults. Greta is right. Our house is on fire. And our headlines meander along ignoring the truth. We are on track for—no, we have already entered, the Sixth Extinction.
Love to Greta who won't take "no" for an answer. Courage to Greta whose fears match mine. Fortitude to Greta, the voice of the planet. Earth doesn't whisper it roars. Earth weeps under our onslaught. I hesitated before adding a filter on instagram to the image of her book jacket. But only for a nano-second. Then chose "Juno." Juno throws lightening bolts. From the peak of Olympus, Greta sees the urgency and means business—the business of change.
Trump today tweeted: "Greta must work on her anger management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!" Our children are not super heroes, despite the media who promulgates that image. They are our gift and our future. Follow Greta to the streets, to voting booths, to the classroom, and then take in a movie.
Iceland's Okjokull glacier commemorated with a plaque. In 2014 the glacier was declared dead. In 2018, anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer filmed a documentary about its demise, Not Ok. Then suggested a commemorative plaque. The dedication was written by Andri Snær Magnason, At the bottom of "The Letter to the Future" is the global atmospheric carbon dioxide reading for that month: 415 ppm. Iceland, the land of storytellers, has a voice too.
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