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We *did* actually fail Greta Thunberg We created a situation where a child was so ridden with anxiety about global catastrophe that she stopped eating, and then we praised her for skipping school to vent her anger Her obsession could have made her a scientist, maker, builder https://twitter.com/Education4Libs/status/1180669227931451392 …
We could have mentored a young expert on the problem, we could have connected her to tinkerers instead of politicians, we could have shown her that teenagers are worth more to the world as creators than as victims
Some kids and teens do find their way to what they need to start thinking deeply, communicating with experts & building stuff, but they *really* have to swim hard against the currents to do that. And even when they do, we don't platform them like this
But it's not enough to say that we need more scientists, more tinkerers, more builders to solve a problem that cannot be STEMed out of existence. We have to fundamentally redress how we use, live, and think of ourselves in relation to the environment.
And we need people who are in the positions of power which (deliberately and unfortunately) lie within the hands of policy makers who consistently fail to use STEM as anything beyond a means of control and self-enrichment.
We could ask her, but I don’t know if an engineering job at like, Google X, is what she wants out of life. And that’s not particularly sad IMO.
She believes that solutions already exist and just need to be implemented. She believes she is solving a problem, that those in power are unconvinced to take action and that what she is doing is the best way to convince them (which of course could be false).
Nothing she's said indicates she knows very much about the solution-space, but there's no good reason for that except that she was propelled forward without anyone asking for that
I don't think it's fair to characterize her primarily as a victim. If that were true, we wouldn't even have heard of her. I'm sympathetic to your point, but I think public advocacy can be a valuable role too
Absolutely this. I wish people would stop asking politicians to save them. Save yourselves people. There are so many vast ways to address climate change and ecological collapse than lobbying politicians.
Even technologists need lobbyists though, and she seems to have comparative advantage as a lobbyist
Is there not a reasonable argument that solutions to climate change will require collective political action, and so political pressure is a reasonable course of action? It has low barriers to entry!
As an experiment, I challenge you to read over Greta's public statements and see if you can construct even a relatively vague policy proposal from them
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