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 …
Oh, for chrissake. She did navigate it. She navigated it brilliantly. If she'd done any of what I'm suggesting, she would not be famous. She doesn't believe in "technical solutions," she doesn't believe the solutions are in sight. This is patently wrong.
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I disagree with Greta, and I think she's pointing the discourse in a direction that will ultimately hurt her own cause. But I also don't think the social reality around her provided alternate roles for someone who *needed* to do *something.*
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I'll leave it at that, because I genuinely can't tell how much of your argument is in good faith, and your comments about my somehow representing SV and diminishing Greta's personal agency strike me as both unfair and manipulative. Best of luck to you.
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Ok, cool. What I am trying to explain to you is she chose politics and advocacy. Politicians are not, usually, technicians. Fine to call out that whole schtick, and the 'natural solutions' she does propose, but it's internally coherent so far as it goes. That's all on that.
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