Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

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 …

This is a highly flawed argument. First, she is likelier to have a greater global impact on this path, than she will as a scientist, maker, or builder. Second, she is still 16, so being a scientist, maker, or builder is not at all closed off to her.

yeah, Greta is learning way more about climate change than almost any other 16 year old. Not like the opportunity cost of a high schooler's time and effort is that high.

But that's the problem, isn't it? We created a situation where, by default, her time would be wasted. That's not something we had to do. And when she does speak about climate science, she's just... wrong, often. The world is not 11 years from certain doom.

You are very smart but - this is her choice. I thought you were all about youth autonomy? - she believes in political reform a prio, maybe you don't - she is supporting a popular movement, which she believes will change policy I may not agree with all, but it's not incoherent.

She's navigated the incentive structure provided to her very well. She doesn't provide a lot of factual basis for her arguments, but nobody is asking her to. The policy changes she wants are too vague to easily discern, but as broadly interpreted would be disastrous.

I hope that clarifies *something,* at least. I don't think she lacks autonomy or is incoherent, so I'm not sure how you're reading me.

It's pretty patrician: how "we" did things that "failed" her, as if she can't navigate whatever "we" did. The maker community, in case you haven't noticed, is a bust also and useless to 'guide' kids. Let ppl make their own mistakes! Can you share where she is wrong on the sci?