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 …
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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Ive not read much of hers, but I agree, I don't think I would be able to! But politics isn't always about policy. Sometimes it's about raising the challenge. There is a role for people who can do that effectively.
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I don't expect I'm going to convince you otherwise, but functional politics is actually about policy, and it gets pretty dysfunctional pretty quickly when it becomes about charisma.
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