The recent announcement that climate activist Greta Thunberg has been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year is getting a thumbs up from a fellow environmentalist.
Jim Emberger with the New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance says for someone so young, she has accomplished a great deal.
“I don’t think anybody looking back through the history of the last century since we’ve had television, radio and mass media has ever seen a movement this huge develop behind a teenaged girl, and it is well deserved,” stated Emberger.
He also says it is refreshing to see someone so young take on such a huge challenge with a simple message.
“She speaks just so plainly, knows what she is talking about and doesn’t haven’t an agenda other than saving the planet, and she has been very careful to make sure that it’s not about her, it’s about what she is talking about and she says don’t listen to me she says read the science, don’t talk to me talk to the scientists.”
Emberger also says sometimes celebrity has a way of taking over the issue, but not in Greta’s case.
.@GretaThunberg: “As often as I can, I try to say no to having meetings with politicians. It’s just small talk, basically. And of course they want to take selfies. I’m a bit tired of selfies right now” #TIMEPOY https://t.co/7og4OGV0m8 pic.twitter.com/0yLo4igVhk
— TIME (@TIME) December 16, 2019
“What I love about her too is that you have to be careful when people get in that position that they don’t become full of themselves and they become the point rather than the movement behind them and she has been careful to make sure it is not about her,” stated Emberger.
Canadian Author Margaret Atwood, known of course for The Handmaid’s Tale, called Greta Thunberg, the ‘Joan of Arc’ of environmentalism.
