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What's really important about Her Implacable Tinyness

Carl Stellweg I really don't want to hammer the Mighty Climate Dwarf down anybody's throat, but still I urge everybody to listen to this speech, from beginning to end. There simply is no-one - repeat: no-one - who speaks so bluntly, so concisely, so fearlessly, so factually correct, with so much dignity and clarity, and, last but not least, so inspiringly, about the huge problem of climate change. She really is a historical figure. She is simply the voice of rational common sense, and there is nothing I admire more than that. Still, I do not adulate Greta Thunberg. And I do agree with Ellen Boucher, researcher on the history of childhood, that there is danger in depicting her as a prophet, since 'prophets  communicate the voice of God, convey divine revelation that was previously unknown or misunderstood'. And that's not what Greta is about. She just tells us what we already know but don't want to know - or could have or should have known.