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SunSeeker

(50,619 posts)
1. She's 17, but she looks younger than that in this video. Yet she is so mature.
Wed Dec 30, 2020, 02:51 AM
Dec 2020

She blows my mind. She is so intense and articulate.

I have a 17 year old son. All he cares about is sports, his friends and his girlfriend. In that order. LOL

Celerity

(40,691 posts)
6. Her mum is an opera singer (and a Swedish Eurovision winner), her father an actor, her grandfather
Wed Dec 30, 2020, 05:03 AM
Dec 2020

Olof was a director and the voice of Bamse, the most famous Swedish cartoon here.



SunSeeker

(50,619 posts)
5. LOL. Ok, you got me. By "his friends" I'm including online videogames with his buds.
Wed Dec 30, 2020, 04:36 AM
Dec 2020

I feel your pain.

yonder

(9,525 posts)
4. She's bearing the weight of the world on her young frame.
Wed Dec 30, 2020, 04:21 AM
Dec 2020

The weight most of the rest of the world should be sharing.

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
10. Yes there appears to be a right wing attack to descredit Greta
Wed Dec 30, 2020, 11:16 AM
Dec 2020

It won't work since she's far bigger and more important than they are but it is still disheartening to see so many willfully ignorant people.

 

Klaralven

(7,510 posts)
9. Poor Greta. By the time she's 50, 10 billion people will want to live as well as the Swedes.
Wed Dec 30, 2020, 08:00 AM
Dec 2020

Although I expect that the cheap sources of hydrocarbons are gradually exhausting and that carbon emissions will not rise much beyond current levels, mainly because of economics.

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