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Avescope is back with our amazingly scary THIRD issue! With amazing fiction from Anike Kirsten and Guendolen Jacobs! Art from Joanna Hatton, (our brilliant cover is one of hers!) Justine Oh Me, Blackbird's Photography, and Catherine Jackson. Articles from Catherine Clark, David Simon, and Auguste von Osterode. LD Towers continues her serialized novel, Sal Adin! What can you read about? Of course, we covered Greta Thunberg. Governments and waste? Oh yes! The difficulty of saying 'No' when in a romantic encounter. A little military history with the Battle of Halbe.

Avescope is back with our amazingly scary THIRD issue! With amazing fiction from Anike Kirsten and Guendolen Jacobs! Art from Joanna Hatton, (our brilliant cover is one of hers!) Justine Oh Me, Blackbird's Photography, and Catherine Jackson. Articles from Catherine Clark, David Simon, and Auguste von Osterode. LD Towers continues her serialized novel, Sal Adin!

What can you read about? Of course, we covered Greta Thunberg. Governments and waste? Oh yes! The difficulty of saying 'No' when in a romantic encounter. A little military history with the Battle of Halbe.

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And A Little Child<br />

Shall Lead Them<br />

LD Towers<br />

One would have to be living under a rock on one of the<br />

Pitcairn Islands to not have heard about Greta Thunberg and<br />

her speech to the UN on September 23, 2019. “How dare you!”<br />

she railed in a young, quavering voice. We, adults, have stolen<br />

her future. We have turned to her when she should be in<br />

school! Some call it passionate. Others call it angry. Some<br />

have even said the 16-year old Greta had a temper tantrum.<br />

What is apparent is that the slightest bit of criticism of Greta<br />

Thunberg comes with a backlash from the left. Greta triggers<br />

middle-aged men, they say. To be honest, no man is allowed<br />

to criticize Greta at all. To do so is either sexism, ageism, or<br />

plain misogyny. To talk about her health is concern trolling.<br />

To say that she is being exploited is sacrilege. If you are made<br />

uncomfortable by Greta, you are the problem. You are a<br />

climate change DENIALIST! Off with your head, polluting<br />

scum!<br />

Greta is the Swedish climate Artemis. Joan of Arc for the<br />

environment. She has come down to harangue the foolish,<br />

greedy adults of the world into doing something about the<br />

impending environmental catastrophe that is pollution. With<br />

the sole exceptions of her being both caucasian and cisgendered,<br />

she’s about as perfect a spokesmodel as could be<br />

carefully crafted by… adults. One cannot help but take in her<br />

look which is, after all, straight out of Norman Rockwell. 16<br />

years old, but she doesn’t look 16. One doesn’t see a female on<br />

the cusp of womanhood as most 16-year-olds are. No. Greta<br />

looks like she’s about 12 and about as wholesome as it gets.<br />

As for Greta herself, I believe that she’s sincere. Most people<br />

that I’ve met with Asperger’s syndrome tend to be. I<br />

personally have no ill will towards her. I believe that she is<br />

doing what she thinks is best. For both children and people<br />

with Aspergers, the world is a very black and white place. My<br />

issue is, who is behind Greta? Because as with so many<br />

suddenly famous child activists, there is always someone<br />

pulling the strings.<br />

The story of Greta, on the face of it, is of a girl who was so<br />

upset about the state of the environment that she went on a<br />

school strike during the Swedish election. While sitting alone,<br />

with her handmade sign, a man walked by on his way to<br />

work. He saw this girl, talked to her, and took her picture. So<br />

moved he was by her story, he posted about her on his<br />

Facebook account and it went viral. Instant celebrity.<br />

Suddenly everyone in Sweden was reading about Greta and<br />

her stand for the planet.<br />

Who was this amazing man with so much influence? Surely<br />

the universe must have taken a hand in orchestrating this<br />

chance meeting! His name is Ingmar Rentzhog and he just<br />

happened to be the CEO of a climate platform called ‘We<br />

Don’t Have Time.’ What an amazing coincidence, has<br />

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protested Rentzhog… He had no idea that this girl would be<br />

sitting alone with her sign… yet there she was! They had never<br />

met before! Who was she and how was she just waiting<br />

there...as if by magic! It was a miracle.<br />

Except we know now that it wasn’t. Everything about Greta,<br />

with the sole exception of Greta herself, was artificially<br />

created in a ‘lab’.<br />

This isn’t just any girl. This is the daughter of a Swedish B-list<br />

celebrity. Her mother is Malena Ernmann, a well known<br />

Swedish opera singer who represented Sweden in Eurovision<br />

2009. Decorated by Swedish king Carl Gustav as a<br />

Hovsångare, or court singer, Ernmann has appeared all over<br />

the world… until her daughter convinced her that aviation<br />

travel was too hard on the environment and she should<br />

retire.<br />

Right. Really? Is that REALLY why she retired?<br />

Most opera singers retire due to the changes in their voice<br />

between 40 and 50 and Malena Ernmann is about to turn 49.<br />

Could this be the reason she gave up her career? And when<br />

she gave up her career, she wrote a book about her family<br />

called Scenes From The Heart… A book that is a best seller<br />

and has been translated into several languages. A book that<br />

used to be authored by Malena and her husband, actor<br />

Svante Thunberg (son of actor Olof Thunberg) with her<br />

picture on the cover but is now a book of shared billing with<br />

Greta, and even with Greta’s picture on the cover in some<br />

countries.<br />

We need to have our brand recognition, after all. Malena isn’t<br />

much of a celebrity outside of Sweden, let alone Europe.<br />

Hardly a Skarsgård. Must get the punters on board.<br />

People who are used to celebrity often find it very hard to<br />

give it up and that Ernmann ‘retired’ and wrote her book<br />

about climate and family, it all seems a bit pat. After all…<br />

people who want privacy don’t detail the health struggles of<br />

their children for all the world to read about. Struggles that<br />

include Greta’s Aspergers, her anxiety-induced mutism and<br />

disordered eating patterns.<br />

And what about Ingmar Rentzhog? This man who knew<br />

nothing about Greta and had no idea about who she was<br />

until he just ran into her on the street. Who knew nothing<br />

about her family. Rentzhog who just happens to be a PR<br />

specialist in climate issues. Rentzhog who wanted to create<br />

the world’s largest climate-related social media platform.<br />

It was all just a big coincidence.

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