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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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Except it wasn’t. Rentzhog had been on<br />
the stage with Ernmann at a climate<br />
conference. They were both in the<br />
climate movement. Rentzhog also didn’t<br />
just happen on Greta that day. News of<br />
her protest went out on a climate<br />
activism listserve a week before she<br />
started. This means that somehow,<br />
Greta’s ‘spontaneous’ decision to protest<br />
during the election wasn’t spontaneous.<br />
It also lends a little bit of skepticism to<br />
Greta’s statements that her parents<br />
weren’t thrilled about her activism.<br />
Unless Greta was posting about her<br />
plans in climate groups online, then it<br />
has to have been someone else…<br />
As the Greta legend exploded, so did the<br />
coffers of ‘We Don’t Have Time’.<br />
Rentzhog has been accused of using<br />
Greta’s image to raise over 1.5 million<br />
dollars for his organization and used her<br />
name and picture several times before<br />
shares were issued in his company. He<br />
even made her a member of ‘We Don’t<br />
Have Time’s youth advisory board<br />
around this time, a position she has<br />
since stepped down from.<br />
Who is behind Rentzhog? Dominic<br />
Green at Standpoint Magazine has done<br />
an amazing expose on the people<br />
behind this one girl crusade. The Cliff<br />
notes version? Best said in Green’s<br />
introductory paragraph:<br />
But the Greta phenomenon has also<br />
involved green lobbyists, PR hustlers,<br />
eco-academics, and a think-tank<br />
founded by a wealthy ex-minister in<br />
Sweden’s Social Democratic<br />
government with links to the country’s<br />
energy companies. These companies<br />
are preparing for the biggest bonanza<br />
of government contracts in history: the<br />
greening of the Western economies.<br />
Greta, whether she and her parents<br />
know it or not, is the face of their<br />
political strategy.<br />
Because in the end, it is always about<br />
money, though I find it hard to believe<br />
her parents are naively going along with<br />
all this with no expectations at all. After<br />
all, per Green’s article:<br />
On September 2, 2018, a week after<br />
Rentzhog claimed to have stumbled on<br />
Greta, Dagens Nyheter ran a long op-ed<br />
on the need to force the greening of the<br />
global economy by “bottom-up” action<br />
against national governments,<br />
including “broad social mobilization. . .<br />
reminiscent of what takes place in<br />
communities threatened by war”.<br />
Greta’s mother was one of the nine<br />
signatories.<br />
By Anders Hellberg - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,<br />
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77270098<br />
But of course, we aren’t allowed to talk<br />
about this, because to deny Greta is to<br />
deny the climate. To worry about what<br />
she is being put through by the adults<br />
around her is to be… something<br />
derogatory. We are to believe, as Greta<br />
probably believes, that her parents are<br />
just reluctant bystanders in her fame.<br />
These parents who are also encouraging<br />
their other daughter into a<br />
singing/dancing career with public<br />
performances at the age of 14. Can they<br />
be anything other than the worst in<br />
stage parents? So the world is to be<br />
directed by this seemingly accidental<br />
climate angel?<br />
This Joan of the Environment? History<br />
has shown us that when a child ‘leads’<br />
men, it doesn’t end well for the child.<br />
Let’s be honest. The leadership of the<br />
child is an illusion and it is always the<br />
powerful people behind who are pulling<br />
the strings.<br />
Joan of Arc was made the face of a<br />
movement and then utterly hung out to<br />
dry when she was no longer of any use.<br />
To be sure, her followers wrung their<br />
hands as the Maid of Orleans was taken<br />
to the stake upon which she burned, but<br />
very few of them burned beside her.<br />
Obviously, Greta Thunberg won’t be<br />
burned alive, but what will happen to<br />
her when all is said and done?<br />
When she’s no longer diminutive with a<br />
whiff of fiery urchin found on the street?<br />
When she collapses from the strain.<br />
When her anxieties and issues catch up<br />
to her?<br />
Whenever I see these young people who<br />
have been put on an impossible<br />
pedestal, I cannot help but think of a<br />
line from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s High<br />
Flying Adored. 'Don't look down, it's a<br />
long, long way to fall.’ We know Greta<br />
will fall because now she’s so high, there<br />
is literally nowhere for her to go but<br />
down…<br />
And that is a horror. One perpetrated by<br />
the people all around her who have let<br />
this happen.<br />
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