Greta Thunberg effect: How a teenager inspired millions into climate action when others had failed
Most folks understand history is not about individuals but people as a group acting together
Extremely doubtful. Mass media focuses on celebrity, the modern debased variant of 'the "Great Man" hypothesis' to the exclusion of everything else. Greta is merely a spokesperson for her generation, who media and morons treat like a celebrity. Only academics and the academically minded take any note of things like 'structural history'.
This article seems stuck in the 19th Century
Hardly. Only to someone hopelessly out of touch with todays most pressing concerns.
In the end you have to decide if people were concerned about climate before she came along, or if she is a "Great Man" and has literally created the climate movement, as this article suggests.
A ridiculous false dichotomy. People were, she didn't and this article doesn't suggest she 'literally created the climate movement'. The danger for climate criminals is that's she's an effective spokeswoman.
What this shows is Thunberg's effect is to make the climate issue "small"
An ignorant insult as well as exactly the opposite of her efforts.
as in "small minds care about people, big minds care about ideas."
So caring about people, like the future generations that will be worst affected by global warming is bad? Is global warming just an 'idea' only 'big minds' can contemplate? This isn't even confused, it's dangerous nonsense.
Her success thus is in getting people to focus on the environment as a celebrity show,
No, quite the opposite. She's a young spokeswoman who is only very reluctantly thrust into the position of 'celebrity', mostly by antagonist critics posing as committed environmentalists. With such false friends she doesn't need enemies, though she does not lack those either.
because the science and complexity of the issue is beyond most folks.
This is utterly false and the payload of this weak propaganda, and this
She's a symptom of history to one side, or the founder of modern thinking in another.
is just further obscurantist nonsense.
You're desperately trying to convince readers that most peoples minds are 'too small' to think 'big ideas' like global warming, so trust your so called leaders and authorities to take care of it all. That's implicit 'great man' theory at work. They've done next to nothing substantial so far. C02 emissions are still rising. I'll listen to Greta over liars like you. *spelling
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