But there’s also a certain amount of truth in it. The question being, well, how much of it is simply being unkind and how much is the simple truth?
Greta Thunberg’s extraordinary transformation from a near-mute 11-year-old into the world’s most powerful voice on the climate crisis is revealed today by her mother.
In an emotional account, Malena Ernman describes how her daughter came to be diagnosed with autism, and how activism helped her overcome an eating disorder.
Ernman writes of the first indications that her elder daughter was unwell in extracts published in the Observer from Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis, a book by the whole Thunberg family.
How much of this is Mummy living and being famous vicariously through her daughter? My suspicion is quite a lot.
Who’d expect an opera singer to be a highly-strung flake…?
Mother-dear is starting the Mythification.. Sooner or later St.Greta must follow the path of Jeanne d’Arc and others of her ilk. So the Myth must be established before the inevitable fall.
Although I can now at least understand part of Gretchen’s unhappyness, since I can’t think of a single 17yr old sane young woman that would be happy having her mother write a book about her inner turmoils and troubles and publishing it. And by evidence of the publishing, be powerless to do something about it.
Self-publishing, yes. Plenty of attention whores in that age range, and you got Social Media as living proof. Having it done by your parents? Big No-No.
Things like this does turn the loathing I feel for the people surrounding st.Greta up a couple of notches. More proof that she’s used a a pawn by some rather ruthless people.
Greta Thundertard is annoying, but all of the adults involved in this scam are disgusting. Including Aberdonian Smeagol and his coke-fueled war on personal freedom.
The only politician who has objectively been kind to her is Donald John Trump, who treated her apocalypto rantings with the sort of amused avuncularity we used to expect from grown ups.
I’d suspect there’s a great deal more to it than that. Otherwise it would have stayed a Swedish mother & her troubled daughter & a few lines in a Swedish newspaper. There’s been some very some smart operators behind this. Good marketing.
I don’t think mummy has gained sufficient profile to support this theory.
I did note that they changed the “Greta can really see carbon dioxide with her naked eyes” to “It’s as if…”
We need to insist on a bit of honesty from the green movement soon, even if they won’t be able to bring themselves to tell us which six billion people need to be killed to save humanity. It needs to start with all that hygge heating (40% of carbon emissions) and driving to pony club and girl guides and piano lessons (17%), followed by the use of cement (8%), so no more houses to be built, and eating – eating anything, really (18%). Not virtue signalling attacks on utterly trivial contributors like air travel (<2%).
I orig thought that the Grimbergs should all be hanged.
But then I realised it is as BiS above says.
Therefore all the eco-scum and globo elite stooges behind the Grimbergs get the noose while Greeter is obliged to pull the lever.
Considering they plan to be rid of six and a half billion of us ordinary types to create their “elite” “sustainable” paradise–I think that’s fair.
I see no reason to change my prediction that Greta will commit suicide (or be Hilary’d) within five years. The clock is ticking.
Your movement is in trouble when your spox is a teenage dropout.
philip,
Her days really will be numbered, one way or another, if she comes to realise how much she has been so abused in pursuit of a scam.
Greta Thundertard is annoying, but all of the adults involved in this scam are disgusting.
+100
Nearly all youngsters are annoying at that age. I know I was, confidently full of all sorts of bullshit. Luckily I was regarded with a kindly derision, not adulation.
Greta will soon enough be responsible for the ghastliness she produces, but right now I feel sorry for her. Poor kid, doomed.
BiG,
“We need to insist on a bit of honesty from the green movement soon, even if they won’t be able to bring themselves to tell us which six billion people need to be killed to save humanity. It needs to start with all that hygge heating (40% of carbon emissions) and driving to pony club and girl guides and piano lessons (17%), followed by the use of cement (8%), so no more houses to be built, and eating – eating anything, really (18%). Not virtue signalling attacks on utterly trivial contributors like air travel ( 100 miles of range, they’ll be a huge blowback, or at a bare minimum, far, far more scrutiny of green claims.
Many of the loudest cheerleaders are some of the worst people for “eco”. I know people who live in small market towns, so work is a 40 mile round trip, every trip to the cinema is a long drive, drive one of those ugly big cars, take 3 holidays abroad (including long haul) and live in detached houses. And they’re like “well, I think Greta has the right idea” as if there’s so many worse people than them, like some yak herder in Mongolia is leaving a Hummer running all day for shits and giggles. You have a social with a security guard living in a flat on a council estate who either drives 2 miles to work, or takes the bus, has one holiday to Spain each year, and they won’t mention eco once.
If we actually did the St Greta stuff, rolled back society to the stone age, the eco twats would be the first to be hit. Not only because they’d have to lose all that stuff, live closer to town, but also all the pointless city hippies would find themselves dead as they are a productive drain. All those Guardian non-jobs depend on a thriving economy. They get away with the wank they do because people have full bellies. Government would be far leaner if there wasn’t the surplus to spend.
We should aspire to be more like our sustainable African cousins:
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/let-us-follow-the-enlightened-sustainable-ways-of-landlocked-african-death-pits/news-story/53a49f0623f39b380f750c299fea8b90
Sure they have lower life expectancy and die from preventable diseases or starvation, but they are saving the planet with their extreme poverty. How proud they must be and how much they must despise us.
Strangely though, there is a general trend for people to try and leave their wonderfully sustainable countries and travel to the least sustainable countries on the planet. Why would they want to join us in our deeply shameful existence?
So the ‘climate emergency’ is in effect a series of therapy sessions for mad child – and we have to pay.
Zactly, BoM4. Western prosperity begets Western decadence.
History repeats itself.
Is Greta on puberty blockers?
Erica Roe must be one of the greatest humans to have lived on the European continent – when young, she did a little attention-seeking on an international stage. Then she grew up and went and lived a normal modern life, which compared to any other species that has walked, is sensational stuff ( making your children and husband happy ). I hope Greta follows a similar path when she becomes an adult.
To paraphrase the meme:
“This is why they have malaria and I have internet pizza delivered to my door”
Is Greta on puberty blockers?
Anorexic teenage girls will often experience delayed puberty. I don’t know if they ‘catch up’ when they start eating again (possibly not on a Vegan diet).