The wall is not about money. The wall is about morality. It's the wrong thing to do. It doesn't work. It's not effective. It's the wrong thing to do and it's a waste of money.
Two hundred countries have been meeting in Poland and just barely managed to produce an agreement on how to work towards doing something about the environmental catastrophe of global warming. Greta Thunberg, a 15 year old student from Sweden, decided this wasn’t good enough. So she had a few things to say to her elders.
She has also inspired thousands of students around the world to stage walkouts on Fridays. She took inspiration from the students in Parkland, Florida affected by a mass shooting there.
At the conference Thunberg and fellow students entered holding signs that together read “12 years left.” From the CNN article:
That's a reference to the latest dire report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which says global climate targets could become impossible in just 12 years. The report says emissions need to be cut about in half by 2030, which would require a near-complete overhaul of the global energy system.Here’s a bit of Thunberg’s scolding:
You only speak of green eternal economic growth because you are too scared of being unpopular. You only talk about moving forward with the same bad ideas that got us into this mess, even when the only sensible thing to do is pull the emergency brake.
You are not mature enough to tell it like is. Even that burden you leave to us children. But I don't care about being popular. I care about climate justice and the living planet.
Our civilization is being sacrificed for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue making enormous amounts of money.
Our biosphere is being sacrificed so that rich people in countries like mine can live in luxury. It is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few.
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