The saga of "The Great Greta" continues ...
"Thunny" honey:
Where are you when we need you?
You never meet with the government leaders of India or China whose "carbon footprints" way exceed those of most other countries.
And your efforts are focused solely on governments and industries and their environmental indiscretions, but not on the acts of individual citizens committing environmental atrocities of their own.
Next time you're in New York City head down to the platform of a MTA subway station and stake out the activity transpiring there.
Upon observing anything unsavory----like, for example, some uncultured uncouth slob pig wolfing down a bag of Cheetos and guzzling a can of soda pop who then throws the bag and can off the platform right onto the tracks without even the slightest compunction
....walk right up to that person and lean into them full-force about their "lack of accountability" and the detrimental effects such behavior has, especially when multiplied repeatedly and exponentially.
...or stroll down Wall Street or Park Avenue and accost everyone you witness throwing cigarette butts onto the sidewalk and grass. Cigarette butts leave quite a "carbon footprint" of their own.
We need you to do this and be our spokesperson as we don't dare ever take on this challenge ourselves, as we are but "average" folk with no clout or authority, and stand to get shanked, or pummelled (a.k.a.: get out heads kicked in or beaten to a pulp)
...and the police are no help to us either---they'd simply arrest US for "engaging in talk or acts known to incite violent behavior in others" (in the U.S. doing or saying anything that "offends another" is considered the worst thing a person can do. Well, maybe the SECOND "worst thing" a person can do----right behind anything involving genitals or any type of candid expression of one's sexual desires in a public setting).
....but you could take on this challenge, being that you are a high-profile individual, and that you'd simply be "extending your international environmental crusade".
You wouldn't have to fear arrest the same way we would, given that the whole world is already aware of your agenda----and if any thug type stabs, shoots, or beats the crap out of you, well ....no problem! The authorities would go out of their way to use whatever resources they have available to track down the culprits, and the chances of their being caught would be that much greater, given your value to the world and the fact that "all eyes of the world would be on them". High-profile celebrity types always have a better chance at obtaining justice from the world.
In short:
Your world-wide status enables you to do what most of us don't dare, to "fill in the gaps" of whatever modicum of social justice there is left in the world.
"Thunny" honey:
Where are you when we need you?
You never meet with the government leaders of India or China whose "carbon footprints" way exceed those of most other countries.
And your efforts are focused solely on governments and industries and their environmental indiscretions, but not on the acts of individual citizens committing environmental atrocities of their own.
Next time you're in New York City head down to the platform of a MTA subway station and stake out the activity transpiring there.
Upon observing anything unsavory----like, for example, some uncultured uncouth slob pig wolfing down a bag of Cheetos and guzzling a can of soda pop who then throws the bag and can off the platform right onto the tracks without even the slightest compunction
....walk right up to that person and lean into them full-force about their "lack of accountability" and the detrimental effects such behavior has, especially when multiplied repeatedly and exponentially.
...or stroll down Wall Street or Park Avenue and accost everyone you witness throwing cigarette butts onto the sidewalk and grass. Cigarette butts leave quite a "carbon footprint" of their own.
We need you to do this and be our spokesperson as we don't dare ever take on this challenge ourselves, as we are but "average" folk with no clout or authority, and stand to get shanked, or pummelled (a.k.a.: get out heads kicked in or beaten to a pulp)
...and the police are no help to us either---they'd simply arrest US for "engaging in talk or acts known to incite violent behavior in others" (in the U.S. doing or saying anything that "offends another" is considered the worst thing a person can do. Well, maybe the SECOND "worst thing" a person can do----right behind anything involving genitals or any type of candid expression of one's sexual desires in a public setting).
....but you could take on this challenge, being that you are a high-profile individual, and that you'd simply be "extending your international environmental crusade".
You wouldn't have to fear arrest the same way we would, given that the whole world is already aware of your agenda----and if any thug type stabs, shoots, or beats the crap out of you, well ....no problem! The authorities would go out of their way to use whatever resources they have available to track down the culprits, and the chances of their being caught would be that much greater, given your value to the world and the fact that "all eyes of the world would be on them". High-profile celebrity types always have a better chance at obtaining justice from the world.
In short:
Your world-wide status enables you to do what most of us don't dare, to "fill in the gaps" of whatever modicum of social justice there is left in the world.
I know I'm going to be shot for saying this but I still have an issue being told what to do by a bad tempered teenager. I think maybe it's because I went through that stage with my daughters and don't feel the need to go through it again with someone else's. Although I know she's trying to save the planet.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't really all that serious when I wrote this article.
ReplyDeleteIt's more of a commentary on "status" and "credibility" than anything.