everyone's favorite 16 year old climate autist spergs out a novel on social media and literally says "autism is my strength"

17  2019-09-25 by Sea_Safer

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Recently Iā€™ve seen many rumors circulating about me and enormous amounts of hate. This is no surprise to me. I know that since most people are not aware of the full meaning of the climate crisis (which is understandable since it has never been treated as a crisis) a school strike for the climate would seem very strange to people in general. So let me make some things clear about my school strike.

In may 2018 I was one of the winners in a writing competition about the environment held by Svenska Dagbladet, a Swedish newspaper. I got my article published and some people contacted me, among others was Bo ThorĆ©n from Fossil Free Dalsland. He had some kind of group with people, especially youth, who wanted to do something about the climate crisis. I had a few phone meetings with other activists. The purpose was to come up with ideas of new projects that would bring attention to the climate crisis. Bo had a few ideas of things we could do. Everything from marches to a loose idea of some kind of a school strike (that school children would do something on the schoolyards or in the classrooms). That idea was inspired by the Parkland Students, who had refused to go to school after the school shootings. I liked the idea of a school strike. So I developed that idea and tried to get the other young people to join me, but no one was really interested. They thought that a Swedish version of the Zero Hour march was going to have a bigger impact. So I went on planning the school strike all by myself and after that I didnā€™t participate in any more meetings.

When I told my parents about my plans they werenā€™t very fond of it. They did not support the idea of school striking and they said that if I were to do this I would have to do it completely by myself and with no support from them. On the 20 of august I sat down outside the Swedish Parliament. I handed out fliers with a long list of facts about the climate crisis and explanations on why I was striking. The first thing I did was to post on Twitter and Instagram what I was doing and it soon went viral. Then journalists and newspapers started to come. A Swedish entrepreneur and business man active in the climate movement, Ingmar Rentzhog, was among the first to arrive. He spoke with me and took pictures that he posted on Facebook. That was the first time I had ever met or spoken with him. I had not communicated or encountered with him ever before.

Many people love to spread rumors saying that I have people ā€behind meā€ or that Iā€™m being ā€paidā€ or ā€usedā€ to do what Iā€™m doing. But there is no one ā€behindā€ me except for myself. My parents were as far from climate activists as possible before I made them aware of the situation. I am not part of any organization. I sometimes support and cooperate with several NGOs that work with the climate and environment. But I am absolutely independent and I only represent myself. And I do what I do completely for free, I have not received any money or any promise of future payments in any form at all. And nor has anyone linked to me or my family done so. And of course it will stay this way. I have not met one single climate activist who is fighting for the climate for money. That idea is completely absurd. Furthermore I only travel with permission from my school and my parents pay for tickets and accommodations.

My family has written a book together about our family and how me and my sister Beata have influenced my parents way of thinking and seeing the world, especially when it comes to the climate. And about our diagnoses. That book was due to be released in May. But since there was a major disagreement with the book company, we ended up changing to a new publisher and so the book was released in august instead. Before the book was released my parents made it clear that their possible profits from the book ā€Scener ur hjƤrtatā€ will be going to 8 different charities working with environment, children with diagnoses and animal rights.

And yes, I write my own speeches. But since I know that what I say is going to reach many, many people I often ask for input. I also have a few scientists that I frequently ask for help on how to express certain complicated matters. I want everything to be absolutely correct so that I donā€™t spread incorrect facts, or things that can be misunderstood.

Some people mock me for my diagnosis. But Asperger is not a disease, itā€™s a gift. People also say that since I have Asperger I couldnā€™t possibly have put myself in this position. But thatā€™s exactly why I did this. Because if I would have been ā€normalā€ and social I would have organized myself in an organisation, or started an organisation by myself. But since I am not that good at socializing I did this instead. I was so frustrated that nothing was being done about the climate crisis and I felt like I had to do something, anything. And sometimes NOT doing things - like just sitting down outside the parliament - speaks much louder than doing things. Just like a whisper sometimes is louder than shouting.

Also there is one complaint that I ā€sound and write like an adultā€. And to that I can only say; donā€™t you think that a 16-year old can speak for herself? Thereā€™s also some people who say that I oversimplify things. For example when I say that "the climate crisis is a black and white issueā€, ā€we need to stop the emissions of greenhouse gasesā€ and ā€I want you to panicā€. But that I only say because itā€™s true. Yes, the climate crisis is the most complex issue that we have ever faced and itā€™s going to take everything from our part to ā€stop itā€. But the solution is black and white; we need to stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. Because either we limit the warming to 1,5 degrees C over pre industrial levels, or we donā€™t. Either we reach a tipping point where we start a chain reaction with events way beyond human control, or we donā€™t. Either we go on as a civilization, or we donā€™t. There are no gray areas when it comes to survival. And when I say that I want you to panic I mean that we need to treat the crisis as a crisis. When your house is on fire you donā€™t sit down and talk about how nice you can rebuild it once you put out the fire. If your house is on fire you run outside and make sure that everyone is out while you call the fire department. That requires some level of panic.

There is one other argument that I canā€™t do anything about. And that is the fact that Iā€™m ā€just a child and we shouldnā€™t be listening to children.ā€ But that is easily fixed - just start to listen to the rock solid science instead. Because if everyone listened to the scientists and the facts that I constantly refer to - then no one would have to listen to me or any of the other hundreds of thousands of school children on strike for the climate across the world. Then we could all go back to school. I am just a messenger, and yet I get all this hate. I am not saying anything new, I am just saying what scientists have repeatedly said for decades. And I agree with you, Iā€™m too young to do this. We children shouldnā€™t have to do this. But since almost no one is doing anything, and our very future is at risk, we feel like we have to continue.

And if you have any other concern or doubt about me, then you can listen to my TED talk ( https://www.ted.com/talks/greta_thunberg_the_disarming_case_to_act_right_now_on_climate/up-next ), in which I talk about how my interest for the climate and environment began.

And thank you everyone for you kind support! It brings me hope. /Greta Ps I was briefly a youth advisor for the board of the non profit foundation ā€œWe donā€™t have timeā€. It turns out they used my name as part of another branch of their organisation that is a start up business. They have admitted clearly that they did so without the knowledge of me or my family. I no longer have any connection to ā€œWe donā€™t have timeā€. Nor has anyone in my family. They have deeply apologised and I have accepted their apology.

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Sheā€™s a good person and deserves praise but I ainā€™t even gonna read a tenth of that long ass gay essay

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First comment says she hung up on some activist leader saying ā€œthey werenā€™t radical enoughā€. Could Climate Swede become the Eco-Fascist girl Hitler of the 21st century?

Eww

ā€œI have not profited off thisā€

ā€œMy parents book dealā€

This female pizza shill is formidable, but lack self awareness

"I'm totally not trying to turn this into a career" -every career activist

The money is going to charity

It should be noted that Iā€™ve upvoted every single person whoā€™s disagreed with me here, as far as I know. That said. In 7th grade, I took an SAT test without preparing for it at all, it was spur-of-the-moment, I knew about it about an hour ahead of time and didnā€™t do any research or anything. I scored higher on it than the average person using it to apply for college in my area. An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and theyā€™d consider it to be within the margin of error for that test. My motherā€™s boyfriend of 8 years is an aerospace engineer who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 15, I understand physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. Heā€™s not particularly successful as an engineer, but Iā€™ve met lots of other engineers who arenā€™t as good as me at physics, so Iā€™m guessing thatā€™s not just a result of him being bad at it. Iā€™m also pretty good at engineering. I donā€™t have a degree, and other than physics I donā€™t have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented regenerative brakes before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight years old when I started inventing wireless electricity solutions (my first idea being to use a powerful infrared laser to transmit energy; admittedly not the best plan). I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy Iā€™ve come across. Every question of existentialism which Iā€™ve seen discussed in SMBC or xkcd or Reddit or anywhere else, the thoughts havenā€™t been new to me. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me; Iā€™ve considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is. Psychology, I actually understand better than people with degrees. Unlike engineering, thereā€™s no aspect of psychology which I donā€™t have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freudā€™s theories. Iā€™m a good enough writer that Iā€™m writing a book and so far everybody whoā€™s read any of it has said it was really good and plausible to expect to have published. And thatā€™s not just, like, me and family members, that counts strangers on the Internet. Iā€™ve heard zero negative appraisal of it so far; people have critiqued it, but not insulted it. I donā€™t know if that will suffice as evidence that Iā€™m intelligent. Iā€™m done with it, though, because Iā€™d rather defend my maturity, since itā€™s what youā€™ve spent the most time attacking. The following are some examples of my morals and ethical code. I believe firmly that everybody deserves a future. If we were to capture Hitler at the end of WWII, I would be against executing him. In fact, if we had any way of rehabilitating him and knowing that he wasnā€™t just faking it, Iā€™d even support the concept of letting him go free. This is essentially because I think that whoever you are in the present is a separate entity from who you were in the past and who you are in the future, and while your present self should take responsibility for your past selfā€™s actions, it shouldnā€™t be punished for them simply for the sake of punishment, especially if the present self regrets the actions of the past self and feels genuine guilt about them. I donā€™t believe in judgement of people based on their personal choices as long as those personal choices arenā€™t harming others. I donā€™t have any issue with any type of sexuality whatsoever (short of physically acting out necrophilia, pedophilia, or other acts which have a harmful affect on others - but I donā€™t care what a personā€™s fantasies consist of, as long as they recognize the difference between reality and fiction and can separate them). I donā€™t have any issue with anybody over what type of music they listen to, or clothes they wear, etc. I know thatā€™s not really an impressive moral, but itā€™s unfortunately rare; a great many people, especially those my age, are judgmental about these things. I love everyone, even people I hate. I wish my worst enemies good fortune and happiness. Rick Perry is a vile, piece of shit human being, deserving of zero respect, but I wish for him to change for the better and live the best life possible. I wish this for everyone. Iā€™m pretty much a pacifist. Iā€™ve taken a broken nose without fighting back or seeking retribution, because the guy stopped punching after that. The only time Iā€™ll fight back is if 1) the person attacking me shows no signs of stopping and 2) if I donā€™t attack, Iā€™ll come out worse than the other person will if I do. In other words, if fighting someone is going to end up being more harmful to them than just letting them go will be to me, I donā€™t fight back. Iā€™ve therefore never had a reason to fight back against anyone in anything serious, because my ability to take pain has so far made it so that Iā€™m never in a situation where Iā€™ll be worse off after a fight. If Iā€™m not going to get any hospitalizing injuries, I really donā€™t care. The only exception is if someone is going after my life. Even then, Iā€™ll do the minimum amount of harm to them that I possibly can in protecting myself. If someone points a gun at me and I can get out of it without harming them, Iā€™d prefer to do that over killing them. I consider myself a feminist. I donā€™t believe in enforced or uniform gender roles; they may happen naturally, but they should never be coerced into happening unnaturally. As in, the societal pressure for gender roles should really go, even if itā€™ll turn out that the majority of relationships continue operating the same way of their own accord. I treat women with the same outlook I treat men, and never participate in the old Reddit ā€œwomen are crazyā€ circlejerk, because there are multiple women out there and each have different personalities just like there are multiple men out there and each with different personalities. I donā€™t think you do much of anything except scare off the awesome women out there by going on and on about the ones who arenā€™t awesome. That doesnā€™t mean I look for places to victimize women, I just donā€™t believe itā€™s fair to make generalizations such as the one about women acting like everythingā€™s OK when itā€™s really not (and thatā€™s a particularly harsh example, because all humans do that). Iā€™m kind of tired of citing these examples and Iā€™m guessing youā€™re getting tired of reading them, if youā€™ve even made it this far. In closing, the people who know me in real life all respect me, as do a great many people in the Reddit brony community, where I spend most of my time and where Iā€™m pretty known for being helpful around the community. A lot of people in my segment of the community are depressed or going through hard times, and I spend a lot of time giving advice and support to people there. Yesterday someone quoted a case of me doing this in a post asking everyone what their favorite motivational/inspirational quote was, and that comment was second to the top, so I guess other people agreed (though, granted, it was a pretty low-traffic post, only about a dozen competing comments). And, uh, Iā€™m a pretty good moderator. All that, and I think your behavior in this thread was totally assholish. So what do you think, now that you at least slightly know me?

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When I told my parents about my plans they werenā€™t very fond of it. They did not support the idea of school striking and they said that if I were to do this I would have to do it completely by myself and with no support from them.

A Swedish entrepreneur and business man active in the climate movement, Ingmar Rentzhog, was among the first to arrive.

And I do what I do completely for free, I have not received any money or any promise of future payments in any form at all.

My family has written a book together about our family and how me and my sister Beata have influenced my parents way of thinking and seeing the world, especially when it comes to the climate. And about our diagnoses. That book was due to be released in May. But since there was a major disagreement with the book company, we ended up changing to a new publisher and so the book was released in august instead. Before the book was released my parents made it clear that their possible profits from the book ā€Scener ur hjƤrtatā€ will be going to 8 different charities working with environment, children with diagnoses and animal rights.

Furthermore I only travel with permission from my school and my parents pay for tickets and accommodations.

Hmm.

what kind of 16 yr old types or talks like this?

One who has the insight needed to lead our generation forward. It's unfortunate that she could never be President of the United States but there's a place at the UN for her.

zoomers, smh

Why doesn't the US make her a citizen and pit her against AOC?

She and AOC agree on the need to breathe in 2021.

Climate change is a good thing cmv