Time magazine’s person of the year is Greta Thunberg: a worthy recipient, I reckon. For a 16-year-old girl on the autistic spectrum, thrust into the limelight, she has handled herself with great dignity. She implores people to listen: not to her, but to the scientific consensus building up around the issue of climate change. She speaks up… then disappears back into the crowd.
She’s certainly piqued Donald Trump, whose sarcastic tweets serve only to demean the office of president. After her speech to the UN General Assembly, he tweeted: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!” After she had received the honour from Time - an honour which Trump no doubt expected to come his way - he tweeted: “Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!”
On both occasions Greta simply changed her Twitter ‘handle’, which currently reads: “A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend.” I’m not sure why the most powerful man in the world feels obliged to mock a young girl; I just know that her responses are pitch-perfect. Go, Greta, go!…
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