Greta Thunberg is the beginning of climate wars

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You wouldn’t be her for quids. She was far too young to know what she was getting into. On the one hand she’s up in lights:

On the other hand, she’s now being blamed by the child abusive right for everything from polio to the death of god.

My own view is that Greta is best observed as a cultural artifact rather than individual. She represents the future in a rising tide of youth climate change activism that will roll over everything in its path in coming decades.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.