'I never imagined that it was going to be this big. It was like a movement waiting to happen.” 🌍⚡ 16-year-old climate activist and i-D cover star GretaThunberg is the voice of a generation. 🗣 Read Greta's interview with i-D here:
Philosopher Timothy Morton coined the term “hyperobjects” to refer to things that are a part of our lives, things that we are a part of, yet struggle to grasp. Global warming is a hyperobjectit’s a too-hot day in February in London, it’s a cyclone in Mozambique, it’s flooding in Louisiana, it’s the knowledge that half of our carbon emissions have been created in the past 25 years.
Leaning against the concrete wall that lines the Lilla Värtan is Greta herself, dressed in her signature purple puffa jacket, bright pink snow trousers and rubber boots. Her wardrobe is limited, she doesn’t want new things. She’s asked her parents not to buy her Christmas or birthday presents. Greta is small for her age, her face angelic but stern.
Greta was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome when she was a child, and she credits Asperger’s as to why she felt unable to move on the way most of us can. As Greta explained in her TED talk last year, for her, as with many on the spectrum, things are black and white. This hyperobject is simple to her: it is the biggest threat humanity has ever faced, and we have to act. “If your house is on fire you don’t sit down at the table talking about how nice you’ll build it afterwards,” she says.
Since rising to global prominence off the back of the strike movement and its growing impact, Greta has been invited to speak to politicians around the world. In the last year alone, she has made a speech at the UN’s Climate Change Conference, been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and unflinchingly called the world’s richest citizens to account at the World Economic Forum. “I got a look at how things are run and I realised we don’t have things under control.
While detractors say that students just like an excuse to skip school, if you talk to the kids who’ve joined the strike it’s clear that they are deeply concerned about their future, and frustrated by their lack of power and inability to vote. This is the generation that is starting to really feel the ecological trauma, who will live through it. They’ve been born into an era of profound eco-anxiety, and they’re not able to push it to the back of their minds as generations before them have.
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