“With your oat milk lattes and heated apartments you have abandoned every framework of civilization”: the breakdown of trust in climate youth

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Climate Greta, the twenty-year-old Swede Greta Thunberg, is for many a Nobel Prize candidate. The Friday climate strike, which was quietly started by Greta, grew into the Fridays for Future mass movement. But since Hamas’s brutal massacre in Israel on October 7, the climate kids have also commented on extremely dangerous, highly complex global politics. The slogans are followed by a loss of confidence in the young generation’s recently celebrated climate movement.

First, Greta declared solidarity with Palestine, but not with the Hamas victims. Last week, Fridays for Future shared an Instagram post that left large parts of the population surprised and stunned. The Climate Kids supported claims that the Western media is brainwashing to create solidarity with Israel. The Israeli government is an ‘apartheid regime’ committing ‘genocide’ in Palestine.

The article shows an archetypal progressive left mentality in young climate circles that only scares moderate voices. It’s clear now. The post in question was the initiative of an individual activist from Germany. Hasan Özbay, the former press spokesman for Fridays for Future in Mainz, explained to X that he had “pushed through” the distribution of the post internally. He writes: “I’m so glad it worked.” The mail? Has now been removed.

Survey: Young people take fewer climate protection measures than older people

Now the climate children are licking the wounds of the breach of trust. Because it is not only the leadership of the self-proclaimed world saviors that has made clearly anti-Semitic statements. An opinion poll among Britons now also shows that Greta Thunberg could be the voice of a generation concerned about climate change. She is also the voice of a generation that doesn’t do much about it.

Nearly 90 percent of people over 65 say they recycle as much as possible, while only half of young people say the same, writes the British ‘The Times’ in the online survey about Yougov. Accordingly, retired Britons are three times more likely than younger people to have energy saving measures installed in their homes.

“People over 65 are also more willing to reduce the number of flights they make,” the newspaper writes, “to take measures to save water, repair items, wash laundry at low temperatures and opt for a fare for renewable energy. They are also more likely to turn down the heating and turn off the lights in rooms they are not using.”

“With your oat milk lattes and heated apartments, you have left every bit of civilization behind.”

The Viennese feminist Beatrice Frasl brought up the discrepancy between the words and actions of the climate children with quiet disappointment and also anger. In the “Wiener Zeitung” Frasl asks: “What should you say when people who describe themselves as ‘progressive’ or as ‘left-wing’ do not condemn the Hamas massacre in Israel, but rather approve of it?”

“What do you say when men, intoxicated with hatred, intoxicated with a fascist ideology and doped with Captagon, mass murder, mass rape, torture, mutilating and burning people alive, beheading babies, kidnapping Holocaust survivors? “You leave me stunned,” Frasl wrote to the activists. «The limitlessness of your moral neglect is beyond belief. Neither is your stupidity.”

“We will not forget all this,” the Austrian summarizes. “We will not forget your “This is decolonization” posts. There will never be an ‘us’ with you again. There’s no turning back from here. You yourself, with oat milk lattes in one hand and your smartphone in the other, unnecessarily abandoned every semblance of civilization from your heated old apartments, with your pastel-colored Insta slides and your stupid slogans.

Source: Blick