The climate celeb has certainly been keeping herself busy recently. Last week, she received a €400 fine in her native Sweden for blocking the roads to and from an oil terminal. Then, the day after, she journeyed to Oslo in Norway for what might have been one of her most surprising stunts yet. The purpose of this protest? To demand the partial destruction of one of Europe’s largest wind farms.
Yes, you read that right. The climate activist was protesting against the failure of the authorities to act on a 2021 Norwegian Supreme Court judgement, which called for the dismantling of 151 wind turbines in Norway’s Fosen district, about 450km north of Oslo. This, it seems, is the new face of ‘climate action’ – demonstrating to prevent the development of wind power. To oppose not only fossil fuels, but also ‘clean’ electricity.
The turbines sit on the land of a semi-nomadic indigenous people, the Sámi, whose at least 70,000 members mostly live in Norway, but also inhabit Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula in the Russian Federation. At issue are the Sámi ancestral lands and the pastures of reindeer herders. For Greta, their rights, and those of indigenous peoples everywhere, trump humanity’s need for electricity – even if that electricity is green.
[So the lesson here is that We Are All Gunna Die Of Climate Change … but that’s secondary to indigenous-land reversals. That’s quite the priority shift, eh? And by the way, if that’s the top priority on the Left, why aren’t they demanding the return of all of Israel and Judah to the Jews, the original victims of imperial dispossession? — Ed]
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