bxr 2,180 Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 Spoiler I have received the Nordic Council’s environmental award 2019. I have decided to decline this prize. Here’s why: “I am currently traveling through California and therefore not able to be present with you today. I want to thank the Nordic Council for this award. It is a huge honour. But the climate movement does not need any more awards. What we need is for our politicians and the people in power start to listen to the current, best available science. The Nordic countries have a great reputation around the world when it comes to climate and environmental issues. There is no lack of bragging about this. There is no lack of beautiful words. But when it comes to our actual emissions and our ecological footprints per capita - if we include our consumption, our imports as well as aviation and shipping - then it’s a whole other story. In Sweden we live as if we had about 4 planets according to WWF and Global Footprint Network. And roughly the same goes for the entire Nordic region. In Norway for instance, the government recently gave a record number of permits to look for new oil and gas. The newly opened oil and natural gas-field, ”Johan Sverdrup” is expected to produce oil and natural gas for 50 years; oil and gas that would generate global CO2 emissions of 1,3 tonnes. The gap between what the science says is needed to limit the increase of global temperature rise to below 1,5 or even 2 degrees - and politics that run the Nordic countries is gigantic. And there are still no signs whatsoever of the changes required. The Paris Agreement, which all of the Nordic countries have signed, is based on the aspect of equity, which means that richer countries must lead the way. We belong to the countries that have the possibility to do the most. And yet our countries still basically do nothing. So until you start to act in accordance with what the science says is needed to limit the global temperature rise below 1,5 degrees or even 2 degrees celsius, I - and Fridays For Future in Sweden - choose not to accept the Nordic Councils environmental award nor the prize money of 500 000 Swedish kronor. Best wishes Greta Thunberg” 'The climate doesn't need awards': Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize (The Guardian) The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has refused to accept an environmental award, saying the climate movement needed people in power to start to “listen” to “science” and not awards. The young climate activist, who has rallied millions to her “Fridays for Future” movement, was honoured at a Stockholm ceremony held by the Nordic Council, a regional body for inter-parliamentary cooperation. She had been nominated for her efforts by both Sweden and Norway and won the organisation’s annual environment prize. But after it was announced, a representative for Thunberg told the audience that she would not accept the award or the prize sum of 350,000 Danish kroner (about $52,000 or €46,800), the TT news agency reported. She addressed the decision in a post on Instagram from the United States. “The climate movement does not need any more awards,” she wrote. “What we need is for our politicians and the people in power start to listen to the current, best available science.” While thanking the Nordic Council for the “huge honour”, she also criticised Nordic countries for not living up to their “great reputation” on climate issues. [ Full Story ] #mothernaturenotthebling Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lippoutou 4,657 Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 18 minutes ago, bxr said: #mothernaturenotthebling Love it I think it would fit better under the society tag tho, just a suggestion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PunkTheFunk 125,715 Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 I wonder if she'll decline the Nobel Prize (which she'll likely get) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOVEDRUG 11,274 Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 25 minutes ago, PunkTheFunk said: I wonder if she'll decline the Nobel Prize (which she'll likely get) she probably will, although it would help a lot of people take her more seriously (which they don't rn because of her age) if she was "Greta Thunberg, Nobel Peace Prize winner" "through all the tears and all the lies, i'm gonna dance until i feel alright" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judas Oyster 1,939 Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 Hm. I respect it but I'm confused as to why she didn't just accept the award. Half a million kroner she could for example use on getting her message across. Or even helping on specific causes. Or to have a personal house in the future. It's weird. If she wanted people to read her post she could have wrote she same either way if she got the award or not? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PunkTheFunk 125,715 Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 3 hours ago, Autumn said: she probably will, although it would help a lot of people take her more seriously (which they don't rn because of her age) if she was "Greta Thunberg, Nobel Peace Prize winner" Doubt it. The people who hate her will hate her even more Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice bear 1 Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 another awesome aspie ice heard one side from above Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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