Why the Media Turned on Greta

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Try Rocket Money for free: https://rocketmoney.com/elliotsang #RocketMoney #personalfinance Let's talk about Greta Thunberg's career, from being co-opted by fake climate action organizations to separating herself as an ally of the oppressed and exhausted around the world. edited by Danae O. thumbnail by ​Danae O. Check out our Patreon, wherein we upload bonus content like previews as well as interviews with content creators and scholars from Alice Cappelle to Ajay Singh Chaudhary. Your support helps this channel stay afloat. http://patreon.com/elliotsang If you like our videos, please consider supporting us for $5 a month, which will get you access to use cool special emojis on our channel as a token of appreciation: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqpg8i6CryfkIw0uqytHsow/join Selected Bibliography Vann, Michael (2025). "The Dark Indonesia Protests Are Challenging Prabowo’s Rule." Jacobin. https://jacobin.com/2025/02/dark-indonesia-protests-youth-prabowo Crouch, David (2018). "The Swedish 15-year-old who's cutting class to fight the climate crisis." The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/01/swedish-15-year-old-cutting-class-to-fight-the-climate-crisis https://youtu.be/VFkQSGyeCWg (2019). "Start-up used teen climate activist to raise millions: Swedish paper." The Local Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20190209/start-up-used-child-climate-activist-to-raise-millions. Phases (2024). On Energy Transition Projections. Substack. https://phases.substack.com/p/on-bullshit-energy-transition-projections Alter, Charlotte et al. (2019). Greta Thunberg: TIME's 2019 Person of the Year. TIME Magazine. Meredith, Sam. (2021). "COP26 sharply criticized as the ‘most exclusionary’ climate summit ever." CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/05/cop26-sharply-criticized-as-the-most-exclusionary-climate-summit-ever.html Lederer, Katy. (2019). "COP Out." NPlusone. https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/cop-out/?highlight=climate%20united%20nations Pforzheimer, Adrian. (2020). "Driving towards a reckoning with oversized cars." https://frontiergroup.org/articles/driving-towards-reckoning-oversized-cars/ Richardson, Valerie. (2018). "Obama takes credit for U.S. oil-and-gas boom: ‘That was me, people.'" Associated Press. https://apnews.com/article/business-5dfbc1aa17701ae219239caad0bfefb2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufERA6HzP6E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otjl4rhnLPw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67lM3JHkEUQ Tyson et al. (2023). "What the data says about Americans’ views of climate change." Pew Research. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/09/what-the-data-says-about-americans-views-of-climate-change/ Singh Chaudhary, Ajay. (2024). The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World. Penguin Random House. Rozanes, Nathalie. (2024). The Gaza war is an environmental catastrophe. +972 Magazine. https://www.972mag.com/gaza-war-environmental-catastrophe/ Song: Corporate Property by Fretbound Music provided by https://bit.ly/4bZve41 Video Link: https://bit.ly/3S1A9cb 00:00 introduction 05:08 greta the savior 24:03 the fall off 45:57 be the friend that's too woke 50:00 everything is political (especially the climate) 55:02 right wing climate realism 1:02:33 speaking up still means something