"Over the weekend, climate change activists associated with teen Greta Thunberg's Climate Strike movement took to the streets, demanding "action" on climate.
On Monday, climate activists tried to "Shut Down DC," resulting in more carbon emissions as cars stall in worse traffic. Even climate activists have denounced the Climate Strike manifesto as extreme and useless, but Thunberg herself may be very useful to a certain type of climate financier.
Standpoint magazine's Dominic Green revealed the corporate financiers and the Climate-Industrial Complex that stands to gain from Thunberg's activism.
"The Greta phenomenon has also involved green lobbyists, PR hustlers, eco-academics, and a think-tank founded by a wealthy ex-minister in Sweden’s Social Democratic government with links to the country’s energy companies.
These companies are preparing for the biggest bonanza of government contracts in history: the greening of the Western economies. Greta, whether she and her parents know it or not, is the face of their political strategy," he wrote.
Thunberg became a viral sensation on August 20, 2018, when she launched a one-girl "school strike" at the Swedish parliament. Ingmar Rentzhog, founder of the social media platform We Have No Time, happened to be passing by, or so the story goes. Rentzhog
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posted Thunberg's photo on his Facebook page and the newspaper Dagens Nyheter picked up the story.
Yet the Swedish teen's viral moment was far more orchestrated than this official version of events. While Rentzhog insisted that he "did not know Greta or Greta's parents" before the Parliament protest, he later admitted to meeting Thunberg's mother, Malena Ernman, "3-4 months before everything started."
He had shared a stage with Ernman at the Climate Parliament conference. He was also tipped off about the teen's protest at the Swedish parliament — informed "the week before" by climate activist Bo Thorén, leader of the Fossil Free Dalsland group.
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In February 2018, Thorén and other activists strategized about getting young people involved. In May, after Thunberg took second prize in an environmental op-ed writing competition, Thorén approached the competition winners with a plan for a "school strike" — modeled after the gun control protest after the shootings in Parkland, Fla.
Only Thunberg was interested.
The teen's decision to launch the protest coincided with the publication of Scenes from the Heart, her parents' memoir about how climate activism had saved their family. Svante Thunberg, the teen's father, is an actor, and Ernman is an opera singer. Their prominence made their teen daughter an ideal face for the climate movement.
As Green noted, Rentzhog "combined Thorén’s plan and Malena Ernman’s musical fame with Greta’s uncanny charisma and We Have No Time’s mailing list, he turned Greta into a viral celebrity."
The man who launched Greta Thunberg was trained by Al Gore:
Trained by Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, Rentzhogset up We Don’t Have Time in late 2017 to “hold leaders and companies accountable for climate change” by leveraging “the power of social media”. Rentzhog and his CEO David Olsson have backgrounds in finance, not environmental activism, Rentzhog as the founder of Laika, an investment relations company, and Olsson with Svenska Bostadsfonden, one of Sweden’s biggest real estate funds, whose board Rentzhog joined in June 2017. We Don’t Have Time’s investors included Gustav Stenbeck, whose family control Kinnevik, one of Sweden’s largest investment corporations.
In May 2018, Rentzhog and Olsson became chairman and board member of Global Utmaning (Global Challenge), a climate think tank. Kristina Persson, Global Challenge's founder, is an heir to an industrial fortune, a career trade unionist, and a Social Democrat politician. She previously served as deputy governor of Sweden's central bank.
"Whatever Greta or her parents know or think, her eco-mob increases the likelihood of legislation and investment that will make colossal profits for people like Global Challenge, We Don’t Have Time and Sustainable Energy Angels," Green concluded. "For Sweden’s energy titans, saving the planet means government contracts to print the green stuff."
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