Greta Thunberg (klimataktivist)

“We’re in a climate emergency, and my foundation will as quickly as possible donate all the prize money of one million euros to support organisations and projects that are fighting for a sustainable world.”
Greta

Greta’s fight to save the Earth has all the characteristics of a good religious story. As in Christianity, the Messiah comes in the form of a child. In her UN speech, Greta condemns the world leaders in the manner of Biblical "woe to you" (Mt 23: 13-32). The narrative portrays Greta as a sacrificial lamb, a child which will be sacrificed for the salvation of mankind, similar to Prophet Isaiah's Servant of God "despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain" (Isa 53, 3).

The story has also other important religious elements, such as cardinal sins – polluting, emitting CO2 etc., as well as redemptive actions, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other "climate-friendly" policies. Greta starts her mission alone, no one is with her in the first days of strike ("There was no room for them in the inn", Lk 2: 7), but soon she gathers first followers (The Twelve) and spreads the movement. The followers quickly got the religious point and in the protests they carry icon-like painting of Greta with the halo around her head, in which it reads ”Our house is on fire", similar to the Biblical ”Look, your house is left to you desolate" (Mt 2" 38).

The form of Great Thunberg’s protest is familiar to any student of medieval Europe, the civilisation that produced the Children’s Crusade and Joan of Arc. The content of her protest is a deliquescence of Protestantism into narcissistic terror.
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Environmentalism is for rich white people, and so is life without religion. ‘The eyes of all future generations are upon you,’ Greta threatens. ‘And if you choose to fail us, I say we will never forgive you.’ This is prophetic, and pathetic too, in its faithless Lutheranism and reverse predestination.

The visionary child speaks on behalf of every unborn generation. She knows what the future will say, and who will be saved and who will be damned in memory. If only she could apply it to something useful, like prognosticating the result of the Kentucky Derby and using the proceeds to build a vast geodetic dome so that the elect could survive in a benign microclimate while the sinners wheel their recycling bins to the lip of the burning pit, then climb in and tip themselves into the flames.