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Greta Thunberg
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After often engaging in verbal duels with all sorts of personalities in the name of her sacred goal, Greta Thunberg proved that even the power of the Chinese state media cannot shock her, a Sky News article quoted by dir.bg claims.
The climate activist tweeted a link to a story detailing the article on the China Daily website, saying: “Being ashamed of the Chinese state media is a rather strange experience even by my standards. But it will definitely be on my resume.”
Given the specifics of the Chinese language and culture, this verbal duel is interesting with some nuances.
In the article, Thunberg is called the “Princess of the Environment” and mocking comments are made about her weight after she called on China to do more to reduce its emissions.
“Although she claims to be vegan, judging by the results of her growth, her carbon footprint is not small,” said writer Tang Ge, who initially posted the article on social media before China Daily published it.
He also accused her of having “double standards” in accusations against China, but did not criticize the European and American way of life – “the way of life that pollutes the Earth the most”.
The article says the 18-year-old has become an “idol of many young people”, with the BBC producing a documentary “to tell the story of the saint for the environment with a pious voice, as if in worship”. .
The University of Winchester, which erected a bronze statue of Thunberg, was also criticized.
The author claims: “The princess has never planted a tree or even a piece of grass in the desert.
“Instead, she ran around. She held a lot of protest posters that polluted the environment.”
The song was written in response to Greta’s announcement in an article saying that China’s annual emissions for the first time exceed those of all developed countries combined for 2019.
Greta acknowledges that China is a developing country under the terms of the World Trade Organization, but said “this is no excuse for destroying future and current living conditions.”
“We cannot resolve the climate crisis unless China drastically changes its course,” she added in a previous statement.
The activist then tweeted a show showing emissions from the world’s most developed countries, showing the United States moving forward (in acronyms).
“Developed nations need to lead so that others can raise their standard of living. As I say all the time,” she added.
Earlier, the teenager infuriated China by advocating for Democratic activist from Hong Kong Joshua Wong several times.
Chinese social media users accused her in 2020 of “falling in love with the PR stunt of Hong Kong secessionist Joshua Wong” after “blindly” joining his demand for China’s release of 12 imprisoned protesters.
China is not Thunberg’s only big target. She was also known for her verbal skirmishes with Trump while he was president of the United States.
Recently, in April, she changed her Twitter biography to “embracing bunnies” after Boris Johnson used the phrase to try to convince environmentalists that it should not be “some expensive, politically correct green act of a bunny hug “.
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