Carola Rackete against Greta Thunberg: "We cannot leave children with certain responsibilities"

Envy is a green eyed monster, even when dealing with green issues. He knows it well Carola Rackete, the champion of migrants who have just reconverted to the defense of the environment: since Salvini is no longer there, he must have realized that it is no longer worthwhile to have politics on the skin of immigrants but it gives more visibility to preach against global warming. Except that that place is already occupied, that battle is already carried out by someone else: a famous girl named Greta who is half the age of Carola but twice the success. And this must annoy the Sea Watch commander a little, and fuel that competition or jealousy between women who never misses an opportunity to surface. And so, interviewed yesterday by Il Venerdì di Repubblica, Rackete brings out her critical point of view on the very young Swedish activist.

Yes, "he has very great merits," he explains, but "we cannot leave it to the children either teenagers have certain responsibilities. I hope that in the end it will be the adults who take action ". And again: «Fridays for Future has only one leader, Greta. In movements it is better to have more than one representative ». In one fell swoop, Carola gives Greta the little girl and the self-centered woman, one who claims to do everything by herself without being able to do it, while in the world "there are some amazing kids who are organizing protests, and nobody is talking about". Ah jealousy jealousy.

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It is evident that Carola also says this for personal interests, to be self-accredited since she herself is now building her profile as an activist on the role of witness of the environmental alarm. Thanks to his image of heroin, save-refugees are already traveling around the continent like a spinning top, giving lectures right and left, being invited to panels, official appointments, institutional venues. Now he intends to do the same as an environmentalist icon, promoting his book the day after tomorrow The world we want (Garzanti), almost an answer to Our house is in flames of Greta, and launching the same warning to "save the planet" that could to face a catastrophe around 2050 (a bit of originality, no, eh?).

Even on the remedies to deal with the environmental drama, Carola's recipe is identical to that of Greta. Guess what? Stop taking planes. Only that Rackete is even more drastic than the Thunberg, that is, it does not limit itself to making global appeals, to suggesting policies to states and the powerful, but it claims to be able to interfere in personal freedom. To be interviewed and to promote her book, for example, she forced the journalist on Friday to undertake a thirteen-forty-eight hour Rome-Vienna journey by train, so that she would not take the plane, which she considered too polluting. When it is said to respect the right to other people's self-determination And again, Carola demands that in the medium term all the planes be emptied, the routes are halved and the same airlines fail, realizing that that business is not "more convenient".

To this end, starting to use the Noi as the Magician Otelma, Carola prophesies: "In the world that we want the planes will be used very little, and never to go on vacation. Today there are those who fly from Barcelona to London over the weekend just for shopping. This should never happen again ". So let Thai resorts that live on world tourism or luxury stores frequented by international customers go down the drain. Let free trade and free movement be buried, in the name of Carola's fanaticism.

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Here it is, the environmental totalitarianism that not only limits individual freedom but hopes for the failure of an entire system thanks to which millions of people live and work. It is the ideology that claims to assert itself regardless of human costs, considered negligible collateral effects, as in the worst dictatorships of the past. Too bad, however, there are two contradictions not just. Carola tries to prevent everyone from moving as they wish, but she allows a few (migrants) to move where they can't. Violating territorial waters and international standards. And again: she is fiercely opposed to air travel, but she forgets that ship movements – of which she is the protagonist, being captain of a boat – are more polluting than those on rubber. However, it can be seen that the pollution of NGO ships is good and right and does not impact on the health of the planet. That the trafficking of human beings is the only form of mobility allowed for Carola?

by Gianluca Veneziani