Consider Greta Thunberg and Donald Trump. Which, we might ask, is the adult in the room. Greta, who has the wisdom but no power, or Donald, who has the power but no wisdom. Greta, the teenager who knows we must listen to scientists, or Donald, the buffoon who thinks he knows better than the scientists.
For what it's worth, Greta has been chosen as Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2019, which has apparently made Donald cross. And Donald, being Donald, reacted by making unkind remarks about Greta. And Greta, being Greta, responded by wittily one-upping Donald ... all on Twitter of course.
Time states that they chose Greta because she "has succeeded in turning vague anxieties about the planet into a worldwide movement calling for global change." She has indeed. And Donald? Well, Donald has just created more vague anxieties.
So of course Greta is the adult in the room. As to Donald, I won't say he is the child in the room because that wouldn't be fair to children, most of whom are much better-behaved. Donald is yet another one of our surplus of political leaders who lack the good sense to listen to the best people we have on the worst problem we face.
Greta richly deserves to be recognized as person of the year. If there is any hope left for saving humanity from its environmental sins, she represents it.
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She does inspire us to do better, Bill, and she puts the grownups to shame. All Trump could do was make himself look small and petty. That, sadly, is what attracts his base.
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