A response to 'The Wrong Kind of Green: The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg'

A weary Gaia might ask herself: “With friends like wrongkindofgreen.org, who needs enemies?”

Along with the big oil funded conspiracy theories and predictable lunacy from the usual suspects on the right, including the disingenuous or insane suggestions that because Greta has blonde pigtails and there also exists Nazi propaganda featuring blonde girls with pigtails this phenomenon is a fascist attempt at world hegemony, has been this conspicuous attack from what is ostensibly the left, the people who are supposed to care about the environment (because accepting science has become political sadly).

What’s the charge? What’s the evidence that this is “manufactured" and suspect?

Greta was promoted by a Tweet by the guy who runs We Don’t Have Time. A social media business who seek to promote green busineses. And make a living doing so. That’s it.

"Those organizations and their projects which operate under false slogans of humanity in order to prop up the hierarchy of money and violence are fast becoming some of the most crucial elements of the invisible cage of corporatism, colonialism and militarism".

This is the charge. That the existential purpose of Greta and of any 'green' business is to prop up violence and so on.

This is ludicrous.

What it is really saying is we have identified capitalist energies working with this.