Attacks on Greta Thunberg Are About More Than Anti-Environmentalism
“Freak yachting accidents do happen…”
That was how British businessman, Trump ally, and Brexit bankroller Arron Banks
responded to the news that Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen who
inspired the school climate strikes movement, was sailing to America to
attend the UN Climate Action Summit. His scorn was not unique.
Many people have already spilled thousands of words of commentary explaining how personal attacks on Greta — often lobbed by old white men,
sometimes mocking her Aspergers — are unacceptable. But understanding
where those attackers come from, ideologically and professionally, casts
an important light on some of their dark statements.