There's also no hope. The small group of owners with power aka capital will continue to run the table for short term profit until they have to retreat to their luxury climate bunkers, then they'll keep ordering it to be done from those luxury climate bunkers until collapse, and the peasants will be too afraid of losing their subsistence opiates (social media, "reality" tv, fast food, literal opiates, etc) to lift so much as a pitchfork.
Which is why I respect Greta for doing what billions of us ought to be doing. She is a just person in an unjust world doing what's right in defiance of it. The tragedy is that if the world joined her in rejecting and remaking our consumerist, profiteer controlled, growth/metastasis addicted civilization, there would be hope, which is why the owners and their cheerleader sycophant peasants hate her so. She's a symbol of what could have been, humanity caring for humanity and our shared fragile habitat as a species, a sentiment the capitalists traded away a long time ago in the name of insatiable greed "rational self-interest."
"Do not go gentle into that good night... Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
-Dylan Thomas
I think that's a rather pessimistic view on things. Greta isn't alone, she's one of the more prominent figures in a global movement demanding change. A movement which is rapidly gaining momentum and effectiveness. She isn't a symbol of 'what might have been', she's a symbol of what's to come. I know that all that's happening around the world is frustrating and scary, but it's important to remain optimistic. Pessimism only benefits the status quo.
good, she's testing the legal system so others know what punishment they'll face for protesting, we already know that the first offence is likely to only result in a middling fine and here's hoping that's all the courts continue with.
Also she's a public figure now, so they can't treat her too terribly. Which means that if they treat others unfairly for the same thing, it could raise hell.
I mean, most countries are guilty of that right now, and I feel like a $200 fine for this is on the lower side (in comparison to other countries) of punishment.
I'm in the same boat, because it says 32 but I only see 16. Which is amusing because I've only blocked like two non-bots, both of which for previously trolling. Some people need to get a life lol.
Tbh I saw the streaming of when she appeared on that new extension on land that they were planning in Germany to mine more coal, were there were activists on tress with zip lines to go from tree to tree.
And like the police I think stopped so they took pictures and all that... so it's not a normal detention that's for sure as they know it wouldn't look good...