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And mankind rekindles the eternal fire, said the prophetess. He cherishes and protects it, so that the climate calms down and the water can no longer overflow the shores and man and animals can live without fear under God's warming sun.
Greta Thunberg has commented on nuclear power. "Atomic energy can be a small part of a new carbon-free energy solution," she wrote a few days ago on the announcement platform Facebook. "Even if nuclear energy is very dangerous, expensive and time-consuming, it is above all countries and regions without great opportunities for renewable energy sources that can benefit from nuclear energy."
Do you have to take Thunberg's commitment to nuclear energy seriously? Absolutely. Katrin Göring-Eckardt, the woman who speaks to the bees, has just confirmed that she is a prophetess. In a speech in the Protestant Salvatorkirche in Duisburg, the group leader of the Green Greta Thunberg compared with Amos, the first prophet whose words are handed down in writing, and who proclaimed his contemporaries a terrible criminal court, they should not convert to a godly life.
It remains to be seen whether the eco-movement will follow the words of the prophetess Greta. With the atomic power it is known in this country to quarrel, it is regarded as devil's stuff. But what is the Prophet worth, whose messages are being blown away? Not much, I would say. That the prophecy occasionally turns out to be dark or contradictory lies in the nature of things. The Savior also gave his disciples a lot to do. Over some of his sentences, scholars are still racking their heads.
The rise of Greta Thunberg has triggered an enthusiasm that borders on salvation. The religious element, which also expresses itself icono-visually, has been registered early by attentive observers. There is the earnest gaze reflecting the suffering of the world; the woolen cap drawn in the forehead, which corresponds to the social coldness that tries to defy it; the tender body that better suits a child than a young woman; the indication of the diseases as the equivalent of the wound.
Petra Kelly, the mythical founding figure of the environmental movement, claims to have found her sister's ecumenism due to her sister's cancer death. What was cancer with Kelly is the autism at Thunberg, which makes her see things more clearly than others.
You can scoff at the religious dimension, but that does not change the fact that thousands in Thunberg see a figure of biblical power. Göring-Eckardt spoke of the "miracle of engagement" in Duisburg, that sums it up well. The unbelievers accuse the Swedish student that her arguments are unreasonable enough to make the world rescue proposals too simplistic, that the apocalyptic tone is exaggerated - that is all that goes beyond the core of their message. From Thunberg does not speak the language of politics, but the language of the heart. That's why it's far superior to politics.
"Scenes from the heart: Our life for the climate," is the title of the book by the Thunberg family, whose German edition of Fischer-Verlag advertised this week in an ad-hoc press release. Scoffers would say that the climate is indestructible, no matter how hard the individual may be. But even that would mean missing the point.
You only have to take a look at the blurb and you realize that it is not a non-fiction book, but a Passion story. "How Greta first heard about climate change and could not stop thinking about it," the announcement said. "How she convinces her little sister Beata and her parents to fight for the climate, how the parents decide not to fly anymore."
It would be nonsensical to reproach their enthusiasm for the youth gathering on the streets and squares of the Republic on Fridays. Every generation knows charismatic Redeemer figures whom they worship. Forty years ago, youth in the West put their hearts to an Argentine doctor's son who stylized himself as a new Jesus in the jungle war against imperialism. Others sought salvation in Esalen, Poona or the Palestinian training camps for armed struggle. Messianism has since become an integral part of youth movements, it only changes its appearance.
What makes the Thunberg Movement so special is the ecstasy of people whose job description it is to keep a cool head. Anyone following the media coverage of "Fridays for Future" must realize that the line between reporting and heart-pouring is fluid. Some Twitteraccounting colleagues write the same fanpage: Every Tweet a rosary, every retweet a blessing.
Woe to him who makes fun! Suffice it to say that on the occasion of the nomination of Thunberg Nobel Peace Prize, that such nominations sometimes completely unsuitable candidates can make, last year, for example, allegedly Donald Trump. You might as well reveal a weakness for the seal hunt. How broken and sick must be people who write something, it says in response.
My view of journalism is decidedly different. I would always say journalists' job is not encouragement or encouragement, even if it suspects you of being cold and heartless. But that's obviously a matter of taste. In times when the sign of notable journalism is "attitude", journalists must be seen as a fan as a consistent continuation of the media man as an activist.