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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAttacks on Greta Thunberg Come from a Coordinated Network of Climate Change Deniers
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/attacks-greta-thunberg-climate-deniers?fbclid=IwAR1KMc4H44p7V99c6it6lRX5Cq0XAksjKHRlJR17wsQpRzlCO5xMZ9keLbEThis piece originally appeared in DeSmog Blog. It is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.
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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.
Thats because a large subsection of the commentariat driving the abuse of Greta is part of an established network of radical free-marketeer lobby groups a network that has firm ties to the fossil fuel industry and funders of climate science denial....more
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