'The climate movement does not need any more awards,' wrote Greta Thunberg. 'What we need is for our politicians and the people in power start to listen to the current, best available science.'
Photo: John Lamparski/WireImage Teen activist Greta Thunberg’s urgent organizing around climate change is far bigger than any award, and she knows it. Now if only more people in positions to sway global policy would catch on.
NBC News reported on Wednesday that the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist declined to accept an award from the Nordic Council, a “regional body for inter-parliamentary cooperation,” per The Guardian, which gives annual prizes in the categories of literature, youth literature, music, film, and the environment. Each prize is worth about $52,000, and in refusing the honor, Thunberg also forfeited the cash.
Thunberg — who is currently in California and travels by long boat rather than take transatlantic flights — sent a pair of fellow climate activists to decline the award on her behalf. Thunberg wrote in her remarks, “The climate movement does not need any more awards … What we need is for our politicians and the people in power start to listen to the current, best available science.”
This is not the first award Thunberg has been offered — or turned down for that matter. Last year she refused the Children’s Climate Prize, reportedly on the grounds that several of the award’s recipients were flown into Stockholm for the ceremony. In a world where it was just reported that rising sea levels will devastate some cities far more quickly than previously predicted , mitigating the ever-more destructive effects of climate change will not require awards, or praise, or parades, but global cooperation and pragmatism on a scale not seen before. In being several steps ahead of the nihilists, the cynics, and the just plain complacent, Thunberg continues to deepen her activism.
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