Michelle Obama ủng hộ Greta Thunberg. Cô bé mới đây bị tổng thống Trump chế giễu. Greta không phải dạng vừa đã đáp trả ngay sau đó.


Greta Thunberg tại Turin, Italy, hôm 13/12. Ảnh: AFP.
"Đừng để bất cứ ai làm lu mờ ánh sáng của cháu. Như những bé gái tôi đã gặp ở Việt Nam và toàn thế giới, cháu có rất nhiều điều để đem tới cho chúng ta. Hãy bỏ ngoài tai những kẻ hoài nghi và luôn nhớ rằng còn hàng triệu người đang cổ vũ cháu", Michelle Obama đăng trên Twitter hôm qua, động viên nhà hoạt động môi trường nhí 16 tuổi.
Thông điệp của cựu đệ nhất phu nhân Mỹ được đưa ra sau khi Tổng thống Trump chỉ trích tạp chí Time "lố bịch" khi chọn Greta Thunberg làm "Nhân vật của năm". "Greta nên giải quyết vấn đề kiểm soát cơn giận dữ của mình, sau đó đi xem một bộ phim lỗi thời với bạn. Thư giãn đi nào Greta, thư giãn đi", Trump đăng trên Twitter.
Greta Thunberg đáp trả bằng cách nhanh thay đổi phần mô tả cá nhân trên Twitter theo lời của Trump.
Ứng viên tổng thống đảng Dân chủ Joe Biden, cựu phó tổng thống dưới thời Barack Obama, cũng chỉ trích bình luận của Trump về Thunberg. "Kiểu tổng thống nào lại đi bắt nạt một thiếu niên?", Biden đăng trên Twitter.
Thunberg được ca ngợi là biểu tượng cho cuộc chiến chống biến đổi khí hậu của giới trẻ thế giới. Tuy nhiên, cũng có nhiều quan điểm phản đối cho rằng những thông điệp của Thunberg là cực đoan, gây rối loạn cuộc chiến chống biến đổi khí hậu, gây tổn hại cho những sáng kiến công nghệ, che giấu những thách thức môi trường khác và gieo rắc hoang mang./-
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Thunberg makes a radical statement about autism through her climate activism
Bluntness is also the way of many people on the autism spectrum, and both Thunberg and her young sister Beata have been diagnosed with autism and ADHD. A few years ago, Thunberg’s ascent to fame likely would have been framed in the media as that of an inspiring young girl “overcoming” her disability to become the leader of a worldwide movement. But Thunberg herself makes a different, more radical argument: that she became an activist not in spite of her autism but because of it.
“I see the world a bit different, from another perspective,” she explained to New Yorker reporter Masha Gessen. “It’s very common that people on the autism spectrum have a special interest. … I can do the same thing for hours.” Thunberg discovered her special interest in climate change when she was just 9 years old, and she couldn’t understand why everyone on the planet wasn’t similarly obsessed with preventing it.
A visceral feeling of repulsion toward deceit and hypocrisy is also common among people on the spectrum. As Thunberg told the BBC, “I don’t fall for lies as easily as regular people, I can see through things.” She has a particular contempt for the professional propagandists and apologists who prop up the fossil fuel industry and discourage the development of renewable energy resources, dismissing UK claims about reductions in carbon emissions as the result of “very creative accounting.”
”You don’t listen to the science,” she went on, “because you are only interested in the answers that will allow you to carry on as if nothing has happened.”
Indeed, Thunberg is not the only person with autism in public life raising her voice in defense of the Earth at this critical juncture in history. Another teen on the spectrum, Dara McAnulty in Northern Ireland, is also an outspoken climate activist, as well as being one of the most lyrical nature writers on Twitter at age 15. In 2017, autistic naturalist and TV presenter Chris Packham “came out” about his diagnosis in a candid BBC documentary called Asperger’s and Me. “What these protesters are saying is think about tomorrow,” Packham said recently in avideo for Extinction Rebellion. “That’s what our politicians are not doing.”
People with autism have been ignored and condemned throughout history
Being autistic does not protect these environmental advocates from the usual attacks leveled against anyone who raises the alarm about the oncoming climate catastrophe; instead, it gives the trolls another angle of attack.
In one particularly egregious recent example, Brendan O’Neill, the British editor of a webzine called Spiked, trotted out a hit parade of toxic stereotypes in a crass attempt to paint Thunberg as a “millenarian weirdo” with a “monotone voice” and a “pre-modern” lack of affect. (One of the deep-pocketed funders of Spiked is Koch Industries, a hothouse of climate change denialism.) Meanwhile, a recent court victory by Packham’s Wild Justice, a nonprofit he set up to defend threatened species, inspired bullies to send him death threats and string up dead birds on his garden gate (prompting a characteristically cheeky response from Packham).
Though it’s rarely discussed in the clinical literature, the fact that some people on the spectrum feel an intense connection to the natural world has been known for a long time. My history of autism,NeuroTribes, explores how autistic scientist Temple Grandin’s love for animals inspired her to become a designer of more humane technology for the livestock industry (though I doubt vegan Thunberg would approve). In one of the first case reports of Asperger’s syndrome from 1954 — long before there was a name for it — a boy teaches himself the names of the plants that flourished around the residential facility where he was forced to live, while offering lectures on nuclear fission and corporate finance to his peers.
Unlike Cassandra’s dire warnings to the doomed occupants of Troy, Thunberg’s words are getting picked up and amplified by media around the world, which is a sign of hope. She is also being recognized as a major influencer by political leaders, and has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Freddy André Øvstegård, a member of Norwegian parliament who submitted Thunberg’s name for the prestigious award, told the international news agency AFP, “If we do nothing to halt climate change, it will be the cause of wars, conflict, and refugees. Greta Thunberg has launched a mass movement which I see as a major contribution to peace.”
Her emergence on the world stage has been particularly meaningful to other autistic people and their families, says Ari Ne’eman, who co-founded the Autistic Self Advocacy Networkand is the author of the forthcoming book The Right to Live in This World: The Story of Disability in America. “It’s noteworthy that Thunberg has chosen to be open about being autistic, because by being openly autistic while serving in positions of leadership, autistic people can help transform how society views us, opening up opportunities for other autistic people around the world,” he says. “By being proudly autistic in our moments of excellence as well as our moments of struggle, we help to change the public image of autism and tell the world that we have much to offer.”
As deceit and hypocrisy reign at the highest levels of the debate about how best to tackle climate change, we need more warriors like Greta Thunberg and Chris Packham on the front lines.
Steve Silberman is the author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. He is @stevesilberman on Twitter and lives with his husband in San Francisco. A version of this piece was first published in May.