{"id":60901,"date":"2019-09-30T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=60901"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:42","slug":"good-greta-thunbergs-radical-climate-change-fairy-tale-is-exactly-the-story-we-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/09\/good-greta-thunbergs-radical-climate-change-fairy-tale-is-exactly-the-story-we-need\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD: Greta Thunberg\u2019s radical climate change fairy tale is exactly the story we need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Good, Associate Professor in Brock&#8217;s Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, had a piece published Monday, Sept. 30 in <em>The Conversation <\/em>about teenager Greta Thunberg&#8217;s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit and the related climate strikes around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Good writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>It has been just over a year since 16-year-old Greta Thunberg started her \u201cschool strike for climate\u201d outside the Swedish parliament in Stockholm. Since then, she has spoken to increasingly large crowds \u2014 including most recently in Montr\u00e9al.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But there are many reasons why people are still talking about Thunberg\u2019s Sept. 23 speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. She spoke with knowledge, clarity and passion well beyond her years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What I find especially significant about the talk is her inclusion of a critique of economic growth in the climate change story frame. \u201cWe are in the beginning of mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth,\u201d Thunberg said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/greta-thunbergs-radical-climate-change-fairy-tale-is-exactly-the-story-we-need-124252?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20September%2030%202019&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20September%2030%202019+CID_ba3bb3793926260d693b814022999ec9&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Greta%20Thunbergs%20radical%20climate%20change%20fairy%20tale%20is%20exactly%20the%20story%20we%20need\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Good, Associate Professor in Brock&#8217;s Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, had a piece published Monday, Sept. 30 in The Conversation about teenager Greta Thunberg&#8217;s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit and the related climate strikes around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[794,8295,3655],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60903,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60901\/revisions\/60903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}