Episode 719 | Greta Thunberg Shames Politicians Over Impending Climate Catastrophe | Poor & Frugal

The Benjamin Dixon Show

News, Politics

4.6 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Greta Thunberg is the 16-year-old evinronmental activist who traversed the Atlantic Ocean to bring her message to America. In that time, this young woman has challenged the world and, arguably, changed the world. In here speech today she said that she refuses to believe that politicians understand the dilemma and still refuse to act because, if she believed that, then they would be evil. I've got bad news for this brilliant young woman.

Part 2 of today's show, a clip from Professor Rashawn Ray discussing the frugalness of poor black people. This goes against the standard tropes of Black poverty -- but that's intentional. Here's why.

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0:47.0	This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here.
0:50.0	I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean.
0:55.0	Yet you all come to us young people for hope.
1:00.0	How dare you?
1:02.0	You have stolen my dreams in my childhood with your empty words.
1:08.0	And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying.
1:15.0	entire ecosystems are collapsing.
1:19.0	We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal
1:27.2	economic growth. How dare you?
1:29.7	Those are the words of 16 year old Greta Thunberg, the environmental activists from Stockholm, Sweden, and she spoke today and her words are chilling.
1:48.4	Her words are chilling.
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