Mockery: The Climate Movement’s Secret Weapon
Dunk on losers, save the planet
The climate movement is, by its nature, filled with responsible, conscientious people. These are people who approach the world with empathy and kindness, people who are willing to make serious personal sacrifices for the common good. They’re generally not mean folks.
This may pose a bit of a problem.
I realized this while enjoying the recent social-media dustup between climate activist Greta Thunberg and professional misogynist Andrew Tate. In case you somehow missed it: Tate, for some reason, tried to troll Thunberg by bragging about his sportscar collection, highlighting how wasteful his cars were. Thunberg, not generally known for her sense of humor, replied with a truly excellent tweet:
Tate’s week got worse after that — he filmed a pretty pathetic video in reply to Thunberg and then got arrested by Romanian police for sex trafficking. Meanwhile, Thunberg’s tweet has already become one of the most-liked posts in the history of the platform.
