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I disagree with this. I think her youthful appearance helped her to stand out. To give her a "wisdom from the mouths of babes" angle. Of course I agree that she never had any sex appeal. For that archetype, it's not necessary to have any sex appeal. But she's aged out of that role IMO.
I remember her appeal as "climate change is so obviously man-made and bad that even a child can see it. Now start acting before it is too late!"
Then the climate change movement, and Greta with it, became so heavily influenced by culture warriors that many lost track of what it was supposed to achieve. The protests against nuclear powerplants were laughable to say the least. Greta became just another grifter who used activism mostly to advance her own status.
Independence from fossil fuels sure would have been nice by now, but I guess this is what millennials and gen Z deserves for ceding influential positions to people who should have never been anywhere near them.
For the most part, these types have opposed nuclear power since long before Greta was born. And as far as I know, it's always been a grift.
JMHO
Some grifters, some de-growthers, some techno-optimists of retarded accelerationism....
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