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Greta Thunberg and Ms. Rachel Offer Lessons In Solidarity
Current Affairs Dec 30, 2025

Greta Thunberg and Ms. Rachel Offer Lessons In Solidarity

Climate is not an easy issue to be an activist on. You’re taking on some of the world’s most powerful corporations, contending with a culture of widespread indifference, and going up against endless propaganda reassuring people that global warming will simply turn the Earth into a lush tropical paradise. There is plenty of repression, but advocates for Palestinian rights face demonization as terrorists and antisemites, blacklisting, and are even criminalized. So when the world’s most well-known climate activist, Greta Thunberg, expanded her focus to include Palestine, she must have known she would incur a wave of new hostility. But Thunberg has not just spoken up for Gaza, she has put her body on the line, and has been arrested and abused by the Israel Defense Forces after trying to carry humanitarian aid to Gaza aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla. 

Grid delays slow renewables uptake
Semafor Dec 29, 2025

Grid delays slow renewables uptake

The UK generates a huge percentage of its power from renewables, but lacks transmission lines to move the electricity around.