KLIMA // DEBAT - Per Nyholm kalder i Jyllands-Posten Greta Thunberg for en diktator i svøb. Han mener, at vi skal være besindige og indse, at vores civilisation ikke kan overleve uden olie og kul. Uden fossile brændstoffer ville det se sort ud for ferierejserne til Thailand, hjemmegrillen og asparges fra Peru.⠀⠀
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Det Greta Thunberg har forstået, og Nyholm ikke har forstået, er, at vi ikke bare kan blive ved med det forbrug, vi har nu. Det slår os ihjel. Hvis først klimaet går i selvsving, overlever vi ikke.⠀⠀
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Overforbruget i de rige lande kan ikke fortsætte. Hvis vi vil overleve, skal vi gå i gang med den grønne omstilling nu. ⠀⠀
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Det er ikke et valg mellem hjemmegrillen og veganske middagsretter. Det er et valg mellem liv og død.⠀⠀
Nyholm minder mig om en mand, jeg hørte i radioen, der sagde, at det var jo forfærdeligt med klimaødelæggelsen, "men hvad skal vi gøre, vi kan jo ikke leve uden vores biler".⠀⠀
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Kan vi ikke leve uden vores biler, kommer vi til at dø i vores biler.⠀⠀
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✍🏻: Arne Herløv Petersen⠀
📸: Wikimedia Commons. ⠀⠀
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#klima #clima #gretathunberg #greta #thunberg #climachange #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture #schoolstrike4climate #pov #povinternational ⠀⠀
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On the author's point of view and books as time travelling machines

It was only after the student left the train that I had the rather obvious thought that an old book is a kind of time machine too. And it struck me that the way he’d responded to “The House of Mirth” betrayed a misunderstanding of what kind of time machine an old book is.

I think it’s a general misunderstanding, not just his. It’s as if we imagine an old book to be a time machine that brings the writer to us. We buy a book and take it home, and the writer appears before us, asking to be admitted into our company. If we find that the writer’s views are ethnocentric or sexist or racist, we reject the application, and we bar his or her entry into the present.

I seriously cannot believe how a young writer would be unaware of the fact that of course, the classics were written in time different from ours, in which the people behave in unacceptable ways regarding today's understanding, which differs from the way of thinking of their days. This is almost revisionist to historical knowledge! Why would you read a classic if you didn't want to know as well how people of the time it was written thought? This is the most interesting part of reading a classic. If I wanted to read a book in a situation akin to mine, I could pick up a more current book. this student is ignorant, in my opinion. I don't want to have someone like him in my house.

#Literature #Writing #OnWriting #Prejudices #TimeTravel #POV #TheAuthorsPointOfView #TheProtagonistsPointOfView