When everyone believes they are correct despite the extreme reality…

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A year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, one of the shattering realities explained in this headline from the Spanish newspaper El País:

..."Households must spend 38 % of their income on mortgage payments, the most in 10 years.  

…”CaixaBank Research forecasts a rise of more than four points in the mortgage stress rate due to the rise in the cost of financing, although it will ease at the end of 2023. 

No one is willing to give away their natural gas currently… 
 

Norway does not consider as an auxiliary international economic aid to lower the price of natural gas, statements by the first Norwegian, Jonas Gahr Støre, on his official visit to Sweden on Sunday, August 28, 2022. 

How American energy helped Europe best Putin

Moscow bet its energy shipments to Europe would stifle the opposition to its invasion of Ukraine. Instead, it sparked a backlash that has dramatically altered global trade.

…”The Russian troops who poured into Ukraine a year ago had a seemingly powerful weapon to keep Kyiv’s would-be allies cowed — Moscow’s dominance of Europe’s oil and gas supplies.

A year later, that strategy has backfired.

Instead, a flow of American energy has given the United States a growing role in the continent’s economy, while pushing Russia to the side.

U.S. companies provided 50 percent of Europe’s liquefied natural gas supplies in 2022, along with 12 percent of its oil. Russian oil and gas shipments to the continent have shriveled by half, beset by boycotts, sanctions and an EU price cap. Global oil and gas trade routes have been redrawn and renewable energy development has received a massive financial and political shot in the arm.

  POLITICO EU BY BEN LEFEBVRE, 02/23/2023

Why Greta Thunberg and Other Climate Activists Are Protesting Wind Farms in Norway…

The scene in downtown Oslo this week is hardly unusual in the era of climate protest: chained to doorways and bundled up in thick blankets, Greta Thunberg and dozens of other young activists are blocking the entrance to Norway’s energy and finance ministries to challenge government climate policy. But this time, their target may surprise you: wind farms. 

  TIME BY CIARA NUGENT, FEBRUARY 28, 2023 

…”Thunberg and other climate campaigners are joining a demonstration led by the Saami community, an Indigenous group whose traditional lands stretch across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and western Russia. The protest, which kicked off Monday, aims to pressure the Norwegian government to take down 151 turbines that make up two wind farms in the Fosen region of central Norway. Completed in 2020, the wind farms sit on lands that the Saami use for reindeer herding—a central part of their lifestyle. Herders say their animals are terrified by the noise and sight of the turbines, which are 285 ft. tall, leaving the lands unsuitable for grazing and the fate of the area’s Saami in jeopardy. 

What happens will happen because fate willed it. Things can also occur in public affairs due to a well-planned PR and communication media strategy…

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Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on January 3, 2003. Greta, then 15, stepped into the spotlight outside Stockholm's Parliament building on Monday, August 20, 2018, and sat down with a homemade placard that read, "School strike for the climate" in large handwritten letters. 

Belongs to a well-known artistic family... 

Sara Magdalena Ernman, better known as Greta's mother, Malena Ernman, is a 49-year-old opera singer. In 1997, she debuted as a mezzo-soprano as Princess Cecilia in the opera Liten Karin. Malena has performed all over the world since then, from the Royal Opera in Stockholm with a leading role in The Barber of Seville to her most famous performance, representing Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow in 2009. Svante Thunberg, her father, is a 50-year-old actor and theater producer. However, he gave up his career years ago to care for his wife's and daughters' careers. 

  SOURCE: ELISABET HOGLUND WROTE IN HER BLOG IN SWEDEN ON OCTOBER 16, 2019. 

In weeks, Greta Thunberg became one of the world's most well-known and talked-about figures. She has appeared on the covers of the world's most prestigious weekly magazines and luxury publications. She has spoken at the United Nations, the Davos Economic Summit, and the Katowice Climate Summit in Poland. Greta Thunberg has received numerous honors and awards, including the Right Livelihood and Alternative Nobel prizes. Her popularity grew to the point where she was considered for the Nobel Peace Prize too. 

How does this miracle take place? 

Greta Thunberg is constantly portrayed as the lonely little child fighting for the climate, shouldering the world's responsibilities, and doing it all alone. This image is emphasized in the media: the little, deeply committed girl with long braids and blue trainers fighting alone against forces infinitely stronger than her. We don't know if she wants to be portrayed in that light. 

The truth is, however, that is how she has been and still is described: the lonely, weak heroine who lives in constant mortal fear of the ravages of climate change and who tries, alone and by any means necessary, to stop the imminent destruction of the earth. In this matter, the problem is that the image of Greta is false. It is a pure fabrication of the media and the organizations and forces that have decided to exploit Greta Thunberg to satisfy their interests in the climate issue. Elisabet Hoglund wrote in her blog in Sweden on October 16, 2019. 

What organizations and forces have —supposedly— decided to use Greta Thunberg to further their goals? 

Greta has had good help from the beginning, aside from her parents. It was not even her idea to stage a climate strike in front of Stockholm's Parliament building. One of these forces is understood to be Mr. Bo Thorén.

Mr. Bo Thorén lives in the small village of Ånimskog in Dalsland. He is a consultant, civil engineer from Gothenburg. Since 2013, he has been committed to the climate issue. He was therefore involved in founding an organization called "Fossil Free Dalsland," which is part of the global group "Fossile Free." 

However, Bo Thoren realized that the climate fight would only gain traction if young people could participate in it. So, from the end of 2017, he began contacting people in order to connect with young people interested in becoming climate activists. 

According to the Norwegian YouTube channel Mediekanalen on January 7, 2019, M. Bo Thorén sent emails to PR agencies and environmental profiles in the first two weeks of January 2018 to find free aid. He requested assistance locating young people interested in participating in the fight for a sustainable society. Young people would be used to form opinions on climate change. At the same time, they would learn more about climate issues and become more acquainted with them. 

Bo Thorén had ambitions to become some informal leader of the Swedish climate movement only in the background shadows.

Why?   

In the spring of 2018, he contacted Malena Ernman, herself a dedicated environmental activist for several years and the mother of Greta Thunberg. To Ernman, Bo Thorén explained that engaging young people as catalysts in the climate issue could be brilliant. Malena Ernman has confirmed that she has been in contact with Bo Thorén. 

Malena Ernman's eldest daughter Greta, 15, participated in a climate writing competition organized by Svenska Dagbladet in the spring of 2018. Greta came second in the competition. Bo Thorén realized at that moment that he might have found the wishful thinking that could become the catalyst for the climate issue he was so eagerly looking for. He contacted Greta Thunberg because he saw her as a suitable candidate to carry the climate message forward. 

Mr. Bo Thorén told reporter Marcus Gårne on P4 Radio in Sweden on 7 January this year: 

"Last spring I worked on trying to find and mobilise young people on the climate issue because they were a voice that was missing and needed. In connection with this, Greta had written an opinion piece in Svenska Dagbladet that was very good. So I sought contact with Greta." 

At the time, Greta was at a large online meeting on climate change with teachers and students organized by Bo Thorén's organization "Fossilfritt Dalsland" to try to find out how to mobilize young people. Then Bo Thorén says something exciting in the interview: 

"Then I put forward the suggestion that maybe we could start a school strike before the elections and that was something that turned Greta on." 

Greta was very enthusiastic about the idea of a school strike, which she started to do a few months later. So Bo Thorén came up with the idea of a school strike, not Greta Thunberg. 

Asked by radio reporter Marcus Gårne whether Bo Thorén had no reservations about a school strike, given that schooling is compulsory in Sweden, Thoren replied: 

"I have no reservations at all. We need to do a lot in a very short time. Greta has also asked herself what is the point of going to school if they are not going to use this knowledge anyway?" 

So much for Mr. Bo Thorén, a person entirely unknown to the vast majority of swedes, who thus became Greta Thunberg's self-appointed inspirer when it came to starting the school strike; it was not Greta Thunberg's idea to go on strike. The idea came from this completely unknown engineer in Dalsland, an engineer who managed to make -Greta a world celebrity in a few weeks. 

Even Thunberg herself admits that it was BoThorén who gave her the idea to go on a school strike: 

"Thanks to everyone who came to the climate march today! And thanks to @bothoren from Fossilfree Dalsland who gave me the idea to go on a school strike. #riseforclimate#climatemarchse#climatestrike#climatestrike" 

Ingmar Rentzhog, the PR genius behind the internet platform "Wedonthavetime.org" 

Nevertheless, another person also played a crucial role in matching Greta Thunberg to the climate march. His name is Ingmar Rentzhog, and he is the CEO of the company/internet platform "Wedonthavetime.org," a web-based company that runs online climate campaigns financed by advertisements. 

"Wedonthavetime.org" was founded in 2017 by PR expert Ingmar Rentzhog. He planned to build a social network to save the climate. Mr. Ingmar Rentzhog has claimed that it was he who discovered Greta Thunberg. 

Rentzhog "discovered" the then-unknown Greta. He took several pictures of her. With an emotionally charged text, he published the pictures on Facebook and Instagram later that day, a text with a clear message about the climate. The posts had an immediate impact. The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet covered Greta's school strike in a big way. After that, one media outlet after another managed to make Greta Thunberg a world celebrity in a matter of days. 

However, it was no coincidence that Mr. Ingmar Rentzhog passed through Mynttorget that day. He had known Greta's mother for several months. They had met at a climate seminar in Stockholm on May 4 that year, where Rentzhog was one of the speakers. 

In addition, Bo Thorén had already informed Ingmar Rentzhog about Greta Thunberg's planned school strike. So the PR man Rentzhog knew what he was doing when he "happened" to bump into Greta on Mynttorget that Monday. Nothing happens by magic... 

This note does not intend to delve into the Bermuda Triangle in search of hidden interests, which have been the subject of much debate; instead, it is to retrace Plato's thoughts on how different we see the reality. This note does not intend to delve into the Bermuda Triangle in search of hidden interests, which have been the subject of much debate; instead, it is to retrace Plato's thoughts on how different we see the reality. 

On August 8, 2017, Eric Merkley and Dominik Stecula published an article titled Newsweek: "Al Gore, Climate Change, and An Inconvenient Truth About An Inconvenient Truth," which have exciting reflection: …" We have studied in detail how the media covered the issue of climate change since the 1980s and how it may have played a role in polarizing the American public. The commonly observed pattern is that public opinion tends to follow, rather than lead, debate among political elites.

Without a doubt, protecting the planet is humanity's most important task, as is protecting our pensioners, who, with this insane war already destroying their meager economy, must now see if they can survive on half a month's worth of supplies. 

…”these men were chained to pillars and could only see shadows cast on the back wall of the cave by a fire burning behind them. The men in the cave prided themselves on their sight and their interpretative skills, yet all the time they were looking at shadows, mere illusions.

  PLATO